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LANA LANE: Live Album, DVD Due In July

Frontiers Records will be issuing LANA LANE's newest live release, "Return to Japan", a double CD release over two hours in length that chronicles the vocalist's last four Japanese tours from 1998 to 2002. Disc One contains full band performances from the concerts at Club Citta (2002) and Club Quatt...

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BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION: The Show Must Go On

BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION bassist Nikki Sixx has posted the following message to the "Diary" section of the group's official web site: "I sit here on the bus heading towards Denver… Been on the whiteline for 11 hours… We had to stop (in North Platt, Nebraska) at a truck stop for 3 pm breakfast. Everybod...

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FIREWIND Begin Work On New Album

FIREWIND, the Greek/American melodic metal band led by DREAM EVIL guitarist Gus G., are currently in the studio writing and recording their third, as-yet-untitled album, tentatively due before the end of the year. "So far we got 6 or 7 songs down and they sound very good," Gus writes on the group's...

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NIKKI SIXX: New BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION Album To Be Recorded Later This Year

BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION bassist Nikki Sixx (ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE) has posted the following message to the "Diary" section of the group's official web site: "It's nice to sleep in a bed. As much as I love the bus, a day off with room service and a bed was much needed. We decided to do this tour ...

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ZAKK WYLDE: Original Demo Recording Used To Land OZZY Gig Posted Online

Zakk Wylde fan site SDMFworldwide.com has uploaded the 1987 recording that got Zakk the job playing for OZZY OSBOURNE. Here's the story of the demo tape, by the man who recorded it, Jim Matlosz: "Back in the summer of '87, I was hanging with Zakk and [his previous band] ZYRIS. I used to ...

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MORTIIS Name New CD

Norway's legendary eccentric artist MORTIIS has set "The Grudge" as the title of his new album, due in September through Earache Records. The follow-up to 2001's critically acclaimed "The Smell of Rain" was recorded over a six-month period at Silvertone Studios in Fredrickstad, Norway by Mortiis (vo...

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ICED EARTH: New Live Video Clip Posted Online

A 48-second Windows Media video clip of ICED EARTH performing the track "Burning Times" (off 1998's "Something Wicked This Way Comes") live on April 21 at the Quest in Minneapolis, Minnesota has been posted online at this location [note: link removed at web site owner's request]. ICED EARTH are curr...

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THE HIDDEN HAND To Release New Album In The Fall

THE HIDDEN HAND bassist/vocalist Bruce Falkinburg has issued the following update via StonerRock.com: "We have been laying low in the woodshed for the past two months getting ready to record the next full-length due out on Southern Lord in the US in the fall and Exile on Mainstream in Europe. The re...

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INSTIL: New Song Posted Online

Dutch thrash metallers INSTIL have posted another track online at the Garden of Exile Records website. The song "Sole Rights" is taken from the group's upcoming full-length CD, "Fire Reflects In Ashes", due on May 14 through Garden of Exile. Download it at this location. INSTIL play a mix of melodic...

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LI'L GN'R's Tribute To GUNS N' ROSES: Appetite For Instruction

Robert Ratish of MontereyHerald.com is reporting that LI'L GN'R (web site) is an all-kids GUNS N' ROSES tribute "band" that sings over recorded favorites like "November Rain" and "Patience". Ranging in age from 6 to 11, the group's members — all from New Jersey — were not even born when their namesa...

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EXCITER Set Release Date For Collection Of Re-Recorded Classics

Canadian thrash pioneers EXCITER have set "New Testament - Coven of Re-Recorded Classics" as the title of their upcoming collection of reworked early songs, due June 7 through France's Osmose Productions. A North American release through The End Records is expected a short time later. The complete t...

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MILLENIUM: New Album Details Revealed

MILLENIUM (sic),the Florida-based hard rock band featuring guitarists Ralph Santolla (ICED EARTH, ex-DEATH) and Shane French (ex-CIRCLE II CIRCLE),have inked a deal with Germany's Metal Heaven (subsidiary of AOR Heaven) for the territories of Germany, Austria, Switzerland (GAS),Benelux and Sweden...

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OK, confession time. Reading the words "Pagan Folk Metal" on a promo album or press release causes a very sharp intake of breath in these quarters. Some stony-faced lunatics getting atmospheric with a load of crusty olde-worlde instruments doesn't do much for the advancement of music, and let's not...

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GREAT WHITE Issue Statement Regarding Upcoming CLEOPATRA Compilation

GREAT WHITE have issued a statement distancing themselves from yet another compilation CD bearing a cover image that appears to refer to the Rhode Island nightclub fire that claimed the lives of 100 people. The group's statement reads as follows: "Today we were horrified to discover that once again...

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LAST CRACK Line Up Hometown Appearance

Madison, Wisconsin natives LAST CRACK have booked their first show since playing at this year's South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. The concert will be held at The Annex in Madison, WI on Saturday, June 19. The band will be showcasing new material as well as old favorites from...