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SLAYER: Schedule Announced For San Diego Live Stream

YeboTV, a next-generation web-based TV network, will stream SLAYER's concert at the San Diego Sports Arena on Saturday, August 25. This will be a live real-time stream viewable to fans globally on www.yebotv.com. The San Diego concert is a stop on SLAYER's current North American co-headline trek wit...

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Bassist JOEY VERA: 'The Thing With All Music Is That It's Not For Everybody'

Greece's Metalzone recently conducted an interview with legendary heavy metal bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING). A few excerpts from the chat follow: Metalzone: How about the identity of what is heavy metal. Do you feel it's lost within the experiments and the adoption of new elements...

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MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO: Wacken Open Air 'Shred' Clips Available

Video footage of guitarist Michael Angelo Batio (ex-HOLLAND, N.I.T.R.O.) performing at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which took place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany, has been posted on YouTube. Watch the two clips below. Batio is one of several guitarists who are featured in Troy Grady'...

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Live Consternation

Not a lot of surprises on this live set from the masters of dark, depressive heavy rock — unless you count the missing songs. It's understood that KATATONIA uses a lot of effects and production wizardry to create their mournful, massive melodies in the studio, and that some of those songs won't tran...

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TOOL Frontman's PUSCIFER Project To Film 'Queen B' Video

PUSCIFER, the side project of TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan, is preparing to film a video for the song "Queen B". The clip is expected by late September. "Queen B" is the first single from PUSCIFER's debut album, "V Is for Vagina", due October 30 via Puscifer Entertainment. Other songs set to a...

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SAVIOURS Sign To KEMADO RECORDS

Oakland, CA outfit SAVIOURS has inked a deal with New York City's Kemado Records. The self-described "piss-angry metal band," known for its ferocious live performances and original stamp on the classic power and thrash metal of decades past, will enter Los Angeles' A&M/Henson Studios in late Aug...

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TILL WE DIE To Hit The Road With POWERMAN 5000

Massachusetts-based metallists TILL WE DIE are preparing to hit the road alongside POWERMAN 5000 in support of their just released full-length debut, "Pressing On". Released via Screaming Ferret Wreckords, the album sees the band touching upon both TOOL's prog explorations and melodic rock. But desp...

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SCOTT WEILAND Wants To Write 'Better Final Chapter' To STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Story

WashingtonPost.com recently conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER/ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: WashingtonPost.com: It's interesting to hear you say that you're not afraid to throw your influences into an album, because STONE TEMPLE PIL...

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TOOL Frontman's PUSCIFER: New Album Title, Release Date Announced

PUSCIFER — the side project of TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan — has set an October 30 release date for its debut album, entitled "V is for Vagina". "This is absolutely just put-it-on-and-move-your-butt -and-get-completely-out-of-your-head music," Keenan recently told MTV.com about the record. "T...

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CONTRIVE Featured On Australian TV

ABC-TV in Australia recently screened a segment on the late-night music program JTV featuring CONTRIVE drummer Andrew Haug, focusing on his impressive metal knowledge, as well as his relationship with his twin brother and CONTRIVE guitarist/vocalist Paul Haug. You can now view the five-minute segmen...

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DEVIN TOWNSEND: 'I Find The Energy Of A Lot Of People Really Taxing'

Mike Exley of Planet-Loud.com recently conducted an interview with Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Planet-Loud.com: You're well known of course, for producing music with an introverted influence rather than stuff influenced fr...

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'Shred School' Offers Aspiring Musicians Chance To Learn From Multi-Platinum Artists

On August 4, aspiring musicians of all aptitudes and abilities will be offered the rare chance to learn from multi-platinum artists and the people that helped make their success a reality. The Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles will serve as the classroom for the first installment of Shred Schoo...

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About 20 Arrested During TOOL Concert In New Jersey

According to the Asbury Park Press, New Jersey State Police said there were about 20 arrests made Wednesday (July 18) at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, a night on which alternative rock group TOOL performed. Capt. Al Della Fave, spokesman for the State Police, said that total inclu...

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TED NUGENT, JERRY CANTRELL, SCOTT IAN Featured On New MOTHER PEARL Recordings

Ted Nugent, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell and ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian are among the guest musicians who appear on the new recordings by MOTHER PEARL, the band led by Pearl Aday, Ian's fiancée and daughter of legendary crooner Meat Loaf. Check out the tunes — which were produced by Joe...

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ALTER BRIDGE: New Album Title, Release Date Announced

ALTER BRIDGE has set October 9 as the release date for the band's second album, called "Blackbird". The group, featuring three former members of CREED, signed a new deal with Universal Republic after leaving Wind-Up Records last year. The album's first single, "Rise Today", is scheduled to go for ra...