TESLA guitarist Dave Rude will be touring the American Midwest with his solo trio in the middle of March.
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The Pulse of Radio reports: SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman and sole original member Billy Corgan opens up to Rolling Stone magazine in his first interview with the publication in a decade.
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Just a few months after topping Billboard’s Rock Songs chart with lead single “Check My Brain”, ALICE IN CHAINS is maintaining chart domination with “Your Decision”, their second consecutive No.
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Former STRATOVARIUS and current REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE guitarist Timo Tolkki has announced via his MySpace page that he will perform at the Bologna Guitar Festival on May 15 with a “house band” consisting of bassist Billy Sheehan (MR.
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HATE AMMO ? the Umeå, Sweden-based band featuring members of NAGLFAR, ASSAILANT, LIVE ELEPHANT, THOSE WHO BRING THE TORTURE and BONE GNAWER ? has inked a deal with the Swedish label Supernova Records, a division of Bonnier Amigo Music Group.
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Japanese metal veterans LOUDNESS will release a new album, “King Of Pain”, in Japan on May 19 via Tokuma Japan Communications.
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JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K.
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On last Sunday night’s episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, rock icons KISS showed their good will to a family in need while at the same time helping “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” viewership grow by 2 million viewers from the previous week’s telecast.
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RAVENS CREED, the “VENOM-worshipping scumbags” featuring Steve Watson (ex-IRON MONKEY), Jason Graham, and former SABBAT bassist Frazer Craske, have recruited Stian “Iscariah” Smorholm (ex-IMMORTAL, DEAD TO THIS WORLD) to handle the vocals on the band’s second album, “A Conspiracy Of…”.
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Swedish metallers AVATAR will support DARK TRANQUILLITY on the following dates: Oct.
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METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, HEAVEN & HELL and RAMMSTEIN are among the confirmed bands for the Turkish edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place June 25-27, 2010 at BJK Inonu Stadi in Istanbul.
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Greg Prato (MySpace) of RollingStone.com reports: October 21, 2010 will mark the 15th anniversary of the passing of BLIND MELON’s Shannon Hoon, and his former bandmates are honoring their original singer with an upcoming documentary later this year.
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Dutch violin player Karianne Brouwer has uploaded her version of the classic METALLICA ballad “Nothing Else Matters”.
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