Denver, Colorado’s CLINGING TO THE TREES OF A FOREST FIRE will release its debut album, “Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation”, on June 8 via Prosthetic Records.
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Singer Drew Barker has left the Massachusetts-based punk-rock-metal band MONGRELafter five years, citing internal turmoil and a desire to create his own music as the major factors for the split.
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TAKING DAWN has been confirmed as the support act for KISS on six more dates (May 16-23) on the legendary rockers’ forthcoming European arena tour.
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Metal Injection conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine on the “black carpet” of the Revolver Golden Gods Awards, whcih took place last Thursday, April 8 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles.
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“As Yggdrasil Trembles”, the tenth full-length album from Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED, sold around 600 copies in the United States in its first week of release.
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“[id]”, the new album from Chicago-based metallers VEIL OF MAYA, sold around 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Rock supergroup THEM CROOKED VULTURES, consisting of John Paul Jones (LED ZEPPELIN), Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS) and Josh Homme (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), was the musical guest on ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, April 12 (which actually aired the morning of Tuesday, April 13) and Tuesday, April 13 (which actually aired the morning of Wednesday, April 14).
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VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash’s all-star collaborations album, simply titled “Slash”, scored the highest new entry on this week’s The Billboard 200 chart, with first-week U.S.
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Brazilian power metal band CARAVELLUS has inked a deal with the new Canadian label Metalodic Records.
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Guitarist Cédric “Cede” Dupont (SYMPHORCE, DOWNSPIRIT, FREEDOM CALL) will release an instrumental solo album, “Melodrama”, in June.
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Italian progressive death metallers SADIST have been added to the Italian leg of MEGADETH’s European “Endgame” tour.
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Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen has completed recording her new solo album, “What Lies Beneath”.
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Keyboard player Richard Rietdijk has left Dutch progressive metallers TEXTURES to pursue other interests.
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