Metal / Hard Rock (12/05/2003)
Steven Tyler gets Honorary Doctorate in music
BOSTON, Mass. (Aerosmith Fans Website) - Years ago, Steven Tyler and his bandmates would drive by the Berklee College of Music after playing a midnight set at a local bar for beer. On Saturday, the music school awarded the longtime Boston-area resident and Aerosmith frontman with an honorary doctorate ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (09/05/2003)
Evanescence: the surprise breakout of 2003
LOS ANGELES (Evanescence Fans Website) - With sales nearing 1 million, Evanescence's debut CD, Fallen, has become the surprise breakout of 2003 - a rock album that sounds like little else on rock radio. Give much of the credit to 21-year-old singer Amy Lee, whose vocals burn through the band's grinding ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (07/05/2003)
Led Zeppelin unveil rare film
LONDON, UK (Led Zeppelin Fans Website) - More than eight hours of rare concert films and sound recordings of rock band Led Zeppelin are to be released for the first time. Fifty-eight tracks recorded over a decade of live performances will be spread across two DVDs and three CDs. Guitarist Jimmy Page ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (07/05/2003)
Pearl Jam drop 'Bu$hleaguer'
NEW YORK (NY Times) - Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready recently told a Buffalo radio station that the band has dropped their anti-George Bush song, "Bu$hleaguer," from their live sets. Eddie Vedder has smashed a George Bush mask during past performances of the song, reportedly to mixed reactions from ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (02/05/2003)
Metallica behind bars
LOS ANGELES (Metallica Fans Website) - Metallica are spending the day at California's San Quentin State Prison today. The band will be shooting a video on the prison grounds. As payback for the use of the location, Metallica will play a set for the inmates. The video will be for the title track from ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (17/04/2003)
Excommunication For Evanescence?
NEW YORK (Evanescence Fans Website) - Zomba Music's Christian distribution arm, Provident Music, has dropped Evanescence from their roster and has recalled the band's hit debut, "Fallen," from Christian retail stores. The move follows an Entertainment Weekly interview with Evanescence guitarist Ben ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (17/04/2003)
Nickelback strikes back
TORONTO, Canada (Nickelback Fans Website) - Nickelback has sold millions of records worldwide but these Canuck rockers are still having to continually defending themselves and their music. "The thing people don't realize when they say Nickelback sucks [is] no Nickelback doesn't suck. Eight and a half ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (15/04/2003)
Live DVD of new Metallica album!
NEW YORK (Elektra press release) - With palpable anticipation building for the release of their first Elektra studio album in six years - the long awaited St. Anger - Metallica continues to amaze as one of the most innovative and forward thinking bands in the history of rock. The proof this time around ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (31/03/2003)
Metallica is going to give a free bonus DVD
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica's forthcoming album St. Anger will include a free bonus DVD of the band playing all 11 songs on the collection. St. Anger is set for a June 10 release. The DVD performances are currently being taped in Metallica's HQ studios, and will mark the first ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (26/03/2003)
Led Zeppelin reunion rumors
NEW YORK (Led Zeppelin Fans Website) - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is again denying rumors that the surviving bandmembers will reunite in the near future. Page recently told Music Week that the only way he'll be playing with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones is "on my DVD player" - referring to ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (20/03/2003)
Metallica and Ozzy make the swap
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Website) - It's official. Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted has joined Ozzy Osbourne's band. Newsted will accompany Ozzy on this summer's Ozzfest tour. This means Ozzy and Metallica have essentially traded bass players. Osbourne's previous bass player left to fill an empty ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (19/03/2003)
Anthrax releases new album and lunches tour dates with Motorhead!
NEW YORK (Anthrax Official Website) - Metal innovators Anthrax have announced that their new album 'We've Come For You All' will include a special "enhanced" portion containing an official bootleg video and never-before-seen photos. 'We've Come For You All' will be released on May 6, 2003, on Sanctuary ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (18/03/2003)
If you want AC/DC, you got it in black!
NEW YORK (AC/DC Fans Website) - AC/DC guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young know it's more fashionable these days for rock stars to be sensitive and earnest. But frankly, they'd rather watch The O'Reilly Factor. "We like to watch people argue on TV," says Malcolm, 50. "It's entertaining, in portions. Some ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (17/03/2003)
Metallica Talk About New Album
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - On the verge of completing 'St. Anger', Metallica have set aside a few more to mix the album before they master it and then ship it off to the record label. During a brief moment of downtime, frontman James Hetfield gave a quick interview to their official site ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (14/03/2003)
Nightwish and Rage will be coming to USA!
ATLANTA, Georgia (ProgPower festival website) - Finland's Nightwish and Germany's Rage have been confirmed to make their American debuts as headliners of ProgPower USA IV, which returns to Atlanta's Earthlink Live on September 5 and 6. "It is always exciting for us as a band to take on new areas and ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (13/03/2003)
Judas Priest to realese double CD 'Live In London'
NEW YORK (SPV Records) - The very name Judas Priest conjures immediate respect from heavy metal fans worldwide. True heavy metal evolved from the groundbreaking work of Judas Priest 30 years ago. The double CD 'Live in London' is testimony to the band's staggering legacy. The 25-song 'Live in London' ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (06/03/2003)
Saxon: name decision
LONDON, UK (Courtnews UK Website) - The High Court in London has made a judgment regarding the legitimate right to use the Saxon name. Mr Justice Laddie has ruled that no one individual member of the band owns the name, that it is in fact an asset of the Saxon partnership. This means that there are ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (04/03/2003)
Limp Bizkit's 'Just Drop Dead' has offered up on official website!
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Official Website) - Limp Bizkit has offered up "Just Drop Dead" on its website, which is a brand-new song and the first since Wes Borland left the band after the cycle for Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water. Durst was asked if the tune will be on Limp Bizkit's May ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (26/02/2003)
Robert Trujillo: new bassist for Metallica
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica has named Robert Trujillo its new bassist. The band announced it on their website, and Trujillo is the first permanent bassist since the departure of Jason Newsted a few years ago. Metallica wanted to have things in place before its new album, St. Anger, ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (20/02/2003)
Sigur Ros new untitled video unveiled at Sundance 2003
NEW YORK (Sigur Ros Official Website) - Having debuted their new video/short film for the first untitled track from the acclaimed album ( ) at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Sigur Ros will be returning to the US for a series of dates beginning with an already sold out March 15 appearance at Boston's ...
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