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Former DEEP PURPLE Bassist's Tribute Shows Being Rescheduled

According to a posting on the Deep Purple Appreciation Society web site, former PURPLE bassist Nick Simper's previously announced tribute shows to DEEP PURPLE's original lineup — which were supposed to be held in Austria and Germany during November with the Austrian rock band NASTY HABITS — are in t...

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PANTHEON I To Support KEEP OF KALESSIN On Finnish Tour

PANTHEON I, the Norwegian extreme metal band featuring vocalist/guitarist Andrè Kvebek (1349) and guitarist John Espen Sagstad (TROLLFEST, SARKOM),will support KEEP OF KALESSIN on a short tour of Finland. Confirmed dates are as follows: Jan. 10 - Helsinki, FIN @ Nosturi Jan. 11 - Jyväskylä, FIN @ L...

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UNLEASHED Frontman Talks Christianity

Matt Smith of GASPetc.com recently conducted an interview with frontman Johnny Hedlund of Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED. An excerpt from the chat follows below. GASPetc.com: I have to say I absolutely love "Hammer Battalion", to me it's one of the best albums you guys have put out in awhile. It...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's NICK CATANESE Interviewed; Video Available

Nick Catanese (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, SPEED X) was interviewed at the Gearhounds headquarters in California on November 8, 2008. Watch the chat in two parts below. SPEED X — the new band featuring Nick Catanese, QUEENSRŸCHE axeman Mike Stone, DOUBLEDRIVE drummer Mike Froedge and former DOUBLEDRIVE bas...

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CELESTY: New Album Title Announced

Finnish power metal band CELESTY has issued the following update: "CELESTY will release their fourth full-length album on March 11, 2009 through the Finnish Spinefarm Records. The album bears the name 'Vendetta', and Samu Oittinen began the mixing of the album in the beginning of December. It is a d...

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IAN GILLAN To Join PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA For 'Classics Play Rock' Concerts

According to a posting on The Deep Purple Appreciation Society web site, DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan will join the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra on September 4, 2009 in Graefenhainichen, Germany and September 5, 2009 in Magdeburg, Germany for a performance of PURPLE classics as part of the "Clas...

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EUROPE: 'Almost Unpluged' Available On Colored Vinyl

Swedish hard rockers EUROPE are offering a strictly limited colored-vinyl edition of their "Almost Unplugged" live album, which was released in September. Limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies, it features a recording of the band's January 26, 2008 concert at Nalen in Stockholm. The band performed s...

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PENTAGRAM's 'Last Rites' Live In March

March 6 and March 7, 2009 will bear witness to return of the authentic, pioneering madman Bobby Liebling and PENTAGRAM. This legendary U.S. deity of dark rock and doom will cast its shadow for two nights only, in New York City and Baltimore. For the first time in 25 years, the "Godfather of U.S. doo...

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UNLEASHED: Video Interview With JOHNNY HEDLUND

Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Johnny Hedlund of Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED. Johnny talks about living in Sweden, rebelling and spreading his message through UNLEASHED, the up and down periods of UNLEASHED, recording in the band's own studio, the g...

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GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist BUMBLEFOOT: Video Footage Of Paris Masterclass, Interview Available

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal took part in a masterclass and interview with the Guitars-Attitude.com web site during his recent promotional visit to Paris, France. Watch it in five parts below. As previously reported, Thal will release an acoustic EP titled "Barefoot" on December 23....

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RUDY SARZO Talks About 'Off The Rails' Book, Current Status Of DIO

Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, DIO, ex-OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT) about his book "Off the Rails: Aboard the Crazy Train in the Blizzard of Ozz" book, a first-hand account of Sarzo's friendship on and off the road with Randy R...

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GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist BUMBLEFOOT Interviewed In Germany; Video Available

Germany's Zoomer conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES' Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on December 15, 2008 when the guitarist made appearance at the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Berlin. Watch the four-minute chat below (overdubbed in German translation). As previously reported, Thal will release an acousti...

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GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist BUMBLEFOOT To Release Acoustic EP

GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal will release an acoustic EP titled "Barefoot" on December 23. Bumblefoot's first collection of acoustic recordings, "Barefoot" sees the guitarist re-interpreting his own songs in a stripped-down bare form. It features versions of songs from various Bumbl...

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Finland's VANGUARD To Release New Album In January

"Hydralchemy", the follow-up to 2005's "Succumbra" by the Finnish gothic dark metallers VANGUARD, will be released in Finland on January 14, 2009 via Shadow World Records (with distribution through Supersounds Music). The limited digipak edition includes ten fresh VANGUARD tracks, and an alluring co...

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UNLEASHED: Warsaw Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of UNLEASHED's December 7, 2008 concert at Progresja in Warsaw, Poland can be viewed below (clips uploaded by "Zwierzak26"). UNLEASHED's ninth full-length album, "Hammer Battalion", sold 370 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen Sound...