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QUEENSRŸCHE TO JAPAN

QUEENSRŸCHE will embark on a four-date Japanese tour in late May/early June. The details are as follows:

May 31 - Kosei-Nenkin Hall - Tokyo, Japan
Jun. 01 - Kosei-Nenkin Hall - Tokyo, Japan
Jun. 03 - Zepp - Nagoya, Japan
Jun. 05 - NHK Hall - Osaka, Japan

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MORE TOOL TOUR DATES

TOOL has announced the following U.S./Canadian dates in March/April:

Mar. 15 - Las Vegas, NV The Pearl
Mar. 16 - Las Vegas, NV The Pearl
Mar. 18 - Reno, NV Reno Events Center
Mar. 20 - San Diego, CA Cox Arena
Mar. 21 - Tucson, AZ TCC Arena
Mar. 23 - Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
Mar. 24 - Las Cruces, NM Pan American Center
Mar. 26 - San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Mar. 27 - Corpus Christi, TX American Bank Center
Mar. 29 - Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
Mar. 30 - Southaven, MS Desoto Civic Center
Mar. 31 - Baton Rouge, LA River Center
Apr. 02 - Pensacola, FL Pensacola Civic Center
Apr. 03 - Tallahassee, FL Leon County Civic Center
Apr. 05 - Tampa, FL USF Sundome
Apr. 06 - Orlando, FL Amway Arena
Apr. 07 - Coral Gables, FL Bank United Center
Apr. 10 - Duluth, GA Gwinnett Center
Apr. 11 - Winston-Salem, NC Joel Lawrence Arena
Apr. 13 - Birmingham, AL Oak Mountain Amphitheater
Apr. 14 - Greenville, SC Bi-Lo Center
Apr. 15 - Richmond, VA Richmond Coliseum
Apr. 17 - Reading, PA Sovereign Center
Apr. 18 - University Park, PA Bryce Jordan Arena
Apr. 20 - Albany, NY Times Union Center
Apr. 21 - Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
Apr. 22 - Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
Apr. 27 - Quebec City, Quebec CANADA The Colisee
Apr. 28 - Montreal, Quebec CANADA Bell Center
Apr. 29 - Hamilton, Ontario CANADA Copps Coliseum

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RICK RUBIN "I ASKED METALLICA NOT TO REINVENT THEMSELVES SO MUCH AS TO MAKE A DEFINING ALBUM"

Rick Rubin, who was named "Producer of the Year" at this past weekend's Grammy Awards, spoke to MTV.com about his work with METALLICA on their much-anticipated follow-up to 2003's "St. Anger", tentatively due before the end of the year via Warner Bros.

"I saw [the warts-and-all METALLICA documentary 'Some Kind of Monster'], and it made me really nervous," Rubin said. "Then we started working, and it's the opposite direction of that. They're really productive, really communicative — it seems like they really like being in the room together. It's a great process. They say they're more excited than they have been in a long time about making music. We're going to start recording in March. I asked them not to reinvent themselves so much as to make a defining album, like the purest of what METALLICA is. That's the aim, so we'll see what happens."

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone magazine that Rubin said that he wants to make the group sound "like the METALLICA that made them METALLICA without going backward" — and that he's doing it by challenging old habits.

"He's questioning what key we should play in," Ulrich told Rolling Stone. "We've played in E flat since the beginning of the '90s. Nobody questioned it. All of a sudden, Rick is going, 'Maybe the stuff has more energy and Hetfield's voice sounds better in E.' He's forced us to rethink big-picture stuff, something we haven't done in years."

Rubin also insisted that METALLICA rehearse and learn the material until, as Ulrich puts it, "we can play these songs in our sleep, standing on our heads. "With Bob [Rock, METALLICA's longtime producer], we'd go into the studio when we had some concrete ideas. But Rick wants us to take care of all the creative elements first. He wants us to capture these songs in a recording environment instead of creating them there."

Source BW&BK

 

 

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