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CHRIS POLAND: 'MEGADETH Is Still Is The Most Important Music I Have Recorded To Date'

Former MEGADETH guitarist Chris Poland has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the MEGADETH fan site Take No Prisoners: "My time with MEGADETH is still is the most important music I have recorded to date and I am proud of every note. No regrets. I remember more than you would ...

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ALICE COOPER Takes A Page From GROUCHO And ALLEN For His Talk Show

Clea Simon of The Boston Globe reports: If Groucho Marx had a radio show today, would it sound like Alice Cooper's? That's the theory ghoulish rock luminary Cooper proposed recently, when he visited the WZLX-FM (100.7) studios to discuss his "Saturday Night With Alice Cooper" show, which runs Saturd...

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KROKUS Drummer Completes Tour Despite Ruptured Hernia

According to a posting on KROKUS' official web site, the band's drummer, Stefan Schwarzmann (ex-ACCEPT, U.D.O., HELLOWEEN),played the group's entire first leg of the European "Hellraiser" tour with a ruptured (umbilical) hernia. Stefan reports that he will get the hernia operated sometime in the fi...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO Says HEAVEN AND HELL Will Do 'A Year Of Touring'

Legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) has revealed to Classic Rock magazine that HEAVEN AND HELL — the new band featuring Dio alongside original BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward — will likely headline next year's Monsters of Rock fes...

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GODSMACK To Take Break In January For Birth Of Bassist's Daughter

GODSMACK bass player Robbie Merrill told The Coloradoan that the band will take a break in January when Merrill's wife is due to give birth to the couple's first child — a baby girl. "We're very excited," said the proud papa-to-be. But before he's pacing the maternity ward, Merrill said he will cont...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS' BILLY CORGAN Unveils New Tunes During Solo Set

MJI Interactive reports that SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan played four new songs that could end up on the band's forthcoming reunion album during an intimate club show Tuesday (Nov. 7) in Los Angeles. Pete Townshend of legendary rock group THE WHO also was on the gig's bill, and reportedly...

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CHORD To Play One-Off Red Cross Benefit In NYC

Chicago drone collective CHORD (which includes members of PELICAN) will play a one-off Red Cross benefit sponsored by Decibel magazine in New York (Water Street Lounge, 66 Water Street, Brooklyn) on Saturday, November 11. Also on the bill are GROWING and THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM (HydraHead). Any given...

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CELLADOR Guitarist To Shoot Instructional DVD

Bill Hudson, lead guitarist for Nebraska-based extreme power metallers CELLADOR, will shoot a promotional DVD for "Chops from Hell" this weekend. The video will be around 60 minutes long and will cover the most useful techniques, as well as improvisation and how to use your technique in service of y...

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KROKUS: European Tour Setlist Revealed

Veteran Swiss hard rockers KROKUS have revealed the setlist for their current European tour in support of the band's "Hellraiser" album. It is as follows: 01. Hellraiser 02. Too Wired To Sleep 03. Hangman 04. Angel Of My Dreams 05. Long Stick Goes Boom! 06. Bad Boys Rag Dolls 07. Screaming In The Ni...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO Attends London Premiere Of 'The Pick Of Destiny': Photos Available

The following update has been posted on singer Ronnie James Dio's (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) official web site: "Ronnie has been hard at work with [BLACK SABBATH guitarist] Tony Iommi creating new tracks for the forthcoming box set ['Black Sabbath: The Dio Years'] due tentatively in February 2007...

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TOOL To Guest On IRON MAIDEN Singer's Radio Show

TOOL will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Saturday, December 9 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. (midnight) U.K. time (between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EST) at BBC.co....

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HEAVEN AND HELL To Headline U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival?

According to a posting on Spain's MariskalRock.com web site, Ronnie James Dio revealed during an appearance at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour event in London Monday night (Nov. 6) that HEAVEN AND HELL — the new band featuring Dio alongside original BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler an...

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KRISIUN Pulls Out Of Europe's X-MAS FESTIVALS

Brazilian death metallers KRISIUN have issued the following update: "After the bands SIX FEET UNDER, GOD DETHRONED and CATARACT dropped off the X-Mas festival, now KRISIUN decided to cancel it too. They tried to [stay] on the bill until the last chance just because they were concerned about the fans...

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SEBASTIAN BACH Talks About Touring With GUNS N' ROSES

SunJournal.com recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: SunJournal.com: Can you let people know, what is the show going to be like? It's a killer bill with you and GUNS N' ROSES. Bach: Well, I'm playing with GUNS N' ROSE...

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EDENBRIDGE Signs With NAPALM RECORDS

Austrian symphonic metal band EDENBRIDGE has signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records. Commented the group: "Napalm Records have been doing a brilliant job for their bands. Since last year they have been making a great effort to sign us and therefore we are extremely happy to work together with t...