Scott "Wino" Weinrich Solo Album Forthcoming

Legendary guitarist: Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus, Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, The Hidden Hand) has an album's worth of “solo” recordings in the works. Assisting Wino will on the album will be Jean-Paul Gaster (Clutch) on drums and Jon Blank (Rez n) on bass. The album will be called: “Punctuated Equilibrium” and tracks are currently being layed down with J. Robbins (producer of the Hidden Hands: “Mother Teacher Destroyer”) in Maryland. Wino is really excited about the results so far and said: “Punctuated Equilibrium” will bring my career into focus.” More information on the album will be forthcoming.

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Heavy Hearted Signs To Detonate Records

Rochester, New York hardcore band Heavy Hearted has signed with Detonate Records. The group features ex-members of Buried Alive, Despair, and Kid Gorgeous as well as Roses are Red and Polar Bear Club, and will release their debut album this spring. Several of the band's songs can be heard online here.

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Bury Your Dead Interviews Posted Online

Revolution-Music.dk recently conducted an interview with BURY YOUR DEAD drummer Mark Castillo. Download the 18-minute audio file at this location (16 MB).

Never ones to dwell on the past, Boston natives BURY YOUR DEAD are forging ahead to the future with new vocalist Myke Terry (formerly of CASSIUS) in tow. The band recently returned to Florida's Audiohammer Studios, the exact facility where their previous release, "Beauty and the Breakdown", was recorded. BURY YOUR DEAD also brought back producer Jason Suecof (TRIVIUM, GOD FORBID), continuing with the theme of tradition. Castillo previously stated, "All I have to say is the new BURY YOUR DEAD isn't what people are going to expect. You really have to hear this."

The as-yet-untitled album is due in stores this spring via Victory Records.

Capital Chaos TV recently posted a video clip of BURY YOUR DEAD's May 15, 2007 performance at The Underground in Roseville, California. Watch it below.

A video interview with BURY YOUR DEAD bassist Bubble, conducted by Capital Chaos TV, has been posted at YouTube. Bubble discusses such subjects as country and opera music, UNEARTH, touring, and the loss of band's last two singers.

BURY YOUR DEAD parted ways with vocalist Michael Crafter (formerly of the the Australian metal band I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN) less than two months after he was named the group's new lead singer.

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Mutiny Post Three New Songs Online

Mutiny have posted three brand new songs on their myspace page, titled Undone, Still Alive, and The End.

In addition to the new songs, they have lined up two New Jersey shows, with more in the works. The current live dates are as follows:

February 16th - Dingbatz in Clifton - w/ With Daggers Drawn and Black Market Hero
February 21st - The Stone Pony in Asbury Park - headlining show

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Twisted Sister Announce European Shows

TWISTED SISTER has scheduled the following dates:

Feb. 25 - Providence, RI - Dunkin' Donuts Center (Station Family Fund benefit concert)
May 10 - Bulgaria [venue to be announced]
Aug. 09 - Finland [venue to be announced]
Aug. 16 - Norway [venue to be announced]
Sep. 13 - Milan, Italy [venue to be announced]

Fan-filmed video footage of TWISTED SISTER's concert at last year's Rocklahoma festival, which took place in July 2007 on the outskirts of Pryor, Oklahoma, can be viewed below (courtesy of "dammefather").

On September 25, Razor & Tie Entertainment released "A Twisted Christmas Live", a DVD of TWISTED SISTER's holiday 2006 show at New Jersey's legendary Starland Ballroom. The DVD features performances of tunes from "A Twisted Christmas" (which features rock n' roll versions of beloved Christmas classics), as well as TWISTED SISTER's greatest hits.

Formed in 1976, TWISTED SISTER ruled the radio airwaves and MTV in the 1980s with such monster hits as "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". To date, the band has sold over 10 million albums worldwide, boasts 34 silver, gold and platinum certifications from 8 countries and has toured in 22 different countries. TWISTED SISTER has given over 9,000 performances in their thirty-year career.

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More Bands Confirmed For Graspop 2008

According to Ashladan.be, legendary Florida death metallers OBITUARY have been confirmed for this year's Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 27-29, 2008 at De Boeretand in Dessel, Belgium. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

AT THE GATES
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
COMEBACK KID
DEATHSTARS
DEF LEPPARD
FORBIDDEN
HOLLENTHON
IRON MAIDEN
JUDAS PRIEST
MADBALL
MINISTRY
MY DYING BRIDE
OBITUARY
SAXON
SONATA ARCTICA
VOLBEAT
WHITESNAKE

OBITUARY recently shot a video for the song "Evil Ways" with comic book stalwart and director Hart D. Fisher.

