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Hardworlder

After stumbling drunkenly into a club one evening and experiencing the vintage heavy metal bombast (with stunning and tight dual-guitar fireworks) of SLOUGH FEG I decided it was high time to check out a band that I've heard a slew of critics and fans raving about. And boy, were those fans and critic...

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Short Sharp Shock

There sure are a lot of youngster picking up ye olde thrash gauntlet and going the old school route. Considering Earache's grand slam in picking up the mighty MUNICIPAL WASTE it should come as no surprise that England's thrash punkers SSS have also found a home on the storied label. The strain of th...

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VELVET REVOLVER: 'The Last Fight' Single To Go For Radio Adds In August

VELVET REVOLVER has selected "The Last Fight" as the second single from its "Libertad" album. The track will go for radio adds on August 20. VELVET REVOLVER's sophomore album, "Libertad", sold 93,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billbo...

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Review: Free Doesn't Mean Better At OZZFEST 2007

Niyaz Pirani of The Orange County Register reports: In my first five minutes at Ozzfest 2007 on Saturday at Hyundai Pavilion in Devore, I'd already seen a girl flash a car in the parking lot and a very angry singer on the second stage demand that we all throw our devil horns in ...

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STRATOVARIUS Mainman Announces Second Vocalist For New Solo Album

After choosing classically trained American coloratura soprano Jennifer Sowle to sing the leading character in his "classic rock opera," STRATOVARIUS guitarist/mainman Timo Tolkki has chosen the second singer for his third solo album. He is Heikki Pöyhiä from Finnish band TWILIGHTNING. "I got to kno...

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EVANESCENCE Frontwoman On Lineup Changes, Marriage And FAMILY VALUES Tour

EVANESCENCE frontwoman Amy Lee recently took part in a conference call with members of the media to answer questions about the group's recent lineup changes and its participation in the Family Values tour. The interview follows here in its entirety: Q: So obviously, it's been a dramatic couple of mo...

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METAL MIKE Schedules Guitar Clinic And Signing Appearances

Guitarist "Metal" Mike Chlasciak (HALFORD, PAINMUSEUM, SEBASTIAN BACH) has issued the following update: "I'll be embarking on a short, but what promises to be a loud and metal trek across Pennsylvania and New Jersey while performing for Digitech's Digitruck. Yes, I'll be wrecking all kinds of havoc...

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DECEASED Parts Ways With Guitarist

After 22 years of playing in the Virginia-based old-school thrash metal band DECEASED, guitarist Mark Adams has announced his departure from the group. "I have had a lifetime of great memories playing in DECEASED for so many years," Mark says in a statement. "It's really crazy thinking back to how l...

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Libertad

How much more proof do we need that the new wave of "supergroups" — starting with AUDIOSLAVE and VELVET REVOLVER, moving onto ARMY OF ANYONE, and now culminating in the bottom-of-the-barrel likes of CIRCUS DIABLO — is now dead? "Libertad", the second album from VELVET REVOLVER, is a polished, profes...

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Of Myths and Legends

Another of about a billion North American releases from this Spanish label, Locomotive Records has been hitting more than it has been missing as of late. A definite highlight of this prodigious group of albums is BLACK MESSIAH's "Of Myths and Legends" is a dynamic and lively Viking/pagan/black metal...

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BROKEN HOPE To Reunite?

Chronicles of Chaos recently conducted an interview with former BROKEN HOPE and current LUPARA guitarist Jeremy Wagner. An excerpt from the chat follows: On what led to BROKEN HOPE's split: Jeremy: Well, we'd gotten to our fourth album and we'd paid a lot of dues and had been working really hard to...

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NILE Mainman Discusses Making Of 'Ithyphallic' Album

Keyser from French webzine Thrashocore recently conducted an interview with NILE mainman Karl Sanders. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Thrashocore: How is "Ithyphallic" compared to the previous albums? I heard a few samples and they seemed close to "Annihilation of the Wicked" …so what do you t...

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QUICK CHANGE: Debut Album To Be Released On CD

Metal Mind Productions will release the debut album from QUICK CHANGE, entitled "Circus of Death" (1988),on CD on August 6 in Europe (September 3 in the U.S. via MVD). The release will be expanded with two bonus tracks — "Final Stand" and "War Game". The CD will be made available in a new digipack...

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VELVET REVOLVER's 'Libertad' Enters Billboard Chart At No. 5

VELVET REVOLVER's sophomore album, "Libertad", sold 93,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at position No. 5 on The Billboard chart. This is a little over one-third of the 256,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, "Contraband", which landed at No. 1...

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VELVET REVOLVER: 'Libertad' First-Week Sales Less Than Half Of 'Contraband'

According to Hits Daily Double, VELVET REVOLVER's "Libertad" is poised to sell around 100,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release. This is less than half of the 256,000 first-week tally registered by its predecessor, "Contraband", which landed at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 c...