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| Singer
Suicide |
Blabbermouth reports: Swedish heavy metal
musician Jon Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16
at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. He shot himself
in the head and was surrounded by lit candles, Expressen reports. Shortly
before the ritual suicide, he sent farewell letters to his father and his
girlfriend and explained to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long
time. I'm going to Transylvania."
Sometime between Monday (Aug. 14) and Wednesday,
Nödveidt, vocalist and guitarist in the popular Swedish black metal
band Dissection, chose to take his own life.
At 7:21 p.m. CET on Wednesday, a police
patrol reported to the police communication center in Stockholm that a
man had been found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound. According to several of Expressen's sources, the singer had placed
an open copy of "The Satanic Bible" in front of him before pulling the
trigger.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Busta
Busted |
TMZ reports: Rapper Busta Rhymes was arrested
on assault charges Sat night after a concert on New York City's Randalls
Island. The 34-year-old artist, whose real name is Trevor Smith, was being
investigated by police for allegedly assaulting a concertgoer who may have
spat on Busta's car after his performance at a music festival in New York
last week.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Cantrell
Assaulted |
Metal Sludge reports: The post below was taken
from the World Famous Metal Sludge Gossip Board. It seems that this unfortunate
incident ended the concert abruptly. Hopefully the scum bag will be identified
and arrested for this.
Got home a little while ago from Alice's
free show at the Del Mar racetrack in San Diego. What was a great show
ended abruptly during the second chorus of Man In The Box when some asshole
pegged Cantrell in the face with a bottle. He threw his guitar down and
stormed off stage and that was it. Can't say I blame him. [see full story
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| MySpace
Virus? |
punkbands reports: Users of the popular MySpace
website have been warned by computer experts that viruses linked to the
interactive site, which boasts more than one million regular users, are
in circulation. Experts believe that hackers have hit the hugely popular
site and say the viruses in circulation can change settings, delete files,
secretly track users' movements online and even damage computers.
They believe that the hackers have hidden
dangerous software on the site which means that computers can be attacked
unaware to users while they are just viewing pages. [see full story for
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| Drummer
Suicide |
Blabbermouth reports: Sundsvall, Sweden-based
death metallers IN BATTLE have issued the following statement: "IN BATTLE
wants to announce that their longtime friend and drummer Otto Wiklund,
born October 18, 1976 and died August 13, 2006, has passed away by his
own hand...
"Otto Wiklund was a great drummer and did
record the debut album of IN BATTLE (1997) and the second album, 'Rage
of the Northmen' (1998). He also was the session drummer for SETHERIAL
in 1998 and recorded the 'Lords of the Nightrealm' album.[see full story
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| Animated
Korn Liar |
DiR reports: We know that Korn fans out there
probably recorded the episode of South Park featuring their heroes and
have played it to death. We have good news for you, you can now check out
animated Korn in their brand new video for the single "Liar". Click the
full story link to check it out. - Click
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| Hatebreed
Free CBGB |
Blabbermouth reports: HATEBREED will play
a special free CD-release show on August 30 at CBGB in New York City. In
order to get a free ticket to the concert, you must pre-order the album
from Looney Tunes [see full story for buy link]
On August 29, HATEBREED will be signing
copies of their new album, "Supremacy", at Exile on Main St.'s Hamden,
CT location. [more preorder offerings at the full story link]
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| Metallica
Tool Butchering? |
Blabbermouth reports: METALLICA guitarist
Kirk Hammett reportedly joined TOOL onstage during their headlining appearance
at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday (August 18).
According to one TOOL fan's eyewitness account posted at the ToolNavy.com
web site, TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan introduced Hammett by saying,
"We have a special guest tonight. He's not [unintelligible], and he's not
Elvis. Well, maybe he's their bastard son, Mr. Kirk Hammett." "[Kirk] then
proceeded to come out and play guitar on 'Sober'. I've never been partial
to METALLICA, and for those of you who are, I'm sorry to report that Kirk
damn near butchered the song. His drunken so-called 'solo' was particularly
sloppy and completely extraneous. Only the band coming back through to
thrash the rest of the song out extremely hard saved it.[see full story
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| OutKast
Delay UK |
Gigwise reports: Outkast's long awaited movie
'Idlewild' has been delayed for another month.
The film, which has been put back numerous
times, will now be released on October 6 in the UK instead of September
8.
The film which also stars Macy Gray and
Patti LaBelle is set in a 1930's speakeasy and was directed by Bryan Barber.
[as of Sunday, it appears to be set for release in the U.S. on August 25th,
2006, according to Yahoo! Movies - see full story for more] -
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| 800
Tracks for Dylan |
Gigwise reports: Bob Dylan is set to release
an 800 track career spanning digital album to coincide with the release
of his new long player.
