A 30-minute documentary titled "Udo Dirkschneider - A Portrait" can be seen below. The film by Noel Auch was produced as part of Noel's bachelor thesis and includes German-language interview clips with Udo as well as concert footage from U.D.O.'s February 2019 live shows in Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Memmingen, Bochum and Nuremberg. Earlier this year, Udo ...
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The first full trailer for Rob Zombie's new film, "3 From Hell", can be seen below. The sequel to Zombie's 2005 film "The Devil's Rejects" will bring back Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie and Bill Moseley as the psychopathic Firefly family. It's not clear whether Zombie plans to resurrect the trio from the dead in ...
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GHOST leader Tobias Forge guest programmed a recent episode of the Australian television show "Rage". Watch below as Forge takes us through his many influences, including ACCEPT, ALICE COOPER and ABBA. Speaking about ACCEPT, Forge said: "[They are] one band that I think has been slightly overlooked over the years, not necessarily in the more ...
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SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS will release "Living The Dream Tour" on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2 CD, 3LP black vinyl, limited-edition 3LP red vinyl, digital video and digital audio on September 20 via Eagle Vision. "Living The Dream Tour" was shot on location on February 20, 2019 in front of a rabid crowd at London, ...
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AS I LAY DYING will embark on the "Shaped By Fire" U.S. headlining tour in the fall. Support on the trek will come from AFTER THE BURIAL and EMMURE. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 19 at 10:00 a.m. local time. Tour dates: Nov. 15 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues Nov. ...
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California glam metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER will embark on the "Heavy Metal Rules Tour" in the fall. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, July 17 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, July 18 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "SPBBM" to access tickets before ...
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Longtime NIGHTWISH drummer Jukka Nevalainen, who stepped away from the band's touring and recording activities five years ago, has confirmed his permanent exit from the group. His replacement will be Kai Hahto, who has been playing with NIGHTWISH since the summer of 2014. Nevalainen explained in a statement: "It has now been five years since ...
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Michigan rockers GRETA VAN FLEET have confirmed that they are working on their second full-length album for a tentative late 2019 release. Speaking to NME's Charlotte Gunn at the Mad Cool festival in Madrid, Spain on Saturday (July 13), guitarist Jake Kiszka stated about the musical direction of the follow-up to 2018's "Anthem Of The ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the song "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" on July 6 at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany can be seen below. METALLICA's "WorldWired" tour has played more than 130 shows across the world since its 2016 kick-off. Last November, drummer Lars Ulrich told The Mercury News that the trek could last through ...
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Ahead of IRON MAIDEN's 2019 shows, drummer Nicko McBrain takes us through the "Legacy Of The Beast" setlist in his own inimitable style. Check out all seven videos below. MAIDEN's "Legacy Of The Beast" tour will hit 33 cities across the U.S. and Canada beginning in July. Support on the trek comes from THE RAVEN ...
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DANKO JONES's namesake vocalist/guitarist recently appeared on the "Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's latest album, "A Rock Supreme": Danko: "We never try to 'say' anything — we just try to write a bunch of good-sounding rock ...
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Alex Haber of Heavy New York recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andy Marsh of Australian deathcore masters THY ART IS MURDER. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether THY ART IS MURDER sticks to the same formula with every record, or tries ...
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QUEEN guitarist Brian May has praised Adam Lambert, saying that Freddie Mercury "would approve" of the singer "big time." QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT kicked off their "Rhapsody" North American tour Wednesday night (July 10) at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group's show is billed as an evening with QUEEN — which ...
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In a recent interview with Spence from Minnesota radio station Rock 95, Josh Todd spoke about BUCKCHERRY's musical development on the band's new studio album, "Warpaint". The follow-up to 2015's "Rock 'N' Roll" is the first since the departures of guitarist Keith Nelson and drummer Xavier Muriel. "We wanted to step it up and bring ...
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Video footage from the first-ever heavy metal knitting championship, which was held this past Thursday, July 11 in Joensuu, Finland, can be seen below. 12 groups took part in the event, with finalists coming from Denmark, Finland, Japan, Latvia, Russia, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. The winner of the competition was Japan's GIGA BODY ...
