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FEAR FACTORY: New Audio Interview With DINO CAZARES

On July 6, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with guitarist Dino Cazares of Los Angeles cyber metallers FEAR FACTORY. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. FEAR FACTORY's new album, "The Industrialist", sold 9,300 copies in the United States in...

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DREAM THEATER: New Video Interview With MIKE MANGINI

Emiliano Cantiano of Groove Portal conducted an interview with drummer Mike Mangini of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER during Mike's recent Italian clinic tour. You can now watch the chat below. In a November 2011 interview with Classic Rock Revisited, Mangini was asked how it feels to be the...

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MIKE PORTNOY, PAUL GILBERT Featured On New NEAL MORSE Album 'Momentum'

Coming off a highly successful 2011 marked by the release of the critically acclaimed "Testimony 2" and an enthusiastically attended tour throughout the U.S., Mexico and Europe, Neal Morse could easily have justified going on a creative hiatus to catch his breath. But that would fly in the face of h...

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Ex-QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist MIKE STONE On Band's Split With GEOFF TATE: 'It Makes Me A Little Sad'

Former QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Mike Stone, who was in the band for six years, has commented on the current legal battle between singer Geoff Tate and the group's other members over the rights to the QUEENSRŸCHE name. Stone joined QUEENSRŸCHE for the 2003 album "Tribe" and stayed with the band for six...

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VISION OF DISORDER: New Album Release Date Announced

Candlelight Records has set a September 17 European release date for "The Cursed Remain Cursed", the new album from New York's VISION OF DISORDER. Produced by Will Putney (SHADOWS FALL, SUICIDE SILENCE) and mixed by Cameron Webb (MOTÖRHEAD, SOCIAL DISTORTION),the CD features eleven new songs, inclu...

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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES: Quality Slovenia Performance Footage Posted Online

Jaka Curlic of JZA Crew has uploaded a quality 19-minute video clip of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' July 12 performance at KC Mostovna in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. You can watch it below. When asked why he thinks the sound of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES has stood the test of time, the band's frotnman, Mike Muir, told...

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DETHKLOK Performs Aboard USS Midway Battleship At San Diego Comic-Con (Video)

DETHKLOK, the animated band from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse", performed this past Friday night (July 13) on the USS Midway battleship in San Diego, California. The group made its first live appearance of 2012 as "Metalocalypse" came to life at the San Diego Comic-Con convention. Those attending the...

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Producer, Session Guitarist Claim QUEENSRŸCHE Drummer Didn't Play On 'Operation: Mindcrime II'

Producer Jason Slater, who worked with QUEENSRŸCHE's on on their last three studio albums, claims that the the band's members Scott Rockenfield (drums),Michael Wilton (guitar) and Eddie Jackson (bass),had very little to no involvement with the band's 2006 CD, "Operation: Mindcrime II", despite the...

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PORTNOY, KOTZEN, SHEEHAN Project To Begin Recording Debut Album Next Month

Late last year, Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB) and Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG) tapped Richie Kotzen (MR. BIG, POISON) to be the guitarist/vocalist of their new project following the departure of John Sykes (WHITESNAKE, BLUE MURDER, THIN LIZZY). Although Portnoy and Sykes...

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ASHENVEIL: 'Black Of Light' EP Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

ASHENVEIL, the new "ambitious" female-fronted metal band out of New Jersey featuring OPERATIKA drummer Yuri Liakhovitch and SYMPHONY X bassist Mike LePond, will release an EP, "Black Of Light", in August. The CD was mixed by Jeremy Krull (DARK EMPIRE) and was mastered at Finnvox studios (NIGHTWISH,...

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MIKE PORTNOY On QUEENSRŸCHE's Split With GEOFF TATE: 'It Doesn't Come As A Surprise To Me'

Ex-DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, who was involved in a messy split with his former bandmates less than two years ago, has commented further on the legal battle between QUEENSRŸCHE and the Seattle progressive rock band's ex-singer, Geoff Tate, over the rights to the group's name. During an inte...

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RUDY SARZO Talks BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, QUIET RIOT And TRED In New Interview

Roger Scales of TheyWillRockYou.com recently conducted an interview with legendary bassist Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. TheyWillRockYou.com: You recently announced your departure from BLUE ÖYSTER CULT after five years in th...

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DETHKLOK To Perform Aboard USS Midway Battleship At San Diego Comic-Con

DETHKLOK, the animated band from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse", will perform on the USS Midway battleship tonight in San Diego, California. The group will make its first live appearance of 2012 as "Metalocalypse" comes to life at the San Diego Comic-Con convention. Those attending the free concert wi...

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DARKEST HOUR: 'Severed Into Separates' Video Released

"Severed Into Separates", the new video from Washington D.C. metallers DARKEST HOUR, can be seen below. The clip was filmed in Hungary by Mihaszna Films and is said to be "by far one of the band's most visually stunning videos to date." "Severed Into Separates" comes off DARKEST HOUR's sixth album,...

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CRO-MAGS Frontman 'Sets Record Straight' Regarding NYC Stabbing Incident

Harley Flanagan, who founded the legendary hardcore band the CRO-MAGS at the age of 14 and toured with the band for some twenty years, was arrested in New York City on July 6 on charges of attacking several members of the new CRO-MAGS lineup during the CBGB Festival. Flanagan, who had been a panelis...