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EDSEL DOPE Says TRIPP EISEN 'Will Pay The Price For The Decisions That He's Made'

Jesse Capps of RockConfidential.com recently conducted an interview with DOPE frontman Edsel Dope. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: RockConfidential.com: "American Apathy" seems to be the most politically motivated record you've ever made. The entire record isn't reflective of that but it'...

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Doomsday Machine

More of what you want from an ARCH ENEMY album, and a lot of stuff you may have found lacking in 2003's "Anthems of Rebellion", is present on the heavily-anticipated, apparently-titled-by-a-cartoon-supervillain "Doomsday Machine". The Amott brothers pile on the Swede-thrash riffs and lush '80s throw...

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RAM To Release Full-Length Debut In The Fall

RAM, the traditional Gothenburg, Sweden-based heavy metal band featuring Leif Larsson (ex-FROZEN EYES, NME WITHIN) and Morgan Pettersson (ex-B-THONG),have finished recording their full-length debut at Black Path studios for a fall 2005 release through an as-yet-undetermined label. The CD will be mi...

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Report: SONY Paid Radio Station Employees To Feature AUDIOSLAVE

According to the Associated Press, Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Monday (July 25) to pay $10 million and to stop paying radio station employees to feature its artists to settle an investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The agreement resulted from Spitzer's investigation of s...

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TERROR 2000 Finalize Track Listing For 'Terror For Sale'

TERROR 2000, the Swedish thrash metal band featuring Björn "Speed" Strid (SOILWORK),Klas Ideberg (DARKANE),Nick Sword (EL MAGO),Erik Thyselius (CONSTRUCDEAD) and Dan Svensson (HATELIGHT),have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Terror for Sale", tentatively due in October via Scarl...

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Court Dismisses Drug Charges Against SCOTT WEILAND

According to The Los Angeles Times, a Pasadena court commissioner Tuesday (July 12) dismissed a drug case against Scott Weiland, the former lead singer of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS and current frontman for VELVET REVOLVER, because he has completed a rehab program under Proposition 36. The 37-year-old rock...

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Former MANTAS Bassist Clarifies Position On 'Zero Tolerance' Video

Former VENOM/MANTAS and current ATOMKRAFT bassist/vocalist Tony Dolan's web site has been updated with the following message from Dolan's webmaster: "I have been asked to state the following by the man himself as regards MANTAS and the 'Zero Tolerance' video. "The 30-second promo clip featuring [Ton...

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DEVOURMENT Bassist To Take Over Vocal Duties

Bassist Mike Majewski of the reformed Texas-based underground death metallers DEVOURMENT has announced that he will be taking over the vocal duties in the group after the recent departure of original frontman Wayne Knupp. Ruben Rosas, who had initially taken Knupp's place on the band's 1999 full-len...

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MANTAS To Record New Album; 'Zero Tolerance' Video Available Online

MANTAS, the new band featuring former VENOM guitarist Mantas, are gearing up to record their second album through Demolition Records. This will be the follow-up to the group's acclaimed debut, "Zero Tolerance". The initial plan was for the group to release a six-track EP, but "after an influx of new...

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Issue VI

It's quite simple really; those who enjoy the razor-sharp, precision thrash of bands like THE HAUNTED (such as myself) should at least be able to appreciate the unbridled fury of Germany's DEW-SCENTED (as I can). On album number six ("Issue VI"),DEW-SCENTED churns out another quality modern thrash...

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The JUDAS PRIEST Trial: 15 Years Later

Lenita Powers of the Reno Gazette-Journal has issued the following report: Fifteen years ago, Reno became the focus of a high-profile lawsuit that charged the British heavy metal group JUDAS PRIEST with hiding subliminal messages in its music that led to the deaths of two fans. As JUDAS PRIEST retur...

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TRIPP EISEN's Parents Are Saddened By Fact That Son Is Spending 40th Birthday In Jail

According to a posting on the Rock N Roll Experience web site, the parents of former STATIC-X guitarist Tripp Eisen attended the SCUM OF THE EARTH/SOCIETY ONE concert at the House of Rock in White Marsh, Maryland on June 29 (Tripp's brother, Berzerk Kirk, is the drummer for SOCIETY ONE). Stated Rock...

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German Heavy Metal Fan Dies After Taking Part In 'Wall Of Death'

A 26-year-old German heavy metal fan died over the weekend from injuries sustained at the Pressure Festival in in Herne (near Dortmund/Bochum),Germany. The accident occured Saturday when 26-year-old — whose named hasn't been released by the German media — took part in the "wall of death," a form of...

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VENOM Are Recording 'Finest Slice Of Black Metal To Date'

VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant has posted the following message on the new VENOM forum launched by the unofficial VENOM fan site Site of the Hydra: "Greetings, legions. "Yes, indeed, the new album is underway. We are laying down the backing tracks and bleeding with every note we play. This is a...

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Punk Rock Tribute To VENOM Now Available

A new VENOM tribute album has been made available through Madskull Records. Entitled "Mayhem Without Mercy - A Hardcore Punkrock Tribute To Venom", the album features punk bands paying homage to the black metal pioneers. The complete track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. THE FELCHERS - Mayhem...