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Former HELLOWEEN Duo Announce Name, Singer For New Project
Former HELLOWEEN guitarist Roland Grapow and drummer Uli Kusch have set MASTERPLAN as the name of their new band and have selected ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN/current ARK vocalist Jorn Lande to front the much-talked-about group. According to Roland, Jorn was selected in part because his approach is much mor...January 16, 2002
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METHODS OF MAYHEM:
METHODS OF MAYHEM, led by former MOTLEY CRUE drummer Tommy Lee, have set Never A Dull Moment as the title to their sophomore CD, which is due in stores on May 21st through MCA Records. The track listing for the effort is shaping up as follows: 01. Afterglow 02. Body Architects 03. Higher 04. Sunday...January 15, 2002
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PITCHSHIFTER Master New CD, Confirm 2000 AD Appearance
PITCHSHIFTER completed the first leg of mastering for their upcoming P.S.I. CD yesterday at Portland, Maine's Gateway facility with Bob Ludwig (who mastered the group's www.pitchshifter.com record),and will take the mastered tunes back to Nottingham in order to insert in-between song interludes and...January 15, 2002
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UNIDA's Label Woes
Contrary to previous reports, it now appears that UNIDA (featuring former KYUSS frontman John Garcia) have NOT been dropped by American Recordings, but were instead dumped by American's parent company, Island Records. Sounds confusing? In order to clear things up, here is an update on the situation,...January 14, 2002
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MOTLEY CRUE's Sixx Takes It "In The Chops"!
MOTLEY CRUE bassist/mainman Nikki Sixx has just had a vasectomy and has chosen to speak out about it. Sort of. Here's Sixx describing his, eh, newfound condition: Well this old bird dogFinally took it in the chops Well, not exactly the chopsbut there was chopping involved (not cocaine, you sickos)....January 6, 2002
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DOWN To Master Sophomore CD For March Release
New Orleans supergroup DOWN, who feature in their ranks PANTERA's Philip Anselmo (vocals),C.O.C.'s Pepper Keenan (guitars),EYEHATEGOD's Jimmy Bower (drums),PANTERA's Rex Brown (bass) and CROWBAR's Kirk Windstein (guitars),have completed work on their sophomore full-length CD for Elektra Records...January 5, 2002
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TRANSPORT LEAGUE To Record New CD In February
Sweden's TRANSPORT LEAGUE will enter Oral Majority Recordings Studios with producer Roberto Laghiin February to lay down their next effort, to be entitled Multiple Organ Harvest. Among the titles that are set to appear on the forthcoming album are the following: 01. El Gordo 02. Sick Scum 03. Never...January 2, 2002
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Tenth Dimension
Nearly two years on from vocalist Blaze Bayley's surprisingly impressive comeback with 2000's Silicon Messiah (following his hideous performance on the two MAIDEN albums that he appeared on),BLAZE have returned with an effort that essentially picks up where its predecessor left off, with its darker...December 28, 2001
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DESTRUCTION DVD On The Way, Former Drummer Gets New Job!
German thrashers DESTRUCTION are tentatively due to issue a live video/DVD next year. In related news, former DESTRUCTION drummer Sven Vormann has resurfaced as the sound engineer for German metallers AVANISH. According to the latter band, we're really glad we found someone who's a master of his tra...December 26, 2001
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Suicide By My Side
The Finnish group's third full-length release, SINERGY's Suicide By My Side is a mature, classy-sounding affair that essentially picks up where 2000's To Hell And Back left off, with main songwriter Alexi Laiho's excellent riffing style and American frontwoman Kimberly Goss' much-improved vocal chop...December 23, 2001
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THE GATHERING Start Work On New Album!
Holland's THE GATHERING have completed several preliminary recordings for their upcoming studio CD, which is once again being engineered and produced by Zlaya Hadzich for a fall 2002 release through Century Media Records. According to the band, some of [the initial tracks] are really state of the ar...December 21, 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 Dec 05, 2001
METALLICA are taking a break for the holidays, but will return to the studio in January with a view towards releasing a new studio album next fall, according to statements attributed to the band's management and their publicist by MTV.com. While frontman James Hetfield spent time in rehab for alc...December 5, 2001
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Archive News Dec 03, 2001
APOLLYON SUN, featuring former CELTIC FROST mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer, are currently composing and demoing new material for the group's upcoming sophomore full-length album at the band's own rehearsal studio facility (where the act have just upgraded the computer-based recording system) and at...December 3, 2001
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Archive News Nov 29, 2001
Despite having just joined the ranks of Canada's ANNIHILATOR, former NEVERMORE axeman Curran Murphy has no intention of leaving his longtime outfit AGGRESSION CORE, which is currently in the process of recording its sophomore CD, according to a statement sent by the guitarist to BLABBERMOUTH.NET....November 29, 2001