The band’s first DVD, Audioslave , was released on July 29, 2003.
After eleven years apart, faced with an ever-growing demand for a reunion, Judas Priest and Rob Halford announced they would reunite in July 2003, to coincide with the release of the Metalogy box set (despite Halford’s earlier insistence that he “would never do it” ). They did a concert tour…
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Four singles were released from the album: ” The Greatest View “, ” Without You “, “Luv Your Life” and “Across the Night”; “The Greatest View” charted highest, reaching No. 3. In October, Silverchair were successful at the ARIA Music Awards of 2002 , winning five awards, including ‘Best Rock…
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Twisted Sister, this time including Mark Mendoza, reunited again for the Sweden Rock Festival in June 2003.
After two and a half years, L’Arc-en-Ciel performed a series of seven concerts, entitled Shibuya Seven Days, in Tokyo in June 2003.
In June 2003, Metallica’s eighth studio album, St. Anger , debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and drew mixed reactions from critics. Ulrich’s “steely” sounding snare drum and the absence of guitar solos received particular criticism. Kevin Forest Moreau of Shakingthrough.net said, “the guitars stumble in a monotone…
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Late in 2002 Jet independently issued a four-track debut extended play Dirty Sweet , with distribution by Rubber Records. Its initial pressing of 1000 copies was sold out. An NME writer had obtained a copy of the group’s single “Take It or Leave It” from Dirty Sweet and described it…
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Joannou worked with blues rock group The Mess Hall ; he co-produced—with Matt Lovell —their six-track extended play Feeling Sideways , which was released in May 2003. The album was nominated for the ARIA Award for ‘Best Independent Release’ in 2003. Joannou and Lovell co-produced The Mess Hall’s studio album…
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They again attended and performed at Pavarotti’s benefit concert in Modena , Italy in May 2003.
In April 2003, the band released the resulting album, Viva Emptiness .