ECOTONIC, the band featuring former AC/DC/THE FIRM drummer Chris Slade and ex-PETER CRISS guitarist/vocalist Jason Ebs, will release its new album, “When Sparks Fly”, on April 13.
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Goreripper of Australia’s PyroMusic.net recently conducted an interview with ARMORED SAINT/ANTHRAX singer John Bush.
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Video footage of a FEAR FACTORY fan proposing to his girlfriend on stage during one of the shows on the band’s current North American headlining tour can be viewed below.
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VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash composed the score for the upcoming Mexican film “This Is Not A Movie”, the second production written and directed by Olallo Rubio.
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Audio samples of all 11 tracks (including the intro) that appear on “Generation Wild”, the forthcoming third album from the Swedish glam-rock band CRASHDIET, can be heard using the widget below.
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Israeli progressive folk metal masters ORPHANED LAND will support METALLICA on May 22, 2010 at the Ramat Gan stadium in Tel Aviv.
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Iraqi heavy metal band ACRASSICAUDA will take part in an online chat today (Wednesday, March 31) at 1:00 p.m.
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DOWN/ex-PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo was interviewed for this week’s episode of Noisecreep’s “Creep Show”, which can be heard/viewed below.
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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland has issued the following commentary on former Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s statement that “liberalism is a mental disorder”: “Liberalism is a mental disorder!!?? I’d like to see any doctor or therapist identify it is as such.
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SLAYER’s Dave Lombardo kicked off his German drum-workshop tour on Sunday (March 28) at House of Drums in Bochum-Wattenscheid.
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According to Caboodle.hu, an exhibition presenting Finland’s metal music will open in Budapest’s Museum of Ethnography on Friday, organizer Timea Bata told MTI on Tuesday.
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Video footage of NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis’s March 30, 2010 guitar clinic in Prague, Czech Republic can be viewed in three parts below.
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Jeff Waters of Canadian metal veterans ANNIHILATOR presented his Epiphone signature series line of Flying V guitars as well as the new Coreblade amp from Hughes & Kettner at this year’s Musikmesse Frankfurt 2010 fair, which was held March 24-27, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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