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SOCIETY 1: DVD Details Revealed

SOCETY 1 have set a November 29 release date for their first-ever DVD, "Fearing the Exit". Included on the disc will be the following: * The entire record-breaking "Suspension Show", filmed live at The Key Club in LA in March 2004. See history being made as Matt "The Lord" Zane becomes the first roc...

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SHADOWS FALL Enter Billboard Chart At No. 20!

SHADOWS FALL's "The War Within" has sold 39,251 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 20 on The Billboard 200 chart. "The War Within" is the follow-up to 2002's "The Art of Balance", which has shifted 107,071 units to date in the United States, according to Nielsen...

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RIKETS To Release Debut EP In November

RIKETS, the new metal "supergroup" made up of former members of SWITCHED, THE BEDROOM ALL-STARS, and ERASE THE GREY, will be releasing their debut EP, entitled "Anything for the Devil", via the Internet on November 23. The six-song EP was produced by Ben Schigel (CHIMAIRA, SWITCHED) and mixed by Log...

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Bassist SCOTT SORRY Quits AMEN

Bassist Scott Sorry is the latest AMEN member to announce his departure from the group. Sorry's official statement on the matter is as follows: "O.K. bitches here is the deal. I have decided to leave AMEN. "The first person I met when I joined AMEN was Matty [former AMEN guitarist Matt Montgomery]....

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Former AMEN Guitarist Joins MURDERDOLLS Frontman's Solo Band

MURDERDOLLS frontman Wednesday 13 has secured the services of former AMEN guitarist Matt "Pig" Montgomery for the his "Look What The Bats Dragged In" November European solo tour. Commented Wednesday: " 'Pig' is the perfect guy for this. We're both horror movie junkies, and the whole reason we got in...

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CHIMAIRA Guitarist Talks About New Drummer, Upcoming Album

CHIMAIRA guitarist Matt DeVries recently spoke to the U.K.'s Live 4 Metal about the group's tour with MACHINE HEAD, their new drummer, Kevin Talley (ex-MISERY INDEX) and their upcoming DVD, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow: Live 4 Metal: The big recent news is the addit...

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Aggrieved Brazilian Bands To Team Up For 'Fuck Off Zetro' Festival

In the wake of the cancellation of EXODUS' Brazilian shows (now being re-scheduled for late October),a number of aggrieved bands originally scheduled to act as support on the tour have teamed together for the "Fuck Off Zetro" festival (in "honor" of the now-departed EXODUS singer Steve "Zetro" Souz...

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AMEN Singer Rejects Ex-Guitarist's 'Fraud' Accusations

AMEN frontman Casey Chaos has disputed the claims of his former bandmate Matt Montgomery branding him a "fraud" and claiming that he "hadn't been paid for two years." Speaking to the U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine, Chaos said, "It's all lies. Anyone who read the recent Metal Hammer cover feature I did...

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VELVET REVOLVER Dismiss Video Ban Report

VELVET REVOLVER members Scott Weiland, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum presented the "Best-Selling Pop/Rock Artist" award to Avril Lavigne at the World Music Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 15) at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, NV. Check out pictures from Wire Image, Daily Celeb, Globe Photos and ....

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AMEN Guitarist Quits, Calls CASEY CHAOS 'A Fraud'

AMEN guitarist Matt Montgomery has quit the band, branding the group's leader Casey Chaos "a fraud." In a statement posted at the Metal Hammer web site, Matt writes, "If I joined AMEN to be famous or be a 'rock star', I joined for the wrong reasons. I joined it purely for an intense ...

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SHADOWS FALL: New Album Streamed Online

SHADOWS FALL's brand-new CD, "The War Within", will be streamed on MTV.com in its entirety leading up to the album's release on September 21. Fans now have less than a week to preview the album at this location. SHADOWS FALL will be the featured guests on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" this Saturday nig...

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EXHUMED Frontman Says Singing For EXODUS In Mexico Was An 'Honor'

EXHUMED frontman Matt Harvey has commented on his one-off stint as the lead singer for EXODUS at their headlining gig in Mexico City last weekend. Writing to EXODUS' official message board, Harvey said, "I don't usually post on boards and what-not, but I wanted to make some kind of statement about t...

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EXODUS To Recruit Former WARDANCE Singer For South American Tour

EXODUS will likely be utilizing the services of singer John Miller for their South American tour, which scheduled to kick off Friday (Sept. 17) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Miller is a local Bay Area singer who had previously played with EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Tom Hunting in WARDANCE,...

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Singer ZETRO SOUZA Quits EXODUS (Again)

Vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza has quit EXODUS on the eve of the band's South American headlining tour, BLABBERMOUTH.NET can exclusively reveal. Although EXODUS have attributed Zetro's absence from the trek to an illness suffered by the singer during the band's recently completed Japanese tour, Souza...

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EXODUS: ZETRO SOUZA Sits Out South American Tour, EXHUMED Singer Fills In

EXODUS frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza was forced to sit out the band's South American tour after falling ill during the group's Japanese trek. Filling in for Zetro in South America is EXHUMED frontman Matt Harvey. According to one fan's posting on the band's official message board, Matt did a "great j...