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Reconcilation possible for Stratovarius?
22 Jun 2004
Former STRATOVARIUS singer Timo Kotipelto has revealed via his official website that he and the band's guitarist/founder Timo Tolkki are now on speaking terms following months of slagging one another in the press: "I can announce that I am talking to Timo Tolkki and actively trying to come to terms with what happened between us. Despite what many people would wish, I can not confirm that I am back in the band, but whether I do go back or not, at least I can say that we have some sort of dialogue now and that we all are trying to help solve all the many problems that his mental illness has caused. Recently (promoter) Olof Wikström from Skrikhult had ... |
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MORBID ANGEL Guitarist, THE GATHERING Singer To Join Forces In New Project?
21 Jun 2004
MORBID ANGEL guitarist Trey Azagthoth has revealed plans to collaborate with THE GATHERING singer Anneke van Giersbergen on an as-yet-unnamed new project. "I really hope and believe that this dream of mine will come true some day," he told Finland's Sonera Plaza. "I'd really like to hear what kind of [end result we could come up with] when my playing and her beautiful singing [are meshed together]. I'm sure we could even create a totally new style of music... but let's see if our schedules coincide and we can find some time [to work on some material together]."
In other MORBID ANGEL-related news, the group's drummer Pete Sandoval has to ... |
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Poll: LED ZEPPELIN's 'Stairway To Heaven' Is Best Rock Song Of Last 50 Years
21 Jun 2004
Around 800 German rock music fans participated in an online poll to choose the Top 50 rock songs of the last 50 years. The Top 50 list, as selected by the users of the Rockantenne.de web site, is as follows:
01. LED ZEPPELIN -Stairway to Heaven 02. AC/DC -Highway to Hell 03. DEEP PURPLE -Child in Time 04. DEEP PURPLE - Smoke on the Water 05. NIRVANA - Smells Like Teen Spirit 06. METALLICA - Nothing Else Matters 07. IRON MAIDEN - The Number of the Beast 08. QUEEN - Bohemian Rhapsody 0 ... |
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RAMMSTEIN: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed?
21 Jun 2004
According to a posting at ReleaseMagazine.net, German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN have set "Reise Reise" (which roughly translates to "Journey Journey") as the title of their new album, tentatively due late September. The tentative track listing for the effort is as follows:
01. Reise Reise 02. Amerika 03. Los 04. Wo Bist Du 05. Mein Teil 06. Dalai Lama 07. Keine Lust 08. Morgenstern 09. Amore The album's first single, "Mein Teil" (written about the man who was willingly eaten by a ... |
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RUNNING WILD Explain Festival Cancellations
21 Jun 2004
RUNNING WILD frontman Rock'n'Rolf has issued the following statement regarding the group's withdrawal from the Rockwave (Greece) and Gates of Metal (Sweden) festivals this summer:
"Dear Fans, "I am really sorry that I have to tell you that we had to cancel the shows in Athens (June 19) and in Sweden (July 31), but this is a direct consequence of the cancelling of our touring-agency All Access on the 13th of June. "Since a longer time there was a problem growing concerning the communication between the band and All Access. So a lot of things were going wrong here and it came to a point where those 'misunderstandings' caused extens ... |
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VELVET REVOLVER Enter Billboard Chart At No. 1, GENE SIMMONS Lands At No. 86
21 Jun 2004
VELVET REVOLVER's "Contraband" sold 256,264 copies in the U.S. during its first week of release to debut at No. 1 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. Meanwhile, the long-awaited sophomore solo effort from KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons, "Asshole", registered a first-week tally of 12,913 to land at No. 86.
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DIO: New Album To Arrive In September, First Songtitles Revealed
15 Jun 2004
DIO have pushed back the release date new studio album, "Master of the Moon", to September, according to ElectricBasement.com. The follow-up to 2002's "Killing the Dragon" was recorded at a Los Angeles studio and features lyrics that are are "cynical" and "political", with the music being a mixture of up-tempo and doomy tracks, according to frontman Ronnie James Dio. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "The Man Who Would Be King", "Living A Lie" and "The End of the World". "Master of the Moon" will be released Sanctuary Records in the U.S. and SPV in Europe.
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KATAKLYSM Singer: We Want To Write Our 'Reign In Blood'
15 Jun 2004
Canadian death metallers KATAKLYSM plan on taking most of 2005 off to write their next studio album, according to their latest newsletter. "[Take our time to write an album is] something we have never done before," said KATAKLYSM vocalist Maurizio Iacono. "Even new drummer Martin Maurais only had one month to put all his drum tracks on 'Serenity In Fire'! So with 4 albums out in 5 years, which have all outdone each other and all have been highly acclaimed, we wanna make sure the next one will be up to par. Hell, we want it to be our 'Masters of Puppets', our 'Reign in Blood'!!!...
"Unlike [what was suggested in] previous statements, th ... |
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DEAD SOUL TRIBE: New Album Cover Posted Online
15 Jun 2004
The Travis Smith-designed cover art for DEAD SOUL TRIBE's upcoming third album, "The January Tree", has been posted online at this location. The follow-up to last year's "A Murder of Crows" is scheduled to be released on August 31 through InsideOut Music.
DEAD SOUL TRIBE features in its ranks ex-PSYCHOTIC WALTZ vocalist Devon Graves (a.k.a. Buddy Lackey).
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DREAM THEATER: New Live CD/DVD Set Due In October
15 Jun 2004
DREAM THEATER's three-CD/two-DVD document of the band's April 26 show at Tokyo's Budokan Hall is scheduled for an October release, drummer Mike Portnoy has told Billboard.com. In the meantime, two previously released video collections will be packaged as a double-DVD and arrive in stores July 13 via Rhino Home Video.
"Images and Words: Live in Tokyo" and "Five Years in a LIVEtime", originally released in 1993 and 1998, respectively, comprise the double-DVD containing more than three hours of footage that has been remastered in Dolby 5.1 surround sound. "Our fans have been asking about it for years," drummer Portnoy told Billbo ... |