"Evil Ways" is the lead single from OBITUARY's new album, "Xecutioner's Return", which was released in North America on August 28 via Candlelight Records. The CD was mixed at Redroom Recorders and was mastered in June at Morrisound Studios in Tampa. The band once again worked with artist Andreas Marschall, who has previously created the art for "The End Complete" and the group's last record, "Frozen in Time".

Roadrunner Records has set a January 29, 2008 release date for a "best-of" collection from legendary Florida death metallers OBITUARY. Entitled, appropriately enough, "The Best of Obituary", the CD will feature the following track listing:

01. Internal Bleeding
02. 'Til Death
03. Slowly We Rot
04. Cause Of Death
05. Chopped In Half
06. Turned Inside Out
07. The End Complete
08. I'm In Pain
09. Don't Care
10. Final Thoughts
11. Kill For Me
12. Threatening Skies
13. On The Floor

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Led Zeppelin Guitarist To Hold Press Conference?

According to a posting on the LED ZEPPELIN fan site Royal-Orleans.com, ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page will hold a press conference at Park Hyatt Hotel in Shinjyuku, Japan on Monday, January 28. Park Hyatt is reportedly the hotel Jimmy stayed at during the 1996 PAGE & PLANT tour.

Times Online reported in December that LED ZEPPELIN could earn well over £100 million (approximately $200 million) if the hard-rock band went on tour this year in the wake of last month's triumphant reunion gig. The band is being pursued with offers from both Live Nation and AEG, the rival concert promoters, with each structuring bids in the form of a large upfront payment to lure the band to their venues.

One source said that "AEG put a bid in on the night" — although that could not be confirmed independently — but intense demand would probably make a ZEPPELIN reunion the most sought-after ticket in 2008.

The reluctance of Robert Plant, the lead singer, still makes a tour far from certain, although the three other band members are believed to be willing to go ahead. Venues in America have been held open in the hope that Plant will say yes.

It is likely that the four-piece band would be able at least to match the estimated $212 million grossed by THE POLICE for their reunion last year, according to figures compiled by Billboard, the industry magazine.

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Shining Albums To Be Re-Released

UK label Peaceville, home to venerable bands such as DARKTHRONE and KATATONIA, will re-release two albums from controversial Swedish black metallers SHINING. "IV: The Eerie Cold" and "III: Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie" will be issued on June 9 and July 21, respectively.

Niklas Kvarforth, SHINING vocalist and the band's creator, has recently been resting his voice following minor surgery for nodules on his throat. Commented a representative for the band: "The surgery was nothing to worry about. Nodules are a hazard of the trade for vocalists, especially if they use the 'extreme' style of singing, which Kvarforth does, of course. Surgery was timed to fit in between the end of the band's recent European tour with SKITLIV and HELLSAW, and before the start of the festival season. He's fit and well now, and ready to perform at the Brutal Brutality festival this weekend."

Kvarforth recently joined Maniac's band SKITLIV, playing guitar and sharing writing duties on the music side with the former MAYHEM vocalist in a band that owes as much to the doom and noise genres as it does to black metal, and allows Kvarforth more freedom to improvise on stage.

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VR Bassist Speaks On STP Rumours And Sundance

UK's Classic Rock magazine has tracked down VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan and quizzed him about VR singer Scott Weiland's absence from the group's performance at the Sundance Film Festival and the rumors of a reunion of Weiland's previous band, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS.

On the Sundance Film Festival:

"I sang 'It's So Easy' and 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and then we were panicking a bit over what to play so [VR drummer] Matt [Sorum] got up and sang 'Patience', Matt's a great singer, he really is. Why wasn't Scott there? Scott missed his plane. Yeah, let's say that, Scott missed his plane…"

On STONE TEMPLE PILOTS reforming:

"That’s the rumor that I've heard too. Good for him. You can't plan ahead in this thing and if you do, you're going to be disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I love playing live and we love this band, but I don't have expectations any more. This is a great band and I'm proud to be a part of it, but it doesn't define me anymore."

Although there has been no official confirmation from anyone involved, Weiland told the Miami Herald over the weekend to be on the lookout for a STONE TEMPLE PILOTS reunion in the months ahead. The band members are reportedly on good terms again after their less than friendly break-up in 2002, and Weiland told The Pulse of Radio a while back that he wouldn't rule out getting back together. "I think that there is always that distinct possibility," he said. "I have to say it would never come in the way of VELVET REVOLVER, but I don't think that the story has been completely told. I'm unhappy with the ending of the story."

Weiland made his comments at an all-star gala event benefiting the AROD Family Foundation, on Saturday (January 19) at the Ritz Carlton hotel in South Beach, Florida.

