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BURST To Guest On 'Headbanger's Ball'

Members of BURST will guest on tomorrows airing of MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball". Bassist Jesper Liverod and vocalist Linus Jagerskog will make an in-studio appearance on the program, Saturday, May 13. Also to be aired on this week’s program is the band’s video for "Where the Wave Broke", the lead-off...

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MCQUEEN Sign Worldwide Deal With DEMOLITION RECORDS

MCQUEEN have signed a worldwide deal with Demolition Records to release their debut album, "Break the Silence", later this summer. The CD was recorded in sections in between a healthy touring schedule that has spanned the last two and a half years. The album features a number of tracks mixed by QUEE...

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GOTTHARD Score 10th Consecutive No. 1 Album In Switzerland

GOTTHARD have just scored their 10th consecutive No. 1 album in their home country of Switzerland. "Made in Switzerland" — which beat the latest releases from TOOL and PEARL JAM — is a CD/DVD set that contains 17 songs that were recorded during a concert at the Hallenstadion in Zürich in December 20...

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TOOL Planning Summer Tour Around KEENAN's Wine Harvest

TOOL bassist Justin Chancellor has told MTV.com that the band are currently mapping an eight-week U.S. arena trek beginning in August that'll carry the group through the end of September. "People will be able to get tickets for that tour," he cracked. "Right now, we're basically doing a bit of a war...

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SoundScan Report: TOOL, PEARL JAM, WOLFMOTHER, REBEL MEETS REBEL, MINISTRY

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending May 7, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 1,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, where...

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TOOL Pulls Out All Stops For CD Package

Launch Radio Networks reports: TOOL's new album, "10,000 Days", features some of the most elaborate CD packaging ever seen, with stereoptic lenses built right into the cover art so that fans can look through photos and artwork inside the CD jacket in full 3-D. The band has previously done equally im...

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TOOL Frontman Puts Winery Business First

World Entertainment News Network is reporting that TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan is planning his touring schedule around his new vineyard's harvesting and bottling because he insists on being part of the process. The eccentric rocker launched Merkin Vineyards in Sedona, Arizona last year and hi...

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AXL ROSE Comments On GUNS N' ROSES Concert Sellouts

GUNS N' ROSES' four warm-up concerts at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom sold out in less than three minutes. The four shows on the 12, 14, 15 and 17 of May are warm-ups for the European leg of the band's forthcoming tour which starts on May 25 in Madrid at Juan Carlos Arena. The band's frontman ...

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SATYRICON, KHOMA Confirmed For U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival

SATYRICON, HENRY ROLLINS (spoken word) and KHOMA are among the latest acts confirmed for Download festival, set to take place at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, over the weekend of June 9-11 June. Download 2006 will go something like this: Friday, June 9: Main Stage: TOOL DEFTONES FUNERAL FOR A FR...

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TOOL, PEARL JAM To Top Next Week's BILLBOARD Album Chart

Hits Daily Double is reporting that TOOL's "10,000 Days" looks poised to sell in the 600,000 range after a tremendous first-day start, according to retailers around the country. This is roughly in line with the first-week performance of the band's last album, "Lateralus", which shifted 555,000 copie...

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SOULFLY Guitarist RIZZO Schedules In-Store Appearances

SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo will be making several free in-store appearances during the band's U.S. tour next week that will consist of Marc performing and doing a question-and-answer and autograph session. All in-store appearances begin at 7:00 p.m. at the following locations: May 09 - Dave Philli...

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TOOL Ends Five-Year Drought With '10,000 Days'

Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report: Today (Tuesday, May 2) is a big day for TOOL as the band releases its first album in five years, called "10,000 Days", and begins a North American tour in Seattle, Washington. The group's first opportunity to play some new material live came thi...

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10,000 Days

I love TOOL. I've loved them since first hearing the "Opiate" EP back in 1992, and both "Undertow" and "Aenima" are two of my favorite heavy rock albums of the Nineties. But lately, I would be lying if I didn't say that TOOL was starting to make me a little…fidgety. Like RADIOHEAD, the group has ...

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HATESPHERE: 'The Sickness Within' To Receive U.S. Release In September

SPV Records has set a September 12, 2006 North American release date for the new HATESPHERE album, entitled "The Sickness Within". The follow-up to 2004's "Ballet of the Brute", which was released in Europe last September, was recorded in part at Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWE...

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10 YEARS Singer Not Ready To Go All-Digital

Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report: 10 YEARS recently made an EP of four acoustic tracks available exclusively through the iTunes online music store. While he likes the idea of selling music digitally, 10 YEARS singer Jesse Hasek told Launch that he doesn't see it replacing CDs. "...