SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose is disappointed that the band haven't been invited on tour by any of the numerous now-platinum acts who once opened for them, including STAIND, DROWNING POOL, DISTURBED and GODSMACK, according to an interview with drummer posted at MTV.com. “We were so ready to come out and go out with some of ...
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ROB ZOMBIE has taken the nod to fill the slot vacated by the CHRIS CORNELL/RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE band on the Ozzfest main stage this summer. ZOMBIE maintains, though, that he will still put on a stripped-down show that he has been wanting to do for a while now. He recently commented in the Los ...
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Upstate New York-based NEMESIS, featuring former EARTH CRISIS vocalist Karl Buechner, have made available for download all three tracks from their recently-recorded three-song demo at the following locations: 01. Negative Infinity 02. Carpe Diem 03. Throwing Rocks At A Drowning Man ...
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Here is a rather amusing account from JERRY CANTRELL/COMES WITH THE FALL guitarist William Duvall about the CANTRELL band's recent trip to Dallas, Texas for the birthday celebration thrown by PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul: “After the first day's rehearsal [for JERRY CANTRELL's performance at the South By Southwest music and media conference in Austin, Texas], ...
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The confirmed acts for Ozzfest 2002 are as follows: Main Stage: OZZY OSBOURNE SYSTEM OF A DOWN RAGE/CORNELL (currently unnamed) P.O.D. DROWNING POOL ADEMA BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Second/Third Stage: ROB ZOMBIE MESHUGGAH APEX THEORY LOSTPROPHETS PULSE ULTRA NEUROTICA Also performing at select dates will be: FLAW, MUSHROOMHEAD, 3RD STRIKE, OTEP, SEETHER, GLASSJAW, THE USED, SOIL, ...
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SALIVA are in the process of writing material for the group's next album, entitled Back Into Your System, which is tentatively due to be recorded at a Vancouver studio for a late summer/early fall release. In the meantime, SALIVA will perform two songs at Wrestlemania X8 in Toronto on Sunday, March 17th. Also scheduled to ...
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San Francisco Bay Area's SYSTEMATIC, featuring former SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph, are now hoping to hit the studio in mid-April to begin recording their as-yet-untitled sophomore album for a fall release through Elektra Records. Vocalist Tim Narducci and guitarist Adam Rupell have been writing material for the follow-up to 2000's Somewhere In Between since the ...
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Swedish melodic thrashers GARDENIAN have entered the studio to record a new demo, which will be used to garner a new record deal following the group's split with Nuclear Blast Records last year. Tentatively due to be released in late 2002, the as-yet-untitled follow-up to Sindustries will contain the following tracks, among others: 01. Drowning ...
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New York's 40 BELOW SUMMER have been added to the upcoming Jagermeister Music US tour, which also features DROWNING POOL, COAL CHAMBER and ILL NINO. 40 BELOW SUMMER will open the festivities at the following venues: Mar. 08 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Mar. 09 - Boynton Beach, FL @ Ovation Mar. 10 ...
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The parents of a four-year-old boy who drowned in a swimming pool at the home of former MOTLEY CRUE drummer Tommy Lee have filed a lawsuit against him for wrongful death and negligence. Daniel Karven-Veres died last June while attending a birthday party for Lee's son at the rock star's Malibu home. At the time, ...
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DOPE will record a cover version of BILLY IDOL's “Rebel Yell” in its mobile recording studio for an upcoming, as-yet-undecided soundtrack. In other news, the band will contribute a new track, "No Chance in Hell", to the next WWF album, entitled WWF Forced Entry, which is due to come out on March 26th through Columbia ...
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CANNIBAL CORPSE's forthcoming Gore Obsessed CD, due through the Metal Blade label on February 26th, will contain the following track listing: 01. Savage Butchery 02. Hatchet to the Head 03. Pit of Zombies 04. Dormant Bodies Bursting 05. Compelled to Lacerate 06. Drowning in Viscera 07. Hung and Bled 08. Sanded Faceless 09. Mutation of ...
