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05 Dec 2004

ORDER OF THE EBON HAND - sign with Season of Mist

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05 Dec 2004

MY DYING BRIDE Working On New DVD Release

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02 Dec 2004

AGE OF SILENCE will take part in a radioshow

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02 Dec 2004

DEATHBOUND have changed title of upcoming album

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30 Nov 2004

SUMMON have summoned the "Fallen"

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30 Nov 2004

KULT OV AZAZEL have gone splitting...

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29 Nov 2004

THE 69 EYES - drummer hospitalized

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29 Nov 2004

DEIMOS - release on Wroth Emitter

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26 Nov 2004

THE WILDHEARTS live DVD

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26 Nov 2004

NORTHER name new EP

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26 Nov 2004

SALEM: live videos available for free download

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26 Nov 2004

THE GATHERING continue writing

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25 Nov 2004

MINDGRINDER - the rebel coismocraty

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25 Nov 2004

MORS PRINCIPIUM EST have born the unborn

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25 Nov 2004

BEYOND TWILIGHT - the synopsis

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24 Nov 2004

STURMGEIST - Cornelius Jakhelln (SOLEFALD) goes solo

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24 Nov 2004

ACTIONJACKSON - ex-MORGOTH members’ band

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23 Nov 2004

IRON MAIDEN top the rock’n’roll fashion stakes chart

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23 Nov 2004

GUNS’N’ROSES - Chinese Democracy

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22 Nov 2004

AURA NOIR - new music available for download

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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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