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Californian metallers ARMORED SAINT played "Underdogs", the closing track of their 1987 album, "Raising Fear", live for the first time in 32 years on Friday, July 12 at the Luppolo In Rock festival in Cremona, Italy. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below (courtesy of Loud And Proud Italy). ARMORED SAINT is ...
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"Bods Mayhem Hour" recently conducted an interview with vocalist Biff Byford of British metal legends SAXON. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what SAXON's expectations were upon the release of the band's 1979 self-titled debut album: Biff: "[When] the first album came out, we were ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of ADLER'S APPETITE, the band featuring former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Steven Adler, performing on July 12 at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, Nevada can be seen below. The Vegas concert marked Adler's first live appearance since he was hospitalized for a self-inflicted stab wound. On June 27, local authorities responded ...
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Jerry of Rauta conducted an interview with guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson of Swedish black metal veterans MARDUK after the band's May 18 performance at this year's Steelfest in Hyvinkää, Finland. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On new drummer Simon "BloodHammer" Schilling: Morgan: "The thing ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of WHITESNAKE's July 13 performance at the Sauna Open Air festival in Tampere, Finland can be seen below. WHITESNAKE is touring in support of its latest album, "Flesh & Blood", which was released on May 10 via Frontiers Music Srl. The disc follows the 2011 critically acclaimed studio album "Forevermore" and 2015's ...
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Lee Bros Meats conducted an interview with SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera prior to the band's July 5 show at iBoat in Bordeaux, France. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the band's 2018 studio album, "Ritual": Max: "It was necessary ...
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Last December, BRING ME THE HORIZON frontman Oli Sykes rekindled the debate over the so-called decaying current state of rock music, echoing the sentiment of the mainstream that rap artists are the new "rock stars" based largely on their flamboyant lifestyles and oversized fanbases. "Rappers are almost the new rock 'n' roll or punk or ...
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Former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen joined Dutch symphonic rockers WITHIN TEMPTATION on stage last night (Saturday, July 13) at the Masters Of Rock festival in Vizovice, Czech Republic to perform the song "Paradise (What About Us?)". Fan-filmed video footage of her appearance can be seen below. The studio version of "Paradise (What About Us?)" — ...
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Germany's Moshpit Passion recently conducted an interview with guitarist Vinnie Stigma of legendary New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the 35th anniversary tour of AGNOSTIC FRONT's influential "Victim In Pain" debut: Vinnie: "I call it 'the greatest mistake ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, the project led by the former PANTERA and current DOWN/SUPERJOINT frontman, performing on July 13 at the Rockmaraton festival in Dunaújváros, Hungary can be seen below. Last month, Anselmo spoke to Graspop Metal Meeting about his decision to play a number of PANTERA songs during ...
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In a recent interview with France's United Rock Nations, GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna talked about the band's touring life, particularly as it relates to perfoming on the European continent. He said (see video below): "It's great. The band's doing great. We went through a lot of problems in the past, but we're over that now. ...
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Decibel Geek TV has uploaded video footage of Janet Gardner's July 12 concert at The Venue in Denver, Colorado. Check out the clips below. Gardner's second solo album, "Your Place In The Sun", was released on May 31 via Pavement Entertainment. Like her 2017 debut self-titled solo album, the new LP is a collaboration with ...
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Devin Townsend has confirmed that the setlist for his 2020 tour will include material from STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, the seminal industrial metal outfit he fronted until 2007. Since the band's dissolution, Townsend has been asked repeatedly whether he would reform STRAPPING, only to cite the mental and physical toll the group took on him, in ...
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Video footage of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson's July 12 "Basstory - More Life With Deth" performance at Fish Head Cantina in Baltimore, Maryland can be seen below. The "Basstory - More Life With Deth" shows feature a question-and-answer session/discussion with co-author and partner Thom Hazaert about Ellefson's upcoming memoir, "More Life With Deth", and a ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of RATT's July 12 performance at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey can be seen below. RATT singer Stephen Pearcy and bassist Juan Croucier recently confirmed that the band is planning to release new music in 2020. "It's natural for us to, obviously, record," Croucier said during an appearance ...
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