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SLAYER Inducted Into KERRANG!'s Hall of Fame: Photos Available

SLAYER was introduced into the Kerrang! Hall Of Fame at the 13th annual Kerrang! awards in London, according to BBC News. The band's 1986 release "Reign in Blood" was described by the magazine as "the heaviest album of all time." The awards were billed as a "twisted carnival" and featured a series o...

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INTO ETERNITY Announces GIGANTOUR 'Off' Dates

Canadian metal band INTO ETERNITY have scheduled a series of shows around their Gigantour performances. Premiering songs from their forthcoming October 3 release, "The Scattering of Ashes", the band have two headlining shows booked prior to Gigantour's start and on their Gigantour "off" dates. Addit...

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Singer Says AVENGED SEVENFOLD Had Best Summer Ever

Launch Radio Networks reports: How did you spend your summer vacation? If you're a member of AVENGED SEVENFOLD, you spent it with acts like GUNS N' ROSES, METALLICA and OZZY OSBOURNE. AVENGED singer M. Shadows told Launch that between opening for GUNS and METALLICA in Europe and doing Ozzfest with O...

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STRATOVARIUS Guitarist Begins Writing New Material

STRATOVARIUS guitarist/mainman Timo Tolkki has issued the following update: "I have started writing songs. It took a while to gather all the equipment, but now I am done and I can let the creativity flow. May the Muse of Music be with me. First, I am gonna write the songs for the next STRATOVARIUS a...

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METAL CHURCH: More U.S. Tour Dates Announced

METAL CHURCH will embark on a U.S. tour in January 2007. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: Jan. 12 - Hubba's House of Rock - Aurora, CO Jan. 13 - Aggie Theater - Ft Collins, CO Jan. 14 - Static Bar - Topeka, KS Jan. 15 - Station 4 - St Paul, MN Jan. ...

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EXODUS Guitarist Comments On 'Monsters Of Mayhem' Tour

Guitarist Gary Holt of San Francisco's veteran thrashers EXODUS has commented on the band's participation in the upcoming "Monsters Of Mayhem" tour, set to launch at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts on September 3. Seventeen initial dates have been confirmed; more dates will be announced so...

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METALLICA's HAMMETT: DRAGONFORCE Are 'Fastest Guitar Players I Think I've Ever Seen'

Steve Baltin of AOL Music recently asked METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett which new guitarists have impressed him of late. "I really like this absurd band called DRAGONFORCE," Kirk said. "Those are the fastest guitar players I think I've ever seen. They're like Yngwie [Malmsteen] on steroids. No, th...

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Man Gets 25 Years For Fatal Stabbing At CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Concert

Colleen Jenkins of the St. Petersburg Times has issued the following report: If Michael Pyne (photo) had fought with his fists instead of a knife the night of June 23, 2005, he likely would have made a friend once the chaotic brawl at Ybor City's Masquerade nightclub ended. Tommy ...

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ARCH ENEMY Singer Sounds Off On Vocal Technique, Early Influences And Being A Vegetarian

ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has posted the following message on her official MySpace page: "I get so many wonderful messages every day it is almost overwhelming. I am sorry, but it is impossible to answer them all.. So I have collected the most frequently asked questions and will answer them...

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THE ACACIA STRAIN To Hit The Road With CALIBAN In September

Massachusetts' purveyors of all things heavy THE ACACIA STRAIN will head back out on the road this fall with Germany's CALIBAN. The two will tour throughout the United States in September and into October with various other support acts along the way, including labelmates LIGHT THIS CITY. THE ACACIA...

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The Muse of Senor Ray

Fans of hand-clappin', booty-shaking California stoner pop (i.e. FU MANCHU's "California Crossing" album, the most straightforward QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE cuts, or a lot of the HELLACOPTERS' output) may want to check out THE MATADORS. They're not the most distinctive band in the world, but they do d...

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Rock Did It

"See the warning on my forehead, dude / It says 'instant asshole, just add booze.'" It's a long way from maudlin paeans to the losers and the underprivileged, but former WARRIOR SOUL frontman Kory Clarke has finally hit the gutter — and from the sounds of things, he couldn't be happier about it. Pac...

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AL JOURGENSEN Says 'Final' MINISTRY Album Will Be About BUSH's 'Corrupt Administration'

MINISTRY leader Al Jourgensen has told Gary Graff of Billboard.com that after MINISTRY finishes its current MasterBaTour, he plans to go right back into the studio for what he says will be "the last MINISTRY album." "I've got other things to do," Jourgensen explained to Billboard.com. "I just starte...

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SWORN ENEMY, ON BROKEN WINGS, BLACK MY HEART: Tour Dates Announced

SWORN ENEMY are heading out in June and July alongside of ON BROKEN WINGS (Eulogy),BLACK MY HEART (Eulogy) and NIGHTS LIKE THESE (Victory) to support their new album, "The Beginning Of The End", out now on Abacus Recordings. Confirmed dates are as follows: Jun. 16 - Kingston, PA @ Backstage Enterpr...

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Ruun

On a career arc as impressive as OPETH's, minus most of the record sales, Norway's psychedelic prog-metal Vikings continue their journey into accessible dissonance, soaring chords, desolate atmospheres and swirling, ambient aural journeys on this, their eight proper studio album. Moving ever further...