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27 Oct 2004

WAYSTED reunion and hit with a new album

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27 Oct 2004

MESMERIZE completed making of a new album

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26 Oct 2004

MY FATE - is happiness fiction?

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26 Oct 2004

SCORNGRAIN - "cyber" + "war" + "machine" = ?

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26 Oct 2004

SOUL SIRKUS will play for the world

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25 Oct 2004

THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT - accused in racism

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25 Oct 2004

ANDROMEDA - "Final Extension"

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25 Oct 2004

ANATHEMA - a DVD release is pushed back

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25 Oct 2004

Bard "Faust" Eithun will not join HELVETE

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25 Oct 2004

BEHEMOTH make Robbie Williams

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25 Oct 2004

THE PROVENANCE - new album’s to be out

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25 Oct 2004

KISS - School Of Rock!

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22 Oct 2004

USURPER - Announce details of their new album "Cryptobeast"

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22 Oct 2004

EXMORTEM - Sign to Wicked World

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22 Oct 2004

CULT OF LUNA - New album "Salvation" out today in USA

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22 Oct 2004

LINEA 77: Nominated for MTV Europe Music Award! Get Voting!

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22 Oct 2004

BIOMECHANICAL join with Elitist/Earache

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22 Oct 2004

THE CHASM - New Album "The Spell Of Retribution" to be released on 8th November

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04 Sept 2004

HAMMERFALL - "Fury Of The Wild"

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04 Sept 2004

PENTACLE - a new album early next year

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14 AUG

2002

On August 14, 2002, DROWNING POOL lost vocalist Dave Williams at age 30. He was found unresponsive on the band's tour bus in Manassas, Virginia, during that year's Ozzfest run; the cause was later confirmed as heart failure from an undiagnosed case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a hidden condition that gave no warning signs. Williams had fronted DROWNING POOL through their breakout debut Sinner, whose single "Bodies" became one of nu-metal's defining anthems and pushed the Dallas band into constant radio and MTV rotation. His death arrived just as the band's momentum was peaking, and for a moment DROWNING POOL considered ending things entirely before deciding to carry on with a new singer. More than two decades later, "Bodies" still detonates mosh pits at festivals worldwide, and Williams is remembered as one of the genre's most talented, most missed frontmen — gone far too soon.

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