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PROPER rock gods don't want to be cool or quirky or lovable, they want only one thing a ' to be worshipped.

The European trek kicks off June 22 in Dublin, Ireland, and runs through July 10, when the band plays the Optimus Alive Festival in Portugal.

Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release their long-awaited concert DVD+CD digipack, "Alive" , on February 5 in Europe and February 9 in the U.S. Recorded during the band's 2008-2009 tours of USA, Canada and Japan, the set contains 105 minutes of footage on DVD and more than 60 minutes of music on CD.

Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin.

MANILA A Filipino has placed 3rd place in Poland's "Mam Talent!," the country's version of "Britain's Got Talent." Alexander Martinez landed 3rd during the finale of "Mam Talent," which was on its 2nd season.

Swedish rockers EUROPE will perform at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday, December 7. The band will perform four songs a ' old and new a ' in front of tens of millions of worldwide TV viewers and 20,000 people ar Parken Stadium.

For months a group of activists has been marching around the world promoting its message of peace and nonviolence.

After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977.

Berlin, Germany's PitCam Production and More-Metal.com conducted an interview with vocalist Joey Tempest of Swedish hard rockers EUROPE when the band played in Berlin on November 17, 2009.

Reactivated '80s hard rockers KEEL will release their new album, "Streets Of Rock & Roll" , on January 29, 2010 in Europe and February 9 in the USA on Frontiers Records .

MR. BIG and D-A-D are among the artists who were interviewed for the November 2009 show from TVRoxx , a new Internet TV station for hard rock and heavy metal based in Germany.

Swedish metallers ASTRAL DOORS have been confirmed for next year's Peace & Love festival, set to take place place June 28 -July 3 in Borlange, Sweden.

Wolfmother are indeed back. Critical acclaim aside, the fans have spoken as well - the new album "Cosmic Egg" surpassed the chart debut for their Grammy-winning first album around the globe, including the U.S, Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Holland, Austria, and more.

Jeff LaBar , guitarist for classic hard rockers CINDERELLA and new hard rock supergroup FREAKSHOW , will be the special guest on the next edition of the nationally syndicated radio program "Hard Rock Nights" , airing the week of November 20-26. Jeff recounts the early days of CINDERELLA , how he joined the band and the first major tour, one of the ...

Muse manage to sound like the Zep by way of Europe a ' when they're not quoting Abba, that is.

The new LP from the titans of Teutonic metal is to be sold 'under the counter' as its content is deemed unsuitable for children Rammstein ... like Walt Disney, they're big fans of life extension through cryogenics Rammstein's Liebe ist fA1 4r alle da, the No 2 album in Europe, can no longer be "publicly displayed" in German shops.

The second and third albums from ARMAGEDDON a ' the Swedish melodic metal project of ARCH ENEMY guitarist Chris Amott a ' will get a proper and domestic release outside of Japan, where they originally came out back in the years 2000 and 2002, respectively.

German rock band Scorpions might be more associated with bombastic power ballads, spandex leggings and big hair, but at the start of the 90s their track, Wind of Change, captured the political zeitgeist like no other.

Originally a progressive rock group, Europe didn't achieve any success until they reworked their sound into a bombastic yet melodic pop-metal. In their first incarnation, the Swedish band was called Force.

Slash has tapped ALTER BRIDGE 's Myles Kennedy to sing on the final song of the legendary VELVET REVOLVER /ex- GUNS N' ROSES guitarist's upcoming self-titled solo album, due in Europe in early 2010 via Roadrunner Records .