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Blood Brothers ReleaseS!

The Tripwire reports: With the recent breakup of Test Icicles, we now turn back the Seatlle 5-piece Blood Brothers to fulfill our shredded-throat screaming needs. The band is back in action, with a new full-length album due out this Fall and an EP hitting stores on May 23rd. The band will begin work on the follow-up to 2004's Crimes this month, but will give us the happily titled Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP to tide us over. 

The seven-track EP will contain two UK b-sides, a few remixes and a live recording of the title track from their performance at the '05 Reading Festival.[see full story for tracklisting]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dark Vicious Rumors

Reader Submission reports: James Rivera does an interview with SteveSaks at LivingForMetal.com and talks about everything from Helstar to new Vicious Rumors...below is an excerpt..cool info, and huge interview too..enjoy

SS: What can we expect from the new Vicious Rumors album, besides Brad Gillis' amazing guitar leads?

JR: Once again I don't know what it is about me, I always seem to bring a little darkness into everything I do, but well you know that's my roots. The new Vicious Rumors is basically the Heaviest and Darkest Vicious Rumors album that they have ever done. And the band themselves, they are ecstatic . My opinion from them is that they are blessed and just very happy that I came into the situation and they think that's what steered it that Dark and Heavy way even more so, and Geoff just had been writing heavier stuff. A good 80% of it is back to the traditional VR sound, the Carl Albert era spin on it, but then it goes to another era of Heaviness and Darkness which they have never done before.[see full story for the full interview]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Halo of Knives

Grindhead reports: Tearing out of Western Australia in a hailstorm of blood and splintered bone comes the crushing debut album from Halo of Knives. Featuring members of Hailstones Kill 200, this battering, violent burst of grindcore takes a crusty, no-nonsense approach to extreme neurotic grind. An absolutely ear-splitting aural bludgeoning (influenced heavily by old Napalm Death) mimicking the insanity of their live shows.

Frenetic, chaotic and agonizing - an accomplished grindcore album. 

Also Upcoming Grindhead Releases expected from Sordid, Ebolie, Maximum Perversion, Mixomatosis, M.S.I., Meat Wallet, Punisher, Roadside Brutal and Corpsicle. See www.grindheadrecords.com for more details[see full story for an mp3 from Halo of Knives]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Shadows Fall in June

Century Media reports: On June 12th 2006, metal titans SHADOWS FALL return with their much-anticipated new release, "Fallout From The War". The record's sessions were again produced and mixed by long-time friend, Zeuss (Hatebreed, God Forbid), at Planet Z Studios in the band's home state of Massachusetts. "Fallout >From The War" is a must-have for the band's dedicated following as each of the album's eleven tracks is either a brand-new, original SHADOWS FALL track, an exclusive brand-new cover song, or a newly re-recorded version of rare material from over the years. [see full story for tracklisting and some words from Brian about the new CD]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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GNR Reunion?

Reader Submission reports: Richard Fortus (Guns N' Roses guitar man) was the only actual member to have the GNR tour dates on his website (http://www.4tus.com/), but he removed them. 

Is the GNR reunion almost official?[Our friends at Talking Metal discussed this as well in this week's podcast. Always a guessing game with GNR but the antiMusic guess of the day is that management had him remove them. Then again some speculate he is out of the band and Slash is back in. However, we know for a fact that Dizzy is still in the group and he has not posted any GNR dates on his site. Maybe Axl will win this year's Edgar award? He seems to sure love a good mystery. But at least he is keeping the fans occupied while waiting for the new CD]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Cell A&R

Reader Submission reports: "I had her sing to me on a cell phone from a mall in Canada," says producer/songwriter Ben Margulies, "and I heard something really special in her voice." That voice belongs to Montreal vocal sensation Lisa Lavie, who is now working with Margulies in his Santa Barbara studio, finishing tracks for her forthcoming debut. The first completed song, "If I Only Knew", currently appears on the soundtrack for the new Jeff Bridges movie, STICK IT (4/28).

Margulies is best known for his work with Mariah Carey. He started Carey's record-breaking run of hits by co-writing her first three #1 singles ("Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", "Someday"), which launched her worldwide success.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Evanescence Rocktober

Press Release reports: Following the multi-platinum, worldwide success of their major-label debut, Fallen, Evanescence is poised to build upon their respected position in the rock community with their sophomore effort, The Open Door, from Wind-up Records in stores October 3, 2006.

