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KILLING JOKE Frontman Talks About Touring With MÖTLEY CRÜE

J. Bennett of Decibel magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with KILLING JOKE frontman Jaz Coleman. An excerpt from the chat follows: Decibel: KILLING JOKE did some touring with MÖTLEY CRÜE in 2005. What was that like? Coleman: [Laughs] What was touring with MÖTLEY CRÜE like? It was ab...

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AC/DC Frontman Guests On THE URGE Debut

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson makes a guest appearance on the debut album by the Newcastle, England-based rock outfit THE URGE. THE URGE began when guitarist John Miles Jr. got together with drummer Simon Ferry. The pair had been working together with Geordie legend Brendan Healey's BIG BAND; the equ...

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Inside Extremities: Mixes, Rehearsals and Live

The early 1990s were a triumphant and chaotic period for KILLING JOKE. The influential band, fathers to a hundred punk, metal, alternative, new wave and goth bastard children, had disintegrated amid usurious record deals and nervous breakdowns. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. drummer Martin Atkins arrived to see...

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IRON MAIDEN Spanish Inquisition

Living metal legends they may be, but from playing their new album in its entirety on tour to insisting they aren't metal, their legacy is hardly set in stone. Metal Hammer magazine's (web site) Geoff Barton rakes them over the coals. Read on: Q: Do you believe your fans want to hear the ...

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Is ROSE TATTOO Too Rock 'N' Roll For Australian Music Industry?

Patrick Donovan of The Age's "Sticky Carpet" (web site) has issued the following report: Are ROSE TATTOO too rock'n'roll for the Australian music industry? Seven members of the band — Angry Anderson, Geordie Leach, Ian Rilen, Rob Riley, Mick Cocks and the late Pete Wells and Dallas "Digger" Royal —...

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Hosannas From the Basements of Hell

Pick a band, any band, and if they incorporate any sort of tribal drone, ethereal wall-of-noise roar, mystical third-eye ravings or percussive punk-driven art house nihilism in their music, you can likely thank KILLING JOKE for the influence. The launching pad for a hundred metal, punk and new wave...

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KILLING JOKE: New Song Available For Download

A brand-new KILLING JOKE track, entitled "Implosion", has been made available for download at this location (free registration required). The song comes off the group's upcoming album, "Hosannas from the Basements of Hell", due on March 6 via Edel. Commented bassist Paul Raven: "We recorded the albu...

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KILLING JOKE Bassist Praises New Album, Slams MÖTLEY CRÜE

KILLING JOKE will release their new album, "Hosannas from the Basements of Hell", on March 3, 2006 via Edel. Commented bassist Paul Raven: "We recorded the album in Prague at Faust Studios and it sounds amazing, Jerry Kandiah engineered the record and we are producing ourselves these days... (no cha...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Drummer Checks In From Glasgow

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "What's up there? We are pulling into Glasgow as I write this. The flight over to the U.K. was a piece o' cake, and we got to see the huge oil refinery fire that happened just outside London, .....

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AC/DC: Rare BUSTER BROWN Album To Be Issued On CD

According to a posting on AC-DC.net, the rare debut album from the legendary Melbourne band BUSTER BROWN — which featured in its ranks AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd and future ROSE TATTOO frontman Angry Anderson and bassist Geordie Leech — is finally being issued on CD for the first time (with bonus track...

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AC/DC: Previously Unreleased GEORDIE Tracks See Light Of Day

According to AC-DC.net, Russian label OVC Media has just released a new CD (not a bootleg),entitled "Geordie Unreleased Tapes". It features 12 GEORDIE tracks, including 10 previously unavailable (a couple sung by the band's guitarist Vic Malcolm, the rest by Brian Johnson),recorded between 1973 an...

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AC/DC: BRIAN JOHNSON's 'Path Of Helen Of Troy' DVD Now Available

According to a posting on the AC/DC fan site Crabsody In Blue, a new DVD release from The Goddess Odyssey Television Series, "AC/DC's Brian Johnson - Goddess Odyssey - Path of Helen of Troy", takes AC/DC's legendary frontman Brian Johnson to remote Sparta, Greece. Horizontal jogging, women running n...

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THE WILDHEARTS Singer: 'We Still Don't Get The Respect We Deserve'

Edwin McFee of link textThe Belfast Telegraph is reporting that Ginger has just about seen it all in his decade of destruction with British rock legends THE WILDHEARTS. He's trashed magazine offices, driven cars into swimming pools and managed to come out the other end of a few well-publicised battl...

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DEF LEPPARD: Covers Album Track Listing A Hoax

The previously published list of songs that was alleged to be the track listing for DEF LEPPARD's upcoming CD of classic British rock covers has been exposed as a hoax. The track listing, which originally appeared on the MelodicRock.com web site on March 12, has been designed to spell out "This Is B...

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A PERFECT CIRCLE Drummer Praises The Group's Latest Additions

A PERFECT CIRCLE drummer Josh Freese recently spoke to Cleveland Scene about the latest additions to the group's lineup, bassist Jeordie White (a.k.a. Twiggy Ramirez, ex-MARILYN MANSON) and guitarist James Iha (ex-SMASHING PUMPKINS). "Jeordie is a really, really great, confident bass player," he sai...