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MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine in good health, rumors untrue

2011-03-21T02:11:00.000-07:00

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Here's a message from Riki, the personal assistant of MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine.

Hey everyone,

Time to check in from Oslo, Norway from the European Carnage tour. We've got this well oiled machine up and running again and are happy to be back out on the road.

I don't normally do this, but I want to take this opportunity to address some very serious LIES that are being spread right now. I'm going to say this as emphatically as I can, DAVE MUSTAINE NEVER COLLAPSED IN RUSSIA. Not ON stage, not back stage, not ever. He was NOT rushed to the hospital. Dave addressed his health issues himself, and I have no idea where anybody got the idea that there was a collapse because simply put, it is NOT TRUE. Anybody who was at that show can verify that, and as his personal assistant, as his right hand out here on the road, I want to testify to anybody who doubts it, this never happened. It's really pathetic that people have to play the telephone game and spread bulls*&t rumors to trump up some fantasy that they have played out in their heads. Please pass the word along to anyone who may say other wise, and to fellow Megadeth fans, and to people who claim to know otherwise. I have never worked for an artist who is so candid and honest with his fans and in the press as Dave Mustaine, and he told you all, in very great detail, exactly what happened to him that day. Kidney stones are quite a normal thing, and extremely painful. There was no lies from him, no covering it up, he was open and honest and still went out on stage and tore it up for his fans. All of us out here are proud and inspired to work for a leader like him who has such a never say die attitude. This is just another smear campaign by some bad tabloid media. Get your facts straight folks, choose your wording very carefully. Something as strongly worded as "collapse" can come across as way more dramatic and blown out of proportion than you may realize. It is very poor form to create worry and panic where there is none needed. You heard it here first: Britney Spears does NOT have 2 heads (though Charlie Sheen, I'm not so sure), Ozzy does not eat bats for breakfast on a daily basis, and Dave Mustaine did NOT collapse in Russia.

Otherwise, this tour is going great. Dave's not quite 100% yet, but he's doing well. Thank you all for the well wishes and prayers. Every little bit helps. It's great to be back out here with our Slayer family and getting to bring this show to the European fans. For me, it's so great to do these Scandanavian shows early on in the tour. I absolutely love this part of the world and the fans are always so great.

Dave's book just got released in Finland last week. Dave Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir got released by Paasilinna Publishing and it looks absolutely incredible. We just got the news that the book is going to be released in Germany soon, so I'll send the details over to our beloved webmaster as soon as I have them.

So thank you, Megadeth fans, for being the best fans in the world, for being so loyal to Dave and Co for all these years, and for helping to set the record straight here. We know the truth, YOU know the truth, and in the scheme of things, none of those other idiots even matter. See you down the road!!

Cheers!
-Rikki
Dave Mustaine's Personal Assistant.

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FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND to release digital EP 'The Young And Defenceless'

2010-11-30T05:59:00.000-08:00

It was eight years ago that FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND began to play music based on simple principals: to write songs that connected, songs about their lives, the lives of those around, and to enjoy themselves as they went. In those eight years, quietly, they have chalked up some amazing statistics: the band have sold considerably more than a million records; all four of their albums have gone into the UK Top 20; they have three Gold records; have graced countless magazine covers, been the subject of broadsheet profiles and tabloid features; their tours sell out the nation’s larger venues in a matter of minutes; worldwide – from America to Russia, Singapore to Australia, Japan and beyond – they have a following more loyal than bands considered their equal.

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND are proud to announce the release of their digital EP 'The Young And Defenceless' and it pretty much sums up the way the world is going: blind ignorance and a lot of too little too late. These songs are a call to arms, a ‘fuck you’ in the face of those who dare sit on their asses and watch everything around them turn to shit.

'The Young And Defenceless' track listings are:

1. Serpents in Solitude
2. Sixteen
3. Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don’t
4. Vultures

"There’s a lot of attitude and a lot of anger and it shows, not just in the amazing artwork by our friend Rianne Rowlands who has pulled out all the stops with her incredible art, but in these 4 ass kicking songs. If you like aggression then you’ve got it, if you like heart on your sleeve emotional power then you’ve got that too. This is just the start, there’s more to come just over that horizon."

'The Young And Defenceless' will be made available digitally on the 10th December.

MURDERDOLLS have cancelled Violent Night, Deadly Night US tour

2010-11-30T05:45:00.000-08:00

In an unfortunate turn of events, MURDERDOLLS ' upcoming Violent Night, Deadly Night US Tour has been cancelled.

Here is the band's official statement:

“Due to an unforeseeable family emergency Murderdolls have been forced to cancel the upcoming Violent Night, Deadly Night tour. These decisions are never easy to make and we did everything we could to keep from having to cancel, but this was unavoidable. We’ll do our best to make up the dates in 2011. For those who bought tickets, refunds are available from point of purchase. Sorry ghoulscouts but we’ll see you all soon!”