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FATAL SMILE Schedule Showcase Gig In Stockholm
Swedish "traditional" heard rock/heavy metal band FATAL SMILE will play a special showcase gig at the Kool Kat Club in Stockholm on December 3. The group's set list for the show will consist almost entirely of songs from their upcoming album, "Neo-Natural Freaks". As previously reported, the recordi...November 1, 2004
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STUCK MOJO Reunite, Announce Plans To Write Their Best Record Ever
FOZZY guitarist Rich Ward has announced plans to reform his previous band, STUCK MOJO, for the recording of a new studio album, tentatively due late next year through an as-yet-undetermined label. Ward's statement on the matter, as posted on his official web site, reads as follows: "I've spent the l...October 29, 2004
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KISS 'Headline Act' To Air On VH1 CLASSIC This Friday
VH1 Classic "Headline Act" presents KISS premiering on Friday, October 29 at 6:00 p.m. The half-hour block features an interview with KISS frontmen Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley from the VH1 Classic studio as well as classic KISS videos from their history-making career. Simmons and Stanley also disc...October 27, 2004
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Ex-P.O.D. Guitarist Battling Former Bandmates Over Songwriting Royalties
Former P.O.D. guitarist Marcos Curiel has told MTV.com that he is currently involved in a legal dispute with his former bandmates over songwriting royalties. "[They're saying,] 'These songs don't belong to you anymore, they belong to P.O.D.,' " Curiel said. "I'm like, 'No, dude, I wrote those songs....October 21, 2004
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ULI JON ROTH Joined By DORO PESCH, RAGE's SMOLSKI At Germany's ROCK MEETS RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL
Legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth's official web site has been updated with a report from his performance at the Renaissance castle Schloss Beck in Bottrop-Kirchhellen, Germany on October 9. Performing several pieces with SKY ORCHESTRA were Doro Pesch, Victor Smolski (RAGE) and Liz Vandall. The repor...October 18, 2004
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SUICIDAL TENDENCIES: More 'Return To Venice' Details Revealed
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' upcoming "Return to Venice" project will incude two new NO MERCY songs. These two tracks were recorded by SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, featuring Mike Muir (vocals),Dean Pleasants and Mike Clark (guitars),Steve Bruner (bass) and his brother Ron Bruner Jr. (drums). Several of the songs...October 16, 2004
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BESEECH To Begin Recording New Album
Swedish "gothic metallers" BESEECH will enter StudioMega in Bollebygd, Sweden at the end of the month to record four new songs for their upcoming fifth album, tentatively due next year. The rest of the songs for the CD (around eight more) will be recorded at different times during the next six-month...October 11, 2004
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OCEANS OF SADNESS Schedule CD-Release Party
Belgian melodic death metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS have scheduled a CD-release party for their third full-length album, "Send In the Clowns", on Saturday, October 27 at The Eendracht in Dessel, Belgium. "The band will play the entire new album for the first time, combined with songs from the previous...October 10, 2004
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OCEANS OF SADNESS Complete Work On New Album
Belgian melodic death metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS have set "Send In the Clowns" as the title of their third full-length album, tentatively due in late November. The follow-up to 2002's "Laughing Tears * Crying Smile" was recorded at Midas Studio in Lokeren, Belgium with producer Tony De Block and wa...October 5, 2004
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RAMONES: DVD Signing Session In New York City Scheduled
To mark the arrival of "Ramones Raw" — the pioneering group's first-ever DVD — Marky Ramone and "Ramones Raw" producer/director John Cafiero will be meeting fans and signing autographs at the Virgin Megastore-Times Square in New York City (1540 Broadway) on Wednesday, September 29 at 6:30 p.m., the...September 21, 2004
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SLIPKNOT Frontman Rejects Internet Reports: 'I Am Not Dead'
Tim Higgins of Des Moines Register is reporting that SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor has rejected Internet reports declaring his death. A prank — fueled by the Internet and radio — led many to believe that Taylor, who also fronts STONE SOUR, had died this week. "First it was an overdose, than a fatal...September 18, 2004
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Devil's Horns: Who Is Responsible For Metal's Famous Hand Signal?
Steve Appleford of LA CityBEAT recently conducted a "survey" of heavy metal musicians regarding the origins of the "devil's horns" hand sign — the horned hand, with index finger and pinkie raised proudly as the sign of the beast, which is being used as the "international greeting to heavy metal ecst...September 9, 2004
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Gothic metal has undoubtedly experienced an upsurge in popularity over the last few years, but on the fringes it retains a discernible love-hate status. Given the likes of MY DYING BRIDE and, to a slightly less gloomy extent, DARK TRANQUILLITY, many listeners either revel casually in the moroseness...September 4, 2004
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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Bassist Embraces 'Emo-Metal' Tag
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE bassist Mike D'Antonio recently spoke to The Winnipeg Sun about a new breed of beast on the scene: emo-metal. "I feel a lot of bands don't know if they're happy, sad or what — they just go out and put on the metal face," he said. "We don't go out and pretend to ...September 2, 2004
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BESEECH To Enter Studio In October
Swedish "gothic metallers" BESEECH will enter the studio in October to record several new tracks for their upcoming fifth album, tentatively due next year. BESEECH, who recently announced the addition of guitarist Manne Engström (CEMETARY, SUNDOWN, FATAL EMBRACE) to the group's ranks, will play an e...August 29, 2004
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