Helloween Tap Gamma Ray?

Helloween are rumored to be talking to Gamma Ray’s Henjo Richter about replacing the recently departed guitarist Roland Grapow. Gamma Ray was originally formed by Kai Hansen after he left Helloween.

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Headline News

Hagar, Slash in Supergroup

On the glam/lite metal side of things, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has confirmed that he’s teamed up with Journey guitarist Neal Schon, former Van Halen/Montrose frontman Sammy Hagar, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Dean Castronova in an as yet unnamed supergroup. They’ve already recorded two songs, ‘Vertigo and ‘Peeping Through A Hole, which they aim to get in a movie soundtrack. The music is supposedly a combination of Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, and Tool.

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Freedom Call Confirmed For Bloodstock

Freedom Call are the latest addition to the Bloodstock 2002 lineup. With Freedom Call, this extends their European Tour with Blind Guardian to the UK. More details about Freedom Call can be found at their website.

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Summary/Misc

Daily Reviews

Metal Judgement has new reviews this week:

• Hypocrisy 'Catch 22'
  
• Thy Primordial 'The Crowning Carnage'
  
• Judas Priest / Anthrax Concert
  
• Blind Guardian 'And Then There Was Silence'
  
• Godflesh 'Hymns'
  
• Madrigal 'I Die, You Soar'
  
• Naglfar 'Ex Inferis'
  
• Mudvayne 'The Beginning of All Things to End'
  
• King's X Concert
  
• Suffocation 'Effigy of the Forgotten' (Classic Review)
  
• Gargantuan Soul (Demo Review)

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Site Update

Monthly Wrap-Up

I just wanted to give a short wrap-up for this month. I've spent a good amount of time getting back up and running and performaing data backups of everything electronic (like a speeding ticket makes you drive slow for a while, sometimes you need a good hard drive crash to make you remember the importance of back-ups!) , and am really looking forward to putting in some development time on this site. Because the reviews section is so overdue, I plan to do some briefs about the bands and albums that I really like lately. But first thing I plan to do is a lot of tidying up of those little things like broken banners and links...

While it may appear that we've slacked off on the news this weekend, I've spent much more time clearing low-content email than actual news posting, so it doesn't look like you're missing much...

As always, thanks for reading and spread the word about metalunderground.com!

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