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Prosecutors Object To Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager's Request For Work Release

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Prosecutors are objecting to Daniel Biechele's application for a work-release program. Biechele, the former tour manager for the band GREAT WHITE, was sentenced earlier this month to serve four years in prison for lighting the pyrotechnics that s...

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DISSECTION: 'Rebirth Of Dissection' DVD Due In July

Escapi Music has set a July 28 European release date (August 1 in North America) for the new DISSECTION DVD, entitled "Rebirth of Dissection". With Jon Nödtveidt's release from an eight-year prison sentence on September 6, 2004, he recruited a completely new lineup. First to join the ranks was ex-DA...

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GREAT WHITE Members Ordered As Witnesses In Nightclub Fire Trial

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Two members of the Los Angeles-based rock band GREAT WHITE have been subpoenaed as witnesses in the criminal trial of Michael Derderian, the club owner charged with involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of 100 people during a 2003 fire started...

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THE SISTERS OF MERCY, FREEDOM CALL Added To Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Metal Festival

THE SISTERS OF MERCY and FREEDOM CALL have been added to the lineup of the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi in Helsinki, Finland. FREEDOM CALL have replaced U.K. power metallers DRAGONFORCE, who were forced to pull out of the event after la...

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Rio Grande Blood

Uncle Al has gotta be pushing 50 at this point, but he's never been more enraged. Following MINISTRY's big comeback in 2004 with "Houses of the Molè", the cranky ringleader has assembled some new players (notably riffmeister Tommy Victor of PRONG and DANZIG fame, and PRONG/KILLING JOKE bassist Paul...

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GIGANTOUR DVD Details Revealed

Image Entertainment has set a September 5, 2006 release date for the "Gigantour" two-disc DVD, featuring highlights from the tour's inaugural run which took place last summer. Gigantour kicked-off on July 21, 2005 in Fresno, California, and hit 39 cities in the U.S. and Canada before ending on Septe...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Applies For Work-Release Program

According to The Associated Press, former GREAT WHITE tour manager Daniel Biechele, who was sentenced to jail for igniting a nightclub fire that killed 100 people, has applied for a work-release program. A judge sentenced Biechele last week to four years in prison for starting a deadly blaze at The...

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DOWN: Brand New Photos Posted Online

Several brand-new photos of DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJ...

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FIVE STAR PRISON CELL Prepare To Record Second Album

Aussie tech metallers FIVE STAR PRISON CELL are currently writing material for their as-yet-untitled second album. Ten brand new tracks and perhaps a few little suprises are what's in store for the forthcoming opus. This promises to be FIVE STAR's greatest and most challenging work to date. They wil...

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CHAOS DIVINE Complete Work On Debut EP

Australian metallers CHAOS DIVINE have completed work on their debut EP, "Ratio", for a June 2006 release. According to the band's web site, the CD "features more than half an hour of music that encases the first year of the band's travellings and featured on the disc is our original line-up: pre-Ja...

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KAMELOT Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ALICE COOPER ANVIL ARCH ENEMY BALDROOM BLITZ BLITZKRIEG...

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VENOM To Embark On '7 Days Of Hell' North American Tour In August

British black metal pioneers VENOM will be embarking on the "7 Days of Hell" North American tour in late August. The seven-show trek, which will kick off on August 13 and conclude on August 28, will feature DEVILDRIVER in the support slot. VENOM's new album, "Metal Black", was released in North Amer...

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SODOM Frontman Says He Was Disappointed By New VENOM, CELTIC FROST Albums

Christine Carney of MP3.com recently conducted an interview with SODOM frontman Thomas "Tom Angelripper" Such. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: MP3.com: I see that one of the tracks [on the new SODOM album], "Axis of Evil", is kind of a commentary on our American president here, George Bus...

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Ex-GREAT WHITE Tour Manager's Sentence Too Light, Say Many Relatives

Ray Henry of The Associated Press has issued the following report: It took just seconds for the families of those killed in the state's deadliest fire to react as a judge told the man who set off pyrotechnics that set The Station nightclub ablaze he would have to spend the next four years in prison....

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Sentenced To Four Years In Prison

TurnTo10 has issued the following report: A judge sentenced former GREAT WHITE tour manager Dan Biechele to four years in prison Wednesday (May 10) for lighting the pyrotechnics display that sparked The Station nightclub fire, which killed 100 people. A tearful Biechele apologized to the families wh...