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07 Jul 2005

New release from Pagan Altar

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07 Jul 2005

ENTWINE will release new EP this August

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07 Jul 2005

FLOWING TEARS: 'Razorbliss' To Receive U.S. Release Next Week

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07 Jul 2005

MORTIIS Keeps Busy With Remixes, Guest Appearances

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06 Jul 2005

Moscow Deputy stacks on with veterans of Rock to make an album

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04 Jul 2005

IRON MAIDEN: Piano Tribute Due In August

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29 Jun 2005

OPETH - a new track has been posted online

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28 Jun 2005

CHILDREN OF BODOM - 'Are You Dead Yet?'

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23 Jun 2005

OBITUARY: 'Newer And Better'

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22 Jun 2005

InsideOut Music Newsletter

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20 Jun 2005

MORBID ANGEL - guitarist goes missing

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19 Jun 2005

ARCH ENEMY - "Doomsday Machine" in June

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19 Jun 2005

Fleur - European Release

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18 Jun 2005

VISION DIVINE - STRATOVARIUS' Timo Tollki as produser

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16 Jun 2005

DRIFTING BREED To Release Debut EP

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16 Jun 2005

ENSLAVED will play live an entire "Eld" album

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14 Jun 2005

DREAM EVIL - a brand new song will be posted online

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14 Jun 2005

TNT - a new DVD is available

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14 Jun 2005

GRIMFIST - "10 Steps to Hell"

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10 Jun 2005

DARK FUNERAL promises s surprise

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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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