BILLY SHEEHAN Schedules Hollywood Workshop Rotosound has announced an exclusive workshop with the legendary bassist Billy Sheehan at the Guitar Center in Hollywood, California on October 21 between 7 p.m.

NOCTURNAL FEAR Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement NOCTURNAL FEAR, Detroit's war-thrash death-squad, has parted ways with longtime drummer Aggressor.

PHILIP ANSELMO Says There Can Be No PANTERA Without DIMEBAG Former PANTERA and current DOWN singer Philip Anselmo tells Billboard.com that his collaboration with fellow surviving PANTERA members Vinnie Paul Abbott (drums) and Rex Brown (bass), along with the estate of the late guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, to work together on PANTERA's "Cowboys From Hell" reissue is unlikely to lead to any new original music from the former bandmates.

STONE SOUR's 'Audio Secrecy' Projected To Sell 40K-45K First Week "Audio Secrecy", the third album from STONE SOUR — the band featuring SLIPKNOT members Corey Taylor (vocals) and Jim Root (guitar) — is likely to sell between 40,000 and 45,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double.

BLEEDING THROUGH Interviewed On 'Ryan's Rock Show' (Video) "Ryan's Rock Show" recently conducted an interview with vocalist Brandan Schieppati and bassist Ryan Wombacher of Orange County, California's BLEEDING THROUGH.

MIKE PORTNOY: Don't Blame AVENGED SEVENFOLD For My Decision To Quit DREAM THEATER Drummer Mike Portnoy says that his current involvement with AVENGED SEVENFOLD had nothing to do with his decision to quit DREAM THEATER, the band he formed and led for 25 years.

VINCE NEIL: More Details Revealed In Alleged Assault World Entertainment News Network (WENN) has revealed more details about the assault investigation involving MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil that is currently being conducted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

HELSTAR: New Album Title, Release Date Announced Legendary Texas metallers HELSTAR have set "Glory Of Chaos" as the title of their new album, due on November 5 via Germany's AFM Records.

BEATALLICA: We're Hated By More METALLICA Fans Than We Are By THE BEATLES Fans Gail Flug of Attention Deficit Delirium recently conducted an interview with guitarist/lead vocalist Jaymz Lennfield of BEATALLICA — a satirical mashup act whose hilarious schtick marries the songwriting prowess of THE BEATLES to the deep-throated rock growl of METALLICA.

DEW-SCENTED: Japanese Version Of 'Invocation' To Include Four Bonus Tracks "Invocation", the latest album from German thrashers DEW-SCENTED, will be released in Japan on September 15 via Spiritual Beast.

Original SODOM Guitarist Resurfaces In WORTMORD WORTMORD, the new band featuring original SODOM guitarist Peppi "Grave Violator" Dominik, will release its self-titled debut album on September 29 via Sunny Bastards Records.

DREAM THEATER: 'We Will Continue To Move Forward With Same Intensity' As Before Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER have released the following statement regarding the departure of the band's drummer, Mike Portnoy:"To all of our loyal fans and friends: It is with profound sadness — regret — we announce that Mike Portnoy, our lifelong drummer and friend, has decided to leave DREAM THEATER.

ACCEPT Guitarist: UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER Couldn't 'Write A Guitar Chord' Or 'A Sentence Of Lyrics' Pat Prince of Goldmine magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann of reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT.

VINCE NEIL Slams NIKKI SIXX: He 'Likes To Portray Himself As The Messiah' In his upcoming autobiography, "Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen", MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil takes aim at the band's bassist and main songwriter Nikki Sixx for allegedly "portraying himself as the Messiah" and "loving the whole fame thing."On page 78 of the autobiography, excerpts from which are available on the Hachette Book Group web site,

ENSLAVED's IVAR BJØRNSON Interviewed By INFERNAL MASQUERADE Infernal Masquerade webzine recently conducted an interview with songwriter and guitarist Ivar Bjørnson of the Norwegian psychedelic post-black metal band ENSLAVED.