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LINKIN PARK Singer Says Solo Album Will Have 'Driving Beats And Walls Of Guitars'

RollingStone.com has confirmed that LINKIN PARK frontman Chester Bennington is working on his solo debut, tentatively due in early 2006. "We took Nineties rock, mixed it with Eighties pop like DEPECHE MODE, THE CURE and BAUHAUS and smashed them together," says Bennington. "It's fuckin' driving beats...

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FEAR FACTORY Frontman Says 'Transgression' Is 'An Experimental Record'

Shawn Macomber of The Nashua Telegraph recently conducted an interview with FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell. Several excerpts from the chat follow: On the group's new album, "Transgression": "I wanted to tell stories on this record, and the stories I ended up telling were of … going beyond. "'T...

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DRAGONFORCE Guitarist To Broadcast For BBC WORLD SERVICE

Hong Kong-born guitarist Herman Li of the London-based "extreme power metal" band DRAGONFORCE will broadcast for the BBC World Service program "The Music Feature - China's Music Revolution". This series explores the last great untapped music market for record companies — China. It looks at the rock/...

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NEBULA Complete Work On New Studio Album

Cosmic rockers NEBULA have completed their much-anticipated follow-up to "Atomic Ritual". The band enlisted the help of producer Daniel Rey (THE RAMONES, MISFITS) to record "the most dynamic and diverse NEBULA opus yet," according to a press release. The band is currently in mixing and mastering pha...

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DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: 'Heavy Metal Is An Area We Don't Like To Go Into'

Allan Wigney of the Ottawa Sun recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell. On the subject of being labeled a "heavy metal" band, Campbell said, "We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop. We can take 'hard rock,' but the heavy metal thing is an area we don't like...

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HENRY ROLLINS To Embark On '25 Years Of Bulls**t' Tour

According to MTV.com, punk rock icon Henry Rollins has finalized plans for his "25 Years of Bullshit" tour, sponsored by IFC, which airs "Henry's Film Corner". The two-month, 43-show trek kicks off September 29 in Phoenix, and will include commentary on politics, pop culture and his most recent expl...

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Former RATT Frontman To Guest On VH1's 'I Love The 80's'

According to a posting on former RATT frontman Stephen Pearcy's official web site, Pearcy recently taped an appearance on an episode of VH1's "I Love the 80's". Scheduled airtime is set for mid-October. According to VH1.com, each one-hour episode of "I Love the 80's" "takes viewers on a stream-of-co...

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Tales from the Strip

A band straight outta the '80s that never really went away, L.A. GUNS released some good 'n' sleazy hard rock with strong melodies over the years, belying the categorization of the act by some folks (I'm not one of them) as "just another hair metal band." As late as 2002, the group released a qualit...

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VELVET REVOLVER, DISTURBED, ALICE IN CHAINS Members Jam With CAMP FREDDY In Hollywood

VELVET REVOLVER members Slash and Scott Weiland, along with Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS),David Draiman (DISTURBED) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT),were among the special guests during CAMP FREDDY performance at the X Games party on Friday, August 5 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Californi...

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DOPE Frontman: 'We Didn't Grow Up Listening To KORN'

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with outspoken DOPE frontman Edsel Dope. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-Zone.com: Musically, what are your influences? Edsel: "This record ['American Apathy'] is a lot more brutal and it was done intentionally like that. The first DOPE al...

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DEF LEPPARD Frontman Talks About Working With Outside Songwriters, Upcoming Covers CD

Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Rockdetector.com: You are obviously all fortunate enough to be comfortably well off for the rest of your lives now. Is the drive to make m...

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DARKTHRONE's NOCTURNO CULTO Discusses Upcoming Album

NocturnalCult.com recently conducted an interview with DARKTHRONE guitarist/vocalist Nocturno Culto. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Q: I understand you are basically finished recording your new album, tentatively titled "The Cult is Alive", which seems pretty straightforward for an album title...

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British Study To Explain Why Men And Women Play Air Guitar Differently

Amy Iggulden of the U.K.'s Telegrpah.co.uk has issued the following report: The first academic study into the sweaty pursuit of air guitar playing is to use the work of French philosophers to explain why men and women do it differently. Doctoral research has begun under the supervision of Britain's...

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Dirty Diamonds

ALICE COOPER has been making albums for 36 years now, and it's amazing that he's still serving up listenable, better-than-average fare while most of his contemporaries have lost their muse completely or are content to flog the old hits over and over again. COOPER has certainly had his ups and downs...

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DEE SNIDER's Son Talks About His Band BLAZED And VH1 'Sniders' Reality Show

That's So Metal recently conducted an interview with Jesse Blaze, son of TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider, about his band BLAZED and the VH1 reality show based on the Sniders' family life, "Meet the Family: The Sniders". A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: That's So Metal: Obviously, you ha...