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The brand new Hard Roxx on line internet magazine is now finally up and running at www.hardroxx.com. Recent additions include interviews with QUEENSRYCHE, DOKKEN and MILLENIUM, and reviews of the recent releases by YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ROYAL HUNT, BONFIRE and DREAM THEATER (amongst many others). Access is free!...
JOE SATRIANI's forthcoming album, Engines Of Creation is being released in with the bonus track 'Plan'...
SLASH'S SNAKEPIT's new CD, Ain't Life Grand, will be out on February 19 in Japan and according to his website there's 14 tracks with one bonus track...
KISS will auction off nearly all the instruments, costumes and memorabilia they've acquired since their inception in 1974. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will appear at the auction, likely in Los Angeles this May. Both live and online bids will be accepted for the items, valued at more than $5 million. In related news, according to an interview with www.kissonline.com, KISS singer/bassist Gene Simmons has stated the band will indeed tour this year. "We are actively planning a tour, set to begin in the spring sometime," he said. "As to what it's called, we don't have a clue. Honestly. We don't know whether or not it's going to be called The Farewell Tour or The Jews In Space Tour, which I, I prefer as a title"...
LIEGE LORD are set to perform at the Germany's famed Wacken Festival this year in Hamburg Germany on the 4th and 5th of August. This is a shock to fans and critics alike who thought that the band had gone there separate ways. Guitarist Paul Nelson confirmed the rumours and stated that the line-up will be completed by guitarist Tony Truglio, bassist Matt Vinci, vocalist Joe Comeau and drummer Frank Cortese. This is the line up that recorded two albums for Metal Blade Records - Burn To My Touch (1987) and Master Control (1988), both produced by Terry Date...
Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE frontman Blaze Bayley will have his solo project go under the name BLAZE. Blaze release their Andy Sneap-produced debut, Silicon Messiah, in early spring...
Former ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, who released his Classical opus in 1997, is working on details for a live rock/symphonic/multimedia tour in support of the album. Wolf's own site (www.WolfHoffmann.com) has been online for a couple of years now and is the most comprehensive ACCEPT archive on the Net. He recently added a page at MP3.com that features several songs from Classical. Wolf's page at MP3.com can be found at http://www.mp3.com/wolfhoffmann...
ACE FREHLEY is scheduled to attend the NAMM Show, signing in the DiMarzio booth (promoting his new Sub Zero pick-up) and signing at the Gibson booth promoting his new blue and silver guitar Epiphone promoting his Ace Frehley Signature Model. NAMM is held from February 3-6 in Los Angeles. For more info goto www.namm.com...
C.C. Deville's THE STEPMOTHERS have a officially changed their name to SAMANTHA7...
DESTINY'S END have written 12 songs written for their next album called Transition WARRIOR's Joe Floyd will produce the record at Silver Cloud Studios in Burbank, CA. Floyd has worked with BRUCE DICKINSON on Accident of Birth and Chemical Wedding and is also working on ROB HALFORD's new project. The band begins recording in February, with a proposed release is June 2000. AS for touring, the only confirmed date is the Bang Your Head Festival in Europe on June 30/July 1 2000...
According to http://www.axel-rudi-pell.de, the music to AXEL RUDI PELL's new album, The Masquerade Ball, is done and now vocalist Joey Gioeli is in Germany recording his parts. It's slated for an April 10 release in Europe. The band recorded a cover of URIAH HEEP's 'July Morning' which will appear on both The Masquerade Ball and an upcoming Heep tribute album. A German tour will follow the album's release.