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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: Debut Album Reissue To Include Bonus Material

Century Media Records will re-release STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's 1995 debut album, "Heavy As A Really Heavy Thing", in Europe on June 12. The re-issue features a re-mastered version of this classic debut, four bonus tracks, the "S.Y.L." video and a 12-page booklet with extended liner notes from Devin Tow...

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BLACK SABBATH: BILL WARD Interview Excerpt Available Online

An excerpt from an extensive interview with BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward is now available online at www.myspace.com/jclgausten. Music writer Joel Gausten conducted this interview as part of his upcoming book, tentatively titled "Albums that (Should've) Changed the World". In addition to featuring...

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DAVID LEE ROTH Brings Twang To VAN HALEN Songs

Launch Radio Networks reports: David Lee Roth will be singing VAN HALEN songs again this spring, but not with the band. Roth is featured on three tracks on "Strummin' With the Devil", a collection of VAN HALEN songs done in bluegrass style that will be released on June 6. Roth joins the JOHN JORGENS...

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PINK CREAM 69 Singer Completes Songwriting Phase For Solo Album

PINK CREAM 69/ex-ADAGIO frontman David Readman has completed the songwriting phase for his solo debut with producer and PINK CREAM 69 colleague Dennis Ward at the helm. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Evil Combination", "New Messiah" and "Over the Ocean". Commented Readman: "It was good...

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KROKUS Bassist Checks In From Recording Studio

Bassist Tony Castell of the long-running Swiss hard rockers KROKUS has posted an update on the recording sessions for the band's new album, which is being tracked at a studio in Winterbach/Karlsruhe, Germany with producer Dennis Ward (PINK CREAM 69). Read Tony's report at this location. KROKUS recen...

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LED ZEPPELIN, VAN HALEN, GUNS N' ROSES Top Guitar Solo Poll

Britain's Telegraph.co.uk is reporting that LED ZEPPELIN's "Stairway to Heaven" has been voted the best guitar solo of all time. The anthem beat the likes of GUNS N' ROSES' "Paradise City" and JIMI HENDRIX's "Voodoo Child" to best air guitar moment. Despite never being released as a single, the 1971...

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OHM: Midwest/East Coast Dates Announced

OHM:, the band featuring former MEGADETH guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Kofi Baker (son of CREAM's Ginger Baker),will be hitting the road in early May for a Midwest/East Coast mini-tour, including some shows with UMPHREY'S MCGEE as well as some of their own headlining concerts. The band also pl...

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PINK CREAM 69 Frontman Comments On Upcoming Solo Album

Frontiers Records has announced that PINK CREAM 69/ex-ADAGIO frontman David Readman is currently completing the writing phase for his solo debut and has already laid down 12 drum tracks with producer and PINK CREAM 69 colleague Dennis Ward at the helm. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Evi...

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TED NUGENT, THUNDER Confirmed For U.K.'s MONSTERS OF ROCK Festival

TED NUGENT, THUNDER and JOURNEY have been confirmed to play at the U.K.'s Monsters of Rock festival, set to take place June 3 at the Milton Keynes National Bowl. Also scheduled to appear are ALICE COOPER and DEEP PURPLE. Tickets for Monsters of Rock 2006, priced £38.50, are available from all usual...

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OHM: Featuring Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist: Live Video Posted Online

A professionally shot (bot not pro audio) live video of OHM:, the band featuring former MEGADETH guitarist Chris Poland, has been posted online at www.ohmband.com. OHM: will be hitting the road in early May for a Midwest/East Coast mini-tour, including some shows with UMPHREY'S MCGEE as well as some...

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JUDAS PRIEST: 'Live Vengeance '82' DVD Due In April

Columbia/Legacy has set an April 4, 2006 release date for JUDAS PRIEST's vintage concert DVD "Live Vengeance '82", which was previously only available on DVD as limited-edition bonus with "Metalogy" box set. JUDAS PRIEST had steadily been building a worldwide audience for eight long years when the 1...

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Dimensions

That rumbling sound you hear is the onrushing freight train of hype that'll be dumped on the United States in the near future, as Australian sensations WOLFMOTHER make their belated way to our shores. Already bigger than big down under, this lean, mean power trio could actually bridge the gap betwee...

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PINK CREAM 69 Frontman Signs Solo Deal With FRONTIERS RECORDS

PINK CREAM 69 frontman David Readman has inked a solo deal with Frontiers Records. "I am now working on a few extra songs to bring song writing to an end," he writes on his web site. "In March will be the release of the project that I did with Andre Andersen from ROYAL HUNT... So ...

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AXXIS: 'Paradise In Flames' Enters German Chart At No. 45

AXXIS' new album, "Paradise In Flames" (AFM Records),has entered the German national chart at position No. 45. The band's ninth studio CD was written and recorded in their own Soundwoxx studio, produced by Harry Oellers (keyboards) and Bernhard Weiss (vocals),and mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward...

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Fall

Vocalist Mark Fox has such an odd, raspy voice, it takes you a minute to realize Switzerland's SHAKRA are actually a metal band. He's kinda got that wheezy Joe Elliot thing going on (minus the million-dollar production, obviously),which combines with the slightly more modern feel of opening track "...