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VELVET REVOLVER Drummer: New 'Stuff Is Coming Along'

VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum has posted the following message on his official blog: "Crazy busy now with the band. Rehearsing five days a week. Writing, writing, writing. Also doing 'Jay Leno' this Thursday, the 5th of October, with CAMP FREDDY. Have special guests Rick Nielsen from CHEAP TRIC...

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SLASH, RICK NIELSEN To Perform With CAMP FREDDY On 'Tonight Show With Jay Leno'

VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash and CHEAP TRICK's Rick Nielsen will join CAMP FREDDY — the Los Angeles-based "jam" group featuring guitarists Dave Navarro (ex-JANE'S ADDICTION, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) and Billy Morrison (ex-THE CULT bassist, current CIRCUS DIABLO vocalist) alongside VELVET REVOLVER m...

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SUSPERIA Putting Finishing Touches On New Album Recordings

Vocalist Athera of SUSPERIA — the Norwegian band featuring former members of DIMMU BORGIR and SATYRICON — has issued the following update: "It looks like things are slowly gathering momentum in the SUSPERIA camp and there's lots of things going on. We are taking a break from recording our new album...

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SKULLHOG: Less Gore, More Brutality

Dutch grindcore/sludge metal band SKULLHOG (formerly BILE) has just entered the studio to record several brand new tracks for two upcoming split releases. The first is a split 7" with Sweden's REGURGITATE and the second release will be a split 10" with Australia's BLOOD DUSTER. According to the band...

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GUNS N' ROSES Summit: Countdown To 'Chinese Democracy' Podcast Posted Online

TalkingMetal.com has posted the 100th episode of their "Talking Metal" podcast. In this special, titled "Guns N' Roses Summit: Countdown to Chinese Democracy", hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy are joined by former GUNS N' ROSES members Matt Sorum (VELVET REVOLVER) and Teddy "Zig Zag" Andreadis a...

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ERIC SINGER Discusses His Work with BLACK SABBATH

An exclusive interview with former BLACK SABBATH/current KISS drummer Eric Singer regarding his years in BLACK SABBATH, conducted by music writer Joel Gausten, is now available online www.myspace.com/gaustenbooks. Gausten interviewed Singer for his upcoming book, titled "Albums that (Should've) Chan...

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Taiwanese Black Metal Masters CHTHONIC To Release Fourth Album

Taiwan's biggest metal export, the symphonic black metal band CHTHONIC, will release its fourth album, "Seediqbale", on October 3 through Down Port Music/RED. The weepy sounds of the er-hu, a two-string violin that dates back to Tang dynasty (618-907),gives CHTHONIC's music an ethnic flare while ad...

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SILENCER Prepares To Record New Album

Colorado metallers SILENCER have issued the following update: "We've been hard at work on the new [album] for the last several months, and we are now tweaking final arrangements in rigorous rehearsal. We're scheduled to start tracking drums in three short weeks, so excitement is high within the camp...

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BRUCE KULICK Completes Work On ESP 'Live In Japan' CD

Former KISS and current GRAND FUNK RAILROAD guitarist Bruce Kulick has posted the following message on his official web site: "Finally finished the mixing and mastering of the ESP 'Live in Japan' CD (featuring the lineup of Kulick on guitar, Eric Singer [KISS, ALICE COOPER] on drums, John Corabi [MÖ...

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SOIL Guitarist Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors

SOIL guitarist Shaun Glass has issued the following statement in response to the BLABBERMOUTH.NET detractors who have criticized the band for its refusal to play the October 26, 2006 date of the MUSHROOMHEAD/SOIL tour at Columbus, Ohio's Alrosa Villa — the club where PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Di...

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SOIL Refuses To Play Club Where DIMEBAG Was Murdered

Chicago's SOIL has refused to play the October 26, 2006 date of the MUSHROOMHEAD/SOIL tour at Columbus, Ohio's Alrosa Villa — the club where PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was murdered. "We find it in bad taste that the club is even still standing," said guitarist Shaun Glass....

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It's Official: CYNIC To Reunite For European Festival Appearances, Possible U.S. Dates

Long-defunct Florida-based band CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, has confirmed plans to embark a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of f...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist Jams With SEBASTIAN BACH In San Francisco

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has checked in with the following update: "[Legendary tattoo artist] Paul Booth did three more hours on [my leg]. "Jammed 'Youth Gone Wild' with Bas [ex-SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach] last night at the Warfield [in San Francisco, where Bach opened for GUNS N' ROSES]. T...

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BILE Changes Name To SKULLHOG

Dutch grindcore/sludge metal band BILE has officially changed its name to SKULLHOG. Formed in 1998 to pay homage to HELLHAMMER, SLAUGHTER and DEAD INFECTION, among others, the group's focus, lyrically and visually, is on slasher films, with their debut EP, "The Shed" (2000),based on "The Texas Chai...

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Savior Sorrow

It's been a long three years for Cleveland-based shock metallers MUSHROOMHEAD. They changed vocalists, changed labels, changed masks (not that anyone over 14 should care) and watched their public profile diminish slightly as their media-inflated “feud" with SLIPKNOT was allowed to fade into obscurit...