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MEGADETH: New Album Pushed Back To 2007

MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine has told Gary Graff of Billboard.com that the band's upcoming album, entitled "United Abominations", has been pushed back to an early 2007 release through Roadrunner Records. "We're putting the finishing touches on it," Mustaine told Billboard.com. "We've got a little...

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THE HANDSOME BEASTS Lead Singer Found Dead

Garry Dalloway, lead singer for the longtime NWOBHM rockers THE HANDSOME BEASTS, was found dead this past Sunday (August 20) from an apparent heart attack. Longtime fan Fred Dronsrt described Dalloway on the Miskatonic Foundation message board as "a true rocker and a very talented and gifted singer,...

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JOE LYNN TURNER, CARLOS CAVAZO, VINNY APPICE, PHIL SOUSSAN Join Forces In BIG NOIZE

Legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) has been working on helping to put together the "supergroup" BIG NOIZE for several months. With the line-up now shored up, BIG NOIZE will travel to Nashville late August/early September to film a DVD. The band incl...

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DROWNING POOL To Perform In Germany And The Persian Gulf On USO/AFE Tour

The USO, in partnership with Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE),will soon send rock/metal band DROWNING POOL to perform shows for service members stationed in the Persian Gulf and Germany. It will be the second USO tour for the group, which performed for troops in Kuwait in October 2005. The band als...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP: Asian Dates Announced

MSG (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) has lined up the following dates in the Far East during November: Nov. 13 - JPN - Osaka - Hatch Namba Nov. 14 - JPN - Nagoya - Diamond Hall Nov. 16 - JPN - Tokyo - Nakano Sunplaza Nov. 17 - JPN - Tokyo - Nakano Sunplaza Nov. 18 - ...

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ROBERT PLANT And Current And Former DEEP PURPLE Members Sign On For Charity Event

Launch Radio Networks reports: Robert Plant has signed on for a benefit concert in London that will also feature DEEP PURPLE drummer Ian Paice and former PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord. They'll perform with a house band that includes ex-WHITESNAKE guitarist Bernie Marsden, ROXY MUSIC guitarist Phil Man...

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Former BLUE MURDER Bassist TONY FRANKLIN Featured On New MARCO FERRIGNO CD

Three years have passed since Marco Ferrigno's acclaimed "Promised Land" project with Vitalij Kuprij (ARTENSION, RING OF FIRE). Since then Marco has been working on his masterpiece which is now ready — "Hanging Gardens". The new album show cases the talents of Tony Franklin (BLUE MURDER, THE FIRM) o...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP Bassist: WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Was 'Amazing'

MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (MSG) bassist Rev Jones has issued the following update: "First off, I want to thank everyone for supporting us on the European tour and at all the festivals — you're the best. I played with MSG at the Wacken festival [in Wacken, Germany] last week to over 60,000 people. It wa...

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TED NUGENT To Release New Solo Album In The Spring

Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports that Ted Nugent lit up VH1 this summer with the "SuperGroup" reality show. But the Motor City Madman says not to expect to hear much more from DAMNOCRACY, his 12-day collaboration with ex-SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach, ANTHRAX's Scott Ian, BIOHAZARD's Even Sein...

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TALISMAN Pulls Out Of Germany's UNITED FORCES OF ROCK Festival, PRETTY MAIDS Steps In

Legendary Swedish/American hard rock act TALISMAN, featuring former YNGWIE MALMSTEEN members Jeff Scott Soto (vocals) and Marcel Jacob (bass),will not be able to appear at this year's United Forces Of Rock festival — set to take place October 1 at the Rockfabrik in Ludwigsburg, Germany — due to Jef...

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DORIAN To Film 'Sirens Scream' Video

DORIAN, the new band featuring vocalist Jim Dorian (ex-MONARCH, ANOMALY) and guitarist Tom McDyne (ex-SHUT, CIRCLE II CIRCLE),will take over the Florida State Theater towards the end of August for its debut music video, "Sirens Scream". DORIAN has recruited Gary Schutt of Shut Up Productions to dir...

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CHRIS CORNELL Says New Solo Album Will Sound 'Completely Different' Than AUDIOSLAVE

Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports that AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell has entered the world of film music, writing and recording songs for the next James Bond entry, "Casino Royale", and for the independent movie "Bug". And he confirms that he's also planning to record his second solo album sta...

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DOGPOUND: New Album To Be Mixed By PETER TÄGTGREN

Swedish hard rockers DOGPOUND will enter the studio within the next month to begin recording their third album, tentatively due in early 2007. About 25 songs were apparently written for the follow-up to last year's "A Night in the Gutter", which will be mixed by Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN, DIMM...

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EXODUS Guitarist Comments On 'Monsters Of Mayhem' Tour

Guitarist Gary Holt of San Francisco's veteran thrashers EXODUS has commented on the band's participation in the upcoming "Monsters Of Mayhem" tour, set to launch at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 3. Seventeen initial dates have been confirmed; more dates will be announced so...

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Report: Bogus DAVID LEE ROTH Booker Scams Clubs

According to Pollstar.com, a con man posing as the booking agent for David Lee Roth has scammed at least three different U.S. nightclubs and two of them, including The Venue in Scottsdale, Ariz., lost thousands of dollars in deposits. Diamond Dave switched his representation in May from CAA to Monte...