Metal / Hard Rock (14/05/2004)
A Perfect Circle released new DVD
NEW YORK (EMI press release) - A Perfect party! the release party on May 11, for A Perfect Circle's just-releasd DVD Lost in the Bermuda Triangle proved to be an evening of strange and colorful diversions. The moody, atmospheric rockers - A Perfect Circle: Maynard James Keenan (vocals), Billy Howerdel ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (06/05/2004)
Durst denies Limp Bizkit split rumors
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Official & Fans Websites) - Fred Durst, lead singer of the band Limp Bizkit has denied internet reports that the group is on the verge of a split. He clarified that the band had planned to tour America this summer. The rock rapper is also furious at the rumours that they have been ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (05/05/2004)
Van Halen's new song details revealed
NEW YORK (Van Hallen Fans Website) - The first single from the retooled, Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen will be "Up for Breakfast", one of three tracks produced by Glen Ballard. The other two are "Learning to See" and "It's About Time". All three cuts are expected to surface on the band's upcoming best-of ...
| Metal / Hard rock (04/05/2004)
'Sweet Child Of Mine' has the greatest riff ever
NEW YORK (Total Guitar Magazine) - According to Total Guitar Magazine readers, Guns N' Roses 'Sweet Child of Mine' contains the greatest guitar riff of all time. The rock anthem topped the 100 Greatest Riffs Ever poll. Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' came a close second and Led Zeppelin's 'Whole ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (23/04/2004)
Metallica are paying for their own songs!
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Website) - Metallica have had to pay their label over $2 million (U.S.) for the use of their own songs in the new documentary "Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster". According to the film's director, the label would have allowed the songs to be used for free if the project had been ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (23/04/2004)
Surgery for Darkness
NEW YORK (Darkness Fans Website) - Darkness lead singer Justin Hawkins has revealed that he is about to undergo throat surgery. The falsetto-singing frontman says that his recurring throat problems are the reason behind recent cancellations on the band's U.S. tour. Hawkins is scheduled to go under the ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (23/04/2004)
Pearlcopper is at work on new rock album
NEW YORK (Pearlcopper announcement Website) - With three albums behind, Pearlcopper is at work on double-set album, "Anarchist or Satan; Producing a Witness". The feature songs like "Breed of Humans", "Dream of Babylon"-Lake of Fire, "I'll be out there outside" as well as "Atlantis" are magnificent ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (20/04/2004)
Prostitute sues Motley Crue's Vince Neil
NEW YORK (Motley Crue Fans Website) - Vince Neil's troubles are multiplying. Earlier this month, the big-haired former Motley Crue singer pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battery for beating up a former prostitute at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a Nevada brothel. Now she's suing him. Andrea ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (20/04/2004)
Drowning Pool rise again
NEW YORK (Drowning Pool Official Website) - Fans will get to hear more of Drowning Pool's new lead singer, Jason 'Gong' Jones, when the band's comeback album hits stores later this week. Jones replaces the band's original singer, Dave Williams, who was found dead in the band's tour bus during the Ozzfest ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (09/04/2004)
Josh in bar fight
NEW YORK (QOFTSA Fans Website) - Queens of The Stone Age front man Josh Homme was reportedly involved in a bar fight at an East Village night spot in New York earlier this week following a performance by his side project band, The Eagles Of Death Metal. It seems like Josh didn't fare too well in the ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (03/04/2004)
Bon Jovi, wife have baby boy, Romeo Jon
NEW JERSEY (Jon Bon Jovi Official Website) - Jon Bon Jovi's wife has given birth to the couple's fourth child, a boy named Romeo Jon. The child was born Monday morning at an undisclosed hospital near the couple's home in Middletown Township, according to a news article posted on the singer's Web site. ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (02/04/2004)
Justin Hawkins has lost his voice
NEW YORK (Darkness Fans Website) - Darkness singer Justin Hawkins has had the road life catch up to him. After just four dates into the band's first full on U.S. tour, the soprano screecher has lost his voice. The Darkness cancelled their Cleveland concert just hours before set time upsetting fans who ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (02/04/2004)
Linkin Park are going to release photo-book!
NEW YORK (Linking Park Fans Website) - Linkin Park are to chronicle their 'Meteora World Tour' in a new coffee table book, due out later this year. Linkin Park plans to support the book with some instore signings. The photographs in the book were taken by Greg Waterman, who joined the band last year ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (01/04/2004)
3 Doors Down bassist cleared of assault charge
NEW YORK (3 Doors Down Fans Website) - Not guilty! That's the verdict for Escatawpa rocker Todd Harrell. Harrell, the bass player for the group "Three Doors Down," went to Moss Point Municipal Court Tuesday afternoon to face an assault charge. "I hate two things, and that's a liar and a thief," Harrell ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (29/03/2004)
'Honk' if you love early Aerosmith
NEW YORK (Aerosmith Fans Website) - Aerosmith's new album 'Honkin' On Bobo' relies strongly on performing live in a bid to capture their natural style on stage. Aerosmith decided to take a completely different tack on "Honkin' on Bobo," which will hit the record stores Tuesday. "The whole time we were ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (24/03/2004)
Rush guitarist charged
NEW YORK (Rush Fans Website) - State prosecutors Monday charged the lead guitarist of the Rush with two counts of battery on police during a New Year�s Eve party in a plush North Naples hotel. Alex Zivojinovich, 50 - who goes by the stage name Alex Lifeson - of North Naples, faces a maximum sentence ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (19/03/2004)
Sonic Youth will release new album 'Sonic Nurse' due June
NEW YORK (Geffen Records press release) - After a solid twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since their own genre-breaking Daydream Nation in 1988. Sonic Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, together since ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (18/03/2004)
Billy Corgan prepares for first solo gig
NEW YORK (Smashing Pumpkins Fans Website) - Former Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will make his solo acoustic debut with a concert in his hometown of Chicago next month. Fans website reports that the 19 April show at the Metro will be filmed for possible inclusion on an upcoming DVD; sessions ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (16/03/2004)
Crazy Town guitarist Rust Epique died of heart
NEW YORK (Crazy Town Official Website) - Former Crazy Town guitarist Rust Epique, 35, died of heart failiure over the weekend. Epique left Crazy Town after recording the band's 1999 debut The Gift Of Game which included the hit song "Butterfly." He was currently singing and playing guitar with a new ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (16/03/2004)
Troubled Mudd
NEW YORK (POD Fans Website) - Puddle Of Mudd singer Wes Scantlin has had most of his charges dropped after last month's Toledo disaster. He pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct after allegedly being too drunk to perform, cutting the Puddle Of Mudd set short but remaining on stage ...
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