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10 Aug 2003

EDGE OF SANITY - clip from forthcoming album in Internet

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10 Aug 2003

SIX FEET UNDER - "Amerika The Brutal" song posted online

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09 Aug 2003

TIDFALL - "Nucleus" is currently in stores

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09 Aug 2003

KORPIKLAANI - new name of SHAMAN

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09 Aug 2003

INVERACITY - Greek brutal death

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08 Aug 2003

WITHIN Y - "Extended Mental Dimensions", due in early 2004

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07 Aug 2003

LAKE OF TEARS - are going to start again

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07 Aug 2003

TO/DIE/FOR - Vocalist ended his career in band

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07 Aug 2003

EIDOLON

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07 Aug 2003

DANZIG - into the studio

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07 Aug 2003

THE CROWN

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04 Aug 2003

HATE ETERNAL - bassist/vocalist has left the band

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04 Aug 2003

Oupiric Prouctions - Autum releases

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03 Aug 2003

METALLICA - copyrighted the chords D and F

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03 Aug 2003

SKYCLAD - last-minute addition to the Hawkfest

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01 Aug 2003

STRATOVARIUS - Elements Part 2

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01 Aug 2003

VADER - mini-CD, titled "Blood", on September 22

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31 Jul 2003

PANTERA - forthcoming career overview

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31 Jul 2003

THE LEGION

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31 Jul 2003

SEETHINGS - new Swedish band

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VAN HALEN released "5150" on March 24, 1986 — the first album with new vocalist Sammy Hagar and a landmark moment in hard rock history. Named after the California police code for an escaped mental patient, "5150" was the band's first album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200, ironically their biggest commercial success coming after the departure of original frontman David Lee Roth. The album's polished, keyboard-heavy sound represented a dramatic shift from VAN HALEN's raw early records — "Why Can't This Be Love," "Dreams," and "Love Walks In" were radio-friendly melodic rock anthems far from the blues-influenced hard rock of "Eruption" and "Runnin' with the Devil." Critics were divided; fans bought it in millions. "5150" began a commercially successful if artistically controversial second chapter for one of rock's greatest bands.

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