The album will cost £169.99 and is
available from iTunes on August 28, the same day 'Modern Times' is released.[see
full story for more]- Click
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| Silly
News: Pot Calls Kettle Black |
hecklerspray reports: Justin Timberlake ain't
good for much. Sure, he can rip patches of clothing off soon-to-be fat
black women, write the most annoying McDonalds catch phrase ever, and not
date Britney Spears anymore, but really, what's that all add up to? Nada
- it all adds up to nada.
So Justin Timberlake
hates Taylor Hicks. Apparently
this boiling contempt has really been pent up, because Justin Timberlake
opened his mouth just a little bit, and it all came spouting out. Here's
a whole bunch of his derogatory remarks regarding Hicks: "
the guy who
won-people think he looks so normal, and he's so sweet, and he's so earnest,
but he can't carry a tune in a bucket."
Then he up and said: "If he has any skeletons
whatsoever, if God forbid, he's gay, and all these people in Mississippi
who voted for him are like, 'Oh, my God, I voted for a queer!'" [click
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| Burn
in Silence Tour |
PR reports: Fresh off a hugely successful
appearance at Boston's Locobazooka 2006 festival, BURN IN SILENCE and Indiana
thrashers YEAR OF DESOLATION will team up for a tour across America this
fall. Currently gearing up for a month long run through the States, BURN
IN SILENCE will meet up with label mates YEAR OF DESOLATION in mid-September
and stick it out on the road together in November. Also teaming up with
The Red Death and A Love Ends Suicide along the way, BURN IN SILENCE will
continue to support the band's full length debut on Prosthetic Records,
Angel Maker, having already toured heavily throughout the United States
in 2006 alongside Black My Heart, Too Pure To Die, The Autumn Offering,
and Jacknife.
8/19 Saratoga Springs, NY - The SSCC (with
Locked In A Vacancy, Ligeia)
8/30 Wichita, KS - Elks Lodge
8/31 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
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| Sepultura
Semi Reunion |
Blabbermouth reports: SOULFLY's official web
site was updated with the following message: "The 10th annual D-Low Memorial
show is over and we thank you all for making it a huge success. The show,
which was opened by NORTH SIDE KINGS and INCITE, sold out and it was a
very historic night for SOULFLY. The band was joined on stage by many friends
from their past including Danny Marianinho of NORTH SIDE KINGS (on 'Defeat
U'), Richie Cavalera of INCITE (on 'Bleed' and 'Stay Strong'), [former
MEGADETH bassist] Dave Ellefson (on 'Prophecy' and 'Defeat U'), and their
former longtime drummer Roy Mayorga (on 'No Hope = No Fear') who currently
plays with STONE SOUR. But most importantly, Max was reunited onstage for
the first time in 10 years with his brother Igor Cavalera. Max and Igor
formed SEPULTURA together in the early 1980s, but have not played together
since the band split in 1996. Igor joined the band mid-way through the
set for a jam on the drums and stayed onstage to play the SEPULTURA classics
'Roots Bloody Roots' and 'Attitude' with the guys!"[see full story for
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| Panic
Channel Leak |
PR reports: Dave Navarro, the name should
be enough but if you are on the fence about picking up the new Panic Channel
CD, MSN will help you make up your mind; they're streaming the entire album
this week. So if you wanna check it out click the full story link. -
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| L.A.
Twangless |
AP reports: LOS ANGELES - There is a tear
in the beer of country music fans here. After more than 20 years on the
air, the city's only country music station, KZLA-FM, abruptly left the
air Thursday and was seamlessly replaced with the rhythmic pop of "Movin'
93.9," which plays artists such as Beyonce, Janet Jackson and Jennifer
Lopez.
The transition by Emmis Communications
was swift and shocking for listeners, who heard George Strait and Keith
Urban in the morning and Pink and the Black Eyed Peas by lunchtime. Even
the station's veteran morning crew, including Peter Tilden, didn't know
of the format change until just minutes before it happened. [see full story
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| Walls
of Jericho Get Values |
SMN reports: WALLS OF JERICHO have been added
to the August 18 - September 20 run of dates of this year's "Family Values
Tour." Speaking on joining the tour, which features KORN, DEFTONES, STONE
SOUR, FLYLEAF, DIR EN GREY, BURY YOUR DEAD and more , band frontwoman Candace
Kucsulain had the following to say:
"We are pumped to go out with these bands,
and especially to play with DEFTONES, who we have all been fans of for
awhile. We consider them the ultimate band to see night after night." [see
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