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Y&T: New Collection Of Previously Unreleased Material Available Now

Reunited hard rockers Y&T — Dave Meniketti, Phil Kennemore, Leonard Haze, John Nymann — have released the second collection of previously unreleased material, "UnEarthed Vol. 2", via their official web site. The disc contains songs that were written and/or demoed for various albums between 1974...

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GUANO APES: Digipak Version Of New Single To Include Two Previously Unreleased Tracks

GUANO APES' brand new single, "Break the Line" (video) will be released on Monday, November 15 in two different versions — a standard three-track version and as a limited-edition five-track digipak featuring two previously unreleased tracks, "Stay" and "Underwear". Commented guitarist Henning Rümena...

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DIO Concert To Be Broadcast On KSJO

DIO's headlining performance at The Grand (at the Regency Center) in San Francisco, CA Friday night (Oct. 29) will be broadcast live on KSJO 92.3 FM (The Bone). Don't miss this special Halloween weekend broadcast Friday night at 9:00 p.m. PST on Billy Steel's "Metal Zone". "[Opening band] ANTHRAX's...

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Y&T: 1995 Rehearsal Recording Available For Download

Dave Meniketti's (Y&T) web site is currently hosting a "rehearsal" recording of a 1995 live Y&T jam in Dave's studio. "This was one of the first performances of 'Fly Away' as the band was jamming to come up with the idea for the song," reads a posting on the site. "This is a little 'sneak .....

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CRADLE OF FILTH: North American Tour To Kick Off In November

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have issued a statement refuting reports that they have scheduled a North American tour beginning October 15 in Ottawa, ON. "If any other tour dates appear on any other web sites and not on our official page then we cannot be held resposible for them," the b...

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Heavy Metal Musicians Speak Out On Rising Anti-American Sentiment Around The World

Norway's Imhotep 'zine recently asked more than 60 heavy metal and hard rock musicians to answer the following question regarding the current political situation in the world: What's your opinion on the rising tide of the anti-American sentiment around the world and to what would you attribute this?...

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Heavy Metal's Premier Guitarists Pick Their Dream G3 Lineups

Norway's Imhotep zine recently asked more than 100 guitarists to choose their own dream G3 lineups. "The respect that the guitar players have for Joe Satriani and Steve Vai is a proven fact," writes the magazine's Thiago Pinto Corrêa Sarkis (also of Brazil's Whiplash). "Anyway, talking with some mus...

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Report: Vietnamese Musician Disciplined For Copying RITCHIE BLACKMORE Song

Utusan Malaysia Online is reporting that a famous Vietnamese musician has received a formal reprimand for copying a song written and sung by BLACKMORE'S NIGHT and claiming it as his own work. The Ho Chi Minh City's Music Association on Monday (July 5) ruled that Quoc Bao's "Tuoi 16" was identical to...

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Virtuoso Acoustic Guitarists To Release EP Of METALLICA Covers

Acoustic guitar duo RODRIGO Y GABRIELA have announced plans to release a METALLICA covers EP in the next few months. Natives of Mexico City, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero began their careers as members of TIERRA ACIDA (mp3),a heavy metal band which played on the city's underground gig circu...

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DESTINY Confirmed For Sweden's METAL MEET FESTIVAL

Long-running Swedish metal band DESTINY have been confirmed for the Metal Meet Festival, a two-day event set to take place July 30-31 in Gothenburg, Sweden. This will be DESTINY's first "real" gig in their hometown since their gig with IN FLAMES way back in early 1999 (not counting their short set a...

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MEGADETH: Drummer NICK MENZA To Rejoin The Fold?

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has revealed in an online posting at Megadeth.com that he has sent a copy of the new MEGADETH album, titled "The System Has Failed", to former drummer Nick Menza. Mustaine will meet with Menza in Los Angeles or Arizona to see if Nick "has got what it takes to play [the...

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UNEARTH: New Song Available For Download

A brand-new UNEARTH track, titled "The Great Dividers", has been posted online in MP3 format at this location. "The Great Dividers" comes off the group's forthcoming album, "The Oncoming Storm", due on June 29 through Metal Blade Records. A video for the track was recently shot in New York City's Sp...

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Ex-MEGADETH Members, WATCHTOWER Guitarist To Perform At WORLD GUITAR CONGRESS

SPASTIC INK/WATCHTOWER guitarist Ron Jarzombek is once again hooking up with fellow guitarist Marty Friedman (ex-MEGADETH, CACOPHONY) following last year's "Guitarevolution" tour. The MARTY FRIEDMAN solo band, also featuring bassist/vocalist Chris Catero (RAZER, ex-WARDOG) and drummer Jimmy DeGrasso...

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MARILYN MANSON's Online Journal Spotlighted In Rolling Stone Magazine

The latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine (dated June 10, 2004) features an article entitled "Rocker Diaries — Fred Durst and Marilyn Manson Sound Off On-line," by Gillian Telling. A photograph of Marilyn Manson with the caption "Manson: Spreading virtual ringworm" is found at the top of the articl...

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Upstate N.Y. Woman Wants To Have SLIPKNOT/SLAYER Concert Cancelled

Chris Hamilton of Albany, NY's Capital News 9 is reporting that a woman named Susan Balfour wants to stop the "Aggressive Music Festival" planned at the Glens Falls Civic Center in July. The concert, which is scheduled to take place July 17-18, will feature performances from such acts as SLAYER, SLI...