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SLAYER: First Photo Of New Touring Lineup

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The official Facebook page of SLAYER's current touring drummer, Paul Bostaph, has released the first photo of the lineup that has spent the past month on the road in Europe, featuring original members Kerry King(guitar) and Tom Araya (bass, vocals) alongside hired musicians Bostaphand Gary Holt (guitar). Check it out below. It was announced on May 30 by Araya and King that Bostaph would be behind the drum kit for the first leg of the band's 2013 international tour.EXODUS' Gary Holt is continuing to fill in for fallen guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who died on May 2 from alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver. Bostaph was SLAYER's drummer from 1992 until 2001 and recorded four albums with the band — the gold-certified "Divine Intervention" (1994), the 1996 punk covers album "Undisputed Attitude", "Diabolus In Musica" (1998), "God Hates Us All" (2001) that received a Grammynomination for "Best Metal Performance", as well as the DVD "War At The Warfield" (2001), also certified gold. In addition to SLAYER, Bostaph has been a member of FORBIDDEN, EXODUS, SYSTEMATIC and TESTAMENT.
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RUSH To Play Benefit Concert For Alberta Flood Relief

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Due to recent flooding and water damage at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the RUSH concert originally scheduled for Wednesday, July 24 had to be canceled. RUSH has been moved by the situation in Alberta, Canada and has decided to perform its "Clockwork Angels" show at the closest location possible on the same date — Wednesday, July 24 in Red Deer, Alberta at the Enmax Centrium — and has all proceeds to go to Alberta Flood Relief. RUSH will donate its fee and pay for all its expenses. Their promoter partner, Live Nation, will also donate its time and fees towards this cause. The venue, Enmax Centrium, will donate goods and services to the event as well. It's an all-hands-on-deck situation to donate time in order to raise as much money possible for our Alberta friends and fellow Canadians in need.
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PEARL JAM To Release ‘Lightning Bolt’ In October

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PEARL JAM will release its new album, "Lightning Bolt", on October 15. The CD's first single "Mind Your Manners", is available for download onPearlJam.com. The band has been working intermittently on the follow-up to 2009's"Backspacer" for the past eighteen months with producer Brendan O'Brien. In May, guitarist Stone Gossard told Billboard.com the album was "sounding great. I think people are going to be excited about it."
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Report: Rockwave Festival, Day 3 – Athens, Greece

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Early Monday noon at Terravibe Park for Rockwave festival. The third day of Rockwave festival started at Vibe Stage with a newcomer band called Black Hat Bones. Even though there were only a group of 20 people beneath them, that didn't affect the band's mood at all and the audience responded really well. Musicwise, Black Hat Bones play dirty Hard Rock inspired by Motorhead and some stoner elements here and there making them the ideal opener for such a hot summers' day. They didn't forget to thank the audience for attending early on. Next came one of the most promising Greek modern metal bands with one album in their back catalogue called Psycho Choke. Being really energetic and with a sound reminiscent of Slipknot and Machine Head they made the crowd headbang even harder and caused some small pits of 3-5 people. With a really good mood on their side, Psycho Choke did their best and put on a great show under the burning sun leaving promises for a new album till the end of 2013. We'll surely looking forward to it.
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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Cancels La Crosse Concert Due To ‘Production’ Issues

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD has canceled its previously announced July 16 concert in La Crosse, Wisconsin. All tickets are refundable at point of purchase. Says AVENGED SEVENFOLD in a statement: "We regret to inform our fans in La Crosse that we have only now learned that the production requirements for our current tour unfortunately are not possible in the La Crosse Center. We will be back to the area soon to bring our fans the kind of show they have come to expect from us." AVENGED SEVENFOLD will release the title track of its new album, "Hail To The King", as the first official single from the record on Monday (July 15), according to HardDrive Radio. The album, AVENGED SEVENFOLD's sixth studio effort, will arrive in stores on August 27.
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GOTTHARD: ‘Yippie Aye Yay’ Video Released

