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MACHINE HEAD Drummer DAVE MCCLAIN Turns 10!

MACHINE HEAD's official web site has been updated with the following message: "December 26th [2005] marks the official ten-year anniversary of the day that a one Mr. Dave McClain joined a band called MACHINE HEAD, and in celebration of the most underrated drummer in heavy music, some folks that you...

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STIGMATA Reunion Show Filmed For 'The Road To Ruin' Documentary

Music video/extreme sports director/producer Drew Stone ("Urban Street - Bike Warriors" trilogy, AGNOSTIC FRONT "Gotta Go", BIOHAZARD "Punishment", "Shades of Grey", "Tales from the Hardside", MTV's "I Live To Ride") has filmed the STIGMATA reunion show, featuring Jason Bittner (SHADOWS FALL drummer...

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IN RUINS Sign With JMT-MUSIC

Pennsylvania's IN RUINS have signed a three-album deal with JMT-Music. The band, which consists of J. Michael (vocals and guitar),Hans (bass),Jason (rhythm guitar),Matt (keyboards),and Sean James (drums),have just completed work on their new disc, "The Curse of Decay". The follow-up to "Four Se...

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GUNS N' ROSES Bassist To Perform More Shows With SOUL ASYLUM

GUNS N' ROSES bassist Tommy Stinson (ex-REPLACEMENTS) will be joining SOUL ASYLUM for two more shows as a tribute to b>SOUL ASYLUM's late bass player Karl Mueller, who died in June 2005 following a year-long battle with throat cancer. The dates are as follows: Dec. 23 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Av...

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MALEVOLENT CREATION: Vocalist BRETT HOFFMAN To Rejoin Band For European Tour

MALEVOLENT CREATION mainman Phil Fasciana has issued the following update: "I wanted to tell you that Kyle [Symons, vocals] has just announced that he can't do the tour in Europe with us due to personal reasons and instead of canceling another tour because of Kyle and his personal problems, we have...

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FACEDOWNINSHIT Complete Work On New Album: Audio Available

North Carolina's FACEDOWNINSHIT have completed work on their Relapse Records debut, entitled "NPON". "NPON", which stands for "Nothing Positive, Only Negative", was recorded at Pontchartrain Studios with engineer Jay Murphy and mastered at Kitchen Mastering (CATHARSIS, MEAT PUPPETS) by Brent Lambert...

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KORN: More Than 30% Of Sold Albums Included Bonus Disc

More than 30 percent of the 221,000 albums sold by KORN of their latest effort, "See You on the Other Side", in its first week of release, were of the album's deluxe edition encompassing a bonus disc with three previously unreleased new tracks ("It's Me Again", "Eaten Up Inside" and "Last Legal Drug...

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HEROD: New Song Available For Download

Buffalo, NY's HEROD have completed their second Lifeforce Records full-length record, entitled "Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight". Due on March 7, 2006 in North America and April 24 in Europe, "Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight" is the highly anticipated follow up to the group's critically acclaimed...

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MUCOPUS Part Ways With Guitarist, Vow To Carry On

New York-based old-school death metallers MUCOPUS have amicably parted ways with guitarist and co-founder Ernie Rau. "It's been fun, but it's time to move on to new things," Rau said in a statement. Ernie and ORGAN HARVEST drummer Rob Nudo have started work on a new project entitled TENTACLES. MUCOP...

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KORN, LINKIN PARK Members To Create 'Hostile Takeover' On SIRUS' FACTION

Members of KORN and LINKIN PARK are among the stars from the worlds of action sports, television and music that will be taking over Sirius Satellite Radio's Faction channel 28 on a weekly basis, when the new Faction program "Hostile Takeover" launches on Friday, December 16. The special guests can s...

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DON CABALLERO Sign With RELAPSE RECORDS

Relapse Records has announced the signing of seminal instrumental super-rock outfit DON CABALLERO. The Pittsburgh-based band is currently recording their as-yet-untitled Relapse debut full-length with longtime producer Al Sutton (THE LAUGHING HYENAS, BIG CHIEF) at Sutton's Rustbelt Studios in Detroi...

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TRIVIUM Pay Tribute To DIMEBAG DARRELL

TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu has posted the following report from the band's North American tour with CHILDREN OF BODOM and AMON AMARTH: "Well, the BODOM tour has been a great tour! The bands and crews are some of the nicest people we have been on tour with. "We want to thank all the fans for .....

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PSYCROPTIC: 'Symbols Of Failure' Release Date Announced; MP3 Available For Download

Neurotic Records has set a February 13, 2006 release date for the third full-length album from Australia's PSYCROPTIC, entitled "Symbols of Failure". Mastering has now been completed by Björn Engelmann at the Cutting Room (RAMMSTEIN, HYPOCRISY, IN FLAMES) in Sweden and the artwork was created by Pär...

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SHADOWS FALL Announce One-Off Show In Massachusetts

SHADOWS FALL have announced a special one-off show on Friday, December 30 at the Pearl Street Nightclub in Northampton, Massachusetts. "There will only be ONE chance to catch SHADOWS FALL live in the next several months as we disappear to write the next album for your listening pleasure," the band w...

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SHADOWS FALL Drummer To Appear On DIMEBAG Tribute CD

SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner is in Chicago recording a track with his "buddy" Tristian Grigsby (also known as "1690" from the PANTERA home videos) for Grigsby's upcoming "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott tribute CD that is going to feature contributions from a number of well-known musicians from the me...