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STILL DEAD To Open For WEDNESDAY 13 In Portland

STILL DEAD, the Salem, Oregon-based metal band featuring drummer Kyle Castronovo (son of JOURNEY's Deen Castronovo),will open for WEDNESDAY 13 at the Satyricon in Portland on February 16. Regarding the group's sound and lyrical inpiration, STILL DEAD vocalist Tauren Black told the Salem Monthly a f...

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JOURNEY Announces New Singer

JOURNEY — Neal Schon (guitar),Jonathan Cain (keyboards),Ross Valory (bass),Deen Castronovo (drums) — has announced its new lead singer, Arnel Pineda ("pin-eh-da"). He replaces Jeff Scott Soto, who parted ways with the band earlier this year after stepping in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the...

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THE ANGELS WHISPERED DANGER: New Song Posted Online

THE ANGELS WHISPERED DANGER, the Los Angeles/Orange County-based "post-rock" band featuring members of CRISIS (Jwyanza Hobson, Afzaal Deen),MINDROT (Dan Kaufman) and EYES OF FIRE (Nicky Bernardi),has been hard at work writing and recording material for its first full-length album. A 12-minute trac...

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CRISIS, EYES OF FIRE Members Join Forces In THE ANGELS WHISPERED DANGER

After disbanding for a second time last year, CRISIS guitarists Afzaal Nasiruddeen and Jwyanza Hobson have joined forces with EYES OF FIRE's Dan Kaufman and Nicky Bernardi in a new project called THE ANGELS WHISPERED DANGER. According to Afzaal (who now goes by the name Afzaal Deen),the new band's...

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JOURNEY Announces Departure Of JEFF SCOTT SOTO

JOURNEY has parted ways with its most recent lead singer Jeff Scott Soto (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TALISMAN). Jeff's first appearance with JOURNEY was July 7, 2006 in Bristow, VA. He had been filling in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the tour shortly after it began on June 23 due to illness. Jeff's las...

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GENE HOGLAN Talks About Upcoming Instructional DVD

Drummer Gene Hoglan (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DEATH, DARK ANGEL, TESTAMENT, OLD MAN'S CHILD) has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "Well, as I said a couple of days ago, I finally finished filming that damned thing [referring to his first instructional DVD — Ed.]. We started on Tuesday,...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO Named Official New Lead Singer Of JOURNEY

Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, SOUL SIRKUS) has been officially named the new lead singer of JOURNEY. He had been filling in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the U.S. tour with DEF LEPPARD shortly after it began on June 23 due to illness. "We are so grateful to Steve for all the ...

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THE WILDHEARTS Frontman Warns Against 'Illegal' Album Release

THE WILDHEARTS frontman Ginger's web site has been updated with the following message: "Ginger has asked us to pass on a warning about a re-release of 'Landmines and Pantomimes', a compilation of rarities originally released on Kuro Neko Records and which the band had no input to. The new release is...

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Former VIO-LENCE Frontman Talks About Pit Violence: Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a one-minute video clip featuring former VIO-LENCE frontman Sean Killian talking about violence in the pit at one of the band's shows b...

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VIO-LENCE Complete Work On 'Blood And Dirt' DVD

Legendary San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band VIO-LENCE have completed work on their two-disc DVD, "Blood and Dirt", tentatively due later in the year via Megaforce. Produced and directed by Jerry Allen of Metallian Productions, "Blood and Dirt" is over three and a half hours long and contains...

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VIO-LENCE: 'No More Re-Releases, Reunions Or Re-Anything'

Former VIO-LENCE and current MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel has posted the following message on the official VIO-LENCE web site: "All of us former VIO-members want to thank you all for your interest and support of the band. From early days to the final reunion shows, we've always had a very loya...

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MACHINE HEAD Drummer DAVE MCCLAIN Turns 10!

MACHINE HEAD's official web site has been updated with the following message: "December 26th [2005] marks the official ten-year anniversary of the day that a one Mr. Dave McClain joined a band called MACHINE HEAD, and in celebration of the most underrated drummer in heavy music, some folks that you...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Drummer Talks About His Upcoming Instructional Book

Dave Iozzia of Rock Is Life recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE drummer Scott Rockenfield. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rock Is Life: I prefer the down-and-dirty aspects of a band performing in a club to theatre or arena concerts with on-stage theatrics, which I feel take...

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Reformed HOLY TERROR Seek Vocalist

Recenly reformed Seattle-based speed metal band HOLY TERROR are currently searching for a singer. Commented guitarist Kurt Colfelt (a.k.a. Kurt Kilfelt; ex-AGENT STEEL),"We attempted to get in touch with our original singer, Keith Deen, and I'm taking the lack of any response as a 'No.' We did what...

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VIO-LENCE: 'Eternal Nightmare" Reissue To Include Bonus Live Disc

Megaforce Records will be reissuing VIO-LENCE's classic debut album, "Eternal Nightmare", with a live bonus CD on June 28, 2005. The bonus disc was recorded on December 14, 2001 at Slim's in San Francisco and was mixed by Chris Hanson (TECHNOCRACY, THE SERVANTS, M.I.R.V., RIVERRED) of Redcar Lane Pr...