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CAGE, ARMAGEDON Confirmed For Tijuana's FESTIVAL DE ROCK AVÁNDARO

San Diego, California's CAGE and Tijuana's legendary progressive-power metal band ARMAGEDON have been confirmed for Festival de Rock Avándaro 2006, set to take place November 24-25 at the Hipodromo Caliente Race Track in Tijuana, Mexico. As previously reported, also scheduled to appear is BEYOND FEA...

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JUDAS PRIEST Singer Says Internet 'Keeps Everything Alive And Vibrant And Energized'

Chad Bowar of HeavyMetal.About.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A few excerpts from the chat follow: HeavyMetal.About.com: What's the status of the next JUDAS PRIEST album "Nostradamus"? Rob Halford: I'm in San Diego at the moment working on the lyrics. The...

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VIOLENT STORM Announces New Guitarist

VIOLENT STORM, whose new album "Storm Warning" was released on October 23, has announced that Martin Mickels will be joining the band when they tour in 2007. Martin, currently the lead guitarist with Gary Barden's band STATETROOPER, will be playing the parts performed on the album by rock luminaries...

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Reunited D'MOLLS To Open For METAL SKOOL In January

D'MOLLS members Billy Dior (a.k.a. Billy McCarthy; drums),Desi Rexx (vocals, guitar),Lizzy Valentine (bass),and S.S. Priest (guitar) will open for the '80s metal/hard rock tribute band METAL SKOOL at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California on Monday, January 22, 2007. The band will take the st...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: Live Video Of New Song Available

A video clip of former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach performing a new song during his band's October 29, 2006 performance in San Juan, Puerto Rico as the opening act for GUNS N' ROSES has been posted online at YouTube.com. Additional video clips from Bach's San Juan performance can be found at

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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman: 'I Don't See Why HALFORD Should Not Play Live Again'

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: Who was the brain thrust behind Metal God Entertainment? Rob: It was combination of myself and the HALFORD band manager John Baxte...

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KERRY KING Jams With MARTY FRIEDMAN On Japanese TV: Video Available

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King joined ex-MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman on his Japanese TV show "Rock Fujiyama" (broadcast Oct. 30 on TV Tokyo) where they did all the usual "Fujiyama" games as well as treated the cameras to impromptu jams of rare metal gems from JUDAS PRIEST, VENOM, PANTERA and more...

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NEVERMORE Guitarist Talks About Touring With DISTURBED, Upcoming DVD

Justin Donnelly of The Metal Forge recently conducted an interview with NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On touring with DISTURBED: "We just got home yesterday after doing a forty-two day European tour! (Laughs) It was really awesome dude. We went on tour with Ch...

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JUDAS PRIEST Frontman ROB HALFORD: Getting In The Halloween Mood

JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford has issued the first installment in what will apparently become regular monthly blog posts. It reads as follows: "Let's start with simple goings on. "I have returned from the U.K. to the U.S. for a bit of a break from the PRIEST 'Nostradamus' sessions. Actually, I a...

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JUDAS PRIEST: Interview With ROB HALFORD To Air This Thursday

Norway's Metal Express Radio will air a special interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford this Thursday, November 2 at 15:00 and 21:00 CET (9 a.m. and 3 p.m. EST). Halford will talk about his new label, Metal God Entertainment (MGE),and the progress of the recording sessions for the upcoming...

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BIOMECHANICAL: Guitar Tabs Available

London's progressive metal thrashers BIOMECHANICAL have posted guitar tabs online to their latest album "Empires of the Worlds", which will be re-released on November 13 via Earache with bonus footage and a cover of JUDAS PRIEST's "Painkiller". The tabs for all "The Empires of the Worlds" tracks apa...

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DEVOLVED Signs With KILLZONE RECORDS

Australian/American tech-metallers DEVOLVED have inked a deal with KillZone Records. The band's first release for the label will be will a remastered version of the group's debut album, "Technologies", featuring revamped artwork and the video for the track "Distorted" plus bonus video footage. This...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN, KERRY KING Jam Together On Japanese TV

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King joined ex-MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman on his Japanese TV show "Rock Fujiyama" (broadcast Oct. 30 on TV Tokyo) where they did all the usual "Fujiyama" games as well as treated the cameras to impromptu jams of rare metal gems from JUDAS PRIEST, VENOM, PANTERA and more...

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ROCKDETECTOR: 50,000 Bands And Counting

Rockdetector, the world's largest rock and metal database, has just entered its 50,000th band. Established by rock journalist and author Garry Sharpe-Young as an online database in September 2001, Rockdetector is recognised as the primary and most detailed host of factual data on all things rock and...

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DARK FUNERAL's First Visit To Chile Since Priest's Murder Creates Controversy

Swedish black metallers DARK FUNERAL played Chile on October 7, 2006 — the group's first visit to the country since the murder of an Italian Catholic priest in Santiago in 2004 at the hands of a self-proclaimed DARK FUNERAL fanatic. Despite numerous complaints and petitions to stop the show from goi...