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Having been a huge fan of MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND's recorded output from the earliest days of the two bands' respective careers, I am more than a little perplexed by the path mainman King Diamond has chosen to follow during most of the '90s and going into the 21st century. Whereas MERCYFUL FATE and KING DIAMOND's ...
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DROWNING POOL, COAL CHAMBER and ILL NINO have announced the first dates of their Jagermeister-sponspored US tour, which is scheduled to kick off on March 8th in Orlando, Florida. They are as follows: Mar. 08 - Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Mar. 09 - Tampa, FL @ The Masquerade Mar. 10 - Boynton Beach, ...
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Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke has announced the following live appearances during the coming weeks: Feb. 18 - Viper Room, Hollywood, CA Feb. 22 - Mason Jar, Phoenix, AZ Feb. 23 - Pink E's, Las Vegas, NV Feb. 27 - Icon Supperclub, Palo Alto, CA Feb. 28 - The Roadhouse, Sacramento, CA Mar. ...
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Bassist Rayna Foss-Rose has left COAL CHAMBER to focus on motherhood and has been replaced by Nadja Puelen, who toured with the band during Foss-Rose's maternity leave. Foss-Rose gave birth to Kayla in October 1999 and has decided to devote more time to her family (husband, SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose, and their 2-year-old daughter). "This ...
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PANTERA bassist Rex Brown, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell, DROWNING POOL frontman Dave Williams and SEVENDUST vocalist Lajon Witherspoon joined GASOLINE—the metallic southern rock side project of PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul—for a cover of PANTERA's “Walk” at GASOLINE's performance at Dallas' Bronco Bowl on December 31st. According to fans that ...
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DROWNING POOL, COAL CHAMBER and ILL NINO are set to join forces for the upcoming Jagermeister Music US Tour, which is tentatively scheduled to start on March 8th in Florida and run until sometime in late April. The Jagermeister-sponsored trek will mark COAL CHAMBER's first live performances since April 2000 and will include an as-yet-undetermined ...
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ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell will perform acoustic versions of the ALICE tunes "Got Me Wrong" and "Rooster" at the New Year's Eve show of GASOLINE, the metallic southern rock side project of PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul, which is set to take place at Dallas' Bronco Bowl on December 31st. ...
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Belgian gory death metallers ABORTED have just entered CCR Studios to record two new tracks for a four-way split CD with DROWNING, MISERY INDEX, and BRODEQUIN. Set to be issued through Bones Brigade Records, the CD will include a new ABORTED song called “Genetic Murder Concept” and the band's cover of NAPALM DEATH's “Suffer The ...
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According to a report published in yesterday's edition of The New York Post, LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst “lied when he said he visited a dying Australian girl injured in a mosh pit at his concert. Durst told Access Hollywood he visited Jessica Michalik on her deathbed and kept in touch with ...
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NEVERMORE have dismissed as “totally false” the statement issued by the group's record company, Century Media Records, on Thursday, October 8th that indicated that the band had withdrawn from the five-date east coast/midwest tour with OVERKILL (which was scheduled to run from November 25th through December 2nd) in order to begin work ...
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Through no effort of their own—and as a result of a chain of events that they clearly had no control over—it appears that ANTHRAX the band has been getting an increased amount of coverage through media outlets that wouldn't have normally covered the group. Here is a sampling of recent online articles ...
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Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted has sensationally announced that he would happily work with METALLICA again in the future, despite walking out on the group earlier this year. Newsted cited 'private and personal reasons, and the physical damage I have done to myself over the years while playing the music that I love' as ...
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A Night Of Merry Mayhem tour, featuring OZZY OSBOURNE, ROB ZOMBIE, MUDVAYNE and SOIL, will have its inaugural date on October 31st in Tucson, Arizona, with the final show currently scheduled to take place on December 31st in Phoenix, Arizona. Here are the unofficial dates for the outing:
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