Metal Sludge — Sad news to report as we learn about the loss of yet another rock n’ roll veteran. Greg “FRITZ” Hinz of the Canadian band HELIX has died. Hinz had played with the band HELIX for 2 long runs totaling more than 25 years, over a 40 year period starting in 1982. Hinz has sadly has lost his near year long battle with cancer. Hinz was 68. We have grabbed an excerpt of[…]
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UPDATED: February 12th 2024 The annual Monsters of Rock Cruise have started to list official schedules for their 2024 cruise. The 5 day festival on water, have listed all releated events, live shows, appearances and more for both Day #1 (Saturday March 2nd), Day #2 (Sunday March 3rd), Day #3 (Monday March 4th) and Day #4 (Tuesday March 5th). This year’s floating festival features more than 3 dozen musical acts that will perform a minimum[…]
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UPDATE: February 10th 2024! The new TUFF “Fist First” Vinyl is officially IN-STOCK and shipping! Order your copy today! LOS ANGELES, California — I am stoked to announce that we’re officially taking initial pre-orders for our next Vinyl release. That’s right, RLS Records are issuing a remaster of our 1994 TUFF release “Fist First” and it’s bigger, better and more bad-ass for sure. The new TUFF “Fist First” has been remastered and fully repackage outside[…]
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Here is a throwback just in time for Valentine’s Day, which is just over a week out. We’re re-plugging a few of these cool classic lists that Metal Sludge published over the years, and these Top Lists are always a big hit. We salute Gerry “G-Spot” Gittelson, who has been the guy to put a lot of these together… give this one a read, it’s a lot of fun. Metal Sludge thanks you for your[…]
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Metal Sludge — Digging deep into the Sludge Archives we’re unearthing some oldies and super Sludgy goodies. Below is our original 20 Questions interview with Britny Fox bassist Billy Childs. Billy did NOT short anyone on his answers. As a matter of fact, he wrote over 5,000 words in his replies. Kudos to Billy from way back on Sept. 28th 2004. We’re going to continue to share some more of these, enjoy. ——————————————————————– 20 Questions[…]
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Metal Sludge — We’re continuing to dig deep into the old archives and bring you some great past interviews. This 20 Questions takes us back to 2004 with Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big and Racer X fame. Paul was a great sport and gave the readers plenty with roughly 2,500 words of love from his mind and keyboard. Enjoy the latest installment and make sure to click the CLASSIC SLUDGE menu bar tab for more[…]
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Metal Sludge — In our series of old skool flashback interviews, we give you another oldie but a goodie. This below is the exact 20 Questions we posted with Every Mother’s Nightmare singer Rick Ruhl nearly 20 years ago. This was first published back on October 2nd 2001! Ruhl is still going strong today with Every Mother’s Nightmare who just released “Resurrect The Faithful” on High Vol Music in late October. The first single was[…]
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Metal Sludge — Continuing in our series of Sludge Flashbacks, today we’re going to go way back, back to the 1900’s… back when the Prince hit was on every radio radar for the final weeks of that year. Below is the exact interview Metal Sludge published on July 6th 1999 with (at the time) former Warrant guitarist Joey Allen. As everyone knows, Warrant has since reunited a few different ways and the complete classic lineup[…]
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Metal Sludge — That’s right, we’re back with an oldie but a goodie from the year 2003. Not only does the history of Metal Sludge include hundreds of Rock Star interviews, but we’ve got those who make Rock Stars sound great. With no further babble, we’ll give you our 20 Questions interview with Producer Extraordinaire Michael Wagener. This is the exact interview we ran with Michael from May 13th 2003, enjoy. ———————————————————————————-20 Questions with Michael[…]
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A throwback article from one of our Metal Sludge Top Lists! These were always fun, we hope you agree! Enjoy this cool throwback from the great Gerry Gittelson! Stay tuned to Metal Sludge… because, you never know what might happen next. Metal Sludge — Welcome to Metal Sludge’s definitive version of Hair Metal’s Top 12 party rock songs. We waved through all the confetti and sloshed through all the champagne to deliver this all-access tour[…]
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