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ROBERT PLANT Calls Rock Star Life 'An Affliction'

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Robert Plant feels that not allowing success get to your head and heart is the secret to staying a true artist. Plant’s latest solo set with backing band SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS has earned the former LED ZEPPELIN frontman a Top 10 hit on the Billboard 200 album ch...

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Former METAL MANIACS Editor KATHERINE LUDWIG Dies After Battle With Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Former Metal Maniacs editor Katherine Ludwig died yesterday (Friday, January 30) a little after 1:00 p.m. at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, New York. She passed very quickly and peacefully, surrounded by family and friends. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's Reed Mullin had this to say about Katherine Ludw...

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ROBERT PLANT Credits PHIL COLLINS For Solo Career Direction

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Robert Plant credits Phil Collins for helping steer his early solo career. Plant, who has been a solo artist nearly three times as long as he was fronting LED ZEPPELIN, appeared on Britain's Sky Arts 1 channel and spoke frankly about the process of going solo followi...

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Accused Murderer Invokes SLAYER Defense, Is Ruled Incompetent To Stand Trial

According to CentralMaine.com, a man who claimed that a gun was held to his head in a 2011 incident somehow involving the band SLAYER has been found incompetent to face trial on a charge of murdering his father. 25-year-old Leroy Smith III admitted to killing 56-year-old Leroy Smith Jr. in May 2014,...

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JEFF PILSON Talks DOKKEN Turmoil (Audio)

Jeff Pilson (DOKKEN, WAR & PEACE, DIO, FOREIGNER, LYNCH/PILSON, UNDERGROUND MOON, T&N) was recently interviewed on "The Double Stop" podcast (web site). A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the original breakup of the classic DOKKEN lineup: Jeff: "What happened w...

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SEBASTIAN BACH Says 'Give 'Em Hell' Sold More Copies First Week Than Did New OZZY OSBOURNE Record

During a brand new interview with Illinois Entertainer, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach spoke about the songwriting process for his latest solo album, "Give 'Em Hell". "I have this weird thing where I can't really sing lyrics that I don't believe in," he said. "And it makes people very mad at...

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IMMORTAL Members Embroiled In Legal Battle Over Rights To Band Name

According to Dagbladet.no, members of the legendary Norwegian black metal band IMMORTAL are embroiled in a legal battle over the IMMORTAL trademark. The group's frontman Abbath (real name Olve Eikemo) has attempted to claim rights to the IMMORTAL name via his sole proprietorship Eikemo Compositions....

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JAKE E. LEE: Why I Gave Up Songwriting Credit For OZZY OSBOURNE's 'Bark At The Moon'

Guitarist Jake E. Lee says that he wrote most of the music for Ozzy Osbourne's classic 1983 album "Bark At The Moon" — with some help from Osbourne's bassist at the time, Bob Daisley — but that he didn't get any credit for it as part of an agreement he made with Osbourne and Ozzy's ...

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POISON Singer BRET MICHAELS Undergoes Kidney Surgery

According to Pete Evick, the guitar player in POISON singer Bret Michaels' solo band, Bret underwent surgery on his kidneys this past week, forcing him to cancel the October 30 Rockin' 4 A Reason concert in Champaign, Illinois benefiting the Champaign County Humane Society. Evick says: "In typical B...

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BLACK VEIL BRIDES' Self-Titled Fourth Album Cracks U.S. Top 10

The self-titled fourth studio from Los Angeles theatrical rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES sold around 30,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones", opened wi...

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REFUSED Parts Ways With Guitarist JON BRÄNNSTRÖM

Reunited seminal Swedish hardcore band REFUSED has parted ways with guitarist Jon Brännström. He revealed his exit from the group in an October 31 posting on REFUSED's Facebook page, where he wrote: "I was fired from REFUSED a while ago. I wasn't given a reasonable explanation and wasn't even invite...

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METALLICA's ROBERT TRUJILLO: How I Helped Recover PASTORIUS' Infamous 'Bass Of Doom'

Jaco Pastorius has long been regarded as one of, if not the, most influential bass guitarist of all time and is METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo personal hero. So upon overhearing a phone conversation that Jaco's legendary "Bass Of Doom" had resurfaced after being missing for over twenty years, but...

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BLACK SABBATH's Touring Drummer TOMMY CLUFETOS Praises OZZY OSBOURNE's 'Charisma'

BLACK SABBATH's touring drummer Tommy Clufetos, who also plays in Ozzy Osbourne's backing band, pays tribute to rock's Prince Of Darkness in a new video teaser for "Memoirs Of A Madman", the singer's solo career retrospective that was released on October 7. Says Clufetos in the clip, which can be se...

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OZZY OSBOURNE Says His 9/11 Comments Were 'Taken Out Of Context'

Ozzy Osbourne has slammed UK's Mail Online for putting a "sensational slant" on his statements about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, explaining that his comments were "twisted, reprinted and made into another story." The Mail Online article quoted Ozzy as telling ShortLi...

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SLASH Is 'So Proud' He Was Involved In Making Of GUNS N' ROSES' 'Appetite For Destruction'

Journalist and musician Barbara Caserta of Italy's Linearock recently conducted an interview with legendary guitarist Slash. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the tremendous commercial success of GUNS N' ROSES' classic first album, "Appetite For Destruction", which is said to be the b...