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Kenneth Wilson, better known as Ginger Fish has announced via Facebook that he is leaving Manson to pursue other opportunities. Ginger was the longest running member of Manson, after replacing Sara Lee Lucas in 1995.

Lars Ulrich has ended speculation that Metallica would use some of their "lost" recordings from their sessions at the Presidio a decade ago, on their new recording project. BW&BK reports that Ulrich said that the band bypassed the Presidio recording on their last studio album and have no desire to "wade through" it for their current project.

Panic! At The Disco has moved up the release of their new album, "Vices & Virtues" which will now hit stores on March 22nd.

Some bad news out of the Slayer camp: Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and founding member of Slayer, was hospitalized late last month where he underwent emergency surgery on his right arm after contracting a serious infection, according to his bandmates Kerry King, Tom Araya, and Dave Lombardo.

Fresh off last year’s Rust in Peace anniversary tour (as well as the wildly successful “Big Four” tour), Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is pondering how to celebrate the silver anniversary of one of the band’s other landmark albums, Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?!

(anitmusic) Axl Rose once again took to his Twitlonger account to address the recent rumors swirling around Guns N' Roses and also to announce yet another change in management. The key issues addressed were the rumored U.S. tour plans as well as the relaunch of "Chinese Democracy."

Good Charlotte will launch their "Cardiology" North American tour on March 3rd. The tour is in support of their fifth studio album and first for Capitol Records, "Cardiology".

(antimusic) We received an update on Thursday with details about Green Day's new live album, entitled Awesome As F**k, which is set to be released on March 22nd, 2011.