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"Coming Up Roses", a brand new song from ARMS OF THE SUN — the project featuring Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) on bass, John Luke Hebert (KING DIAMOND) drums, Lance Harvill on vocals and guitar, and Ben Bunker (GRYN) on guitar — is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.

ARMS OF THE SUN recently completed work on thirteen tracks that were produced and mixed by Terry Date (DEFTONES, PANTERA, SOUNDGARDEN). The material is set for release through Extreme Music, which provides class-A production music to all major networks and studios, ad agencies and production companies, including FOX, HBO, NBC, BBC, MTV, SKY, ABC, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Turner Entertainment Networks, Universal, Lions Gate, Miramax, Sony Pictures, Touchstone and Disney, to name a few.

ARMS OF THE SUN recorded the music, written by Lance Harvill, late last year at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin. The project is executive-produced by Sir George Martin (THE BEATLES) and Mark Ross for the Grandmaster Series, which celebrates four of the world's top producers spanning from the '60s through the '90s, including Sir George himself, Terry Date, Jack Douglas (AEROSMITH), and Hugh Padgham (THE POLICE).

Original PANTERA vocalist Terrence Lee Glaze rejoined his ex-PANTERA bandmate Rex Brown (bass) on stage this past Saturday (April 17) at the debut gig from Brown's new project ARMS OF THE SUN to perform a couple of early PANTERA songs — "Come-On Eyes" from 1985's "I Am The Night" and "All Over Tonite" from 1984's "Projects In The Jungle". The concert, which was held at Lakewood Theater in Dallas, Texas, also featured special guest appearances by KING'S X frontman Doug Pinnick and SKID ROW guitarist/DOWN manager Dave "Snake" Sabo.

Drummer Vinny Appice (BLACK SABBATH, DIO, HEAVEN & HELL) has joined ARMS OF THE SUN — the project featuring Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN) on bass, Lance Harvill on vocals and guitar, and Ben Bunker (GRYN) on guitar.

In a recent interview with original TROUBLE drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson for Olson's new Internet radio show, "Heady Metal with Jeff Olson" (listen to audio below), Brown said of the departure of ARMS OF THE SUN's previous drummer, John Luke Hébert, and the addition of Appice, "[John] played on a couple of KING DIAMOND records in the '90s. Great drummer, just very hard to get to rehearsals. So we've been through three drummers now. And finally I convinced Vinny... I said, 'Dude, you've gotta come down and help me out on this.' Vinny and I joined another little side project. And I said, 'Look, I'll help you on with your deal if you'll come down and help me on mine.' So it's kind of a 'scratch-each-other's-backs' kind of deal. And we have time for both bands, which is cool."