Former Evanesence keyboardist David Hodges has come to the defense of Amy Lee following the firing of the bands guitarist and the drummers departure. Hodges posted a statement regarding the matter on his current bands, Trading Yesterday, message board. Click here to check it out.
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Yet another clip of Marilyn Manson’s video for his latest single “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” can be viewed at this location.
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Burn Season has announced the date for their final show. On June 16th the band will take the stage for the final time at Jacksonville, FL’s Freebird Live. Bassist Adam Silk is unable to perform so the band has lined up a series of “special guest” bass players which includes Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit, Jeremy Marshall of Cold and Brad Stewart formally of Shinedown.

The band announced their split earlier this month after 6 years and two record deals together.
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12 Stones have announced the track listing for their new album ‘Anthem for the Underdog‘. The album hits stores on August 14th and will include:

1. “Anthem for the Underdog”
2. “Lie To Me”
3. “Broken Road”
4. “Adrenalin”
5. “It Was You”
6. “This Dark Day”
7. “World So Cold”
8. “Arms of a Stranger”
9. “Hey Love”
10. “Games You Play”
11. “If I Could”

The first single from the album “Lie To Me” is available on MySpace.
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Legendary vocalists Graham Bonnet (RAINBOW, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, ALCATRAZZ, IMPELLITTERI) and Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE) will team up for a tour of Finland in August.
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Canadian metallers THREAT SIGNAL have been added to the “Tour and Loathing” tour alongside ALL THAT REMAINS, PROTEST THE HERO, BLESS THE FALLEN and THE HOLY SPRINGS DISASTER.
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Danish metallers IRON FIRE, who are fronted by FORCE OF EVIL singer Martin Steene, will release fourth album, “Blade of Triumph”, due on June 29 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and in the rest of Europe on July 2 via Napalm Records.
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The winner of the Finnish national TV talent competition “Idols”, 22-year-old heavy metal singer Ari Koivunen, will release his debut album, “Fuel for the Fire”, in Finland on May 30.
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Roadrunner Records has uploaded video footage of BLACK STONE CHERRY performing acoustically and being interviewed at Pub Anchor in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The organizers of the world-famous Wacken Open Air festival have come up with a new way to satisfy their customers and in the process put a few extra bucks in their pockets to offset the costs of running the annual event.
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The first songs from WISDOM IN CHAINS’ upcoming full-length CD for Eulogy Recordings, “Class War”, have been posted at the band’s MySpace page.
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OVERKILL and TO/DIE/FOR are among the confirmed bands for the Maximum Rock Festival, set to take place August 10-12 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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