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HAMMERFALL Members To Play Hockey For Charity

HAMMERFALL singer Joacim Cans and guitarist Oscar Dronjak will be part of a Swedish ice-hockey team called "Artists for Life". The team, who will play against a reality-show team from Swedish ZTV, will feature celebrities like football and ice-hockey legends, stand-up comedians, and other musicians,...

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GLENN TIPTON: 'My Full Attentions Are On JUDAS PRIEST'

Ben Tyree of ModernGuitars.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: ModernGuitars.com: JUDAS PRIEST is taking a hiatus from touring this year after two years. What do you consider the highlights of the tour? Glenn Tipton...

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CORNERSTONE Featuring YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Frontman: New Album Is Sounding 'Very Passionate'

CORNERSTONE, the Danish/British melodic metal band featuring YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/ex-RAINBOW frontman Doogie White and ex-ROYAL HUNT bassist Steen Mogensen, are continuing work on their fourth album, tentatively titled "Two Tales and One Tomorrow", due later in the year. The band have posted the followi...

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ROB ZOMBIE Says New Single's Sound Is Not Influenced By Record Company

ROB ZOMBIE has lashed out the people who have suggested that his new single, "Foxy Foxy" (view video here) is an attempt at a more commercialized sound in order to appease his record company. Said Zombie: "Let me set the record straight. Most things don't bother me, but this does. In response to ...

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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist To Guest On 'The Classic Metal Show' This Weekend

JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton will be a special guest on "The Classic Metal Show" airing this Saturday, March 11 between 9:00 p.m. and 3;00 a.m. EST. To listen to the program via the Internet, visit www.theclassicmetalshow.com. Glenn Tipton's collection of recordings with the late, great THE W...

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ALICE COOPER, DIO, STATUS QUO Confirmed For Belgium's SCHWUNG Festival

ALICE COOPER, DIO, STATUS QUO, TED NUGENT and THUNDER have been confirmed for the Schwung 2006 festival, set to take place May 27 at Expohallen in Roeselare, Belgium. More information is available at www.debevers.be. ...

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JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist Auctioning GIBSON Axe For Charity

JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Glenn Tipton is auctioning off his original "Battle Scarred" Gibson SG guitar that he has used on stage for many years. Glenn is donating all proceeds to the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. You have until March 14 to put your bids in. This is a chance for you to own one of ...

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PATHS OF POSSESSION, BLASTMASTERS Members Join Forces In PROMETHEAN HORDE

PROMETHEAN HORDE, the new Tampa, Florida-based black/death metal band featuring members of PATHS OF POSSESSION and BLASTMASTERS, have uploaded two recently recorded demo tracks to their MySpace.com page. Check out the songs "Dark Black Catacomb" and "Voices Visions" at this location. PROMETHEAN HORD...

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Former ENTOMBED Drummer, Ex-GRAVE Frontman Join Forces In New Death Metal Project

Former ENTOMBED drummer and main songwriter Nicke Andersson (currently the frontman of his rock 'n' roll band THE HELLACOPTERS) has set DEATHBREATH as the name of his new old-school death metal project, BLABBERMOUTH.NET can reveal. Handling the vocals in the new group is Jörgen Sandström, who had pr...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist Comments On Upcoming Festival Appearances

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "I know we have said to everyone that we wouldn’t do any more shows until the release of the next album, because that is how we normally do it. But due to the tremendous success of our last tour, we...

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ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW Finish Mastering New Album

Reactivated Finnish melodic extreme metal band ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW mastered their fifth album, "Before the Bleeding Sun", earlier today (March 2) at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland. "What a ride this has been," the band write on their web site. "We started writing material for this album in...

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ALICE COOPER To Tour Canada In May

Pollstar.com is reporting that ALICE COOPER will visit Canada this spring for an arena tour spanning a dozen dates. The May 1-17 trek will include six gigs in Ontario and five more spread across Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba. He'll dip down to Fargo, N.D., May 15 for a single...

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DAVE NAVARRO To Help Induct Producer BOB EZRIN Into CANADIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME

Former JANE'S ADDICTION/RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS guitarist Dave Navarro will help induct famed music producer Bob Ezrin into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on Thursday, March 2, 2006 as part of the Canadian Music Industry Awards taking place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, during R...

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TED NUGENT, THUNDER Confirmed For U.K.'s MONSTERS OF ROCK Festival

TED NUGENT, THUNDER and JOURNEY have been confirmed to play at the U.K.'s Monsters of Rock festival, set to take place June 3 at the Milton Keynes National Bowl. Also scheduled to appear are ALICE COOPER and DEEP PURPLE. Tickets for Monsters of Rock 2006, priced £38.50, are available from all usual...

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ROYAL HUNT: Swedish/Danish Dates Announced

Danish/American hard rockers ROYAL HUNT have announced two new Scandinavian dates to support their latest release, "Paper Blood". They are as follows: Mar. 23 - Jonkoping, SWE @ Sir Simons Mar. 25 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Amager Bio More dates will follow. ROYAL HUNT filmed a "live in concert" DVD on the...