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Breaking Godsmack's Tour

TuneLab reports: Breaking Benjamin have dropped off their tour with Godsmack and Shinedown due to "health issues". SOiL has been tapped to replace the band on the following dates:

November 28th in Norfolk, VA @ Ted Constant Convocation Center
November 29th in Baltimore, MD @ 1st Mariner Arena
December 1st in University Park, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
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Godhead to Soil Europe

TuneLab reports: Godhead have been added to SOiL's three week tour of Europe with Brand New Sin and Lennon which kicks off on January 10th. Dates are as follows:

January 10th in Bristol, England @ Bierkeller
January 11th in Exeter, England @ Lemon Grove
January 12th in Bradford, England @ Rio's
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Drowning Pool Find Sanctuary

TuneLab reports: Drowning Pool has reportedly signed with Sanctuary Records for the release of their third studio album. No release date has been set.

A demo of a new track titled "No More" with new vocalist Ryan McCombs (ex-SOiL) can be streamed on their MySpace page.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Houston Calls Lose Kenny

punkbands reports: Kenny has left Houston Calls. He writes: This is Kenny here, and I'm writing to unfortunately say that I'm leaving the band. I've been in Houston Calls for almost 4 years now, and it's been amazing to tour with my best friends and create music I truly enjoy to play and listen to. But when I was younger I accrued a very large debt from paying for college with student loans, which wasn't cheap let me tell you. For a long time I was able to avoid paying my debt thanks to deferment and making small payments. 

Creditors will only allow you to push them off to the side for so long, and mine are back after me with a vengeance. I hate to say this but because of my financial problems I can't continue to be in Houston Calls. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rage DVD

SMN reports: RAGE filmed their show in St. Petersburg, Russia earlier this year in front of 15,000 fans for their stunning live DVD "Full Moon in St. Petersburg". The DVD will be released on February 23 of next year. 

DVD 1 will contain the complete concert in St. Petersburg, including both old classics and new smashers from RAGE´s last album, "Speak Of The Dead". Also, disc one will feature the band's last two promotional videos, Brazilian TV footage, and a live performance at the "Masters of Rock" festival 2006 in the Czech Republic.[see full story for more details]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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GNR Tour Report

PR reports: Rob De Luca (Sebastian Bach Band/Spread Eagle) reporting in from the Gn'R/Bach Tour: "The crowd responses have been AMAZING! The show in Quebec City was beyond my wildest dreams. The audience was deafening for the entire hour. There's far too many great shows to list. Both bands are sharp and consistently delivering powerful sets! We're now making our way to the West coast.

On Guns' off nights, Baz headlines the local theatre/club. On those shows we open for ourselves... Metal Mike Chlasciak (Bach, Halford), Bobby Jarzombek (Bach, Halford) and myself do an extreme metal set of PainmuseuM and Halford tunes. It's so much fun doing two sets." This year Spread Eagle's Debut Album was reissued by Lovember Records[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Talking Hair Metal

PR reports: TalkingMetal.com has posted episode 112 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. In this episode, hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy are joined by metal photographer Frank White, one of three photographers featured in the book American Hair Metal by Steven Blush. Interview topics include Nitro, Motley Crue, Bret Michaels, KISS, Vinnie Vincent, and Metallica. Additional podcast topics include Quiet Riot, Alice Cooper, and the Podsafe Music Network. The 45-minute podcast can be downloaded at the full story link.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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FLEDfive Bootlegged

PR reports: FLEDfive has once again been selected to appear on this year's WGRD Bootleg CD, whose net profits will benefit Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids. The track, "Good Man Gone Bad," is the latest single from FLEDfive's fourth and most recent CD, which is self-titled.

WGRD releases a Bootleg CD every year during the holiday season, featuring in-studio performances and rare tracks from today's hottest hard rock acts. The CD is currently available for purchase at any Meijer location for $9.79, or at www.wgrd.com for $12 including tax, shipping and handling. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Singer No Longer Wanted

PR reports: The SingerWanted.net project has finally reached its conclusion! Here's the way it went: a group looking for ITS OWN singer forgoes traditional auditions and comes up, instead, with a truly unique web solution. On the www.singerwanted.net site, basic instrumental tracks are made available. The competitors sign up to the project, download the tracks and add their own vocal parts. The best entries are published on the site and votes are cast.

