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AUDIOSLAVE: Cuba Performance Filmed For Upcoming DVD

AUDIOSLAVE's history-making performance in Havana, Cuba on May 6 was captured by a camera crew for a future DVD. Also filmed were the band's visits to historic sites around the city. About 60,000 rock-starved fans cheered, cried and sang along as AUDIOSLAVE became the first American rock group to pl...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE's PETER STEELE Is Not Dead

Despite a message on the band's official web site that seems to suggest otherwise, TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele HAS NOT DIED. The band, who are famous for their dark sense of humor, have spent much of the last few months preparing material for their SPV Records debut, which is expected to ....

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HATESPHERE To Appear On Danish TV

Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have posted the following message on their official web site: "HATESPHERE will appear on Danish national television, DR2, on Friday [May] 13th at 23.00, in the program called 'Musikprogrammet'. Jacob [Bredahl, vocals] will be the special guest in the studio, and live and...

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GEEZER BUTLER: TONY IOMMI's New Solo CD Is 'Best Album I've Heard In Years'

BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler has posted the following message in the "Journal" section of his official web site: "Congratulations are in order this week. Firstly, I want to congratulate Tony Iommi for the best album I've heard in years. SABBATH fans, and Iommi fans, are going to be rejoicing...

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DISMEMBER: 'Pieces' Reissue To Include Bonus Live Recording

Regain Records has set a June 13 release date for the remastered and expanded version of DISMEMBER's classic "Pieces" EP. The digipack release features the following track listing: 01. Intro 02. Pieces 03. I Wish You Hell 04. Carnal Tomb 05. Soon to be Dead Bonus Tracks - Live in Stockholm in 1993 (...

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HAMMERFALL Guitarist: Gothenburg Show Was 'A Huge Success'

HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Japan and South America await in the next weeks, and we can't wait to get back to these territories! There have been some changes to the Mexican, Chilean and Brazailian shows, so please check out t...

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Fatwa Placed On KILLING MIRANDA

According to the U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine, London's KILLING MIRANDA recently found themselves the subject of a fatwa (a religious decree, or judgment, issued by a recognized Islamic legal authority) after contributing music to the adult film "58 Bridge St" starring Muslim porn star Sahara. Attenti...

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Blood Run

There's a classic left-brain, right-brain dilemma at work when trying to review UNSANE albums. From a strictly analytical point of view, all their shit pretty much sounds the same — Chris Spencer writes a bunch of harsh, angular riffs and yells a lot over them, and the rhythms are all angular and qu...

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MEGADETH Mainman Threatens To Cancel Greek Tour Over 'Satanic' Support Act

MEGADETH's previously announced gigs in Greece — on June 17 and 18 in Athens and Thessaloniki, respectively — appear to be in jeopardy over the participation of one of the scheduled support acts, Greek black metallers ROTTING CHRIST. MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine is reportedly willing to cancel MEG...

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DISMEMBER: Back Catalog To Be Reissued

Long-running Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER have been confirmed for the Trästocksfestivalen, set to take place July 21-23 in Skellefteå, Sweden. Other artists scheduled to perform at the festival include ANNA TERNHEIM, ELDKVARN and DARCY. More information can be found at www.trastock.nu. In other...

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HATESPHERE To Enter Studio In Early June

Danish thrashers HATESPHERE will enter Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, PRETTY MAIDS) on June 5 to begin recording their next full-length album, tentatively due late September/early October via Steamhammer/SPV. Guitars and bass will be recorded at Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denm...

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Fuck You and Then Some/Feel the Fire

Not so much a song as an excuse for a chorus (one that owes more than a little to oddball L.A. punks FEAR),“Fuck You" was pretty ballsy for the PMRC-infected 1980's. It made the rounds of parties and dubbed tapes, along with other over-the-top, too-hot-for-Friday Night Videos fare likeS.O.D.'s "Spe...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Talks About GIGANTOUR

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine recently spoke to Australia's The Metal Forge about a number of topics, including Gigantour, the group's upcoming summer festival tour with DREAM THEATER, FEAR FACTORY, NEVERMORE and THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow: On the fact...

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TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY: Former MEGADETH Bassist Joins Forces With W.A.S.P. Drummer

The new band featuring former MEGADETH/current F5 bassist David Ellefson, guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A) has changed its name to TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY from the previously announced ENEMY OF GOD. The group, who have acquired the services of dru...

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HATE To Release New Album In October

Polish death mongers HATE are will be entering Hertz studio in Bialystok, Poland in early summer to begin recording their new album, "Anaclasis", for an October release via Listenable Records. Commented mainman Adam The First Sinner: "Just to let you know that we finished composing for the new album...