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QUIET RIOT + WARRANT + LA GUNS “Metal Health 2011” Australia Tour CANCELLED [Tour News]

  Heavy metallers QUIET RIOT announced the cancellation of their forthcoming Australian and New Zealand tour.

Metal Health 2011 was scheduled to kick off next Friday, the 29th of April in Melbourne and featured not only Quiet Riot, but their fellow Californian rockers L.A Guns and Warrant.

In a facebook announcement, the band commented:
“OFFICIAL PRESS & MEDIA RELEASE:

QUIET RIOT, WARRANT AND L.A. GUNS REGRET TO INFORM THEIR FANS AND THE PUBLIC THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE PROMOTER’S BREACH OF CONTRACT THE “METAL HEALTH TOUR” SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 2011 IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND HAS BEEN CANCELLED.”

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Veteran Hard Rockers KING KOBRA Announce New Album

  Veteran Hard Rockers King Kobra are back with a venomous new album

Frontiers Records has announced the release of the Self-Titled come back album from KING KOBRA on April 15th in Europe and May 5th in North America.

Formed in 1984 by legendary drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne), Los Angeles heavy metal outfit King Kobra recorded two critically acclaimed albums for Capitol Records – the 1985 release ‘Ready to Strike’ and 1986’s ‘Thrill of a Lifetime‘.

Along with Carmine, the band featured four relatively unknown musicians at the time – David Michael-Philips and Mick Sweda on guitar, Johnny Rod on bass and Mark Free on lead vocals. King Kobra toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Mexico playing shows with Kiss, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, Ted Nugent, Queensryche and Autograph.
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RATT: Legendary hard rock icons announce new album

ratt   Legendary hard rock icons RATT announced today that Infestation will be the title of their next album, due out in March 2010 via Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records. Infestation is the band’s first studio album since 1999. The band, consisting of longtime members Stephen Pearcy, Warren DeMartini and Bobby Blotzer, new guitarist Carlos
Cavazo (formerly of Quiet Riot) and Robbie Crane on bass, worked with producer Elvis Baskette (Chevelle, Incubus, Limp Bizkit). This collaboration marks the very first time in their storied career that RATT have recorded outside of Los Angeles. The band lived together at Elvis’ Virginia studio while recording Infestation.

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