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Interview With Down Drummer Posted Online

Gino Alache of RockumRadio.com conducted an interview with DOWN drummer Jimmy Bower on January 16, 2008. Download the seven-minute chat as an MP3 audio file at this location.

The organizers of the Roadburn festival announced this week that DOWN will headline this year's Roadburn "Pre-Heat", set to take place on Thursday, April 17 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Roadburn festival will take place April 17-20 at 013. Also scheduled to appear are CELTIC FROST, GRAND MAGUS, CAPRICORNS, ISIS, BORIS, CULT OF LUNA, ELECTRIC WIZARD, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, TROUBLE, WITCHCRAFT, CHURCH OF MISERY, SERPENTCULT and many more.

DOWN's video for the song "On March The Saints" made its "Headbanger's Ball" debut on November 17, 2007 on MTV2. This episode also featured a piece with singer Phil Anselmo in which he compared the world of boxing to playing music.

"Over the Under" was released on September 25 through ILG/Warner Music Group (one day earlier internationally via Roadrunner Records). The LP was issued in Europe as a limited-edition digipack CD featuring the bonus track "Invest in Fear".

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Motorhead To Enter The Studio This Week

MOTÖRHEAD is scheduled to enter the studio this week to begin recording the follow-up to 2006's "Kiss of Death". A late spring/early summer release is expected.

"Kiss of Death" entered the national album charts in the following countries: Germany: #4, Norway: #9, Sweden: #13, Austria: #20, Switzerland: #26, U.K.: #45, Denmark: #53. The CD was recorded at the Paramount studios in Los Angeles with Cameron Webb, who also worked with the group on 2004's "Inferno". The album includes guest appearances by POISON guitarist C.C. Deville and ALICE IN CHAINS bassist Mike Inez.

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Testament Announce More U.S. Tour Dates

TESTAMENT have announced the following upcoming U.S. tour dates:

March 30 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent w/ Laaz Rockit, Sadus
April 5 - Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
April 6 - New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club
April 10 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Coach House w/ Death Angel, Laaz Rockit
April 11 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Canyon Club w/ Death Angel, Laaz Rockit
April 12 - Hollywood, CA @ The Key Club w/ Death Angel, Laaz Rockit
May 3 - Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room (Chicago Powerfest)

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Mastodon Appear On Bowling Show

VBS.tv's Rory Ahearn reports:

"In the debut episode of the series, VBS takes on the guys of MASTODON in the game of bowling. Despite ringing in Scott Martin from CROM the hometeam still gets its ass handed to them. Er, I mean, could very easily win or lose. Actually I'm seeing them tonight with NEUROSIS. Face melting."

VBS Bowler/Ad Salesman/Blackout Man/All Around Good Guy John Martin reminisces about his laneside encounter with Mastodon:

"My surprise was learning that Mastodon knew how to bowl, and were actually damn good at it. I was also shocked to find out that bowling is taught at some institutes of higher learning and that Mastodon attended college, which is where they learned how to bowl. One other surprise that I should have seen coming: Whenever someone says they’re “awesome at bowling”, they’re usually not. The good bowlers don’t say shit - they just smugly sip their beer after beating you by over 100 points, game after game. Cheers, fuckers."

Read the full article at VBS.tv.

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Sevendust Reveal Album Release Date & Tracklisting

SEVENDUST are set to release their seventh studio album, Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow, on April 1st.

Hope & Sorrow was produced by Sean Groove, Morgan Rose and John Connolly in Atlanta, GA at Tree Sounds Studios. The release will be their second on the band’s wholly owned record label, 7Bros. Records under Warner Music Group.

For the first time since Animosity (2001), the band has collaborated with outside artists. As the record gets finalized over the next few weeks, identities of the guest appearances will surface - Sevendust felt bringing in some outside friends added a healthy dynamic for the project. Additionally, the band has signed on new management and feels like is a fresh new beginning for 2008!

"It was a challenging and exciting to write. We've spent so much time with angst over our career that is was nice to in a good head space for a change while working on this project." - Morgan Rose, drums

"There was a really relaxed vibe in the studio this time around. I think Hope and Sorrow shows a different side of Sevendust. Heavy but yet still growing in a direction that explores a lot of different things musically for us. I'm excited about the album." - LaJon Witherspoon, vocals

Confirmed tracklisting: 'Inside', 'Enough', 'Hope', 'Scapegoat', 'Fear', 'The Past', 'Prodigal Son', 'Lifeless', 'Sorrow', 'Contradiction', 'Walk Away'.

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Burn In Silence Call It A Day

BURN IN SILENCE vocalist Chris Harrell has issued the following update:

"It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing the end of Burn In Silence.

