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KILLINGBIRD Announces More Dates

Los Angeles sleaze/hard rockers KILLINGBIRD, featuring SCUM OF THE EARTH guitarist Skyla Talon, have announced more L.A.-area shows. Ex-SYSTEMATIC drummer Philip Bailey will be manning the kit for these dates: Jan. 05 – Paladino's/Tarzana, CA (w/ BANG TANGO) Jan. 18 – Cat Club/Hollywood, CA (w/ STAR...

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'METAL' MIKE On GUNS N' ROSES Tour: 'It Felt Wonderful To Reach Over 700,000 People'

The fourth and last installment of guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak's (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH) diary from SEBASTIAN BACH's tour with GUNS N' ROSES has been posted online at www.jacksonguitars.com. An excerpt follows: "I have played four or five more shows on the off days from the GN'R t...

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Former MANOWAR Guitarist ROSS THE BOSS To Headline ROB ORIANI BENEFIT MEMORIAL SHOW

Legendary MANOWAR guitarist Ross The Boss will headline the Rob Oriani Benefit Memorial Show (for late VYNDYKATOR guitarist Robert "Rob" Oriani) on Saturday, March 24 at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey. Ross will perform a set of MANOWAR classics from the first six albums. Joining Ross will be vocal...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION: New Album Title, Cover Artwork Revealed

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal band WITHIN TEMPTATION has set "The Heart of Everything" as the title of its new album, due later in the year in the U.S. via Roadrunner Records. Check out the CD cover artwork at this location. The album's first single, to be released this spring, "What Have You...

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LILLIAN AXE Signs With METRO CITY RECORDS

After an extended hiatus that left many fans wondering if they'd ever see the group up and running again, melodic metallists LILLIAN AXE have risen from the ashes and are preparing their first all-new studio album since 1993's highly regarded "Psychoschizophrenia". Led by founding guitarist Steve Bl...

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GLENN DANZIG: 'Man's Inhumanity To Man Is Just As Bad As It's Always Been'

Jason Heller of The Onion's The A.V. Club recently conducted an interview with Glenn Danzig (DANZIG, MISFITS, SAMHAIN). A few excerpts from the chat follow: The A.V. Club: When you're a musician on the road, though, iPods are really convenient. Danzig: I don't even listen to music on the road, and i...

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GOREFEST: Photos From Hometown Gig Posted Online

Dutch metallers GOREFEST played their last show of 2006 last Friday, December 29 at a nearly sold-out 't Beest venue in the band's hometown of Goes. Pictures from the concert can be found at www.metal-experience.com. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. For The Masses 02. When The Dead Walked The...

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ASTRAL DOORS: New Album Due Before End Of Year

Swedish metallers ASTRAL DOORS, who feature in their ranks LION'S SHARE vocalist Patrik Johansson, have issued the following update: "So far we have recorded the vocals to five new songs and my feeling is that this time you will hear a couple of new sides of ASTRAL DOORS. For example, today's song i...

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GLENN HUGHES: 'It Is My Music That Sustains Me'

Legendary bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH) — whose home in Los Angeles was broken into and burglarized last month — has posted the following message on his official web site: "Firstly I want to thank all of you who have sent messages to me this last week. We are all okay an...

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SOLEMNITY: Limited-Edition Vinyl Containing BATHORY Cover Due Next Week

Germany's SOLEMNITY has set a January 11 release date for its limited-edition 10-inch vinyl containing a classical version of BATHORY's "One Rode to Asa Bay" backed with a cover of LIZZY BORDEN's 'There will be Blood Tonight'. SOLEMNITY recorded "One Rode to Asa Bay" with the help of the Bamberg Sym...

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ICED EARTH To Enter Studio In February

ICED EARTH guitarist/mainman Jon Schaffer has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Again I have to apologize for the delay in updates. I've been extremely busy with writing and preproduction for the new ICED EARTH CDs. "I also lost the one person that was my true mentor and...

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THE LIVING FIELDS Completes Work On Debut Album

THE LIVING FIELDS, the Chicago-based band featuring Chad Walls (ex-BRODEQUIN, PUSTULATED) and Jon Higgs (MONSTERWORKS),has completed work on its self-titled debut album. Two years of sporadic collaboration have resulted in seven songs that cover a wide range of styles and emotions, from the crushin...

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Grimoire of Ruin

Those into the classier side of U.S. power metal, the type that hearkens back to the days of OMEN and classic JAG PANZER, have just found their newest band to champion. SHADOW DEMON hail from the Pacific Northwest, and their stock in trade is unrepentant, glorious, down and dirty '80s metal, a combi...

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BLOODY PANDA Signs With LEVEL-PLANE RECORDS

Diverse indie label Level-Plane has announced the signing of New York doom act BLOODY PANDA. Driven by the mournful, melodic vocals of Japanese frontwoman Yoshiko Ohara, BLOODY PANDA's transcendent sound finds its roots in the dirge-like power of SWANS, the amplifier-worshipping textures of EARTH, a...

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CAGE: New Song Posted Online

San Diego, California-based heavy metal band CAGE has uploaded a new song, entitled "Hell Destroyer", to its MySpace page. The track is the title cut of the group's recently completed new album, tentatively due in early 2007. CAGE "has spent the last thee years in making the ultimate concept album b...