MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has issued the following update: “Back here at Vic’s [Garage; MEGADETH’s brand new, self-built studio in San Marcos, California] we started back up on Megadeth Radio [Mustaine’s 24-hour Internet radio channel] and I was finally able to conduct my first interview with the guitarist and songwriter of ‘Am I Evil?’, and I ain’t talkin’ about my friends in METALLICA, I
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Candlelight Records has announced the signing of the Irish experimental black metal band ALTAR OF PLAGUES.
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In the latest installment of Roadrunner Records’s “Ask the Artist” series, the U.K.
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According to the Houston Chronicle, the preliminary buzz that Jackson Rathbone (the teen heartthrob from “Twilight”) would play Varg Vikernes (a.k.a.
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DYING FETUS, AURA NOIR and TRIPTYKON are among the confirmed bands for the SWR Barroselas Metalfest XIII, set to take place April 30 ? May 2, 2010 in Barroselas, Portugal.
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Italian death metallers HOUR OF PENANCE have set “Paradogma” as title of their fourth album, due on March 2 via Unique Leader Records.
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Singer Pamela Moore, best known for her performance as Sister Mary on QUEENSR?CHE’s 1988 epic release “Operation: Mindcrime” and 2006’s sequel “Operation: Mindcrime II”, recently collaborated with the Italian rock/metal band CHAKRAH on a song called “Here I Am”.
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SHINING frontman Niklas “Kvarforth” Olsson has recorded vocals for a track on the forthcoming second album from Norwegian black metallers GRAVDAL, “Torturmantra”.
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ABSCESS, the California-based band consisting of Chris Reifert (drums/vocals; ex-DEATH/AUTOPSY), Clint Bower (guitar/vocals; ex-HEXX), Danny Coralles (guitar; ex-AUTOPSY), and Joe Allen (bass; ex-VON), will release its eighth album, entitled “Dawn Of Inhumanity”, on February 22 in Europe and March 9 in the U.S.
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Italian gothic metallers MACBETH have spent the last few months writing and rehearsing material for their upcoming fifth album.
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MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine will be interviewed on this Saturday’s (January 9) edition of the “Metalopolis” show, hosted by former WHITE ZOMBIE drummer Ivan de Prume, on Portland, Oregon’s Rock 101.1 FM KUFO radio station.
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Video footage of Rock House instructor Jeff Loomis ofNEVERMORE teaching you the beginning arpeggio section of his song “Miles of Machines” can be viewed below.
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PEARL JAM and RAMMSTEIN have been confirmed as the first headliners of the fifth edition of the Bilbao BBK Live festival, set to take place July 8-10, 2010 Kobetamendi (in the outskirts of Bilbao), Spain.
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