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GRAYSON MANOR Sign With France's BAD REPUTATION RECORDS

French record label Bad Reputation (LOVE/HATE, MOTHER SUPERIOR, ZAN CLAN) has signed Atlanta, Georgia rockers GRAYSON MANOR. The group's new abum, titled "Children of the Manor", was produced by Robert Carranza (MOLOTOV, JACK JOHNSON, BECK) and will be issued this April. The European release will al...

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Former SOILWORK Guitarist To Produce SAMADHI Full-Length Debut

Former SOILWORK guitarist Peter Wichers will be producing the debut full-length effort from Baltimore, Maryland-based metal/thrash act SAMADHI. "We are honored to be working with him, and look forward to the experience," the band write in a statement. "We are scheduled to start work in early May, an...

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Classic GLENN HUGHES/PAT THRALL Collaboration To Be Remastered, Reissued

According to a posting on legendary vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes' (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH) official web site, Hughes' classic 1982 collaboration with guitarist Pat Thrall, entitled "Hughes/Thrall", is likely to be reissued later this year. The unique blend of pop and rock is currently being pre...

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Ex-PANTERA Bandmates REX BROWN And VINNIE PAUL Play Together For First Time In Over Four Years

Former PANTERA bassist Rex Brown performed with ex-PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul for the first time since 2001 at last night's (Dec. 31) GASOLINE gig at Hot Rods and Hoggs in Arlington, Texas. Rex joined Vinnie and the rest of the reactivated southern rock covers band for renditions of the...

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DEATHRASH To Release Collection Of Live, Demo Recordings

Bassist/founding member Pat Burns of the long-defunct New Jersey thrashers DEATHRASH has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "[DEATHRASH] rocked the world from '85-'87 and released a very popular demo tape, called 'Faces OF Death', that was the #6 demo of 1986 in Metal Forces magazine, we...

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Guitarist ALEX GROSSI To Perform With JIZZY PEARL, CHUCK WRIGHT At NAMM

Guitarist Alex Grossi (ex-QUIET RIOT, BEAUTIFUL CREATURES) will be performing with Jizzy Pearl (RATT, LOVE/HATE),Chuck Wright (ALICE COOPER, HOUSE OF LORDS) and Troy Patrick Farrell (TRAMP'S WHITE LION) at Paul Reed Smith Guitars' NAMM 2006 party, to be held on January 20 at The Grove in Anaheim, C...

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VELVET REVOLVER And STONE TEMPLE PILOTS To Share Stage In Honor Of SCOTT WEILAND

VH1 Classic will tape an episode of "Decades Rock Live!" dedicated to singer Scott Weiland (VELVET REVOLVER, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS) on August 18, 2006, according to the VH1 web site. The show, which will take place at Atlantic City, New Jersey’s Trump Taj Mahal, will feature VELVET REVOLVER and STONE...

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IBEX Featuring YAKUZA, Ex-CORPSE VOMIT Members: Audio Available

IBEX, the new band featuring members of YAKUZA and the now-defunct Chicago metal act CORPSE VOMIT, have uploaded three demo tracks to their MySpace.com page. The songs "Lessons in Deception", "Fall of the Savior" and "Stillborn Amputee" are being described as "melodic death metal without all the fuc...

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GEORGE LYNCH Lead Singer In Screaming Match With PAT TRAVERS

GEORGE LYNCH band lead singer Andrew Freeman got into a shouting match with opening act, legendary '70s guitarist PAT TRAVERS on Dec. 3 prior to their show together at Jaxx, located in West Springfield, VA. Sources say the altercation began when Travers was asked to move his RV, which was blocking L...

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WARRANT Sign With MTM MUSIC; New Album Samples Available

MTM Music has announced the signing of WARRANT, one of the most popular and successful rock bands of the late '80s and early '90s. The band was formed in the mid-'80s and its first official lineup featured vocalist Jani Lane, guitarist Erik Turner, guitarist Joey Allen, bass player Jerry Dixon and d...

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Heavy Metal Musicians Remember DIMEBAG DARRELL

MTV News spoke with members of some 30 hard rock and metal bands about their memories of late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. They told MTV how much he'd meant to them, they shared fond memories and spoke of the impact he made on their lives and their music. A few excerpts fro...

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VH1's 'Decades' Featuring SCOTT WEILAND To Air In January

The new episode of VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live", featuring an appearance by VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland (ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS),is scheduled to air on January 1, 2006 at 12:00 a.m. The performance was taped on November 11 at the Trump Taj Mahal Resort & Casino in Atlantic City,...

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MARILYN MANSON: More Wedding Details Revealed

Ireland's The Limerick Post is reporting that a Limerick-based company has won the contract for MARILYN MANSON's four-day wedding extravaganza. There has been worldwide speculation about the goth rockstar's wedding, including where it's on, who's going to it and who's doing the food and the cake. An...

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HENRY ROLLINS Says His Charity Work Is Motivated By Anger

Pat Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune recently conducted an interview with punk rock icon Henry Rollins. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On his current spoken-word tour "25 years of B.S.": "I do a lot of USO work, so I fly all over the world to be with the troops, so ...

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KISS Guitarist Helps Elementary School Students Form School's First Full Band

The Oregonian is reporting that KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer presented 12 new musical instruments to the students of Oregon's W.L. Henry Elementary School to boost the school's band program from three members who provide their own instruments — two clarinets and a flute — to a full-force 15-piece ens...