"The making of this record has been really intense, but I've come out feeling purified," shared Lee. "I've grown so much since 'Fallen,' and Terry is the perfect writing partner -- I feel like I've been lifted up to a whole new level of inspiration and possibilities. After all the things we've seen over the past couple of years, beautiful and tragic, in the end I'm really grateful. It has made us create music I could not be more in love with." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Charlatans UK USA

Sanctuary reports: Sanctuary Records is proud to announce that the Charlatans UK's ninth studio album, SIMPATICO., debuted at number 10 in Britain this week. This is the band's first top-10 entry since 2001's Wonderland and its astounding seventh overall in their career. The album comes out on May 2 in America and to acknowledge its release, a National tour has been confirmed.[see full story for those] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Take the Reissue and Run

Press Release reports: On June 27th, Capitol Records will release 30th Anniversary Edition Fly Like An Eagle by the Steve Miller Band. Fly Like An Eagle is one of the seminal rock albums of the 1970's and, thirty years hence, its hits are still staples at classic rock radio. The original album has been re-mastered for the CD and is presented in 5.1 Surround Sound on the accompanying DVD. Filmed in September 2005 at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA, the concert footage was taken straight from the live recording made for the giant screen close-ups the night of the show. 

To celebrate the release of this remarkable collectible package, which also features three previously unreleased bonus tracks, the Steve Miller Band will be launching a tour on May 25th in Sonoma, CA that will keep them on the road into November. [see full story for more including those tour dates. Steve does put on one hell of a show so if you get the chance to see him, take it!] 
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Esoteric Soph

Prosthetic reports: Lawrence, KS innovators THE ESOTERIC have begun work on their sophomore release for Prosthetic Records, entitled Subverter. 

The cutting-edge outfit begins recording May 8th at Black Lodge Recording in Eudora, KS as well as in an undisclosed location in Kansas City with Producer / Engineer Paul Malinowski (SHINER, OPEN HAND, SEASON TO RISK, etc.). The follow up to last year's relentless touring schedule and critically-acclaimed debut With the Sureness of Sleepwalking, Subverter will be mixed at KCMO's West End Recording Studios and is slated for a tentative fall 2006 release date through Prosthetic Records. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dresden Dolls Hit

Roadrunner reports: The Dresden Dolls are on fire. Their sophomore album Yes, Virginia is the #1 selling new release in the U.S. this week as the album debuts at #42 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart with 19,000 albums sold. It also charted in the Top 10 on the Top Alternative chart, #1 on the CORE Alternative chart and #2 on the Top Internet chart. Yes, Virginia, is the follow-up to the 2004, critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which slowly built from selling 275 copies first week to a total of over 100,000 copies sold in the U.S. alone. The Dresden Dolls just completed a successful run of special appearances in select markets throughout the US, including a much buzzed about show at Stubbs during SXSW in Austin, TX and a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band will tour North America this summer as the special guests on the Panic! At the Disco Tour. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Red Hot Broadcast

antiMusic reports: Red Hot Chili Peppers fans mark your calendar for May 1st as radio stations across the U.S. will be carrying a live broadcast of the band performing from New York City. You can turn in at 8pm ET / 5pm PT to hear the band world premiere at least 10 songs from their forthcoming double album 'Stadium Arcadium,' which hits stores on May 9th. 

If you miss the live broadcast, some of the stations are supposedly going to rebroadcast the show, however we do not know stations will do so. We do however know which stations will be carrying the live broadcast, you can check that list out at the full story link
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Staff Meeting: Hobo

antiMusic reports: A lot of people work hard to make antiMusic what it is. So with our 8th anniversary we felt it was time to spotlight each writer so you can get to know them a little better. Over the next few weeks we will be posting a small portion of each staff person's new profile page. So let's begin and get to know Hobo a little better.

Hobo is from Sydney, Australia and has been with antiMusic February of 2003. The first CD he purchased was 'Smash Hits Volume Tripe' back in 1996 and his first concert was "Some s***ty ska group when I was probably about 11. It was horrible ". He lists Nasum, Ramallah, Converge, AC/DC, Motorhead, Blood for Blood, Sick of it All, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, Kyuss, Social Distortion, Strapping Young Lad as his Top 10 Favorite artists (he's not one for rules so we let him get away with listing 12). His musical pet peeves are " A lack of 'music' in actual music. People who never listen to anything outside their shallow realm of understanding (ie: just listening to whatever is on chart radio, just listening to dance, just listening to 80s thrash, etc)�. " His favorite parts of antiMusic are the metal reviews and DeadSun's column. Click the full story to learn more about Hobo and discover which artist he would slap, who he thinks is "a filthy, worthless, possibly murdering crack whore" and a lot more!
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