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News : Tourettes vocalist joins US Band 'Meldrum'

By on April 29, 2008

Tourettes vocalist Michele Madden has joined US band Meldrum — featuring former PHANTOM BLUE guitarist Michelle Meldrum (wife of EUROPE axeman John Norum) and legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TESTAMENT). also joining the band is Warface bassist Laura Christine.

The band is scheduled to enter a Los Angeles studio today (April 29) to begin recording its new album for a late 2008 release.

Commented Michelle Meldrum: “I am honored to work with Michele Madden; she is an amazing singer with an extremely heavy voice and a huge range. We are venturing into new territory sonically, and can’t wait to perform the new material live.”

Gene Hoglan added: “Both Michelle and I are super-excited to be working with the amazingly talented and ultra-gorgeous Michele Madden, and we welcome her with open arms into the MELDRUM family. We’ve been writing a ton of new, ball-crushing, METAL-as-fuck songs in celebration of the leggy one’s arrival on our shores. I’ve had the utmost respect for her for the past five years, and always considered Madden to be, in every awesome and cool use of the term, a rock star. BIG respect, absolutely, and I can’t believe I actually get to play in a band with one of my all-time favorite vocalists. I’m real psyched, and no one in their right mind is gonna disagree with the fact that this band has just gotten WAAAY mightier with our new addition. Fuckin’ rights.”

MELDRUM plans to unveil sneak peeks from its studio sessions on the band’s web site in coming weeks, with news on the new release and tours forthcoming.

For more information, go to www.meldrum.nu.

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