Metal News for July 12, 2003
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3 news articles posted on this day.
Ripper Owens To join Iced Earth?
Rumor has it that the now ex-Judas Priest vocalist Ripper Owens will be filling the vacated Iced Earth frontman spot left by recently departed Matt Barlow. (ed. This is a move I am heavily not in favor of... -deathbringer)
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Coal Chamber Splits Up
Contrary to the April 24th post by COAL CHAMBER's Meegs that read "Coal Chamber is still going strong" - the exact opposite has occured...COAL CHAMBER are no more.
Meegs recently spoke out on his new bands official site PINATA (pinatamusic.com): More...
Poisonblack Frontman To Leave
POISONBLACK frontman Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto has announced plans to leave POISONBLACK following the completion of the group's upcoming European tour.
"This kind of decision [was not made overnight]," stated Leppäluoto. "The question is not about [whether or not I would] WANT to sing on next POISONBLACK album, but [rather] that Charon is going to be always Number 1 to me, and I don't want to slow down [the progress] of POISONBLACK with my own business. They have a lot of potential to achieve much more if there is [someone fronting the group] that can concentrate 100% [on] POISONBLACK. This was not an easy decision [to make]! [But] there is still a lot of gigs [left for me to do] with POISONBLACK..."
POISONBLACK, who also feature in their ranks SENTENCED vocalist Ville Laihiala on guitar, released their debut album, "Escapextacy" in February, 2003.
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