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ROUGH SILK Singer Produces Solo Album From RAGE Drummer

Singer Ferdy Doernberg of the German epic/melodic metallers ROUGH SILK has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "I produced and play dobro, trumpet (!!) and keyboards on Mike Terrana's [RAGE] new solo album, 'Man of the World'. It's an instrumental/fusion-album with great m...

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FATES WARNING Confirmed For Holland's HEADWAY FESTIVAL

Legendary progressive metal act FATES WARNING have been confirmed as the headliners of the Headway Festival in Amstelveen, Netherlands on April 3. The band's appearance at Headway and their previously announced five headlining shows in February will most likely be their only shows in Europe this yea...

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QUIET RIOT Schedule 'Rockline' Appearance

QUIET RIOT vocalist Kevin DuBrow and drummer Frankie Banali will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Wednesday, January 26. This will be the first international interview with the two QUIET RIOT members since their recent reunion and they will talk about...

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EUROPE: 'Hero' Video Posted Online

Reunited Swedish hard rockers EUROPE recently filmed a video for "Hero", the second single off their new album, "Start from the Dark". Watch the video clip at EuropeTheBand.atw.hu. The group's first collection of new material since 1991's "Prisoners In Paradise", "Start from the Dark" was produced b...

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DECEASED Complete Work On New Album

Long-running metallers DECEASED have posted the following message on their official web site: "We finished the new album, 'As The Weird Travel On', last week at Assembly Line Studios. It will be mastered in about a week or so and then should be released around February 1st on Thrash Corner Records....

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CAMP FREDDY Announce Free Gig In Hollywood

CAMP FREDDY, the Los Angeles-based "jam" band featuring JANE'S ADDICTION guitarist Dave Navarro, former THE CULT touring bassist Billy Morrison (on guitar),ex-JANE'S ADDICTION drummer Stephen Perkins, and vocalist Donovan Leitch (the son of 1960s U.K. folk-rock icon Donovan),will play a free show...

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JOE LYNN TURNER: Release Date Set For New Solo Album

Frontiers Records has set a February 21, 2005 release date for the new studio album by Joe Lynn Turner (ex-RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),entitled "The Usual Suspects". Regarding the CD, Turner said in a press release, "I have been defined many times in my career and identified with many r...

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DIECAST To Embark On Headlining Tour, Shoot New Video

The Boston-based quintet DIECAST are set to embark on a headlining U.S. tour alongside THE HOODS and WINTER SOLSTICE immediately following their stint on the Heavyweights of Hardcore tour. The trek kicks off on Jan. 20 and runs through Feb. 10. The group's highly acclaimed new album, "Tearing Down Y...

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Future Of Club Where DIMEBAG Was Gunned Down Is Up In The Air

Jordan Gentile of The Other Paper reports: Even as they mourned the death of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott last week, metal fans around Columbus, Ohio quietly began fretting about the future of another icon: the Alrosa Villa. They fear the nightclub that witnessed last week's shootings could soon fall vi...

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DIMEBAG DARRELL: Last-Ever Photo Posted Online?

Jennifer Wray of Columbus, Ohio's Suburban News Publications reports: Guitarist Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott told Kevin McMeans that a photograph of the two of them taken last Wednesday afternoon (Dec. 8) "would be a classic." McMeans said Abbott, who normally dressed casually, was referring to his outf...

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DAMAGEPLAN, PANTERA Album Sales Jump Sharply Following Guitarist's Death

DAMAGEPLAN and PANTERA albums have seen a sharp sales increase in the last week as a result of the shocking death of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, who was shot and killed while performing onstage at a Columbus nightclub. The following is an overview of the sales figures f...

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QUIET RIOT Announce U.K. Tour Dates; 'Live & Rare' Samples Posted Online

QUIET RIOT will commence their 2005 world tour in England, where the group has not performed in twenty years, with the following dates: Feb. 11 - Bradford, UK - Rio Feb. 12 - London, UK - The Underworld Feb. 13 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City Feb. 14 - Dudley, UK - Jb's Additional tour ...

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QUIET RIOT Singer: DIMEBAG Was A Nice Person In A Business Full Of Phonies

QUIET RIOT frontman Kevin DuBrow has issued the following statement in memory of DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott: "I did not know Darrell as well as many others but well enough to know that he was a really, really nice person in a business full of phonies. "Darrell and Vinni...

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NEWSWEEK Magazine Covers DARRELL's Murder: DIMEBAG's Last Waltz

Kevin Peraino of Newsweek reports: Darrell (Dimebag) Abbott was known around the heavy-metal world for his scary stage persona. The burly lead guitarist for a group called DAMAGEPLAN adorned his body with leather and tattoos, and wore a scraggly goatee he often dyed red. He spoke his own language, w...

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NBC's KEVIN TIBBLES Reports On DIMEBAG's Death: Video Available

Ohio investigators continue to search for answers in the nightclub shooting that left five people dead, including the lead guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott of DAMAGEPLAN. Watch NBC's Kevin Tibbles report for "Today" at MSN.com. ...