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Vocalist Ronnie Stixx has announced his departure from San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS. In a posting on his MySpace page, he writes, "It's official — I have quit VICIOUS RUMORS due to unfair conditions and very shady acts from certain members [of the] band.

"This may come to no surprise to many of you.

"This decision was made during the Headbangers Open Air 2009 [festival in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany in July].

"From that the start, I feel like I have been treated like a outsider and still owed money from past 2008 shows... but I still always put 110% in VICIOUS RUMORS despite all warnings from many of you who have delt with VICIOUS RUMORS in the past.

"WELL, YOU WERE RIGHT. I guess I found out the hard way.

"I am sorry if I let the VICIOUS RUMORS fans down for leaving the band, but you have to see from my point of view. When a band has lots of lineup changes and vocalist quitting, they must have had a good reason for leaving.

"I will not bash or go into detail with what those shady acts are.

"Look, everyone who knows me knows that I am cool to everyone, but I just could not deal with ROCK STAR EGOS and shy conditions any longer.

"Look, when you are faced with big egos, you can do one of two things — either eat their shit or tell them to fuck off!

"With [no new] material being written or recorded in over two years and just milking the tours on old songs for one person's gain, this was not what I thought it was going to be.

"Well, they may come out and say, 'Well, he was just a hired gun,' but you have to be paid to be called that!

"Call it what you will — quit, fired, split, whatever! At the end of the day, it was not working out.

"I will continue with BLOOD REDSKIES as we gear up for our new album due for March 2010 as well festival dates in the U.S. and Europe."

San Francisco Bay Area metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have recruited vocalist Brian Allen (LAST EMPIRE, MALICE, WILD DOGS) as the replacement for the recently departed Ronnie Stixx.

Allen (pictured below) was suggested to VICIOUS RUMORS founder Geoff Thorpe by WILD DOGS/DR. MASTERMIND mainman Matthew T. McCourt, who tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "Brian has tremendous range - from growling to window-breaking screams - and [he is] low maintenance. Plus he's a great showman. The only guy I know who has more chains and spikes than I do. And a lot of fun on stage and off.

"VICIOUS RUMORS has a lot more going for them than I do," Matt continues.

"I had this idea to have Brian join WILD DOGS so we could do justice to a set of the 'Reign Of Terror' songs on which Brian outdid the original, but guitarist Robert Robinson and drummer Bryce Van Patten killed that idea. And while talking to Geoff Thorpe, mentioned this great singer and my situation and he mentioned VR may be in the market for a new frontman and offered to hook the two up.

"Brian did a couple gigs with the band in November and will be joining them for a show with DEATH ANGEL in a few weeks. I'll be helping out with the long-distance pre-production when it gets to that stage, offering up my studio for demoing vocal tracks. It's much the same as when I helped Deen Castronovo get into Tony Macalpine's band during the DR. MASTERMIND sessions. In fact, moving Deen to the Bay Area was a part of that deal.

"I really hate to see great talent go to waste, and if I can help out - WHY NOT? Gimme 22 reasons why not! I can't think of one! So now it's up to Brian to prove himself with VR and I wish them all the best."