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SLAYER's DAVE LOMBARDO, ANTHRAX's CHARLIE BENANTE Honored With 'Legend' Award For Pioneering Thrash Metal

Dave Lombardo (SLAYER, PHILM) and Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) were honored with the "Legend" award at last night's (Thursday, January 22) "Bonzo Bash" at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California for pioneering the genre of music known as "thrash metal." Video footage of the award presentation (courtes...

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GUNS N' ROSES, MEGADETH, TESTAMENT, MACHINE HEAD Members Featured On 'Randy Rhoads Remembered Vol. I' Album

Tish Tone Records has announced the release of a powerful, heartfelt album celebrating the legacy of legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT). Blessed by the Rhoads family and including a track by Randy's brother Kelle Rhoads, the CD's final tracks are being laid down as we speak...

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Former L.A. GUNS Guitarist STACEY BLADES Launches ATOMIC RADIO

Former L.A. GUNS guitarist and "Let It Rawk" creator and producer Stacey Blades has launched a new band called ATOMIC RADIO. The group, which is rounded out by Adam Kury from CANDLEBOX on bass, Micheal O'Mara from PYROMANIA and TALON on lead vocals, Johnny Rude on drums, and Jeff Cohen on guitar and...

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JEFF PILSON Talks DOKKEN Turmoil (Audio)

Jeff Pilson (DOKKEN, WAR & PEACE, DIO, FOREIGNER, LYNCH/PILSON, UNDERGROUND MOON, T&N) was recently interviewed on "The Double Stop" podcast (web site). A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the original breakup of the classic DOKKEN lineup: Jeff: "What happened w...

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Original GUNS N' ROSES Drummer STEVEN ADLER Returns To Studio With ADLER Band

ADLER, the band led by former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler, returned to the studio two weeks ago to record its first new material since the release of ADLER's debut album, "Back From The Dead", which came out in November 2012 via New Ocean Media. Helming the sessions once again is producer Jef...

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Only to Rise

It'd be tacky to grab an easy pun and say here's a match made in you-know-where, yet an alliance between STRYPER's Michael Sweet and guitar hero George Lynch is most definitely a match. This pairing only seems awkward upon first glance, but there's a perfect logic to these guys hooking up. Michael S...

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VIVIAN CAMPBELL's LAST IN LINE Resumes Work On Debut Album

LAST IN LINE — the band featuring DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell alongside fellow founding DIO members Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Claude Schnell, plus singer Andrew Freeman, who has previously fronted HURRICANE and LYNCH MOB — has returned to the studio to put the finishing touches on the s...

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NIGHTWISH Singer FLOOR JANSEN On Learning Finnish: 'I'm Sounding Like A Three-Year-Old'

Finnish / Dutch / British symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have released the sixth in a series of video clips featuring footage from the making of the band's new studio album, due in the spring of 2015 via Nuclear Blast. Check it out below. NIGHTWISH's Dutch singer Floor Jansen, who officially joined t...

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EXODUS' STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA Understands What GENE SIMMONS Means When He Says 'Rock Is Dead'

Vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza of San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans EXODUS is the latest musician to respond to KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons' recent comment that "rock is dead." Simmons told Esquire magazine last month — in an interview conducted by his son Nick — that "rock did not d...

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VIVIAN CAMPBELL's LAST IN LINE Signs With FRONTIERS

LAST IN LINE — the band featuring DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell alongside fellow founding DIO members Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Claude Schnell, plus singer Andrew Freeman, who has previously fronted HURRICANE and LYNCH MOB — has inked a deal with Frontiers Music Srl. The group's debut CD...

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PRESIDENT OBAMA Impersonator REGGIE BROWN Joins Celebrity Rockers At 'Rock N' Bowl' (Video)

The T.J. Martell Foundation's Rock 'N' Bowl tournament, held last week at the PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California, brought together a myriad of celebrity rockers, comedians and music industry executives to raise funds for cancer research. The event, chaired by Wendy Dio, president and co-...

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SEBASTIAN BACH To TED NUGENT: 'Being A Racist Is F**king Weak'

Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach has apparently responded to Ted Nugent's recent comments about him in which the legendary rocker described Bach as "incredibly gifted… but… weak." In an interview with Radio.com, Nugent stated about Bach: "I love the guy, he's incredibly gifted, a gentleman for...

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TED NUGENT Says SEBASTIAN BACH Is An 'Incredibly Gifted' Singer But A 'Weak' Man

Legendary rocker Ted Nugent recently spoke to Radio.com about his new album, "Shutup&Jam!", why his enemies are like the chimps in "Planet Of The Apes", his take on John Lennon's "Imagine", and why RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's Tom Morello is actually a conservative. On Sebastian Bach: "I love the...

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FOREIGNER's 'The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977-1991' Due In October

Coming on October 14 is FOREIGNER's seven-disc box set, "The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977-1991". The set includes all the albums from the original classic run with Mick Jones and Lou Gramm — along with the band's final Atlantic album featuring Johnny Edwards on vocals. The box consists of "F...

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YES: 'Heaven & Earth' EPK Available

An EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for "Heaven & Earth", the 21st studio album from seminal progressive rock heroes YES, can be seen below. The CD was released on July 22 via Frontiers Records. Having sold nearly 40 million albums in a career that has so far spanned more than four decades, YES contin...