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Former TESTAMENT Guitarist To Tour With TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA

Former TESTAMENT/SAVATAGE guitarist Alex Skolnick will be performing with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (East) at the following dates in November/December: Nov. 11 - Charleston WV @ Municipal Aud Theater Nov. 12 – Louisville, KY @ Palace Theater Nov. 13 - Ft Wayne IN @ Allen County War Memorial Nov. 14 –...

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CRESCENT SHIELD: Demo Recordings Available For Download

CRESCENT SHIELD, the new "high-energy power/traditional metal" band featuring the talents of vocalist Michael Grant (ONWARD),guitarist Dan Delucie (DESTINY'S END),drummer Craig Anderson (ENGINE),and bassist Melanie Sisneros (SINERGY, THE IRON MAIDENS, NEW EDEN),have posted three demo tracks at t...

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SAVATAGE, SEVEN WITCHES, JAG PANZER Members To Share Thoughts And Experiences Online

Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA),Jack Frost (SEVEN WITCHES) and Mark Briody (JAG PANZER) have been appointed "very special editors" of Greece's Metal-Temple.com webzine. Caffery, Frost and Briody will be "sharing their very own thoughts with everybody!" reads a Metal-Temple.com pr...

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CIRCLE II CIRCLE Announce New Lineup

CIRCLE II CIRCLE, the new band fronted by former SAVATAGE singer Zachary Stevens, have announced the details of their new lineup. Commented Stevens: "Zak says, We have been very careful to select only the best musicians for the new band. All of these guys came highly recommended by a very good frien...

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Ashes Of The Wake

LAMB OF GOD leads the pack in what some are already calling "the New Wave of American Heavy Metal." While we're not quick to start categorizing things again — after all, look what happened to the so-called "nu metal" movement — it seems clear that there's some sort of underground uprising that's bee...

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CIRCLE II CIRCLE Set Working Title For Sophomore Album

CIRCLE II CIRCLE, the new band fronted by former SAVATAGE singer Zachary Stevens, have set "Faces In the Dark" as the working title of their second album, tentatively due in early 2005 through AFM Records. The pre-production for the CD was completed at Cabin Fever Studios in Brooksville, Florida. Ow...

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JON OLIVA'S PAIN: New Sound Clips Posted Online

Sound clips from the solo debut of SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva are now up on the band's web site. The album, titled "'Tage Mahal", will be released through SPV Records on October 25 in Europe and October 26 in the U.S. Also, there will be a listening party for the entire album in ...

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SEVEN WITCHES Vs. JACK KOSHICK: Bounced Checks And Threats Of Bodily Harm

SEVEN WITCHES, the band featuring former SAVATAGE guitarist Jack Frost and ex-HELSTAR singer James Rivera, have issued the following press release regarding their dealings with well-known heavy metal concert promoter Jack Koshick (Milwaukee Metalfest, March Metal Meltdown): "To date, SEVEN WITCHES h...

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ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO Cover JUDAS PRIEST, DIO On New CD

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, the jazz ensemble led by former TESTAMENT/SAVATAGE guitarist Alex Skolnick, will release their new album, "Transformation", on September 14 through Magna Carta's offshoot label Magnatude Records. Original compositions , which fill just over half the album, are accompanied by new...

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SAVATAGE Mastermind Changes Name Of Solo Project

SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva has changed the name of his solo project to JON OLIVA'S PAIN from the previously announced 'TAGE MAHAL. The name change came about because the group's management realized that there is an established blues artist in Europe who has been using a similar name for decades....

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ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO To Hit The Road

ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO, the jazz ensemble led by former TESTAMENT/SAVATAGE guitarist Alex Skolnick, will be embarking on a short tour in August. "After months coordinating and preparing our next release (due Sep. 14th) and working on other projects, we are stoked to be hitting the road again," Alex writ...

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PROTOTYPE Confirmed For PROGPOWER USA V Pre-Show Party

Los Angeles-based progressive thrash metal band PROTOTYPE will headline the ProgPower USA V pre-show party in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 16, 2004. This annual event is marked by attendance of festival-goers as well as all of the bands from the actual festival for a meet-and-greet. Other bands ap...

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CRIMSON GLORY Members To Appear At PROGPOWER V Festival

According to the official CRIMSON GLORY web site, guitarist Ben Jackson and singer Midnight have been invited to attend ProgPower V festival as special guests on September 17-18 in Atlanta, Georgia. Ben and Midnight will be doing a meet-and-greet only and will not be performing at the event. The sol...

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AFTER DEATH Demo Produced By SAVATAGE Mastermind JON OLIVA

AFTER DEATH, the Tampa-based band featuring former MORBID ANGEL, NOCTURNUS and ACHERON drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, have completed work on their new demo, "Reviving the Gods", at Audiolab studios in Tampa with producer Jon Oliva of SAVATAGE. A track from the CD, "Astral Staircase", can be downloa...

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Heavy Metal's Premier Guitarists Pick Their Dream G3 Lineups

Norway's Imhotep zine recently asked more than 100 guitarists to choose their own dream G3 lineups. "The respect that the guitar players have for Joe Satriani and Steve Vai is a proven fact," writes the magazine's Thiago Pinto Corrêa Sarkis (also of Brazil's Whiplash). "Anyway, talking with some mus...