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FIVE.BOLT.MAIN Announce New Lineup For Tour

FIVE.BOLT.MAIN, the new band featuring former FLAW singer Chris Volz, has announced a new lineup effective immediately. Joining the group for their upcoming tour dates are three members from the popular New York City-based hard rock band ALSTON: Kobie Jackson (guitar),Alex Cando (bass),and Ron Pai...

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TESTAMENT: 'Live In London' DVD Due In November

Eagle Rock Entertainment has set a November 1 release date for the new DVD from TESTAMENT, entitled "Live In London". "Live In London" is the documentation of a dream that long-time die-hard TESTAMENT fans have been waiting for: the reuniting of the band’s "classic" lineup. Featuring vocalist Chuck...

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IV: Constitution of Treason

A lot of truths are held to be self-evident when it comes to the current crop of American metal success stories. They've brought back the guitar solo, added clean vocals in varying degrees, borrowed a lot from classic metal as well as Swedish thrash and hardcore… pick any trait that's considered an...

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RUSH Guitarist Facing Countersuits In Scuffle With Deputies

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Two deputies who arrested a founder of the Canadian rock trio RUSH have sued, claiming the guitarist attacked them as they tried to force his son to leave a hotel during a New Year's Eve party. Lawyers representing the Ritz-Carlton in Naples and...

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ATARGATIS: Debut Album To Feature Guest Appearance By Violinist

According to a posting on German gothic/dark metal band ATARGATIS' official web site, the group's new album will feature a guest appearance by violinist Susanne Zisky, formerly of the Junge Sinfonie Berlin. ATARGATIS, who feature in their ranks female singer Stephanie Luzie (DARKWELL),are putting t...

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TAINT Sign With RISE ABOVE RECORDS

Welsh post-hardcore/melodic sludge monsters TAINT have inked a deal with Lee Dorrian's (CATHEDRAL) Rise Above Records. The group's debut album, "The Ruin of Nova Roma", was mixed in Los Angeles by Alex Newport (FUDGE TUNNEL, NAILBOMB, AT THE DRIVE-IN, THE MARS VOLTA, MELVINS, THE ICARUS LINE) and is...

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SEPULTURA To Release 'Live In São Paulo' CD And DVD In November

Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA will release a live CD and DVD, entitled "Live in São Paulo", on November 8 via SPV USA. Recorded on April 3, 2005 in front of a rabid hometown crowd — 90 percent of which was reportedly decked out in SEPULTURA gear — the band played a "best of" setlist with tracks ...

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SAMAEL: 'Era One' Project To See Light Of Day, Early Albums To Be Reissued

SAMAEL's Vorph and Xy are currently reworking their "Era One" project (originally completed and delivered to Century Media Records in September 2002) for a January 2006 release through Century Media. The Swiss band's former label is also planning to reissue in Europe the group's "Ceremony of Opposit...

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DESPISED ICON Prepare To Hit The Road With SUFFOCATION And CRYPTOPSY

The Montreal-based deathcore six-piece DESPISED ICON will embark on a massive North American tour this week alongside SUFFOCATION, CRYPTOPSY and ABORTED in support of "The Healing Process", their highly-acclaimed new album. The group’s explosive live performances on their first national U.S. tour al...

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QUIET RIOT Guitarist To Star In FOX Series, Guest On New IGNITE Album

QUIET RIOT guitarist Alex Grossi was recently cast in a new Fox series. Shooting begins next week. No further information is currently available. In other news, Alex will enter the studio this fall with IGNITE to lay down lead guitar on their third full-length album. The band's first studio CD since...

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VINNIE PAUL: 'There Never Was Gonna Be A PANTERA Reunion, Ever!'

Former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul was recently interviewed by Guitar World magazine for its December 2005 issue. In the interview Vinnie spoke about many subjects, including the possibility of a PANTERA reunion prior to Dimebag's death and the status of unreleased video and audio recordi...

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RUSH Donate Equipment Money To Musicians Devastated By Southeast Asian Tsunami

According to a front-page article in the inaugural Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal (dated Sept. 17, 2005),members of the Canadian rock band RUSH donated several thousand dollars for guitars to some of the musicians in Sri Lanka who lost their instruments in the Southeast Asian tsunami....

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Once Was Not

It has taken a while for Canadian death metal techsters CRYPTOPSY to get back on track after the departure of Mike DiSalvo. The last studio album was 2000's "And Then You'll Beg", after which vocalist Martin LaCroix entered the picture, lasting long enough to perform on concert LP "None so Live" and...

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POWER OF OMENS Call It A Day

San Antonio-based progressive metallers POWER OF OMENS have split up. An official statement on the matter by the group's guitarist, David Gallegos, reads as follows: "To all of our devoted fans… It comes with great sorrow the news I'm about to bring you. "For almost 12 years, this band has consisten...

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DISILLUSION Part Ways With Bassist, Seek Replacement

DISILLUSION, the prog-death band from Leipzig, Germany, have parted ways with bassist Ralf Willis less than five months after he joined the group. "Although we were highly euphoric in the beginning, we now know that things simply did not go together," the group write on their web site. "In Willis, t...