Metal / Hard Rock (06/09/2001)
Kiss Joins Forces with Superman
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman ... no, it's Kiss! Wait! It's both! What are the men of metal doing sharing the skies with the Man of Steel? Well, if negotiations between Gene Simmons and DC Comics come to fruition, there will be a superheroes summit between Kiss ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (23/08/2001)
Quiet Riot, Europe, Accept, And Britny Fox Return
NY (Top40 Charts) - Hair-metal rockers from a bygone era, including Quiet Riot, Europe, Accept, and Britny Fox, will all return to the record bins August 28, thanks to Sony Music's Metal Masters series. Originally scheduled for release August 7, Quiet Riot's most popular album, Metal Health, leads the ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (23/08/2001)
Ex-Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Debuts EchoBrain
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted made his first live appearance with his new band, EchoBrain, on Sunday, playing an hour-long set of heavy yet melodic rock to close out Nadine's Wild Weekend, a showcase of Bay Area bands. Newsted left Metallica in January, partly due to a ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (20/08/2001)
Alice Cooper releases 'Dragontown' October 9th
New York, NY � Alice Cooper is back with his new CD, Dragontown to be released on Spitfire Records, October 9th, 2001. Dragontown is the third chapter in the trilogy he began with The Last Temptation back in 1994. The story continued with last year�s critically acclaimed CD, Brutal Planet (Spitfire) ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (16/08/2001)
Godsmack, Nickelback On Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Mexican Meltdown
NY (Top40 Charts) - Sammy Hagar is lining up some fun in the sun at his Cabo Wabo club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, this fall. Hagar has confirmed Godsmack and Nickelback for his Cabo Wabo Mexican Meltdown festivities to celebrate his birthday Oct. 12-14. His own band, Sammy Hagar and the Waboritos, will ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (13/08/2001)
Kiss Boxed Set Due In November
NY (Top40 Charts) - Kiss fans, get your holiday gift lists ready - the band's long-awaited boxed set comes out in the fall. Originally planned for release in time for Halloween, the four-CD, 80-song set is due November 6 from Mercury Records. It will feature rarities including music from Wicked Lester, ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (10/08/2001)
Guns N' Roses Members Keep Busy
LA (Top40 Charts) - Guns N' Roses will on Sept. 21 issue in Japan a DVD/VHS release of its show last New Year's Eve at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. The two-hour and 20-minute performance features 20 songs, including four previously unheard tracks that may wind up on Guns N' Roses long-festering ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (10/08/2001)
Ex-Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Debuts EchoBrain In S.F.
San Francisco (Top40 Charts) - Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted's new band, EchoBrain, will make its live debut on the final night of Nadine's Wild Weekend at Bimbo's in San Francisco on Aug. 19. While EchoBrain, which includes Brian Sagrafena and Dylan Donkin, has been jamming together for the ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (09/08/2001)
Poison Cancel Tour
NY (Top40 Charts) - Poison have nixed the final twenty-two dates of their Glam Slam Metal Jam tour after bassist Bobby Dall underwent emergency surgery on his spine. The band was scheduled to play the Little River Rockfest in Minnedosa, Manitoba on August 5th, but instead Dall was rushed to the University ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (07/08/2001)
Fans To Choose Set Lists For U.S. Megadeth Trek
NY (AP) - When veteran metal act Megadeth hits the road next month for a U.S. theater/club tour, the band will let its fans choose its set lists in each city. Each show on the trek - which kicks off Sept. 7 in Magna, Utah, and is scheduled to run through Oct. 16 in New York - will feature 24 songs picked ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (03/08/2001)
Hetfield Feels the Love
LA (AP) - Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield issued a brief statement to the band's fan club Web site from the undisclosed rehabilitation facility he entered on July 19th. "It's a great feeling to have the support and comfort for me as a person from all the friends I've made out there," reads ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (31/07/2001)
Judas Priest Returns, Tour With Anthrax Set For Fall
NY (AP) - Judas Priest returns Tuesday (July 31) with Demolition, the band's first album since 1997's Jugulator. It's the second collection to feature Tim "Ripper" Owens, the American singer who was fronting a Priest cover band when he was picked to replace Rob Halford. Lead guitarist K.K. Downing told ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (27/07/2001)
Megadeth banned from Malaysia
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Malaysian authorities have banned veteran metal act Megadeth from performing in the country. The band planned to perform Aug. 2 in the country's capital city, Kuala Lumpur, in support of its latest album, "The World Needs a Hero". Government officials effectively forced cancellation ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (25/06/2001)
David Lee Roth kicks off solo tour
(Launch) - David Lee Roth kicked off his appropriately-titled David Lee Roth Saves The Day summer tour Friday with a show at the Ameristar Hotel and Casino in Kansas City, Mo., followed by a Saturday gig at The Rock in Maplewood, Minn. Roth has only announced four dates so far, but it could very well ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (22/06/2001)
Slash's Snakepit hits the road
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash is back on the road in the U.S. with the latest incarnation of Slash's Snakepit in support of last year's "Ain't Life Grand." The album has sold 29,000 copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan. In 2000, the band toured arenas opening for ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (21/06/2001)
Ronnie James Dio helps abused children
(Launch) - Ronnie James Dio, who fronted the band Dio and was a part of Black Sabbath and Rainbow, is assembling "Hear N Aid 2," the sequel to 1985's successful benefit album and benefit "Hear N Aid," which raised funds to feed the starving in Ethiopia. With "Hear N Aid 2," Dio is calling attention ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (20/06/2001)
Pantera ready to launch summer tour
(InfoBeat) - After a year of sold-out tour dates, Pantera is ready to take to the open road yet again. On their latest outing, dubbed the Extreme Steel tour, the band will be joined by Slayer, Static-X, Skrape and seasoned Pantera tourmate Morbid Angel. Morbid Angel had a stint on the Pantera tour bill ...
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