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CASEY CHAOS To Front THE DAMNED At 30-Year Anniversary Gig Of Debut CD

Over 30 years ago, the biggest tour in punk rock was announced and featured the SEX PISTOLS, CLASH, and THE DAMNED. THE DAMNED were considered the anti-BEATLES, and consisted of the only local punks who could actually play their instruments. Today the founding members of THE DAMNED, Rat Scabies and...

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FIREBIRD: 'Hot Wings' To Receive European Release In July

FIREBIRD, the British band led by former CARCASS/NAPALM DEATH guitarist Bill Steer, will release their new album, "Hot Wings", in Europe in early July via Rise Above Records. The CD will be issued in Japan on May 31 through Victor Entertainment. The track listing for the effort is as follows 01. Car...

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Working With Ex-BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Drummer

Arizona-based extreme metal band ABIGAIL WILLIAMS have issued the following update: "We are now gearing up to record our first full-length CD for Candlelight Records, which we think will hit stores in the fall. Right now we are currently hammering out pre-production demos and putting the final touch...

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Former GREAT WHITE Tour Manager To Be Sentenced In Fatal Fire

The Associated Press is reporting that a judge is expected to decide Wednesday (May 10) whether former GREAT WHITE tour manager Daniel Biechele — who started the 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people — should go to prison. [Watch today's sentencing hearing, going on now, courtesy of WPRI.com at...

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DEF LEPPARD's Cover Of DAVID ESSEX's 'Rock On' Available Via iTunes

The first single off DEF LEPPARD's upcoming covers album, "Yeah!" (which will hit the stores May 23) is now available, and it is LEPPARD's version of the DAVID ESSEX classic "Rock On". But you can't go to your local record store to pick it up on CD; that seems to be the old-fashioned way for ...

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GREAT WHITE: Portraits Emerge Of Lives Lost In Second Day Of Nightclub Hearing

The Associated Press has issued the following report: Robert Reisner, the school bus driver who lived with his mother and was known as "Mr. Rob" to the students on his route, went to the concert. So did Scott Griffith, a California-born man and self-taught musician who headed out with a group of off...

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THE ALLKNOWING Debut To Feature Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman

THE ALLKNOWING, the new Ohio-based band featuring former GRIP INC./HEATHEN bassist Jason Vie Brooks, will be entering Online studios on May 19 to begin recording their debut album. The self-produced effort (with the help of a local engineer) will be titled "Hours for the Taking" and will feature the...

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LEATHERWOLF To Be Rejoined By Bassist PAUL CARMAN For BANG YOUR HEAD!!! Festival

California metallers LEATHERWOLF have announced that former longtime bassist Paul Carman will rejoin the fold for the band's appearance at the Bang Your Head!!! Festival in Germany on June 23. Pat Guyton (ex-HAIL MARY, SHOTGUN MESSIAH) will handle bass duties at both L.A. area warm-up shows. Pete Pe...

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GREAT WHITE: Three-Day Sentencing Hearing Set In Nightclub Fire Case

The Associated Press has issued the following report: In the three years since The Station nightclub disaster, the relatives of the 100 people killed have clustered together for memorials at the roadside fire site and mourned alone in cemeteries. But they have never had a chance to share their pain...

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KISS Conventions: A Carnival of Like-Minded Souls

KISS' official web site has published an advance story from issue No. 5 of the official KISS magazine. Written by Melanie "Sass" Falina, the story focuses on the countless KISS conventions and expos that are regularly held around the world. An excerpt from the article follows: In the vast world of a...

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GORGOROTH Cancel Austrian Show

Norwegian black metallers GORGOROTH have posted the following message on their official web site: "GORGOROTH will hereby state that we for some rather obvious reasons have to cancel the upcoming show at Kaltenbach, Vienna, and that we for a period will not be available for any live shows. Questions...

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KORN Cancel Indonesian Concert Over Volcano Eruption Fears

According to a posting on the KORN fan site KornTV.co.uk, KORN cancelled their previously announced May 4 show in Jakarta, Indonesia due to an active volcano, their management has said. The management reportedly told the local papers said the band were afraid the Merapi volcano would erupt during th...

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Memorial To Late AC/DC Frontman BON SCOTT Unveiled Today

BBC News is reporting that a memorial to former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott has been unveiled in the small Angus town of Kirriemuir. Scott was born in Kirriemuir in 1946 and went on to become an international star with the Australian band. His family emigrated from Scotland when he was six. He went ...

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END OF LEVEL BOSS Guitarist To Tour With FIREBIRD

London-based anguish rock outfit END OF LEVEL BOSS are continuing to write their second, as-yet-untitled album while scouring the earths for a new lead guitarist to replace the recently departed Jimm Ogawa. Meanwhile, END OF LEVEL BOSS vocalist/guitarist H Armstrong can be caught playing bass on the...

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Former DLM Guitarist Sentenced For Designing And Distributing Computer Viruses

According to TrimMail.com, a science student listed as a former guitarist for Kazakhstan heavy metal band DLM has been sentenced to a two-year suspended term for designing and distributing via the Internet a number of computer viruses, including the "deadly" Chernobyl, Gazeta.ru said Tuesday. Sergey...