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DEAD SHAPE FIGURE Signs With SEASON OF MIST

Finnish thrashers DEAD SHAPE FIGURE have inked a deal with Season of Mist. The group's full-length debut, "The Grand Karoshi", is due in the spring. Commented DEAD SHAPE FIGURE singer Galzi: "We're fucking stoked for this opportunity with Season of Mist, and what it brings on the plate. The opportun...

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Report: Band Battles To Share Stage With OZZY OSBOURNE

Nadine Armstrong of The Hants Journal reports: Jake Smith has been listening to OZZY OSBOURNE since the age of 10. Now a chance to open for the heavy metal music icon in Halifax has him "barking at the moon." The Burlington boy is the lead voice for the FED PENNIES, who were approached ...

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CONTROL DENIED: 'The Fragile Art Of Existence' To Be Reissued

"The Fragile Art of Existence", the debut album from late DEATH mastermind Chuck Schuldiner's CONTROL DENIED project, will be reissued on February 11 via Poland's Metal Mind Productions (April 15 in the U.S. via MVD). The remastered limited-edition digipack title (limited to 2,000 copies) will be ma...

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FULL BLOWN CHAOS: 'Halos For Heroes' Video Posted Online

FULL BLOWN CHAOS' video for the song "Halos for Heroes" can be viewed below. The track was selected by fans via the FULL BLOWN CHAOS/Metal Injection Viewers' Choice poll. The band is super-excited about the viewers' choice, but it was a close race, according to vocalist Ray Mazzola. "It was pretty n...

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MODERN CRIMES To Enter Studio In March

MODERN CRIMES, the new "straight-edge thrash/punk" band featuring former A PERFECT MURDER guitarist Carl Bouchard and drummer Yan Chausse along with bassist Luc Verville, singer Frank Pellerin and guitarist Kevin Lemire, will enter the studio in March with producer Pierre Rémillard (MISERY INDEX, IO...

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PAUL STANLEY: More Art Shows Announced

Wentworth Gallery, one of the nation's leading fine art retailers, will host two more art exhibitions by artist and rock icon Paul Stanley. The KISS frontman will present his work at two special appearances at the Wentworth Galleries in Hackensack on Friday, February 8 and Short Hills on Saturday, F...

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HENRY ROLLINS: New Audio Interview Posted Online

Punk rock icon Henry Rollins was a guest on "The Woody Show" on San Francisco's KITS Live 105. Listen to the chat at this location. Rollins wrote in a recent online posting, "The good folks at IFC have asked if I would do three 'Live & Uncut' specials for 2008. Some of you ...

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THE RED CHORD, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD Interview, Performance Footage Available

Metal Injection, the video-on-demand website, has posted interviews and live footage featuring THE RED CHORD, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, ALL SHALL PERISH and DESPISED ICON from their recent tour this past summer. Check it out at this location. "The footage is part of Metal Injection's 2007 Archiv...

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GENE SIMMONS Says Son Has 'Usurped' His 'Throne' As The Ultimate Alpha-Male

BuddyTV.com reports: Rock icon and reality star Gene Simmons has a tremendous effect on women. By his own count, he claims to have slept with more than 4800 women. Nowadays, however, it seems the ladies have set their eyes on another Simmons, and it's none other than Nick Tweed-Simmons, Gene's teena...

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HENRY ROLLINS Travels To Pakistan

Punk rock icon Henry Rollins has issued the following update: "I finished work on 'Ice 44' (or whatever the film will eventually be called) on December 20th and the next day left town for Islamabad, Pakistan. Why did I go there? A couple of reasons: I am curious and at the end of 2006, when ...

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MISERY INDEX To Enter Studio In May

Baltimore, Maryland death metal/grind outfit MISERY INDEX will enter the studio in May to record a new full-length CD for a fall release via Relapse Records. CONVERGE guitarist Kurt Ballou will engineer and produce the effort at his Godcity studios in Massachusetts. MISERY INDEX recently posted a ne...

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PAUL STANLEY: 'When I Paint, The Options Are Limitless'

Richard Clough of the Los Angeles Business Journal recently spoke to KISS frontman Paul Stanley about Paul's new career as a painter, putting acrylic on canvas in a private studio next to the pool behind his posh Beverly Hills home. Since exhibiting his work through the Wentworth Gallery chain in Fe...

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INDIANAPOLIS METAL FEST To Be Hosted By MISTRESS JULIYA

Promoter Rob Mason has announced that former "Uranium" VJ Mistress Juliya will host the second annual Indianapolis Metal Fest, scheduled to take place September 26-27, 2008. According to a press release, "Juliya rose to fame as the premier goddess of all things rock. As the sexy face of Fuse TV and...

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AEROSMITH: 'Greatest Hits' Reaches 11-Million Mark

AEROSMITH's "Greatest Hits" collection was certified 11-times-platinum on December 13, 2007 by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for sales in excess of 11 million copies in the United States. Released in 1980, "Greatest Hits" is AEROSMITH's first standard "greatest hits" compilati...

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QUEEN And PAUL RODGERS To Rush Commercial Release Of 'Say It's Not True'

Having originally issued the track as a free download for World Aids Day (December 1) to support Nelson Mandela's 46664 HIV AIDS campaign, rock group QUEEN and Paul Rodgers are responding to public demand to make their newly recorded song "Say It's Not True" available as a commercial CD single relea...