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VIRGIN STEELE To Perform Covers For Charity

VIRGIN STEELE's David DeFeis (vocals),Edward Pursino (guitar) and Josh Block (bass) will team up with former EXORCIST drummer Geoff Fontaine and keyboard wizard Lynn Delmato to perform another gig of "Strange & Beautiful" cover tunes. This show will take place on May 8 at: Mulcahy's (3232 Railr...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: 'The Art Of Live' DVD Details Revealed

QUEENSRŸCHE have set an April 20 release date through Sanctuary Records for their new DVD, "The Art of Live". "The Art of Live" was filmed in summer and fall 2003 on QUEENSRŸCHE's tour promoting the Sanctuary studio album "Tribe". The summer tour was a co-headlining run with DREAM THEATER. Vocalist...

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VICIOUS RUMORS To 'Crush The World' With New DVD

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area melodic metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have confirmed that they have signed a multi-album recording contract with Holland's Mascot Records (as first reported here last week). "Mascot Records is a very 'guitar shred'-oriented label signing guitar legends such as Michael Schen...

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QUARTZ: Anthology Details Revealed

Sanctuary Records will release an anthology double-CD set from Birmingham heavy metal band QUARTZ this spring. Disc one comprises the entire 1977 Tony Iommi-produced "Quartz" album, including tracks featuring Iommi on lead guitar and "Sugar Rain", where the SABBATH riffmeister donates a flute solo....

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Long-Lost QUARTZ Album Featuring TONY IOMMI, OZZY OSBOURNE To Get Reissued

Sanctuary Records will re-issue the debut album from Birmingham heavy metal band QUARTZ in early 2004. Originally issued on Jet Records in 1977, the album was produced by BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and features guest appearances by Ozzy Osbourne and QUEEN guitarist Brian May. Considered one...

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VIRGIN STEELE To Play Special Benefit Gig

VIRGIN STEELE'S David DeFeis (vocals),Edward Pursino (guitar) and Josh Block (bass) will team up with former EXORCIST drummer Geoff Fontaine to perform a gig of "strange and beautiful" cover tunes on December 13 at The Village Pub South (198 Broadway) in Amityville, New York. This concert is a bene...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Talks About Revisiting 'Operation: Mindcrime' Album

In an interview with Electricbasement.com, QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Geoff Tate talked about revisiting the acclaimed 1988 album "Operation: Mindcrime", which dealt with political schemes. "I would especially love to work again with that album, but I think we would do it quite a bit differently this time...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...