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24 Jul 2009

SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Serj Tankian is writing new poetry book

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24 Jul 2009

UNLEASHED have inked a deal with Nuclear Blast

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24 Jul 2009

DARK TRANQUILLITY - new live CD/DVD is set to release in October

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24 Jul 2009

Andy Sneap in talks to produce new ACCEPT album

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24 Jul 2009

Jorn Lande will sing in MASTERPLAN again

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24 Jul 2009

KATATONIA has set "Night Is the New Day" as the title of a new album

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24 Jul 2009

BLACK SABBATH provided their name for a horror movie

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22 Jul 2009

NILE frontman speaks on new album

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22 Jul 2009

Former THERION's drummer Petter Karlsson runs HOLOCOASTER

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22 Jul 2009

MARDUK release "Wormwood" in September

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21 Jul 2009

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD are recording new album

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21 Jul 2009

KAMELOT are recording new disc

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21 Jul 2009

ASTRAL DOORS have lay down a song for an ice hockey team

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20 Jul 2009

TO/DIE/FOR speak about new album

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20 Jul 2009

SIX FEET UNDER - Graveyard Classics 3 is on the way!

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20 Jul 2009

FINNTROLL due to enter studio next week

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25 May 2009

News from RASHAMBA

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10 Mar 2009

ANDEM Reveal Cover Art and Tracklist for New Album

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10 Mar 2009

INEXIST Preparing to Enter the Studio

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12 Feb 2009

ANDEM: DETAILS ON THE 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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