"This band has had the great opportunity to play shows all across the country with great bands and in front of great people. I want to thank every musician who helped to make Burn In Silence what it was no matter how long they were in the band. I will continue to keep our MySpace page updated as to let you guys know what is going on with the former members.

"Thank you all very much for your love and support over the past years, through the good and the bad you put a smile on my face every day knowing that we had people that cared about this band!

"We will never forget you guys and all the love.

"Sincerely and always, Chris and all of Burn In Silence."

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Kataklysm Forced To Cancel New Zealand Shows

Canadian death metallers KATAKLYSM won't be able to make the New Zealand dates on March 20 and 22 due to "timing issues" related to the new album, but the band promises to reschedule as soon as possible. All remaining dates in Australia will go ahead as planned. The band's new album, Prevail, is scheduled for release via Nuclear Blast Records on May 23 in Europe and May 27 in North America.

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Primal Fear Announce More Tour Dates

As previously reported, PRIMAL FEAR are gearing up for their 10th Anniversary tour, officially dubbed the 10 Years Of Metal Tour. MYSTIC PROPHECY has been confirmed as a support act, with a second band due to be announced shortly.

Confirmed dates are now as follows:

April
25 - Berlin, Germany - K 17
26 - Rechenbach, Germany - H2O
27 - Pirmasens, Germany - Quasimodo
29 - Augsburg, Germany - Spectrum
30 - Bochum, Germany - Matrix

May
2 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebop
3 - Helmond, Holland - Plato

June
21 - Moraro, Italy - Mora Rock Festival (only PF)

August
15 - Derbyshire, England - Bloodstock Open Air (only PF)
16 - Dinkelsbühl, Germany - Summer Breeze Festival (only PF)

More dates in Russia and South America to be announced shortly.

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DEP's "Milk Lizard" Video To Premiere This Weekend

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN sees the world premiere of their video for “Milk Lizard”, the first from their acclaimed new album "Ire Works," today via ‘Headbanger’s Blog’, the online blog for MTV2’s "Headbanger’s Ball" program. The “Milk Lizard” video will then see its televised premiere on this weekend’s (1/26) edition of "Headbanger’s Ball" on MTV2. The video was shot in Los Angeles, CA with Ilan Sharone of Pneuamtic Pictures.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN is currently on tour in support of "Ire Works," on the last stretch of their U.S. tour alongside KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and EVERY TIME I DIE. Immediately following, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN will embark on a headlining U.K. and European tour. This will be the band’s first visit to the U.K. in over two years and will include support from BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and STOLEN BABIES. The European portion of the tour will also include STOLEN BABIES along with POISON THE WELL. A complete listing of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN tour dates follows, with more to be announced soon.

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Thrice's "The Alchemy Index: Vols. III & IV" Set

The much anticipated second installment of Thrice's "The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV: Earth & Air " will be available April 15th, 2008, via Vagrant Records. On Earth & Air, the band channels a panorama of musical moods and soundscapes, creating a spectral beauty of inspiring sound.

A departure from songwriting tactics used on all prior releases, The Alchemy Index was done in the band’s own studio and engineered by guitarist Teppei Teranishi, without the assistance of an outside producer. “Although we wrote and recorded all 4 discs in the same time period, there was definitely and different approach to each one,” says singer Dustin Kensrue. Armed with completely open minds and lacking any conceptions as to what this release would bring the newest collection of songs from Thrice is a passionate and beaming follow-up to their celebrated, Fire & Water.

From the introductory notes of “Digging My Own Grave,” on the Earth disc, to the sprawling echoed chords of “Come All You Weary,” Thrice have ventured into and conquered a new land in paramount proportions. More...

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Belay My Last Drops Off Dead To Fall Tour

Belay My Last has dropped off their upcoming tour with Dead To Fall, Winds Of Plague, and Impending Doom. The group attributes the cancellation to problems with drummer Ilai Lebel's broken arm, which is not healing "correctly." Belay My Last will be replaced on the tour by With Dead Hands Rising.

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The Devil Wears Prada, MATSOD Tour Dates

The Devil Wears Prada, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Gwen Stacy, and Whitechapel will hit the road together in late-April for some touring. The following tour dates have been announced so far:

4/25 Tulsa, OK @ Otherside
4/26 Little Rock, AR @ Vino's
4/27 Cordova, TN @ Skatepark of Memphis
4/29 Augusta, GA @ Club Hollywood
4/30 Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox Laundrolounge
5/1 Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club Downstairs
5/2 Wilmington, DE @ Harmony Grange
5/6 Providence, RI @ Living Room
5/7 Troy, NY @ Revolution Hall
5/9 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
5/10 Edinboro, PA @ Off-Campus Activity Center
5/11 Louisville, KY @ Headliners
5/13 Dayton, OH @ The Attic Club

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