PANTERA are hosting a custom listening party in celebration of their Cowboys From Hell 20th Anniversary Edition release. In case you missed it, PANTERA were streaming new music a few weeks ago.

Songs being streamed…

• Cowboys From Hell (Disc 1)
• Psycho Holiday (Disc 1)
• The Art Of Shredding (Disc 1)
• Cemetery Gates (Live) [Disc 2]
• Primal Concrete Sledge (Live) [Disc 2]
• Heresy (Live) [Disc 2]
• Shattered  (Demo) [Disc 3]
• Message In Blood (Demo) [Disc 3]
• Domination (Demo) [Disc 3]

PANTERA’s Cowboys From Hell 20th Anniversary Edition listening party streams:

• Quicktime Listening Party
• Windows Media Listening Party

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Grand Central Publishing has set a September 23, 2010 release date for MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil‘s 320-page hardcover autobiography, “Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen”.

Neil‘s coauthor, Mike Sager, a journalist and novelist who didn’t know much about Neil and MÖTLEY CRÜE, told PublishersWeekly.com, “Interestingly, I approached it as a person who has taken up a new area of study . . . [After sitting with him for many interviews], I got to know Vince and his music, and eventually I decided to try to replicate the sound of his voice in the book.” Sager also admitted that he referred to “Mötley Crüe: The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band”, an oral history of the band compiled by Neil Strauss of The New York Times. “In the end, I was evoking Studs Terkel — placing ancillary interviews, many with conflicting stories, alongside one another,” he told PublishersWeekly.com.

Regarding his autobiography, Vince Neil said in a recent interview with Sonic Shocks, “‘The Dirt’ was written by four guys; this is MY story. I touched a lot of things in ‘The Dirt’, but I really didn’t get into details; me growing up, my neighbourhood… I grew up in Compton and there were murders and such… It’s the story of me growing up, getting into rock ‘n’ roll, the tragedies in my life, things in and out of MÖTLEY, and it’s also ten years on so a lot of things happened since then. It’s not only my perspective on my life, a lot of other people are in there: my mom and dad, ex-wives, managers, friends, band members from other bands…”

Vince Neil‘s official description of his autobiography, as released by the publisher:

“So where do we start?

“I remember when we did ‘The Dirt’, the MÖTLEY CRÜE book, I was interviewed at The Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills.

“A lot of people think I didn’t get to say much in ‘The Dirt’. It’s probably true. I didn’t read it. I’m not that big a talker. Some people can fuckin’ talk … eat up all the oxygen in a room in no time flat. I don’t tend to run my mouth. It’s bullshit.

“All those years in rehab and counseling — the talking cure? I can’t say I really got that much out of it. All that cure and I should be cured by now, don’t you think? All this talking…

“So forgive me if it’s a bit hard for me to slice open a vein and let my blood run red all over this page for you. I’ll fight you or I’ll fuck you but chances are I’ll be hard-pressed to sit there and talk to you.

“War stories. War wounds.

“I know, I know.

“Old rock stars fall hard.
“I’m forty-nine years old. I’m five-foot-nine, 170. The spandex is over. I’ve had three plastic surgeries. Still, who do you think gets laid more, me or you? But time does change a man. I ain’t twenty-one anymore.

“It’s a miracle we survived at all. A bottle of Jack Daniel’s and uncooked hot dogs do not make for a particularly well-balanced diet. We are all very lucky we didn’t kill ourselves. It might look like we were trying to do that, but speaking for myself, death was never my intent. I just wanted to feel good, you know? I was just looking for that kick, that high…

“These days I’ve got businesses to run. I like the action. Something to get your heart pumping. Healthier than a syringe full of cocaine powder like I was doing back in ’81 with my girlfriend Lovey, that’s for sure…

“But you got to admit…those days are a lot more fun to talk about…”

An excerpt from “Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen” can be found at this location.

Vince‘s new solo album, “Tattoos & Tequila”, sold 7,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 57 on The Billboard 200 chart.

“Tattoos & Tequila” was issued in Europe on June 4 via Frontiers Records and was made available in the U.S. on June 22 through Eleven Seven Music.

