Metal / Hard Rock (10/10/2003)
Fans sue Durst!
CHICAGO, Ill. (Limp Bizkit Fans Website) - Limp Bizkit turned off a whole lot of Summer Sanitarium audience members this past July but 172 of them are now actually trying to do something about it. During the Chicago stop of the tour, which included Metallica, Linkin Park and The Deftones, Limp Bizkit ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (10/10/2003)
Linkin Park gave name 'Live In texas' for their upcoming CD/DVD
NEW YORK (Linkin Park Official Website) - Linkin Park has set Live In Texas as the name of their upcoming CD and DVD. The disks were filmed and recorded at an August 2 show in Houston, Texas, and an August 3 performance in Irving, Texas. Both concerts were part of the Summer Sanitarium 2003 tour, on ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (10/10/2003)
Dave Grohl bangs his head
NEW YORK (Foo Fighters Fans Website) - If Dave Grohl didn't have enough on his plate between The Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age and the occasional Tenacious D cameo, he is now set to release his own album of heavy metal originals. Probot is the name of the project and it consists of Grohl playing ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (08/10/2003)
Deep Purple is going to release new album 'Bananas'
NEW YORK (Sanctuary Records/Deep Purple Official Website) - Deep Purple helped invent hard rock more than three decades ago and did it with a distinctive style that no other band dared try to imitate. The latest chapter in the Deep Purple legacy is the new studio album 'Bananas,' scheduled for release ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (08/10/2003)
Europe planning comeback
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Rock online magazine) - Europe, the poodle-haired 1980s rock band, is planning a comeback. The Swedish band, known for its hit "The Final Countdown," is recording an album with new material, and a world tour is planned. "After the first band jam in years it felt so right, like we've ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (07/10/2003)
Hell On Earth: 'suicide is painless'
NEW YORK (Rock online magazine) - It all started a couple weeks ago when a band promised a live, onstage suicide during one of their upcoming concerts. Hell On Earth, a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based industrial band, began emailing press releases to major news organizations across the country. Bandleader ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (03/10/2003)
P.O.D. remixed by you
NEW YORK (POD Official Website) - Here's a band that's confident about their record sales. The first million copies of P.O.D.'s new disc "Payable On Death," will come with a Playstation 2 videogame. The game allows fans to remix a newly recorded, non-album P.O.D. track. Using the controller, players ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (03/10/2003)
Jack White helps Detroit's new band 'Blance' single
NEW YORK (White Stripes Fans Website) - White Stripes singer/guitarist Jack White plays guitar on the debut single from Detroit alt-country act Blanche, called "Who's To Say." The seven-inch, 45 R.P.M. vinyl disc can be ordered directly from Blanche's label at cassrecords.com. The White Stripes themselves ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (01/10/2003)
W.A.S.P. plans 2004 to release new matterial
NEW YORK (Santcuary press release/WASP Official Website) - Enigmatic rock act W.A.S.P. has resurfaced after a near-year of silence to announce the first details of its highly-anticipated dual album releases, slated for 2004 through Metal-Is/Sanctuary Records. Although early reports suggested that the ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (01/10/2003)
Pearl Jam's benefit concert for 'Youthcare'
SEATTLE (Perl Jam Fans/Youthcare Websites) - Pearl Jam will perform a special acoustic concert on Wednesday, October 22, 8PM, at Benaroya Hall. The show will be a benefit to raise money for Seattle-based YouthCare's Orion Center. No opening act is scheduled. Pearl Jam's performance will be their first ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (30/09/2003)
Michael Kamen seeks Metallica!
SAN FRANCISCO (Metallica Fans Website) - Composer, conductor, and arranger Michael Kamen says he's planning to reunite with Metallica next year for more orchestral performances, according to an interview published Thursday (September 25) with the Hollywood Reporter. Their first collaboration, a double ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (30/09/2003)
Strokes album leaked online
NEW YORK (Strokes Fan Website) - The Strokes' hugely anticipated second album Room on Fire has been leaked onto the internet. Ten of the 11 songs from the album were leaked online over the weekend, according to fan websites. Users of various unofficial message boards are now sharing mp3 files of the ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (25/09/2003)
Linkin Park tamed?
NEW YORK (Linkin Park Fans Website) - Linkin Park have received government approval to perform in Malaysia in October - with some conditions. The conservative government of the Southeast Asian country has put some very specific limits on the band's performance including: no screaming, no jumping around, ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (24/09/2003)
Sammy Hagar 'Long Road To Cabo' is coming out
SAN FRANCISCO (BMG press release/Sammy Hagar Fans Website) - A live DVD, "Long Road to Cabo," documenting (for the most part) Sammy's 2002 summer tour with the Waboritas is out today. Sammy had four cameras rolling 24/7, resulting in over three hundred hours of material being shot and edited, with a ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (24/09/2003)
Queen of the dessert sessions
NEW YORK (QOTSA Fans Website) - If you haven't heard of the "Desert Sessions" you soon will. Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age has be hand picking his musician friends over the years to come to his desert studio and jam. The result has been four CDs filled with stoner rock. Past players have included ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (24/09/2003)
Dave Matthews plays in NY for free and releases 'Some Devil'
NEW YORK (Dave Mathews Band Fans Website) - Dave Matthews releases his first-ever solo album Some Devil Tuesday (September 23). Matthews said the album grew out of "a few songs that never really had a place with the band, so during a break, I decided to go into the studio to see what might develop." ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (24/09/2003)
Fred Durst sued by security
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Fans Website) - When Fred Durst allegedly kicked a security guard in the head during a 1999 concert in St. Paul Minnesota, police eventually dismissed the assault charge. Now the security company is launching their own suit. The company seeks a judgment against the Limp Bizkit ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (23/09/2003)
The Quiet Riot gives up?
NEW YORK (Quiet Riot Official Website) - '80s metal band Quiet Riot has apparently called it quits after more than 20 years. Fans surfing to the band's website, quietriotforce.com, were undoubtedly crushed to find the following message: "Thank you for 20 years of rock and roll. Goodbye, Quiet Riot." ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (19/09/2003)
James Hetfield auctions the '1967 Camaro' car in e-bay!
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Website) - Metallica frontman James Hetfield is putting the 1967 Camaro that he drove in the video for "I Disappear" up for auction, via eBay.com, starting Monday (September 22). Hetfield, who has owned and driven the car for three years, received it as a gift after the band ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (17/09/2003)
Sepultura releases 'Roorback'
NEW YORK (SPV ecords press release) - Cultivating years of experience and touring relentlessly, Brazilian metal titans Sepultura is making monstrous waves with American media in support of the band's latest opus Roorback (released through SPV Records). Combining their trademark tribal-metal stylings ...
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