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28 Jan 2005

PARADISE LOST - 'Forever After' video posted online

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27 Jan 2005

CELL DIVISION - new songs and video

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24 Jan 2005

Blistering.com picks top 10 PANTERA songs

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24 Jan 2005

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT - track to be used in TV Show

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24 Jan 2005

RUNNING WILD - new promotional photos

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23 Jan 2005

News from BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION

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23 Jan 2005

MANTAS To release new EP

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18 Jan 2005

InsideOut Music - the further extension...

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18 Jan 2005

UMPHREY’S McGEE - to jam or not jam

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18 Jan 2005

SHADOW GALLERY welcome to “Room Five“

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10 Jan 2005

Top Five highlights and biggest disappointments of 2004

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04 Jan 2005

About 150 Swedish musicians have recorded a song to raise money for the victims in Asia

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04 Jan 2005

ENTHRALLMENT have set the title of their third album

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21 Dec 2004

SATYRICON - the guitarists are to be sentenced to ten years in prison

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19 Dec 2004

FIRST OFFICIAL EVENT OF THE GREEK NIGHTWISH FANCLUB!

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19 Dec 2004

THE HAUNTED

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19 Dec 2004

TRISTANIA Guitarist Talks About Comparisons To NIGHTWISH And EVANESCENCE

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19 Dec 2004

INSOMNIUM: First Demo Available For Free Download

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14 Dec 2004

JUDAS PRIEST - "Angel of Retribution"

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14 Dec 2004

MASSEMORD and SYKDOM have decided to join forces

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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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