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Metallica has added $50,000 to the reward being offered for information on the whereabouts of Morgan Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who vanished while attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville, Virginia on October 17th. According to CBSNews.com, Morgan's father Dan told CBS-TV's Early Show Saturday Edition that he "received a call" from Metallica and was informed that the band was adding the money to the $100,000 reward already raised by Dan Harrington's co-workers.


Breaking Benjamin's new CD, Dear Agony, comes after a time in frontman Ben Burnley's life when he suffered numerous physical ailments as a result of being an longtime alcoholic. Although he's now sober for three years, Burnley is still dealing with illness and told us that the album cover is a photo of an actual MRI scan of his brain taken while he was undergoing tests: ["You know, I've been through like a slew of tests to try to get to the bottom of my symptoms. The MRI, I've had several of them, and it was just a striking image. The images of what I've had to do to get to the bottom of it, you know, are interesting to the eye so I thought it was a good idea to kind of showcase all of that.


The family of late Sublime singer/guitarist Bradley Nowell tried to get a restraining order issued to stop the use of the band's name by surviving bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh. The two musicians recently reactivated the group with frontman Rome Ramirez stepping in for Nowell, playing a high-profile gig on Saturday (October 24th) at Cypress Hill's 2009 Smokeout Festival in California. A statement issued on Friday (October 23rd) by the family read in part, "The advertising and promotion of the new group as 'Sublime' has been done without the consent of the Estate of the late Bradley Nowell (consisting of widow Troy Nowell, father Jim 'Papa' Nowell, and son Jakob Nowell). The Estate intends to take appropriate legal action to protect Brad's intentions, as well as the legacy and integrity of his body of work."