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Guitarist 'METAL' MIKE CHLASCIAK: AXL ROSE Is One Of The Best Frontmen I Have Ever Seen

Guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH) has issued the following update: "Well, I took my four days of well-needed sleep after the SEBASTIAN BACH/GUNS N' ROSES European tour. I think my alcohol poisoning should be in the control stage now. What a rush. The tour was fan...

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POISON Frontman: 'We're Not Putting U2 Or R.E.M. Out Of Business'

The Associated Press recently conducted an interview with POISON frontman Bret Michaels. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Q: Can you believe it's been 20 years since you first teased out your hair? Michaels: "It's been a pretty shocking and awesome career. It started in Pennsylvania in sma...

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LACUNA COIL Checks In With OZZFEST Report

LACUNA COIL continues to mesmerize the masses on the main stage of this year's Ozzfest, further defining their status as one of today's premiere hard rock acts. The massive summer trek coincided with the release of the new single "Enjoy The Silence" (DEPECHE MODE cover),which is currently making bi...

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SEBASTIAN BACH Drummer BOBBY JARZOMBEK Checks In

Drummer extraordinaire Bobby Jarzombek (HALFORD, ICED EARTH, SEBASTIAN BACH) has issued the following update: "It's been a busy summer (can you believe this heat we've been having....?!) and I thought I'd update you all on the latest in my neck o' da woods. "Back in June I recorded my drum tracks fo...

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CATTLE DECAPITATION Pulls Out Of SIX FEET UNDER/DECAPITATED Tour

San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION have posted the following message on their official web site: "We regret to inform everyone that CATTLE DECAPITATION will not be able to make the SIX FEET UNDER tour with DECAPITATED, KRISIUN and ABYSMAL DAWN in September. It was incredibly obvious to...

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AUDIOSLAVE And SYSTEM OF A DOWN Members Named In Anti-BUSH Ad

Launch Radio Networks reports: AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello and SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian are among the people listed in an anti-George W Bush petition, in a full-page newspaper ad that ran Thursday (August 3) in the New York Times. The full-page ad from the group World Can't Wait a...

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TOOL: Video Footage Of STREET SCENE Incident Posted Online

NBCSanDiego.com reports that video footage has surfaced of the incident Saturday night (August 5) when nearly 100 fans were hurt after thousands of rock fans surged forward at a San Diego performance by TOOL. [Watch the video footage at NBCSanDiego.com.] The Los Angeles band was the headliner Saturd...

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Head Of Greek Ortohodox Church Denies Having Criticized LORDI

NewsRoom Finland reports that Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Ortohodox Church in Greece, denied having criticized Finnish Eurovision winner LORDI, provincial daily Savon Sanomat reported Saturday. The archbishop denied having criticized LORDI and said the news item on the matter was nonse...

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EVANESCENCE: 'The Open Door' Artwork Posted Online

EVANESCENCE has uploaded the cover artwork for its new album, "The Open Door", at its official web site. Due on October 3 via Wind-Up Records, "The Open Door" will follow up 2003's six-million-selling "Fallen". When asked to describe the sound of the new disc, singer Amy Lee told Launch it was hard...

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Heavy Metal Concert Blocked By City Officials

The Associated Press reports that the organizer behind a seven-band heavy metal concert said he was forced to cancel the event after city officials made a last-minute change to his contract. The concert was to have taken place Aug. 16 at the city's 450-person-capacity Community Theatre in Whittier,...

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ARCH ENEMY Frontwoman Offers 'Screaming' Tips

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has posted the following message on her MySpace page: "This is for everybody who is sending me the 'screaming advice' requests. I hope you find some useful info here.. "My short-cut vocal advice: "Get some singing teaching/vocal coaching for the basics. i.e. breat...

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ULVER's KRISTOFFER GARM RYGG To Guest On Norway's 'Tinitus'

ULVER's Kristoffer Garm Rygg (ex-ARCTURUS, BORKNAGAR) will be the featured guest on this week's "Tinitus" radio show, airing Wednesday, August 2 between 20.00 CET (8:00 p.m.) and 22.00 CET (10:00 p.m.) on Norway's P3. The program can also be heard on the Internet: www.nrk.no/tinitus. The interview i...

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ETERNAL TRAGEDY: New Album To Feature Ex-DEATH Bassist, Ex-ANNIHILATOR Drummer

Guitarist Stefania Ponzilacqua of the Italian metallers ETERNAL TRAGEDY has announced that the group's next album — to be produced by Tim Aymar (CONTROL DENIED) and engineered by Curran Murphy (ex-ANNIHILATOR) — will feature guest appearances by Kelly Conlon (ex-DEATH, MONSTROSITY) on bass and Rober...

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SATYRICON Drummer: 'I Live And Breathe For This'

Daniel Hedger of Australia's The Metal Forge webzine recently conducted an interview with SATYRICON drummer Frost. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On what he thinks makes him stand out from other extreme metal drummers: "Oh, that's a tough one. I shouldn't be the one to answer that kind of ques...

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Karma.Bloody.Karma

CATTLE DECAPITATION's 2004 release, "Humanure", was a gigantic step forward from the one-dimensional goregrind of "To Serve Man" in terms of arrangement dynamics and a decidedly more death metal approach. With "Karma.Bloody.Karma", the vegetarian quartet stretches things a bit further, adding even m...