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TWISTED TOWER DIRE Parts Ways With Singer, Announces Temporary Replacement

Virginia's "classic metal" act TWISTED TOWER DIRE have parted ways with vocalist Tony Taylor. "Because of some personal problems he's been having, we asked him to take a break from the band and not do the string of shows we have lined up throughout the fall," guitarist Scott Waldrop writes on the gr...

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STONE SOUR Shares Similar Work Ethic With DISTURBED

Launch Radio Networks reports: STONE SOUR will join DISTURBED on this November's Music As A Weapon tour, for which dates and cities were revealed on Tuesday (October 3). STONE SOUR vocalist Corey Taylor said that both bands share a similar work ethic that makes it a good pairing, and elaborated on t...

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VELVET REVOLVER To Perform At SPIRIT OF LIFE AWARDS In Los Angeles

VELVET REVOLVER will perform at the City of Hope's Spirit of Life Awards gala at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles later today (Thursday, October 5). MAROON 5, TAYLOR HICKS, SARAH MCLACHLAN and JOSH GROBAN will also take the stage at the event, which is honoring BMG U.S. President and COO Cha...

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TRIVIUM To Guest On TOTAL ROCK Next Week

TRIVIUM's very own Corey Beaulieu and Travis Smith "play their hand at spinning records, talking shite and phoning their friends out of pure boredom, all 'on air', in a series of half-hour shows running next week, Monday-Friday, at 6:00 p.m. and repeated Tuesday-Saturday at 4:30 a.m. on Total Rock r...

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Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist CHRIS POLAND Checks In

Former MEGADETH guitarist Chris Poland has posted the following message in the "Megadeth Alumni" section of the band's official web site: "Just checking in! Met up with Glen Drover [current MEGADETH guitarist] a couple of weeks ago and had some fun playing some MEGADETH tunes in my studio. I sure wo...

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CHRIS POLAND: 'Return to Metalopolis – Live' Audio Sample Available

A tune and the art from the forthcoming Chris Poland (ex-MEGADETH) "Return to Metalopolis - Live" CD has been posted on the OHM: MySpace page. The art for the disc (done by artist Skip Snyder) can also be found on the opening page of www.chrispoland.com. The title song posted was recorded ...

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Original LIVING COLOUR Lineup Performs For First Time In 17 Years

LIVING COLOUR guitarist Vernon Reid has issued the following update: "[Friday] night [Sept. 22] something truly extraordinary happened: for the first time in 17 years, LIVING COLOUR played with Muzz Skillings on bass. The occasion was a private party the iconic master drummer/mentor-musician Jack De...

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DARK NEW DAY: 'Free' Performance Clip Posted Online

A video clip of DARK NEW DAY performing an acoustic/electric version of the song "Free", taken from their current digital-EP release, "Black Porch Acoustic Sessions", has been posted online at Rehearsals.com. "Black Porch Acoustic Sessions" was made available digitally on September 5, 2006. DARK NEW...

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COREY TAYLOR Says New STONE SOUR CD Is 'One Of My Most Brutally Honest Albums'

Patrick Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune recently conducted an interview with STONE SOUR/SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the new STONE SOUR album, "Come What(Ever) May": "'Come What(Ever) May' is probably one of (my) most brutally honest albums. Even with th...

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STONE SOUR Guitarist Says Getting Back Onstage Was 'Terrifying'

Launch Radio Networks reports: STONE SOUR ends its stint on the Family Values tour tonight (Wednesday, September 20) as the KORN-led festival closes out its run in West Palm Beach, Florida. STONE SOUR's first tour in three years started earlier this summer in Europe, and guitarist Josh Rand told Lau...

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STONE SOUR's COREY TAYLOR Performs With KORN In Camden

STONE SOUR's Corey Taylor (also of SLIPKNOT) joined KORN onstage at Friday's (Sept. 15) Family Values Tour date in Camden, New Jersey to perform "Freak On A Leash". This marked the second time Corey performed the song with KORN — this time sharing vocal duties with KORN's Jonathan Davis — as he firs...

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TRIVIUM Guitarist Takes Part In 'Bloke Test'

TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu recently took part in a "bloke test" on the Roadrunner Records U.K. web site. Read the questions and answers at this location. As previously reported, the final version of TRIVIUM's video for the song "Entrance of the Conflagration" has been posted online at this loc...

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GRAHAM BONNET Continues Work On ELEKTRIC ZOO CD

Legendary hard rock vocalist Graham Bonnet's (RAINBOW, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, ALCATRAZZ, IMPELLITTERI) web site has been updated with the following message: "The new Taz Taylor album 'Welcome To America' [featuring an appearance by Graham Bonnet] has been released and we have received lots of posit...

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LIVING COLOUR: Original Lineup To Perform At Private Party In New York

The original lineup of LIVING COLOUR — featuring bassist Muzz Skillings — will play a short set (eight songs) for a private party in Woodstock, New York. Guitarist Vernon Reid says, "Doug [Wimbish, current LIVING COLOUR bassist] is going to be stuck in Europe, and I took the opportunity to ask Muzz....

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CHRIS POLAND's OHM: Hard At Work On New Album

OHM:, the group led by former MEGADETH guitarist Chris Poland, is currently in the studio recording the follow-up to "Amino Acid Flashback". Kofi Baker (who played on OHM:'s last two records) and Joel Taylor (ALLAN HOLDSWORTH, FRANK GAMBALE, also toured with OHM: earlier this year) will be sharing d...