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Most Precious Ban

siN's metal news reports: MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD are in trouble again. The artwork for upcoming album "Merciless" has both U.S. distributor RED and Roadrunner ready to shelve the album. "We had no idea this would happen this time," swears Justin Brannan (guitarist/co-lyricist). The "Merciless" cover features an authentic looking corpse in an apartment with the mail stacking up. In fact, to ensure the album can be stocked, it will now be released with a reversible cover - the new image will be toned down, but fans will be able to flip over for the original picture once they've purchased it. “It's real life it's someone our age that just dies and no one cares enough to notice." Such is the MPB assessment of life today. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

All Out War Reunite

siN's metal news reports: According to JameyJasta.com, ALL OUT WAR, NEGLECT, and ONE FOR ONE all both be reuniting for at least the first day, November 25th, of HATEBREED's 10th anniversary stillborn festival shows. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Anthrax, Anthrax, Anthrax, Anthrax

press release reports: Pioneering metal band Anthrax, one of the genre's most innovative and respected groups, is back with a vengeance. Commemorating its 20th anniversary by touring with its original lineup for the first time in 13 years, Anthrax is exclusively playing its classics from 1985 to 1991, both on the Gigantour in early September (western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest) and with Judas Priest from September 24 through October 18 (across Canada as well as the East and Midwest of the U.S.) with additional Judas Priest and Anthrax headline dates to be added.

Those gems are also heard on the band's most comprehensive "best of" collection ever issued, its first two-CD retrospective, Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991), and its first video compilation, the DVD Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991) The Videos (both on Island/UMe), and on separate live CD and DVD packages Alive 2 (2005) (on Sanctuary Records) which documents the group's momentous summer 2005 reunion tour. All four packages will be released September 20, 2005. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Polyphonic Thumbsucker

Hollywood Records reports: Hollywood Records has announced a September 13th release date for THUMBSUCKER, the companion album to the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics film. The soundtrack was written and recorded by Tim DeLaughter, frontman for Hollywood Records/Good Records recording artists The Polyphonic Spree and also features three tracks from late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, including the original "Let's Get Lost" and covers of Big Star's "Thirteen" and Cat Stevens' "Trouble," the latter believed to be among the last tracks he ever put to tape.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Relive US 83

press release reports: The historic concert, US Festival '83 brought over half a million people together for a three day celebration of 80's rock. The superstar lineup for "Heavy Metal Sunday" was an unprecedented collection of the biggest names in hard rock and heavy metal. For 1983, this was Woodstock, but in leather. With the blistering decibels of US '83 still echoing through Southern California, music lovers and head-bangers will be able to relive the spectacle, in a staged tribute event, fittingly dubbed the rUSt FESTIVAL

In the twenty years since the original event, "tribute bands" have entertained hard rock audiences with stunning re-creations of the 80's heavy metal shows. rUSt FESTIVAL brings together the world's finest tribute acts to pay homage to the legendary US '83 lineup of Van Halen, the Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Punk: Attitude DVD

press release reports: The birth of Punk has been glorified in countless flowery recountings, but never with the insight and gritty realism of Punk: Attitude. In this definitive punk rock documentary, releasing September 6 on DVD, the actual tale of a three-chord revolution is revealed in all it's chaotic splendor.

Director, Don Letts, (creator of the Clash feature, Westway to the World) premiered this authoritative history of the punk movement at the Tribeca Film Festival to critical acclaim, and continues on the film festival circuit with screenings scheduled at the Toronto and Los Angeles Film Festivals, as well as broadcasts on IFC July 9th and again September 1st.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Bobby Bare Returns

conqueroo reports: Grammy Award winning country star Bobby Bare, best known for hits like "Detroit City" and "How I Got to Memphis", is preparing to release his first new album in more than 22 years. The Moon Was Blue was produced by Bare's son, Bobby Bare Jr. along with Lambchop's Mark Nevers. It was Bobby Jr.'s goal to coax a great voice and legendary song hound back onto disc. The album will hit the streets November 1 on Dualtone Records.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Penn and Oldham

conqueroo reports: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, who helped shape the development of Southern soul music with legendary songwriting, musicianship, and production, made a live album in the U.K. in 1998 called Moments From This Theatre: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham LIVE. While the recipient of solidly favorable press, the album was never released in the U.S. - until now. Proper American Recordings (distributed by Ryko Distribution) plans to release the album Stateside on September 13. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Grimfest Release

Candlelight Records reports: Candlelight Records confirms October 4 as the American release date for the new studio album from Norway's Grimfist. Titled Ten Steps to Hell, it is the second studio album from the rapidly growing extreme metal band.

Recorded at Subsonic Society Studios (Dismember, Susperia) and mixed at Studio Fredman (In Flames, The Haunted), Ten Steps to Hell is riff assault. Guitars and vocals both firmly presented in-your-face style wrap around an intense rhythm that recalls what made the initial thrash genre so energetic. And talk about drums! Let your ears bear witness to the human machine (the album debutting new drummer Christian Svendsen).
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1349 Release

Candlelight Records reports: Candlelight Records confirms October 4 as the American release date for the new studio album from Norway's 1349. Titled Hellfire, it is the third studio album from the rapidly growing black metal band.

Recorded at Studio Studio in Nyhagen, Norway, Hellfire is already expected to be a highly regarded and fan sought recording early on in its initial release. And with a European tour already booked with US labelmates Gorgoroth (new album coming February 2006), could US fans finally witness this rising, molten beast?- Click Here for the Full Story

Fear Factory Preview

Day in Rock reports: On the fence about picking up Fear Factory's new CD Transgression which hit stores today? AOL will help you out, click the full story link to check out a listening party for the entire CD. - Click Here for the Full Story

Secret Wallflowers Gig

Fanscape reports: Fusion Flash Concerts is a series of free, unannounced-until-the-last-minute concerts performed by 11 hot and emerging music artists in secret locations across the country. The first set of concerts featured The Roots in New York City, Jermaine Dupri in Atlanta, Fat Joe in Philadelphia, Staind in Boston, Collective Soul in Dallas (August 23), and Frankie J in Miami (August 26). The next concert comes to Los Angeles and features the Wallflowers at a secret location on September 1, 2005.

Los Angeles residents can visit (the full story link) or send a text message containing the word "Go" to 35274 (FLASH) on their mobile phones to register as an "Insider," to find out where the Wallflowers will be performing at a park, club, pier, or parking lot near them. Insiders receive up-to-the-minute e-mails as well as "Flash Alerts" (text messages), which reveal details hours before the event happens!
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Mailbag: Stoned Aliens

Reader Email reports: [The following was an email sent to us by Wayne E. Manzo. We always suspected that Mick Jagger was a tool but now we find he may be an alien! Come to think of it that explains a lot about Keith!] I was in the Columbus Arena district on Aug 20? When I heard a band that sounded like the Stones. Impossible because they were in Boston?

I'm a celebrity publisher and former NASA scientist who has been abducted by the Klan-Aliens and they are keeping me on the streets as their Borg-Sex slave so who knows?

From the streets of Columbus where I have been trying since Nov 2004 to get out of here and to another state.

This state, Ohio, is 100% Klan-Alien and if you are not assimilated they "Stone" you do death.- Click Here for the Full Story

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