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ALICE COOPER's Daughter Lands Another Movie Role

Shock rocker Alice Cooper's daughter Calico Cooper has been confirmed for the role of "Ashley" in the Mindsplinters Films' upcoming ghostly flick "The Visitor". Mindsplinters is best known for "The Woodland Haunting 2", the cult indie film which will be "officially" released on DVD in the U.S. this...

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Transgression

Just before sitting down to write this review, I happened to read the latest FEAR FACTORY news posted right here on Blabbermouth. Specifically, vocalist Burton C. Bell's description of "Transgression" as "experimental" is the part that stuck. It's a good starting point, so let's go with it. While th...

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ALICE COOPER On World Tour With Blood, Gore, Goth And A Chihuahua?

ALICE COOPER, the master rocker in the theatre of the macabre and inspiration to such hard rock and metal artists as KISS, OZZY OSBOURNE, MARILYN MANSON, SLIPKNOT and others, hasn't lost his edge or his wit. As he kicked off his world tour in Australia last month in support of his new CD, "Dirty Dia...

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ROB ZOMBIE, MÖTLEY CRÜE To Perform On New VH1 CLASSIC Show

Launch Radio Networks is reporting that ROB ZOMBIE, MÖTLEY CRÜE, INCUBUS and SMASHING PUMPKINS founder Billy Corgan are among the artists who will tape performances for a new VH1 Classic program called "Decades Rock Live". Each one-hour segment will spotlight an influential rock or soul artist of th...

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FEAR FACTORY: Looney Tunes Performance To Be Professionally Filmed

Pierced Productions, an up-and-coming production company, will be filming FEAR FACTORY's in-store performance at the Looney Tunes CD store in West Babylon, New York on Monday, August 22 beginning at 7:00 p.m. The footage will reportedly be released on FEAR FACTORY's web site the very next day. FEAR...

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HANOI ROCKS Guitarist Meets 'Childhood Hero' ALICE COOPER

According to a posting on HANOI ROCKS guitarist Conny Bloom's official web site, "Conny's back in Stockholm [Sweden] after the last finnish HANOI ROCKS dates, one of them being support to Conny's childhood hero, ALICE COOPER. The king of horror rock himself compared HANOI ROCKS to THE ROLLING STONES...

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FEAR FACTORY To Perform At Looney Tunes Store In New York

FEAR FACTORY will play a very special in-store concert at Looney Tunes CD store in West Babylon, New York on Monday, August 22 beginning at 7:00 p.m. They will play a few songs and then hang around to meet fans, take pictures and sign a few autographs. You need to pre-order the group's new CD, ...

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Surviving ALICE IN CHAINS Members Explore Ways To Perform Together Again

Steve Hochman of The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the surviving members of the popular Seattle grunge-metal group ALICE IN CHAINS, whose singer Layne Staley died of a drug overdose in 2002, are exploring ways they might be able to perform again on a regular basis. The seeds were planted this...

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ALICE COOPER Discusses His Stage Show

ALICE COOPER recently spoke to Billboard.com about his new album, "Dirty Diamonds", and his current world tour, which includes such traditional Cooper set-pieces as guillotines, strait jackets and "female vampire whip dances." "If you asked 10 people in 1975 to go to an ALICE COOPER show and do a tw...

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FEAR FACTORY Vocalist Says GIGANTOUR Has Been Treating Them Just 'OK'

MTV.com reports: According to FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell the Gigantour has been treating them just "OK." The techno-driven metal band's been performing around 6 p.m. each night, but Bell finds "85 percent of the people at these shows are MEGADETH and DREAM THEATER fans, and maybe 15 percen...

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'Dirty Diamonds' Is ALICE COOPER's Highest-Charting Album In 11 Years

Billboard magazine is reporting that ALICE COOPER has his highest-charting album on The Billboard 200 in 11 years. "Dirty Diamonds" (New West) opened at No. 169 in the week ended August 7. That's COOPER's highest-debuting and highest-charting set since "The Last Temptation of Alice Cooper", which de...

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SKEW SISKIN: Cover Of AC/DC's 'Shot Down In Flames' Posted Online

SKEW SISKIN, the German band fronted by Nina C. Alice, have uploaded their cover of AC/DC's "Shot Down in Flames", recorded during an appearance on the Europe 2 radio station in Paris in front of a special audience of select fans. Download it at this location (MP3, 7 MB). SKEW SISKIN recently announ...

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VELVET REVOLVER, DISTURBED, ALICE IN CHAINS Members Jam With CAMP FREDDY In Hollywood

VELVET REVOLVER members Slash and Scott Weiland, along with Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS),David Draiman (DISTURBED) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT),were among the special guests during CAMP FREDDY performance at the X Games party on Friday, August 5 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Californi...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Tribute Album Report Was A Hoax

A spokesperson for the surviving members of ALICE IN CHAINS has told Launch that guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney are unaware of any plans for a proposed tribute album that was previously reported to be in the works. MUDVAYNE's manager also told Launch that the al...

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KING'S X: New Song Posted Online

A brand-new KING'S X track, entitled "Alone", is available for streaming on guitarist Ty Tabor's MySpace.com page. "Alone" comes off the Texas-based rock trio's upcoming album, "Ogre Tones" (view artwork at this location),due on September 27 via InsideOut Music America. The new KING'S X album was p...