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24 Sept 2007

THE CODEX - Mark Boals / Magnus Karlsson New Project!

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24 Sept 2007

BRAINSTORM - New Single details!

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24 Sept 2007

NOVEMBRE: New Album Details Revealed

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18 Sept 2007

RASHAMBA - The new EP's release

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17 Sept 2007

IMPALED NAZARENE - New Album Update!

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17 Sept 2007

EMPIREs new album "Chasing Shadows"

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17 Sept 2007

Former EVANESCENCE Members Writing, Producing Material For CELINE DION

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12 Sept 2007

AFTER FOREVER Singer To Guest On New AYREON CD; Audio Available

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12 Sept 2007

F.R.Y. Releasing an Internet Single

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08 Sept 2007

Wolfsangel renamed to Wolfmare

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06 Sept 2007

SCALD - 10 years since the day of tragedy...

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05 Sept 2007

SCARTOWN - guitarist left the band

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05 Sept 2007

OVERKILL: "Immortalis" Track Listing, Artwork Unveiled

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01 Sept 2007

LIZZY BORDEN - New Albums Details!

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01 Sept 2007

SHAMAN: "Immortal" artwork unveiled

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01 Sept 2007

U.D.O. - Best Of Release, Vote For The Best!

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01 Sept 2007

NEVERMORE - Parted Ways With Smyth!

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01 Sept 2007

Moonspell: "Under Satanæ" release date announced

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01 Sept 2007

IN FLAMES post new song online

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27 Aug 2007

MECHANICAL POET new album

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24 MAR

1986

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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