During the course of a full year online, the site clocks up large numbers of daily visits from around the world. A total of 230 singers sign up to the project, some from as far away as Australia and the USA. The "IMPROPONIBILI" take shape. (The name translates roughly as The "UNPROPOSABLES") The singer who comes out on top - the one who makes the group say "WE HAVE FOUND THE SINGER WE WANTED!" - is called Maurizio, and is a well-known voice on the Italian underground scene under the alias Doppia K. He fits is perfectly with the rest of the band.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Michael Weston King Goes to Poptown

PR reports: Poptown is very pleased to announce the addition of Michael Weston King to our growing family. Michael hails from the UK and has an extensive list of credits that stretch back over a decade. His latest work, A New Kind of Loneliness, will be released here in the States on Poptown Records on December 12, 2006. 

A New Kind of Loneliness is a brilliant album that contains 12 brand new feature tracks, 2 bonus tracks and a variety of special guest stars such as Chris Hillman, Herb Penderson, Ron Sexsmith and Don Kerr. Look for Michael's 2007 American Tour to kick off in Cincinnati in February.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Screamers of a Down

PR reports: In the new film Screamers, director Carla Garapedian traces the history of modern-day genocide - and genocide denial - from the fertile " Holy Mountains " of Anatolia to the current atrocities in Darfur .The documentary is as shattering as it is powerful, which includes live performance footage and interviews with System Of A Down, the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning rock band, all of whose members are of Armenian descent. The film is laced with seven of the band's songs from "Holy Mountains" to "P.L.U.C.K." to the #1 hit "B.Y.O.B." that illuminate the band's views on political and social issues. Screamers is set for a limited release in Los Angeles, CA on December 8th. You can check out the official Myspace page at the full story link.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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AFI Win Libby

Peta reports: Thanks to peta2, the world's largest youth animal rights organization, music lovers recently had the opportunity to vote for their favorite bands in peta2's first-ever "Libby" Awards ("Libby" is for "liberation") for animal-friendly people and things. The following are the 2006 music award winners:

· Best Vegetarian Band: AFI

Every member of AFI is either vegetarian or vegan�including outspoken vegan frontman Davey Havok�and all are big animal rights supporters, making them a huge hit with peta2's roughly 200,000 Street Team members.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Thumbscrew Tour

PR reports: After just finishing a month long tour with Gaza (Blackmarket Activities) and The Network (Blackmarket Activities), Austin, TX hardcore band, Thumbscrew (Imagine It), will be touring the U.S. with With Blood Comes Cleansing (Blood & Ink), and ABACABB (187) in early-2007 Thumbscrew will be promoting their recently released CDep "Within Hearts of Redemption", out now on Imagine It Records. Here's the current schedule:

1/16 Corpus Christi, TX @ The Underground
1/17 San Antonio, TX @ The Underground[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Melechesh America

PR reports: Sumerian thrashing black metallers MELECHESH has issued the following statement:

"We have just returned from doing press in New York City this weekend and it was an outstanding experience. Lots of feedback and great responses from the press over 'Emissaries' so far. We are also in negotiations right now to bring Melechesh to North America for a few select dates. We will tour North America in 2007. We'll keep you posted." - Ashmedi

The band's much-anticipated new album 'Emissaries' - and follow-up to 2003's 'Sphynx' - will be released January 23rd, 2007 on Osmose USA/The End Records.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Elementary End

Relapse reports: Canadian quintet THE END has released more details, as well as the first track from their long-awaited new full-length album Elementary. Elementary, which marks an enormous step forward in creative growth and songwriting for the band, was recorded throughout the summer at BWC Studios in Brampton, Ontario with engineer and longtime friend Greg Dawson. The finished track listing for Elementary is as follows; "Dangerous", "The Never Ever Aftermath", "Animals", "The Moth and I", "Throwing Stones", "My Abyss", "Awake?", "A Fell Wind", "In Distress", and "And Always...". "We have been hiding in obscurity for the last year writing and recording this album and we're all about ready to explode." guitarist Andrew Hercules illuminates; "Hopefully that doesn't actually happen or else we'd have a big gory mess to clean out of the van. Simply put I think this will be one of those records you fall madly in love with or decree it to be the bane of your existence, but you won't forget it."

An advance preview track taken from Elementary, "Animals", is available now via the band's official MySpace page [see full story link]. Elementary is set for a February 6, 2007 North American release date (February 12 internationally).
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