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23 Sept 2005

TODESBONDEN - Ghost of a Crescent Moon

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23 Sept 2005

News from AETERNUS

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23 Sept 2005

COUNT RAVEN re-release albums

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13 Sept 2005

SPI-RITUAL - a new face of BETRAY MY SECRETS

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13 Sept 2005

THEATRE OF TRAGEDY have inked a deal with AFM Records

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11 Sept 2005

PANDEMIA: 'Riven' Video Posted Online

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11 Sept 2005

KREATOR To Release 'Enemy Of God' DVD-Audio Edition

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06 Sept 2005

Blaze Bayley speaks about forthcoming album and DVD

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06 Sept 2005

AMORAL have uploaded two sound samples from their upcoming album

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06 Sept 2005

ANCIENT have parted ways with their drummer

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06 Sept 2005

LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE are currently writing material for their seventh album

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03 Sept 2005

HYPOCRISY - new song online

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03 Sept 2005

CATHEDRAL - new song online

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21 Aug 2005

VADER - Doc's death

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19 Aug 2005

BLOODRIDE - MCD for download

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16 Aug 2005

HOSTILE BREED - first Russian-language album

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12 Aug 2005

WOLVERINE will make a live preview of upcoming album

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10 Aug 2005

SKYCLAD guitarist suffed a serious shoulder injury

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10 Aug 2005

ANUBIS GATE will release their second album

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05 Aug 2005

MORTIIS releases first ever DVD on September 26th 2005

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21 JUN

1985

On June 21, 1985, MÖTLEY CRÜE released their third studio album Theatre of Pain through Elektra Records. Produced by Tom Werman, the record arrived in the wake of drummer Tommy Lee and vocalist Vince Neil's very public personal tragedies and marked the band's commercial breakthrough into the mainstream. The opening cover of Brownsville Station's "Smokin' in the Boys Room" became a top five rock radio hit, while "Home Sweet Home" — a power ballad built around piano and Lee's arena-filling drum fills — became one of glam metal's defining anthems. Theatre of Pain debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and was certified triple platinum in the United States. Though often considered a transitional record rather than a creative peak, it established MÖTLEY CRÜE as one of the dominant commercial forces in American heavy metal for the remainder of the decade.

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