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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist Jams With Guitar Legends STEVE VAI And JOE SATRIANI

DRAGONFORCE guitarist Herman Li joined guitar legend Steve Vai during the song "Reaping" at the Ibanez Jem 20th anniversary show on January 20 at the Key Club in Hollywood. The two guitarists traded solos along with Vai's band consisting of Tony MacAlpine (guitar/keyboards),Billy Sheehan (bass),Da...

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METALLICA's 'Master Of Puppets' Tops List Of Most Influential Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time

METALLICA's classic 1986 album "Master of Puppets" has been selected by Spence D. and Ed Thompson of IGN Music as the "most influential" heavy metal album of all time. In the accompanying blurb explaining their choice, Spence writes, "Heavy metal fans no doubt have argued till blue in the balls abou...

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DORO: More North American Tour Dates Announced

German metal queen DORO has lined up the following North American dates in June: Jun. 06 - Hartford, CT - TBA Jun. 08 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Loft Jun. 09 - Bedford, NH - Mark's Rock Club Jun. 10 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx Jun. 12 - Montreal, QUE - Fou Founes Elecriques ...

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TWISTED SISTER Bassist: 'There's Actually A Lot Of Good Will In The Band Right Now'

As an epilogue to his 2006 Bananiversary Celebration, rock 'n' roll comic C.C. Banana has interviewed all five members of TWISTED SISTER. In the third of these five holiday-themed interviews, C.C. Banana speaks with TWISTED SISTER bassist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza about their current album "A Twiste...

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ZAO Announces Lineup Changes, Plans To Cut Down On Touring

ZAO's official MySpace page has been updated with a brand new interview conducted by the group's manager and longtime friend Downey. It follows here in its entirety: Q: What's going on with ZAO? Scott Mellinger (guitar): ZAO has definitely made a lot of big changes. The most immediate thing to menti...

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SILENCER Parts Ways With Bassist, Seeks Replacement

Colorado metallers SILENCER have issued the following update: "SILENCER is currently seeking a bassist, as Friday [Jan. 19] was Brandon's [West] final show with us. Interested candidates should contact silencermetal @ hotmail . com for directions on submitting demo CDs or mp3s along with a bio. We a...

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Hammersmith Palais Demolition Plans To Go Ahead

According to Gigwise.com, the campaign to save the London music venue Hammersmith Palais — which has hosted performances by many legendary acts, including MOTÖRHEAD and THE CLASH — has failed after the local council voted to push through plans to demolish it. The iconic venue will now make way for o...

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BELPHEGOR Confirmed For Czech Republic's BRUTAL ASSAULT Festival

Austrian extreme black/death metal outfit BELPHEGOR has been confirmed for the Brutal Assault Festival, set to take place August 10-12 in Svojsice U Prelouce (100 km east of Prague),Czech Republic. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ADOR DORATH BELPHEGOR CATARACT...

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LENG TCH'E To Film '1-800-APATHY' Video This Weekend

Belgian razorgrind warriors LENG TCH'E will head down to Paris, France this weekend to shoot the first video off their upcoming album, "Marasmus". The clip is for the track "1-800-APATHY" and will be shot by oneOone. Due March 9 via Relapse Records, "Marasmus" was recorded in September 2006 at CCR s...

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Ex-MISFITS Singer MICHALE GRAVES: New 'Acoustic Spoken-Word' Dates Announced

Former MISFITS frontman Michale Graves has posted the following message on his official web site: "Bob Lancaster wrote an article that appeared in the Arkansas Times that describes his personal experience and perspective after sitting through the trials of Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskeley Jr. and Dam...

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SAVATAGE: 1996 Video Footage From DYNAMO OPEN AIR Festival Available

Professionally shot video footage of SAVATAGE performing the song "Dead Winter Dead" at the Dynamo Open Air festival in Eindhoven, Holland in 1996 has been posted online at YouTube.com. The clip originally aired on the German music video channel VIVA TV on the metal show "Metalla". As previously rep...

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MEGADETH: 'United Abominations' To Be Released In May

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "It was great seeing some of the guitarists that were at [the] Dean [booth at NAMM in Anaheim, California] that I respect as players (most of them from when I was developing my ow...

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BELPHEGOR Recruits DEFEATED SANITY Drummer For North American Tour

Lille Gruber of German death metallers DEFEATED SANITY will be filling in on drums for Austrian extreme black/death metal outfit BELPHEGOR on their upcoming North American tour with UNLEASHED and KRISIUN. A list of tour dates can be found on BELPHEGOR's MySpace page. BELPHEGOR's video for the song "...

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WILL HAVEN Completes Three New Songs With DEFTONES Frontman

Sacramento's WILL HAVEN has finished recording three new songs with producers Chino Moreno (DEFTONES) and Shaun Lopez (FAR, THE REVOLUTION SMILE). The tracks — "Helena", "Sheppard's Bush" and "Landing on Ice" — are expected to appear on the group's upcoming CD, which will be recorded beginning late...

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DAVE MUSTAINE: It Is Great To Be With A Guitar Company That Honored DIMEBAG So Well

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site: "It was so good to see some of you yesterday at NAMM, and now we can talk about the new guitars! What a great feeling yesterday to come to NAMM (which I have only been to ...