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04 Apr 2005

Thomen Stauch left BLIND GUARDIAN

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01 Apr 2005

SATYRICON: songwriting update

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30 Mar 2005

SEPULTURA: Preparing For DVD Shoot

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30 Mar 2005

NOCTURNAL RITES: 'Avalon' Video Posted Online

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30 Mar 2005

MAYHEM Drummer To Play On Next DIMMU BORGIR CD

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29 Mar 2005

HIRAX' former members restart their forgotten project

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29 Mar 2005

AURA NOIR - drummer is undergoing surgery

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29 Mar 2005

DEW-SCENTED - the forth issue will be 'Issue IV'

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24 Mar 2005

JUDAS PRIEST's 'Angel Of Retribution' - at position №1 in chart

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24 Mar 2005

The new album of OBITUARY

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22 Mar 2005

PECCATUM - the new EP rumors

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21 Mar 2005

BRUCE DICKINSON - "Tyranny of Souls" details

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18 Mar 2005

GUNS N' ROSES don't have the "leak"

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18 Mar 2005

EXODUS are selling a two-disc DVD

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17 Mar 2005

DEATH HEAVEN - the first demo is out

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16 Mar 2005

SOILWORK & BLIND GUARDIAN - common project

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16 Mar 2005

News from STRATOVARIUS

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16 Mar 2005

Magic Circle Music signs worldwide deal with SPV.

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15 Mar 2005

ARALLU are currently in the studio

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14 Mar 2005

SUBLIMINAL CRUSHER - working on a debut full-lenght

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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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