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"Yippie Aye Yay", the new video from Swiss hard rockers GOTTHARD, can be seen below. The clip was produced by the band, directed byGOTTHARD frontman Nic Maeder, filmed by his father, Hugo Maeder, and edited by his brother, Sebastian Maeder. It was shot in the band's hometown of Lugano and it features the burlesque dancers Poison Ladiesas well as three members of Swiss bagpipe outfit WILD BOAR CLAN OF LOCH LUCERNE. "Firebirth" entered the chart Switzerland at position No. 1 — the 14th time that a GOTTHARD CD has topped the Swiss chart in the group's career so far. In addition, the album landed at No. 9 on the German Media Control chart. "Firebirth" was released in June 2012 via Nuclear Blast/Warner Music. The CD was produced at the band's own Yellow House Studios in Lugano, Switzerland, with guitarist/songwriter Leo Leoni and Paul Lani(who has previously worked with GOTTHARD on several of their earlier albums, including "G-Spot" and "Homerun") at the helm.
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Rare Commercial For NIRVANA’s ‘In Utero’ Surfaces

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According to The Pulse Of Radio, a rare commercial for NIRVANA's third and final studio album, 1993's "In Utero", has surfaced online ahead of a planned 20th-anniversary reissue of the disc. The clip, made to resemble an old-fashioned TV advertisement, features comedian Bobcat Goldthwait in drag as a "militant" birthing instructor who supervises asKurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl all launch plastic baby dolls from their nether regions. "In Utero" followed the massively successful 1991 release "Nevermind"and included the hit single "Heart Shaped Box". It was also the final full album recorded by the group before Cobain shot himself to death in April 1994. Although there is no official announcement yet, a 20th anniversary edition of "In Utero" is reportedly in the works for this September and will include archival recordings, demos, rarities, interviews and more. A similar package for "Nevermind" was issued in 2011.
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ARTILLERY Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS

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Danish thrash metal veterans ARTILLERY have inked a deal with Metal Blade Records. The band's new album has already been recorded and in the process of being mixed and mastered. The CD was tracked at Medley Studios in Copenhagen with producer Søren Andersen and will include such songs as "Anno Requirem", "Dies Irae", "Define Your Sins" and"Wardrum Heartbeat". A late 2013 release is expected. Comments ARTILLERY on the signing: "ARTILLERY is very proud to have signed with legendary Metal Blade Records! "Metal Blade is the company who released METALLICA's first song,SLAYER's and TROUBLE's debut records and who in their lineup have our fellow Danes MERCYFUL FATE/KING DIAMOND signed. With their over 30 years of experience in the business, this is a big step forward forARTILLERY.
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CATTLE DECAPITATION To Release ‘Your Disposal’ 7″ Single

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San Diego-based deathgrind masters CATTLE DECAPITATION will release a seven-inch single this summer. "Your Disposal" features the B-side "An Exposition of Insides", which was previously available only as a Japanese bonus track on the band's most recent album, "Monolith Of Inhumanity". The single is available (both black and clear vinyl) for order on-line onIndieMerchStore.com for $5.50, as well as in a bundle with a t-shirt for $18.99. Fans attending this year's Summer Slaughter Tour can grab their copy at the band's merch booth throughout the tour. Vocalist Travis Ryan comments: "We noticed a lot of people were dismayed to find out there was a track available out there on a Japanese version of 'Monolith Of Inhumanity' that nobody outside of Japan had ever heard before. When it hit YouTube, that's when we started getting emails from fans. We noticed the lyrics weren't inside that version or available anywhere at all so that gave us the idea of throwing it on a B-side and releasing a 7" vinyl single for 'Your Disposal' with the song 'An Exposition Of Insides'! We feel that 'Monolith' is the mother of all of our releases so far and I thought it'd be funny to make it look like she just squirted out a baby and that's what this little guy looks like. Just in time for Summer Slaughter!" The most extreme tour of the year has returned with its most devastating and anticipated lineup yet. The seventh annual Summer Slaughter Tour, presented by Indie Merch Store, ESP and Guitar World, is now officially slated to run from July 19 through August 24. It features such heavyweights as THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ANIMALS AS LEADERS,PERIPHERY, NORMA JEAN, CATTLE
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Manos Spanos

Manos Spanos (Metalpaths' co-editor-in-chief), eight years in this site but still can't be characterised as a metalhead.