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Fact Or Fiction: HAGAR, SCHON and SLASH Join Forces In New Band
According to www.melodicrock.com, a new supergroup is being formed in Los Angeles consisting of former VAN HALEN frontman Sammy Hagar, JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon, and current JOURNEY (and former HARDLINE) drummer Deen Castronovo. Other names being linked with the project include VAN HALEN bassist...February 1, 2002
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LINKIN PARK: Alive And Well!
LINKIN PARK have issued the following statement in response to a news story hoax that stated that the band had been killed in a car crash: There is a fake CNN.com URL floating around that is reporting that 'Popular Teen 'rock' band LINKIN PARK have been killed in an Auto wreck while travelling to a...January 30, 2002
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PITCHSHIFTER Get Remixed By Kyo-Jin
PITCHSHIFTER are set to have one of the tracks from their forthcoming CD, entitled PSI, remixed by Kyo-Jin, who remixed PITCHSHIFTER's song Hidden Agenda from the Deviant album (featured on the Dead Battery CD single). Kyo-Jin's last mix, a storming drum and bass reworking of the band's hip hop-infu...January 29, 2002
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ALLBEAT Issues Statament Regarding Fate Of CHUCK SCHULDINER Auction Funds
Thom Hazeart, the man behind the Allbeat (www.allbeat.com) auction that was originally set up to benefit the family of late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED frontman Chuck Schuldiner, but which has been accused by Jane Schuldiner, Chuck's mother, of misappropriating the funds received from the auction (see our...January 20, 2002
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CHUCK SCHULDINER's Mother On Auctions/Benefits And Second CONTROL DENIED CD
Jane Schuldiner, the mother of late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED frontman Chuck Schuldiner, has issued the following statement regarding any upcoming auctions and benefits on Chuck's behalf, as well as the possibility of a new CONTROL DENIED album, the plans for which now appear to have been put on hold: “O...January 13, 2002
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GUANO APES To Return With New Album In The Fall
Germany's GUANO APES are currently in intensive writing sessions for their third CD, and if all goes well, they expect to issue the upcoming effort (the follow-up to 2000's Don't Give Me Names) before the fall. European live dates are already being booked to coincide with the album's release. ...January 8, 2002
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Hate Breeds Suffering
Call me jaded, but the idea of four guys getting together with the sole purpose of making the “most extreme” old-school-style grindcore CD ever released is a concept that leaves me cold, and with good reason. Over the course of the last fifteen years, many acts have attempted to offer their own vers...December 25, 2001
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Supercharger
One of the year's most highly anticipated releases, MACHINE HEAD's Supercharger is a surprisingly diverse and defiantly "untrendy"-sounding effort that is likely to disappoint everyone who is expecting the Bay Area quartet to return to the ultra-testosterone-charged sounds of their first two albums...December 17, 2001
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America's Volume Dealer
Four years after the group's Wiseblood release, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY have returned with a new album that sees the group sticking to a tried-and-tested formula without having made any attempts to update their songwriting in a way that would make it more consistent with the current music trends. Co...December 17, 2001
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Don't Give Me Names
Although they've had limited commercial success Stateside, Germany's GUANO APES have been a huge hit in Europe, and in particular their homeland, where this album entered the pop charts at #1 the week of its release in early May (the group's last album, Proud Like A God shifted some 650,000 units in...December 17, 2001
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Resurrection
Following a near decade-long hiatus from the traditional heavy metal world that spawned his musical career, former JUDAS PRIEST vocalist Rob Halford has returned to doing what he does best, much to the delight of the PRIEST fans that were less than thrilled with the singer's brief—and utterly commer...December 17, 2001
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Archive News Dec 06, 2001
The “MAJOR announcement” regarding the band's guitarist search that LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst had promised to make via his appearance by phone on yesterday's Total Request Live had turned out to be not much of an announcement at all. Besides plugging the group's new remix album, entitled New...December 6, 2001
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Archive News Nov 09, 2001
Former HELLOWEEN vocalist Michael Kiske will make a guest appearance on several tracks on the upcoming album from ex-HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch, it was announced yesterday. Although recent reports indicated that SYMPHONY X vocalist Russell Allen would be absent from...November 9, 2001
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Archive News Nov 01, 2001
Correction: ANTHRAX will now appear on the Late Night With Jay Leno show on Friday, November 2nd. Although details are sketchy at the moment, ANTHRAX's appearance is said to involve a previously-taped skit that will be aired via video. In related news, former ANTHRAX vocalist Neil Turbin has just...November 1, 2001
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Archive News Oct 04, 2001
A minor riot erupted at the conclusion of YNGWIE MALMSTEEN's headlining show in Porto Alegre, Brazil on Tuesday, October 2nd, causing the band to storm off the stage and leaving the group's equipment vulnerable to damage as a result of the angry crowd throwing objects in protest over the way the co...October 4, 2001
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