Kerry King has commemorated the first anniversary of SLAYER's final concert. On Monday (November 30), Kerry's wife Ayesha took to her Instagram to share a photo of her husband, and she included the following caption: "Kerry threw on a SLAYER shirt and poured a shot for you all to mark the anniversary of the last ...
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Tim "Ripper" Owens has once again defended the "Dio Returns" tour, which features a hologram of legendary metal singer Ronnie James Dio performing alongside a living backing group consisting, in large part, of Ronnie's onetime DIO bandmates. The Dio hologram was created by a company called Eyellusion and made its debut at the Wacken Open ...
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BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT, the band launched by ex-CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho, has completed recording its first new music. The sessions took place at Finnvox studios in Helsinki, Finland. Earlier today, BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT posted a short video from the studio and included the following caption: "Recordings finished now and the files are ready ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH singer Ivan Moody has reacted to the news that two of his former bandmates, Jeremy Spencer and Jason Hook, worked together on the new EP from Spencer's theatrical rock band PSYCHOSEXUAL. On Friday, PSYCHOSEXUAL surprise-released a covers EP, "Songs To Stalk You By", featuring a guest appearance ...
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Seattle rock greats HEART will get the biopic treatment. The news of a HEART movie was broken by frontwoman Ann Wilson during a November 25 chat with Lyndsey Parker on the SiriusXM show "Volume West". The HEART biopic will be written and directed by Carrie Brownstein, of SLEATER-KINNEY and "Portlandia" fame, and will be produced ...
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Corey Taylor's "HWY 666" is the official theme song of WWE's "Tables, Ladders And Chairs" event. The final WWE pay-per-view of 2020 will take place on December 20 at a new Thunderdome set up at Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, Florida. In "HWY 666", which is taken from Taylor's debut solo album, "CMFT", he narrates ...
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Earlier this year, CRO-MAGS released their first album in twenty years with the critically acclaimed "In The Beginning". To close out this year of international turmoil and disease, the band has announced the six-song EP "2020", available worldwide digitally on December 11. CRO-MAGS also released the EP's title track, venting all the frustration and rage, ...
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ELLEFSON, the solo band of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, released its covers album, "No Cover", on November 20 via earMUSIC (Europe) and Ward Records (Japan). The effort was made available in conjunction with Ellefson's revived Combat Records, which issued the album in North America via Amped. ELLEFSON's music video for its cover version of the ...
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INFINITE VISIONS, the new band featuring ex-STRATOVARIUS guitarist and songwriter Timo Tolkki, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance the production of its debut album, "Union Magnetica". To coincide with the campaign launch, INFINITE VISIONS has released a playthrough video for the song "You Rock My World", a track from ...
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The first taste of the forthcoming debut album from SUNBOMB. the project featuring L.A. GUNS' Tracii Guns and STRYPER's Michael Sweet, is available below. The band recently recorded its debut album, to be released next year via Frontiers Music Srl. This past May, Guns told SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" about the musical direction ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of ELLEFSON, the solo band of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, perorming cover versions of Post Malone's "Over Now" and TWISTED SISTER's "Tear It Loose" on November 19 at the Emerson Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana can be seen below. Joining Ellefson in the group are singer Thom Hazaert and guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (formerly ...
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN is planning to film a music video for "Genocidal Humanoidz", the second of two new songs the band released earlier this month. "I've written out the storyline, and I've got a couple of surprises that I'm gonna be putting [in there]," SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian told geopolitical analyst ...
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Aaron Lewis was joined by his STAIND bandmate Mike Mushok for the first-ever acoustic performance of the group's song "Mudshovel" during Lewis's November 20 "From The Couch" paid livestream. The 10-song concert included selections from STAIND's debut album "Dysfunction" as well as music from Aaron's 2011 EP "Town Line". Lewis's second "From The Couch" show ...
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Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, has reflected on the passing of Eddie Van Halen, saying that the legendary VAN HALEN axeman was a huge influence on him and millions of other guitar players. ...
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SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith has revealed that he and his bandmates are currently building a new recording studio in Charleston, South Carolina. The new facility, which is being spearheaded by the group's bassist and producer Eric Bass, will be used to record the follow-up to SHINEDOWN's 2018 album "Attention Attention". In a November 19 Instagram ...
