Original L.A. Guns Members To Tour The UK

Original LA Guns members Tracii Guns, Nickey Alexander and Paul Black are to tour the UK early in '07. They'll be appearing at:

January 16 - London Camden Underworld
January 17 - Milton Keynes Woughton Centre
January 18 - Cardiff Point
January 19 - Dudley JB's
January 20 - Nottingham Rock City
January 21 - Bradford Rio
January 22 - Crewe Limelight

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Floodgate To Play On Raise The Dead Festival

FLOODGATE, the New Orleans band featuring former EXHORDER and current ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY frontman Kyle Thomas, will reunite to perform at Nola Underground's first annual Raise The Dead festival, set to take place Saturday, January 13, 2007 at One Eyed Jack's (615 Toulouse Street) in New Orleans. Proceeds from the gig will go to the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund, which is an organization that acts as an outreach program to New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. It also aims to revive New Orleans' unique musical culture by helping displaced musicians return to New Orleans, creating gigs and replacing flood damaged instruments. The NOHRF empowers the musicians to earn a living and heal the community with music.

"If this helps out just one person and gets a horn or a guitar in their hands again, then it's all worthwhile," commented Al Hodge, guitarist of THE MUDDPIGGS and member of the festival's organization team.

In addition to FLOODGATE — who will be making their first live appearance since 2002 — the festival will feature performances by SKAB and S.I.K. (who haven't played live since the early 1990s), along with Chalmette, Louisiana-based bands SNAKE OILER and THE MUDDPIGGS, who will both be making their first live appearances since being displaced from their homes by Hurricane Katrina. Also on the bill are CULPA, SLOW THE KNIFE, HAARP and New Orleans punk legends THE PALLBEARERS.

The schedule is as follows:

THE PALLBEARERS (1:30am)
CULPA (12:50am)
FLOODGATE (11:30pm)
HAARP (10:40pm)
SNAKE OILER (9:50pm)
SKAB (9pm)
SLOW THE KNIFE (8:10pm)
S.I.K. (7:30pm)
THE MUDDPIGGS (7pm) More...

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Bilocate Post Two Tracks Online

Jordanian Doom/Death metal band Bilocate uploaded two tracks from their first album Dysphoria to their myspace page. The two tracks are "A Deadly Path" and "A Desire To Leave."

"A Desire to Leave" is considered the longest track composed by an any arabian metal band and has recieved a great feed back from international webzines. "A Deadly Path" has been performed in Bilocate's shows and had a great response also.

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Symphovania Keyboardist To Perform w/ Blind Vision

Symphovaina's keyboardist, Ahmad Ajjouri, will perform with Blind Vision in Rock Grip gig as a guest member. Ajjouri will play keyboards for two covers of Dream Theater that Blind Vision are to perform at the gig.

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Testament Announce New Tour Dates

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have lined up the following dates during the coming months:

Jan. 27 - San Francisco, CA - the Independent
Feb. 07 - Melbourne, Australia - the Prince Hotel
Feb. 08 - Sydney, Australia - the Manning Bar
Feb. 09 - Canberra, Australia - the Anu Bar
Feb. 11 - Perth, Australia - the Capital
Mar. 23 - Budapest, Hungary - Almassy MK Hall
Mar. 24 - Katowice, Poland - Hala Spodek
Jul. 26 - Subotica, Serbia - Hellwood Festival
Aug. 25 - Gemunden, Germany - Up From The Ground Open Air Fest

TESTAMENT is now tentatively planning to enter the studio in early 2007 to record the long-awaited follow-up to 1999's "The Gathering", due before the end of next year.

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