AS I LAY DYING raced against several lucky KOMP 92.3FM The Rock Station winners before their Las Vegas show in May of 2010. KOMP personality Kristen Jensen conducted a pre-race interview with Tim Lambesis and Nick Hipa followed by intense racing on go-karts with speeds up to 45mph.

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The former Behemoth and Vader bassist, Marcin “Novy” Nowak, has recorded a blistering bass track for HEXFIRE’s new album. The recording session took place in Toronto (Canada). This follows the news of AMORPHIS bassist Niclas Etelavuori guesting on HEXFIRE’s new album.

HEXFIRE’s Jacob Liszko says:

“Novy is my friend and one of the most extreme bass players I’ve ever seen. Last week, he recorded a guest bass track to the fastest song from our forthcoming album. That’s awesome. I must say the bass track is incredible and I can ensure you that it really kicks ass!”

For more info visit: www.myspace.com/hexfireofficial.

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Iranian power metallers ANGBAND are inching ever closer to releasing their new album Visions of the Seeker.Veteran producer and sound engineer Achim Kohler (Primal Fear, Amon Amarth, Brainstorm) has finished mixing and mastering dutiies.

ANGBAND’s Mahyar Dean comments:

I know the album was delayed about a year but we care about the production so we worked with Achim to achieve a great sound. The released date will be announced soon by Pure Steel Records.

Give these guys a listen over at http://www.myspace.com/angbandrocks.

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The enigmatic tribal grind/anarcho-crust collective known as RESISTANT CULTURE have announced plans to take their message to the masses on a North American tour this fall. Formerly propelled by the thunderous war drums of the late great Jesse Pintado (Terrorizer Napalm Death), the band has recruited a new drummer (Ben Axiom) and returned in full force, recording a new demo and preparing for a full-scale US tour that will wind through the entire country.

The Sacred Fire 2010 US Tour will be in support of the first pressing of the band’s classic All One Struggle on clear vinyl and the third pressing of their debut album, Welcome to Reality.

RESISTANT CULTURE US Tour Dates:

9/30 Wandering Goat
Eugene, OR

10/1 Satyricon
Portland. OR

10/2 The Morgue
Seattle, WA

10/5 Roman’s
Rapid City, SD

10/7 Rathole
Minneapolis, MN

10/9 The Black Hole
Chicago, IL

10/12 Token Lounge
Detroit, MI

10/13 Hexagon Space
Baltimore, MD

10/14 Millcreek Tavern
Philadelphia, PA

10/15 The Lake Underground
Brooklyn, NY

10/16 AS220
Providence, RI

10/17 Cambridge Elks Lodge
Cambridge, MA

10/19 Volume 11 Tavern
Raleigh, NC

10/20 Lenny’s
Atlanta, GA

10/21 Marauders
New Orleans, LA

10/22 Broken Neck
Austin, TX

10/23 No Thanks Fest
Emory, TX

10/24 The White Swan Live
Houston, TX

10/26 Blast O Mat
Denver, CO

10/27 One Mind Studio
Salt Lake City, UT

10/28 Lucky Lady
Las Vegas, NV

10/29 Gilman
Berkeley, CA

11/6 Common Ground
Riverside, CA

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Well, that is it for ROSE FUNERAL! They’ve been dropped from Metal Blade Records, and their dreams are now over. You can throw away the t-shirt:

“Hey guys, it’s been a long run for us, but it’s time to call it quits. We have lost yet another guitarist, and we have been dropped from Metal Blade Records. We realize that going further would just be beating a dead horse, so we’re done. Thanks to everybody for the great memories. It’s been a blast.”

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P.O.D., along with ALIEN ANT FARM, will headline a benefit show that will double as a tribute show to Norma Lopez, who went missing on July 15 after attending a local college. Her body was found in a nearby field five days later. P.O.D.’s aim is to raise funds for the family of a 17-year-old murder victim who hailed from the groups’ Riverside neighbourhood in California.

It will all take place on September 18. Details below.

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In recent radio interviews, including the one recently conducted on Harddrive XL radio show with Lou Brutus, SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor has come out to inform fans that deceased bassist Paul Gray was “the glue” that held SLIPKNOT together and without him, there will be no SLIPKNOT in the immediate future. Consider the band officially on hiatus.

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