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PARADOX: Another New Demo Track Posted Online

Long-running German metallers PARADOX will release their fifth album, "Riot Squad", on October 26, 2009 via AFM Records. Songtitles set to appear on the the follow-up to last year's "Electrify" include: * "Suburban Riot Squad" * "Hollow Peace" * "Timegrain" * "Evolution Reset" * "Riptide" * "Nothing...

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DISTURBED, SHINEDOWN, SEPULTURA, LACUNA COIL Members Featured In 'Under The Skin' Book

Members of DISTURBED, SHINEDOWN, SEPULTURA, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, AMON AMARTH and EXODUS are among the musicians who are featured in "Under The Skin Of Rock & Roll", a new 388-page German-language book on tattoos and metal featuring 97 exclusive interviews and a number of never-before-publishe...

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Former ROUGH CUTT/QUIET RIOT Singer To Guest On 'Let There Be Rock' Radio Show

Former ROUGH CUTT/QUIET RIOT singer Paul Shortino will be the featured guest on "Let There Be Rock", a new hard rock and heavy metal show which airs on the Dutch radio station Boschtion FM. Shortino says, "I will present some of my favorite songs of all time, and I've chosen some real cool tracks. I...

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ROUGH CUTT: Rare Footage From 'Fame' Appearance Available

Former ROUGH CUTT/QUIET RIOT singer Paul Shortino has posted early '80s, never-before-released footage of ROUGH CUTT's appearance on the TV series "Fame" (from the episode called "I Wanna Be A Star"). Watch it below. Paul Shortino will release "Chasing My Day", his collaboration with renowned produc...

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BLACK MAJESTY To Work With ROLAND GRAPOW On New Album

MASTERPLAN/ex-HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow will record and mix the new album from Australian melodic power metallers BLACK MAJESTY, tentatively due in early 2010 via Limb Music Products. The drum tracking for the follow-up to "Tomorrowland" will commence in August 2009 at Grapow Studios in Slov...

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CARMINE APPICE, JASON BONHAM, JASON BITTNER Confirmed For U.K.'s DRUMFEST

Carmine Appice (SLAMM, VANILLA FUDGE, ROD STEWART, OZZY OSBOURNE, TED NUGENT),Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN, FOREIGNER, UFO),Gregg Bissonette (JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI),Simon Phillips ((TOTO, ex-THE WHO, JUDAS PRIEST, MICHAEL SCHENKER) and Jason Bittner (SHADOWS FALL) are among the drummers who are s...

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Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist Collaborates With Former FEMME FATALE, VIXEN Members; Audio Available

Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has collaborated with ex-FEMME FATALE vocalist Lorraine Lewis and ex-VIXEN drummer Roxy Petrucci on "a little BAD COMPANY-esque/countryfied rocker" entitled "Desperate". The track is currently available for streaming at Jeff's MySpace page. Jeff Young wil release...

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DAATH Guitarist To Guest On ASYLUM Debut

DAATH guitarist Emil Werstler will lay down a guest guitar solo on the upcoming debut album from ASYLUM, the Chicago-based band featuring Markus Johansson (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Johnny Rox (bass guitar). Johansson and Rox are joined on the CD album by drummer Kevin Talley (DAATH, CHIMAIRA, D...

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PAUL SHORTINO To Release 'Chasing My Day' In June; Audio Samples Available

U.S. singer Paul Shortino, whose back catalog includes a couple of hard rock classic releases with ROUGH CUTT and QUIET RIOT, will release "Chasing My Day", his collaboration with renowned producer Michael Voss (CASANOVA, SILVER),on June 26 via Metal Heaven. Commented Shortino, "The new tracks are...

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MASTERPLAN Issues Statement On Singer Situation

MASTERPLAN, the band led by former HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow, has commented on a news story that was published in the latest issue of the long-running Dutch rock/metal magazine Aardschok which claimed that singer Jorn Lande had rejoined the group. A post on the official MASTERPLAN web site r...

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Singer JORN LANDE Rejoins MASTERPLAN

According to the long-running Dutch rock/metal magazine Aardschok, Norwegian singer Jorn Lande has rejoined MASTERPLAN, the band led by former HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow. Lande left the band in May 2006, citing "musical differences" between the vocalist and the rest of the band, particularly...

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SONIC SYNDICATE Continuing Vocalist Search

Guitarist Robin Sjunnesson of the Swedish modern metal band SONIC SYNDICATE has issued the following update: "On March 30, we released the breaking news about [vocalist] Roland [Johansson; who is responsible for the "clean"/melodic singing in the group] leaving SONIC SYNDICAT. "When we found our Rol...

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ASYLUM: Another New Song Posted Online

ASYLUM, the Illinois-based project featuring Markus Johansson (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Johnny Rox (bass guitar),has uploaded another new track called "Day By Day" to its MySpace page. The track was mixed by Orlando Villasenor at Everlong Recording Company in San Antonio, Texas and is the thir...

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MASTERPLAN Guitarist To Guest On 'Mitch's Metal Militia'

MASTERPLAN/ex-HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow will guest on "Mitch's Metal Militia" show today (Wednesday, April 1) between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST. To listen to the interview live via the Internet, go to www.infernalrockradio.com. Grapow recently commented on MASTERPLAN's split with vocalist...

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SONIC SYNDICATE Singer Quits

Swedish modern metallers SONIC SYNDICATE, whose sound revolves around the dual vocals of Richard Sjunnesson and Roland Johansson, have announced that Roland (who is responsible for the "clean"/melodic singing in the group) has decided to leave the band "due to personal reasons beyond our control." T...