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TRIVIUM On MTV2's 'Headbanger's Ball': Video Available
TRIVIUM's Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu guest-hosted this past weekend's edition of MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball", which aired Saturday night (October 14). Watch the show online at this location (click on "Videos" and scroll down video menu). As previously reported, TRIVIUM's new album, "The Crusade",...October 16, 2006
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EXODUS Guitarist Issues Post-Tour Update
EXODUS just returned home to the San Francisco Bay Area after completing the "Monsters Of Mayhem" tour with HATEBREED, NAPALM DEATH, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, DESPISED ICON and FIRST BLOOD. Guitarist Gary Holt has check in with the following update: "Just returned home yesterday, feeling a bit shot r...October 16, 2006
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH To Perform With THE MERCY CLINIC In Hollywood
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, the Los Angeles-based band featuring ex-W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, former MOTOGRATER vocalist Ivan Moody (Ghost),ex-U.P.O. guitarist Zoltan Bathory, and former DEADSETT bassist Matt Snell, will join THE MERCY CLINIC (the new group featuring ex-DAMAGEPLAN singer Pat...October 15, 2006
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VICIOUS RUMORS: U.S Show Details Announced
Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metal band VICIOUS RUMORS will play three shows in California in late October prior to its European tour with BEYOND FEAR and COURAGEOUS (which runs from Oct. 31 to Nov. 19). The dates are as follows: Oct. 21 - John Mclaren Park - San Francisco, CA (3:00 p.m. show) Oct...October 15, 2006
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DEFTONES Performs New Single In London: Video Available
DEFTONES performed its new single "Hole in the Earth" during the group's headlining appearance at the Electric Ballroom in London on Thursday (Oct. 12). Watch a video clip at YouTube.com. DEFTONES will release its new album, "Saturday Night Wrist", on October 31 via Warner. An e-card for the CD can...October 13, 2006
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METALLICA: DVD Of Promotional Videos To Surface Before End Of Year
In the latest issue of the METALLICA Club (the group's official fan club) members-only magazine "So What!", the following information was released: "We can confirm that there will be, at some point, a DVD of all the promotional videos METALLICA have made. Word is it will emerge before the end of 200...October 13, 2006
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TYPE O NEGATIVE Members To Guest On SIRIUS SATTELITE RADIO Tonight
TYPE O NEGATIVE's Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly will discuss their SEVENTH VOID project during an appearance on Sirius Sattelite Radio's Hard Attack channel (#27) tonight (Oct. 10) at 10:00 p.m. EST. As previously reported, SEVENTH VOID will play its first-ever New York City show on Wednesday, Octob...October 10, 2006
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The Crusade
TRIVIUM blasts back onto the scene with a third effort that is one of the best metal releases of 2006 and quite possibly the heavy music album of the year. "The Crusade" sounds like the record that METALLICA could have made during the height of its early years, and while some may be uncomfortable wi...October 9, 2006
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CAMP FREDDY On 'Tonight Show With Jay Leno': Video Available
VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash and CHEAP TRICK's Rick Nielsen joined CAMP FREDDY to perform their version of CHEAP TRICK's "Surrender" on NBC-TV's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Thursday night (October 5). This was CAMP FREDDY's first television appearance since "The Showbiz Show with David Spade...October 9, 2006
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TRIVIUM Frontman Checks In From The Road
Florida's TRIVIUM kicked off a headlining tour late last month in support of its new album, "The Crusade", due on October 10 via Roadrunner Records. Frontman Matt Heafy has checked in from Worcester, Mass. with the following update: "This tour has been beyond incredible. We had no idea what to expec...October 9, 2006
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Scene of the Crime
"Never Good Enough for You" and "So Pretty, So Plastic" are brilliant blends of grindcore and thrash with ripping solos that incorporate the now omnipresent movie samples as part of the arrangements, rather than as mere garnishment. Musical plaudits aside, the most intriguing quality of KILLWHITNEYD...October 9, 2006
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New JOHN 5 Solo Album To Feature ZAKK WYLDE, JOE SATRIANI
Former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 is working on his third solo album for Shrapnel Records. Entitled "The Devil Knows My Name", the CD will feature guest appearances by Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE),Joe Satriani, Tommy Clufetos (ROB ZOMBIE, ex-ALICE COOP...October 8, 2006
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SLASH Featured In VOLKSWAGEN Commercial: Video Available
VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash (ex-GUNS N' ROSES) is among the musicians appearing in TV ads for a new campaign partnering First Act guitars and Volkswagen cars. Custom First Act axes will be given away to purchasers of new VW automobiles, and feature a built-in pre-amp allowing them to be played t...October 8, 2006
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DREAM THEATER Begins Recording New Album, Seeks New Label Home
DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy revealed during an appearance last night (Oct. 6) on the "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM that the band has ended its longtime collaboration with Atco/EastWest Records/The Atlantic Group and is currently in talks with several labels about a p...October 7, 2006
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TWISTED TOWER DIRE Parts Ways With Singer, Announces Temporary Replacement
Virginia's "classic metal" act TWISTED TOWER DIRE have parted ways with vocalist Tony Taylor. "Because of some personal problems he's been having, we asked him to take a break from the band and not do the string of shows we have lined up throughout the fall," guitarist Scott Waldrop writes on the gr...October 7, 2006