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NINE INCH NAILS To Begin Mixing New Album In January

NINE INCH NAILS mastermind Trent Reznor has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Is it possible I am actually finished writing and recording a new NINE INCH NAILS record? Apparently so. We begin mixing in January! "Juggling fifteen all-new tracks around. Testing sequences....

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VOIVOD Drummer Discusses His Art

Susan Frances of Indie In-Tune has issued the following report: French-Canadian mathematician, painter, and musician Michel Langevin is a conceptual artist whose creations depict the negative forces of technology's nature, often representations of the surreal, the macabre, and the destructive. His f...

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Chapter Chaos Begins

It is pleasant surprise time again. I'm talking about "Chapter Chaos Begins" by Montreal thrash kings ANONYMUS. It is a crime that more folks outside of Canada are not aware of the knuckle-busting thrash produced by this monster act. The group has moved quite a few units in its homeland and for good...

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PARADOX To Carry On As Duo

Long-running German metallers PARADOX parted ways with guitarist Fabian Schwarz, drummer Chris Weiss and bassist Andi Siegl during the recording sessions for the band's fourth album, "Electrify", due in early 2007 via AFM Records. However, "the recordings are not affected by this," the rest of the g...

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Wounded Skies

This one has been out for quite a while now, but was sent my way only recently. It's worth the cyber ink, so we'll knock it out regardless. With "Wounded Skies" Italy's STORMCROW slams through four songs and one intro of unforgiving black metal malice that will appeal to fans of speeding traditional...

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INTO ETERNITY: New Video Posted Online; New Tour Dates Announced

Canadian progressive death outfit INTO ETERNITY have had a phenomenal year that saw the release of a new album — "The Scattering of Ashes", which continues to be hailed by critics and fans alike as a metal masterpiece — and a high-profile run on Gigantour alongside such genre titans as MEGADETH, LAM...

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JON OLIVA On SAVATAGE: 'It's Over But It's Not Over'

Rock My Monkey recently conducted an interview with SAVATAGE/JON OLIVA'S PAIN mastermind Jon Oliva. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Rock My Monkey: You made it clear that SAVATAGE is over, but when I talked to Zach Stevens a week ago... Jon Oliva: Well, it's over but it's not over, you know ...

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GODHEAD Confirms U.K. Dates With SOIL

Returning from a holiday season break following completion of the thunderous "Congress of Corruption" fall U.S. tour with new Cement Shoes Records (Fontana/Universal) labelmates ILL NINO and RA, post-industrial glam slammers GODHEAD are set to go back on the road and take their riveting live show ov...

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MOUNTAIN Legend LESLIE WEST Teams Up With DEAN GUITARS

Rock legend Leslie West, from the band MOUNTAIN, has teamed up with Dean Guitars to create a Leslie West Signature Model — a custom, single cutaway, co-designed by West and company founder Dean B. Zelinsky. West's legend became synonymous with tone when he dialed a ton of it out of his Jr. for the c...

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Acoustic METALLICA Available On iTunes

iTunes has released the second volume of acoustic performances from the Bridge School Benefit concerts held annually in the Bay Area... and two of the songs are from METALLICA! "Fade to Black" and "The Four Horsemen" were recorded at Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, CA, in October of 1997 when...

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AUDIOSLAVE Guitarist To Guest On 'Real Time With Bill Maher'

AUDIOSLAVE/ex-RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello will be a guest on "Real Time With Bill Maher" next Friday, November 17. The show will air live at 11 p.m. EST on HBO. In other news, Morello's solo alter ego, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, has lined up the following appearances: Nov. 14 - Hollywood,...

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Former AC/DC Bass Player Announces IAN RILEN Fundraiser

According to Undercover News, former AC/DC bass player Mark Evans is putting on a fundraiser for the family of the late Ian Rilen this Friday in Sydney. Evans with partner Dave Tice have organized the show to help raise money for the ROSE TATTOO founder who died a few weeks back in Melbourne. ...

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Lost OZZY OSBOURNE Song Re-Recorded By Edinburgh Band

Hazel Mollison of the Edinburgh Evening News reports: He is better known to a new generation as the star of his own reality TV show. But now an Edinburgh band are hoping to give Ozzy Osbourne a blast from the past by recording one of his earliest — and now forgotten — songs. ...

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The Dead Eye

What to make of this new HAUNTED album? It's hard to take it out of context and judge it on its own merits — on one hand, you have the band's formidable back catalog to measure it against, a smorgasbord of modern-day Swedish thrash that renders 95% of their colleagues obsolete. Tied to that is ...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'About Socialist Libertarianism... Words Are Not Enough'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "I am slightly confused here. What is hard to grasp with the idea of an anarchist society? A social structure built on responsible individual action based in free will rather than that of the obligatory choicele...