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JUDAS PRIEST Confirmed For Italy's GODS OF METAL Festival?

VICIOUS RUMORS guitarist Geoff Thorpe has revealed during a recent interview with Italian heavy metal web portal Heavy-Metal.it that the newly reunited JUDAS PRIEST and VICIOUS RUMORS have both been confirmed for the 2004 edition of Gods Of Metal festival, set to take place on June 6, 2004 in Milan,...
October 23, 2003
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QUEENSRŸCHE Singer To Begin Work On Second Solo Album

QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate has revealed to MySanAntonio.com that he is working on the material for his second solo album, tentatively due before the end of 2004 through Sanctuary Records. "It's not difficult to balance the solo work with QUEENSRŸCHE," Geoff said. "It's more difficult to find th...
September 26, 2003
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BLACK SABBATH's 'Never Say Die!': The SABBATH Book That Leaves No Stone Unturned

Rockdetector (www.rockdetector.com),the world's biggest rock & metal database (having just clocked up over 21,000 artists...) has just published the 400-page BLACK SABBATH biography "Never Say Die!" Written by editor Garry Sharpe-Young, the man behind the acclaimed OZZY OSBOURNE band biography...
September 11, 2003
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QUEENSRŸCHE Perform On 'The Orlando Jones Show': Video Available

QUEENSRŸCHE performed the song "Open" on the FX Network's "The Orlando Jones Show" on Monday, August 4. Check out a streaming video of the performance (Macromedia Flash 6.0 required): Low-Speed, High-Speed. As previously reported, QUEENSRŸCHE will begin a headlining U.S. tour in September 2003 to co...
August 16, 2003
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VICIOUS RUMORS Guitarist Guests On 7TH ORDER Single

VICIOUS RUMORS guitarist Geoff Thorpe and STEAMHAMMER/ARMAGEDDON axeman Martin Pugh are featured on the new CD release by Seattle's 7TH ORDER (www.7thorder.com). The radio debut of their new single, "Lake of Memory", will take place on www.wnti.org on Saturday, August 9 at 6:00 p.m. EST. According t...
August 8, 2003
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Review: QUEENSRŸCHE Rocks Hometown Crowd

Gene Stout of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Seattle progressive-metal heroes QUEENSRŸCHE and like-minded New York band DREAM THEATER, on tour since late June, enjoyed each other's company so much that their tandem encore Saturday (August 2) at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle turned in...
August 4, 2003
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THREE INCHES OF BLOOD Announce Canadian Dates

Canadian metallers THREE INCHES OF BLOOD have announced two gigs in British Columbia later this month. They are as follows: Aug. 17 - Vancouver, BC @ Hot August Nights Festival (Waldorf Hotel) Aug. 29 - Chilliwack, BC @ Domestic Disturbance Festival (Stolo First Nations Reserve) As previously report...
August 4, 2003
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Enemies Of Reality

Both hail from the state that gave us the space needle, an exceptionally high suicide rate and the origins of a threadbare pullover-sporting, poodle rocker-scorning musical movement (grunge) — but Seattle citizens NEVERMORE and QUEENSRŸCHE would not have been mentioned in the same breath a few years...
July 31, 2003
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TIGERTAILZ Reform, Prepare To Record New Album

Acclaimed 1980s U.K. glam rockers TIGERTAILZ have reformed and are planning to record a new album, due in early 2004. The reunited group — featuring original members Steevi Jaimz (vocals) and Ace Finchum (drums) alongside new guitarist Joolz and bassist Greg Wraith — will be opening for ENUFF Z'NUFF...
July 30, 2003
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Album Sales Down, But Hard Rock Rebounds

Edna Gundersen of USA Today is reporting that "hard rock took a hard fall in recent years, but the embattled genre may be climbing the comeback trail. "Album sales, down 8.3% from a year ago and certain to register a third year of decline, vary from genre to genre, with jazz and Latin ...
July 21, 2003
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THREE INCHES OF BLOOD To Support THE DARKNESS In The U.K.

Canadian metallers THREE INCHES OF BLOOD will be supporting THE DARKNESS on their U.K. tour in October. Confirmed dates are as follows: Oct. 02 - Dublin, IRE @ Vicar street Oct. 04 – Keele, UK @ University Oct. 05 - Cardiff, UK @ Solus Oct. 06 - Bristol, UK @ Carling Academy Oct. 08 - ...
July 14, 2003
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QUEENSRŸCHE Singer's Past Haunts Daughter

Jason Ferguson of Orlando Weekly spoke with QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate who shared a funny story about the band's "glam" days. "That's one thing I've gone through a lot of: different and interesting haircuts," laughs Tate. "One section of the [Experience Music Project, Paul Allen's rock museum i...
June 29, 2003
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Tribe

When Seattle's most majestic of metal institutions attempted to transform themselves into a third-rate ALICE IN CHAINS a couple of albums ago, that was bad enough — even if both bands did kind of hail from the same town. But now they're turning into CREED. And when we come up with such a horrifying...
June 24, 2003
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VICIOUS RUMORS To Record New Album In The Summer

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area melodic metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have written over a dozen new songs and are planning to enter the studio in July and September to record for their next album, tentatively due in late 2003. In other news, VICIOUS RUMORS have been asked to return to Italy for a short to...
April 23, 2003
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QUEENSRŸCHE Singer To Make 'Big Announcement' Regarding Solo Project

According to the official web site of QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate (www.geofftate.com),Geoff "is currently in the studio, writing and recording the next QUEENSRŸCHE album. Soon a new forum will be online at queensryche.com, where Geoff will be spending most of his time. We encourage you to visit...
March 7, 2003