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EXODUS has set "Persona Non Grata" as the title of its long-awaited new album, due in the summer of 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records. The San Francisco Bay Area thrashers' next disc will be the follow-up to 2014's "Blood In Blood Out", which was their first release since the departure of the group's lead singer ...
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KORN, METALLICA, MASTODON, Billy Corgan, Dave Navarro and Krist Novoselic are among the artists who will take part in virtual tribute performances when ALICE IN CHAINS is presented with this year's Museum Of Pop Culture (MoPOP) Founders Award on December 1. ALICE IN CHAINS will also play at the event. ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist/singer Jerry ...
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Guitar Center, Inc., the world's leading musical instrument retailer, announced today that it has entered into a comprehensive Restructuring Support Agreement (the "RSA") with its key stakeholders, including its equity sponsor, a fund managed by the private equity group of Ares Management Corporation, new equity investors Brigade Capital Management and a fund managed by The ...
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ELLEFSON, the solo band of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, will release its covers album, "No Cover", on November 20 via earMUSIC (Europe) and Ward Records (Japan). The effort will be made available in conjunction with Ellefson's revived Combat Records, which will issue the album in North America via Amped. A teaser for ELLEFSON's music video ...
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"Rucker", a new horror film starring SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor, is currently in post-production. "Rucker" is described as a genre-bending terror film about a serial killer trucker who attempts to salvage family relationships. Olympic College film professor Amy Hesketh serves as the film's director and fellow OC professor Aaron Drane produced the ...
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SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor played a private, socially distanced, secret show on November 5 in the Los Angeles area. Five lucky winners were selected to attend, with each winner also getting to bring a guest. The event was part of an effort to generate donations for the the Sweet Relief COVID-19 Fund. ...
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SUSPECT208, the new band featuring the sons of Slash, Scott Weiland and Robert Trujillo, has released its debut single, "Long Awaited". SUSPECT208 frontman, 20-year-old Noah Weiland, is the son of late STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland. The drummer is London Hudson, 18-year-old son of GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash. 16-year-old bassist Tye Trujillo is ...
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THE PRETTY RECKLESS will release its new album, "Death By Rock And Roll", on February 12, 2021 via Fearless Records in the U.S. and Century Media Records in the rest of the world. The latest single from the effort, "25", will arrive this coming Friday, November 13. "After years of putting our blood sweat and ...
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Jay Weinberg has reflected on his first official SLIPKNOT touring drum kit, created six years ago by SJC Custom Drums, the Dudley, Massachusetts company started by brothers Scott and Mike Ciprari. Weinberg took to his Instagram earlier today to share a few photos of his pre-SLIPKNOT drum set, as well as what became his SLIPKNOT ...
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Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, has confirmed that he has begun work on a new solo album. On Saturday (November 7), Gus took to his social media to write: "Being on lockdown can ...
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Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES have entered Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm, Sweden to begin recording their next album. The upcoming disc will be the follow-up to "To Drink From The Night Itself", which came out in May 2018 via Century Media. In a recent interview with Italy's Poisoned ...
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Paul Stanley (KISS), Gene Simmons (KISS), Peter Frampton, Joe Bonamassa and Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) are among the rockers who have reacted on social media to the passing of "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek. He was 80 years old. "Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this ...
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Lzzy Hale says that "we have a chance for peace" and "progress" now that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 presidential election. The HALESTORM frontwoman made her comments hours after it was announced that Biden surpassed the 270 Electoral College votes needed to defeat Donald Trump. On Saturday, Hale took to her ...
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer John Dolmayan has once again defended Donald Trump, saying that the president's opponents "perpetuated and instigated a total shutdown of the economy" in the hopes that it would crash and that Trump would be blamed. Dolmayan made his comments hours after it was announced that Joe Biden has won the ...
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QUEEN's Brian May has reacted to the news that Joe Biden has become the new president of the United States, saying the rest of the world is "rejoicing" in the fact that it is getting its "best friend back — our friend America." Biden amassed 273 Electoral College votes after winning Pennsylvania's 20 electors, surpassing ...
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