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OPETH: New Live Video Posted Online

A three-minute video clip of OPETH performing at the Close-Up Festival in Stockholm, Sweden on April 16 has been posted online at this location (size: 4.1 MB). OPETH are continuing to tour in support of their latest opus, "Ghost Reveries", which came out last August via Roadrunner Records. In a rece...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Q2K' Album To Be Reissued Through RHINO

According to a posting on QUEENSRŸCHE's official web site, the band's current record label, Rhino Records, has purchased the rights to the group's 1999 effort, "Q2K", from Atlantic and plans on re-releasing it soon. Limited-edition signed copies and a free "Q2K" cap will be included in the new packa...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: New GEOFF TATE Interview To Air On Ohio's WRQK 106.9 FM

Canton, Ohio DJ Joe Kleon will present a two-hour profile of QUEENSRŸCHE this Sunday, April 23 between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on WRQK 106.9 FM (Rock 107). Included will be an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate, in which Geoff talks in-depth about the band's new release, "Operation: Min...

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Death to Tyrants

This weekend's batch of reviews is turning into a who's who of legends and journeymen. DARKTHRONE released its 12th album and IMPALED NAZARENE its ninth, and now SICK OF IT ALL not only unleashes its ninth long player (not counting EPs, splits, live recordings, etc),but also is celebrating its 20th...

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Revenge

Believe it or not, the rating above is a vast improvement for Danish third-stringers IRON FIRE. Their debut, "Thunderstorm" (released after the group won some Noise Records battle of the bands contest),was a laughably generic exercise in power metal with particularly anemic and reedy vocals from Ma...

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ROB ZOMBIE Laments 'The Death Of The Album'

Andrew Gargano of Metal Edge magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with Rob Zombie. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Edge: Is it true you wanted to give it all up at one point? Zombie: "Not really, it was always a notion. Towards the end of all the touring ...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: More 'Operation: Mindcrime II' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed

QUEENSRŸCHE's latest CD, "Operation: Mindcrime II", has entered the national charts in the following countries: Canada: #62 Finland: #26 Holland: #35 Hungary: #20 Norway: #27 Sweden: #18 Switzerland: #59 USA: #14 "Operation: Mindcrime II" sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of...

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KORN: Photos Of Studio Session With DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ Posted Online

Several photos of KORN frontman Jonathan Davis at a Los Angeles studio with members of the Southern "snap" hip-hop kings DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ working on a mash-up of their current singles have been posted online at Getty Images. The two Virgin labelmates met on Wednesday, April 12 to create a new mash...

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QUEENSRŸCHE, POISON, LACUNA COIL Land In BILLBOARD's Top 30

QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 co...

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OPETH Mainman: We Don't Know If Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ Is Ever Coming Back

Helen Barradell of Australia's X-Press Online recently conducted an interview with OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's early years: "I guess it gets more romantic in retrospect, almost like we actually had a good time. Of course we did have a good...

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QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Operation: Mindcrime II' Will Be Band's Best-Selling Album In Years

According to Hits Daily Double, first-day reports from retailers across the United States indicate that QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" album will sell between 40,000 and 50,000 copies in its first week of release, which could very well put them in the teens or low twenties in next week's Th...

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Vocalist JIZZY PEARL Announces RATT Spring Tour Dates

According to frontman Jizzy Pearl, RATT will be playing at least two shows this spring/summer, including a May 13 date at Win River Casino in Redding, California (on a bill also featuring WARRANT, GREAT WHITE and FIREHOUSE) and a June 17 concert at Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Polls...

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NEURAXIS Add Touring Guitarist

Montreal-based NEURAXIS have announced the addition of live guitarist Will Seghers (ex-QUO VADIS) to the group's ranks. The band commented: "NEURAXIS wishes to thank everyone who showed interest in auditioning for the guitar position. It feels good to now have a guitarist that meets our standard of...

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SOUNDSCAN Report: ROB ZOMBIE, ATREYU, RAMMSTEIN, GUNS N' ROSES, AC/DC

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending April 2, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 1,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, whe...

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VELVET REVOLVER's DUFF MCKAGAN Shoots Down 'Rehab' Rumors

VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has rejected as false recent rumors that he has entered a rehab center in the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington near his home to "get clean." The Metal Sludge web site quoted an anonymous source last week as saying that Duff "went to...