QUEEN guitarist Brian May has paid tribute to legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti with whom he shared the stage at the 10th anniversary Pavarotti and Friends charity concert in 2003 in Pavarotti’s hometown of Modena, Italy.
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VENGEFUL, the new Montreal-based band featuring current and former members of ATHERETIC and MINDS alongside the session drummer for DESPISED ICON, has just shot a video for the song “Sentenced”.
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Canadian thrash metal veterans RAZOR have been forced to pull out of the Keep It True X festival, dubbed “Reign Of The Tyrant”, which is scheduled to take place April 4-5, 2008 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany.
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Swedish metallers INCRAVE are in the studio recording the follow-up to their self-titled debut album which came out earlier in the year on Sweden’s Ulterium Records.
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ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO’s (the experimental band led by TESTAMENT/ex-SAVATAGE guitarist Alex Skolnick) previously announced West Coast dates with the guitar duo RODRIGO Y GABRIELA have been cancelled.
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Fan-filmed video footage of HEAVEN AND HELL’s September 8, 2007 concert at the Jones Beach Amphitheater in Wantagh, New York can be viewed below.
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Guitarists Michael and Christopher Amott of the Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY were IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson’s guests on Friday, September 7 during Bruce’s weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named “The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show”.
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VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan were interviewed by AT&T Blue Room about the title of their new album, “Libertad”, how the band formed, the pair’s long history, the song selection on the album, and more.
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The first three dates for Sevendust’s “…Ladies Get Out of Jail Free Tour ’07” with 10 Years, Operator and Neverset have been announced, they are:

October 19th in Maplewood, MN @ The Myth
October 20th in Waterloo, IA @ McElroy Auditorium
October 21st in Appleton, WI @ The Checkered Flag

Additional dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Avenged Sevenfold has streamed their third studio webisode, check it out here. Their new self-titled album is due out on October 30th.
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The as-yet-untitled new album from 10 Years is expected to hit stores in March 2008. The first single from the album should hit radio in January.
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Puddle of Mudd has added several dates to their upcoming tour with deepfield, check out the dates here. The bands new album ‘Famous‘ drops on October 9th.
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