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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager To Be Sentenced In Fatal Fire
The Associated Press is reporting that a judge is expected to decide Wednesday (May 10) whether former GREAT WHITE tour manager Daniel Biechele — who started the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people — should go to prison. [Watch today's sentencing hearing, going on now, courtesy of WPRI.com at...May 10, 2006
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NINE, EPICA, MENDEED, METSATÖLL Confirmed For Finland's TUSKA OPEN AIR Festival
NINE, EPICA, MENDEED and METSATÖLL have been confirmed for the ninth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, set to take place June 30 – July 2 at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland. A total of 32 bands will perform on three stages over the course of three days. In addition, a couple of dozen bands...May 10, 2006
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GREAT WHITE: Portraits Emerge Of Lives Lost In Second Day Of Nightclub Hearing
The Associated Press has issued the following report: Robert Reisner, the school bus driver who lived with his mother and was known as "Mr. Rob" to the students on his route, went to the concert. So did Scott Griffith, a California-born man and self-taught musician who headed out with a group of off...May 9, 2006
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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Faces Victims of Rhode Island Fire
Eric Tucker of The Associated Press has issued the following report: Watching her severely burned daughter go through 35 operations over two months before doctors took the young woman off life support was "a journey of hell," Anna Gruttaduaria told the court Monday as a sentencing hearing began for...May 8, 2006
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VENOM: USA And Japan Tours Planned
British black metal pioneers VENOM have posted the following message on their official web site: "VENOM have started negotiations for some shows in both American and Japan later this year, around August and September. The dates are currently being sorted out and will be confirmed soon." It has been...May 8, 2006
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GREAT WHITE: Three-Day Sentencing Hearing Set In Nightclub Fire Case
The Associated Press has issued the following report: In the three years since The Station nightclub disaster, the relatives of the 100 people killed have clustered together for memorials at the roadside fire site and mourned alone in cemeteries. But they have never had a chance to share their pain...May 7, 2006
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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager Seeks Community Service
The Associated Press has issued the following report: A former rock band tour manager being sentenced next week for his role in a nightclub fire that killed 100 people asked a judge to show mercy Thursday by imposing community service rather than sending him to prison. Daniel Biechele, 29, the forme...May 4, 2006
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DEVILDRIVER Frontman On Upcoming CD: 'Expect Uncompromising, Brutal-In-Its-Delivery Metal'
DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara (ex-COAL CHAMBER) has issued the following update: "We are leaving for tour Monday, May 8th to start the tour in San Diego, California at the House Of Blues. We have been rehersing daily and are ready to tear SHIT up!!!! After this tour, DEVILDRIVER is flying across t...May 4, 2006
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DRAGONLORD Added To Japan's THRASH DOMINATION Festival
DRAGONLORD — the San Francisco-based black metal band featuring Eric Peterson (guitar, vocals; TESTAMENT),Gian Pyres (guitar; ex-CRADLE OF FILTH),Derrick Ramirez (bass),Lyle Livingstone (keys) and Jon Allen (drums; SADUS, ex-TESTAMENT) — have been added to the upcoming Thrash Domination 2006 two-...May 3, 2006
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DEATH ANGEL Announce Hometown Gig
San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL have added a hometown gig to their current itinerary. Tickets for the concert, which will take place on August 26 at Slim's, go on sale this Sunday, May 7. The group's schedule is now shaping up as follows: Jun. 09 - Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA (w/ HOSTILI...May 3, 2006
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VENOM, DEATH ANGEL, SODOM, ONSLAUGHT To Team Up For THRASH DOMINATION
VENOM, DEATH ANGEL, SODOM and ONSLAUGHT will be teaming up for the Thrash Domination 2006 two-day mini-festival run on September 16-17 at Club Citta in Tokyo, Japan. VENOM's new album, "Metal Black", was released in North America on April 4 via Sanctuary Records. The CD was mixed at the Townhouse St...May 1, 2006
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Invaders
A few years after someone, somewhere, thought stoner rock was gonna be the next big thing, a younger and hipper-looking contingent came along and decided trucker caps, three-quarter-sleeve baseball jersey shirts, and velvet blacklight posters were pretty cool after all. Some old-schoolers got caught...May 1, 2006
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Kalas
A bruising slab of ponderous metal riffing from this San Franciscan supergroup, helmed by Matt Pike (HIGH ON FIRE, SLEEP) on vocals. The band's aesthetic is uniformly slow, plodding, dirty and dirge-y, Pike yowling quasi-tunefully over pork-fisted riffs and thudding rhythms. The effect is somewhere...May 1, 2006
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Canadian Church Fire Linked To Norwegian Black Metal Movement
Dean Pritchard of the Winnipeg Sun has issued the following report: A fire that destroyed a 105-year-old church in Minnedosa last winter was not an isolated act of arson, but part of an international movement with links to a Norwegian "death metal" musician, say justice officials. The disturbing rev...April 29, 2006
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MEAT PUPPETS Reunion To Feature PRIMUS Drummer
Greg Prato of Billboard.com is reporting that for the first time in more than a decade, Curt and Cris Kirkwood will work together on a new album by influential rock act MEAT PUPPETS. The sibling duo will soon begin rehearsing new material as a precursor to hitting the studio. "I've got the album ...April 28, 2006
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