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IAN GILLAN's 'Smoke This!' Book Is 'Fascinating Journey Through The Heyday Of Rock N' Roll'

DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan has just published his book, "Smoke This! The Warblings, Rants, Philosophies, and Musings from the Singer of Deep Purple". In a posting on Gillan's official web site, the book is described as "a feast of information, pontifications, and visual representation of legend...

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QUIREBOYS Frontman Unable To Make Tonight's UFO Gig

QUIREBOYS' official web site has been updated with the following message: "We regret to announce that Spike and [his backing] band cannot play tonight's show with UFO. There has been a problem with the tour bus and due to the distance involved it is impossible to get band and gear to the venue in ti...

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Ex-SABBATH Singer TONY MARTIN Meets TONY IOMMI For First Time In 10 Years

Former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin has posted the following message on his official web site: "Russia!! You guys rock!! "It was great to be back there. We had a VERY interesting journey!!! "First show was fantastic. Thanks to the Apelsin club and all that came. Cool. "The next few days were.....

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METALLICA, AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH Albums Make TIME Magazine's 'All-Time 100'

METALLICA's "Master of Puppets", AC/DC's "Back in Black", BLACK SABBATH's "Paranoid", LED ZEPPELIN's "IV" and NIRVANA's "Nevermind" are among the "all-time 100 albums," according to the editors of Time magazine. "We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most in...

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WHITESNAKE's New Live Album To Be Made Available In U.S. Via iTunes

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has commented on last week's Classic Rock Roll of Honour event, which took place on November 6 in London. WHITESNAKE was honored with the "Band of the Year" and "Best DVD" awards at the show, which was organized by Classic Rock magazine. Commented WHITESNAKE front...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'I've Been A Negative Creep Most Of My Life'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his official MySpace page: "Tonight after the show I was listening to my friend Morten's band SLOW DEATH FACTORY, kick-ass lowdown mutherfuckin' bruiser stuff, and my thoughts started trailing off. Earlier in the evening I did th...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND Joins GWAR At Vancouver Concert

Fans at last night's GWAR concert at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver B.C. received a treat when Devin Townsend joined the band for two songs during their hour-and-a-half set. According to one concertgoer, Devin "supplied vocals and was wielding a massive axe for one of the songs. The crowd went...

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JON OLIVA: 'To Me SAVATAGE Was Never SAVATAGE After CRISS Died'

Metal-Temple.com / Rock Hard writer Orpheus Spiliotopoulos recently conducted an in-depth interview with SAVATAGE mastermind Jon Oliva. An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: I'd like to ask you why you left SPV Records and how [much] better do you feel it is with AFM Records now? Jon Oliva: "The SPV...

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IT DIES TODAY, HASTE THE DAY Featured On 'A Santa Cause II' Compilation

Immortal Records announces the release of "A Santa Cause II". Due out November 21, this innovative digital-only compilation will be sold exclusively through MySpace. Log onto www.myspace.com/asantacause for more information. A portion of the proceeds will go directly to Cure Autism Now, an organizat...

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Psalm 9

Black sheets of raining doom rock cascade down, Old Testament prophecies come true in vengeful bursts of fire, and the bastards indeed pay! TROUBLE should have knocked the world on its ass in 1984 with this low-budget slab of creepy, ethereal metal, a distillation of the gloom of prime SABBATH, the...

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CULT OF LUNA: 'Back To Chapel Town' Video Available

Swedish art-noise collective CULT OF LUNA has released its video for "Back to Chapel Town". Filmed in Umeå near where the band are from, the clip took five days to make and is produced and directed by the band. Johannes Persson and Erik Olofsson came up with the concept and directed the video themse...

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SWEDEN ROCK 2006 DVD Trailer Available

The organizers of the Sweden Rock festival have uploaded a trailer for their newly released DVD commemorating the 2006 edition of the annual event, which was held June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. Check it out at this location. Released on October 27, the DVD/CD set contains the following track listi...

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WHITESNAKE's COVERDALE, ALDRICH To Attend SWEDEN ROCK Kick-Off

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale and guitarist Doug Aldrich will be making an "exclusive appearance" at the Sweden Rock Festival kick-off on December 2 at Nalen in Stockholm, Sweden. At this event the first batch of bands booked for next year's festival will be announced. Scheduled to perform at...

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ANGTORIA Members Score 'Aggy Anger In Bloody Halloween' Claymation Movie

Chris and Tommy Rehn from ANGTORIA have written the score for "Aggy Anger in Bloody Halloween", a claymation short movie featuring the wild and crazy character Aggy Anger. A two-minute clip of Aggy Anger can be viewed at the following locations: YouTube.com, Video Google. Commented Aggy: "For now yo...

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Former DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERTSON Talks About Past And Future

Crashtest of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with former DIO and current DC4 guitarist Rowan Robertson. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metal-Rules.com: Well, you know we need to talk about it, even though it was more than fifteen years ago... your time in DIO. The legend goes t...