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DOWN: Dates For HEAVEN AND HELL Tour Confirmed

According to its official MySpace page, DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Ans...

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SLAYER To Headline Germany's WITH FULL FORCE Festival

According to Markus Rutten of www.sounds2move.de, Los Angeles thrashers SLAYER will headline this year's With Full Force festival, set to take place June 29 – July 1 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Löbnitz, Germany. The official confirmation of SLAYER's participation is expected tomorrow via the event'...

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VINNIE PAUL: HELLYEAH CD Is Best Record I've Collaborated On Since PANTERA's 'Vulgar Display'

HELLYEAH, the new band featuring former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott alongside members of MUDVAYNE and NOTHINGFACE, will release its self-titled debut album on April 10 via Epic Records. The quintet includes three of hard rock's most revered and valuable players, with careers highli...

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OBITUARY, ATHEIST, REPULSION Confirmed For LOS ANGELES MURDERFEST VERSION 3.0

OBITUARY, ATHEIST and REPULSION are among the latest confirmed bands for the Los Angeles Murderfest Version 3.0, slated for March 24-25, 2007 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday, March 24: OBITUARY ATHEIST REPULSION LACK OF INTERE...

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DIMEBAG Book Author Says There Is No Evidence Killer Was Influenced By PHIL ANSELMO's Words

Brandon Daviet of NewDealers.com recently conducted an interview with Chris A., author of the upcoming book about the murder of PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, "A Vulgar Display Of Power: Courage And Carnage At The Alrosa Villa". The question-and-answer session follows: NewDea...

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EXODUS Guitarist Announces NAMM Signing Session

EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt will take part in a signing session at the Bernie Rico Jr. Guitars booth the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, January 20 between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. He will also be "hanging out" at the Home Brew electronics booth as well,...

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BLESSED DEATH: 'Long-Lost' Third Studio Album Sees Light Of Day

Long-defunct New Jersey thrashers BLESSED DEATH have released their "long-lost" third studio album via CDBaby.com. Entitled "Hour of Pain", the CD was recorded in 1991 and contains 11 songs. The track listing is as follows: 01. Fallen Walls 02. You Are Nothing 03. Shadows Of The Living 04. Hour Of P...

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DOWN Guitarist PEPPER KEENAN: 'We're Real Focused On Being Timeless'

DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) — i...

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Year of Desolation

The word "smoking" gets thrown around so much with regard to an album's riffs, but damn if it doesn't apply in a big way on YEAR OF DESOLATION's self-titled debut for Prosthetic. (The band's first release, "Your Blood My Vendetta" was released in 2004 on Corrosive Recordings). I mean the guitars bur...

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Gloria

It's been a while since we've been given a front-row seat as a band self-destructs this spectacularly. MORGOTH going from bleak death metal to KILLING JOKE in the mid-1990s… the "black metal to weird industrial" metamorphosis of bands like MAYHEM and COVENANT a few years later… and of course, loomin...

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CRIME CLOTHES Seeks Bands For 'Metal Murder League' Compilation CD

Crime Clothes is seeking five submissions from original metal/hard rock artists from around the world to complete a 20-song CD compilation entitled "Metal Murder League Vol. 1" that will be distributed nationally and promoted via Crash Music Inc. All interested artist should send there mp3 files via...

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NINE INCH NAILS Mainman: Do Not Expect PUBLIC ENEMY's FLAVOR FLAV To Appear On New CD

NINE INCH NAILS is currently mixing its new album, "Year Zero", for an April release. In a January 11, 2007 posting on on the official NIN fan club web site The Spiral, the band's mastermind Trent Reznor wrote, "While mixing, I spend most of my time NOT in the control room to allow myself some ...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO: BILL WARD's 'Commitments' Prevented Him From Touring With HEAVEN AND HELL

Jon Wiederhorn of Revolver magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) and Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH) of HEAVEN AND HELL — the new band also featuring SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler and ex-DIO/SABBATH drummer Vinny Appice. A couple of excerp...

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EXODUS Guitarist Comments On Passing Of Original HEATHEN Singer, Ruthie's Inn Promoter

EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt has issued a statement regarding the recent deaths of Sam Kress [info] (the original vocalist of acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN and former co-editor of early '80s underground fanzine Whiplash) and Wes Robinson [info] (founder of the legendary Ruthie's I...

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HEAVEN AND HELL To Play Helsinki In June

HEAVEN AND HELL — the new band featuring legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) alongside original BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, plus drummer Vinny Appice (DIO, BLACK SABBATH) — will play a headling show at Jäähallissa in Helsinki, Finland o...