According to Rolling Stone, MÖTLEY CRÜE will hit the road next year for a U.S. tour with fellow hard rock acts POISON and DEF LEPPARD. Sources have confirmed to the magazine that the three acts will perform at stadiums around the country. The upcoming trek means that the four members of ...
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Super Metal World recently conducted an interview with frontwoman Tatiana Shmailyuk of Ukrainian modern metal frontrunners JINJER. You can listen to the entire chat at this location. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the reaction to their new studio album, "Macro": Tatiana: "So far, I ...
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"The Church Of What's Happening Now With Joey CoCo Diaz" recently conducted an interview with Wendy Dio, the widow and manager of legendary RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH and DIO vocalist Ronnie James Dio. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether Ronnie James Dio had an acrimonious relationship ...
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DETHKLOK, the stars of the Adult Swim series "Metalocalypse", performed this past Friday (November 15) as part of the Adult Swim Festival at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. The show marked DETHKLOK's first live appearance since taking part in the 2014 edition of Festival Supreme in L.A. DETHKLOK played a 19-song set ...
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Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson spoke to Marci Wiser of the 95.5 KLOS radio station about their 46-date summer tour, marking THE BLACK CROWES' first shows together since 2013. The group will perform its multi-platinum 1990 debut album "Shake Your Money Maker" in its entirety, along with a smattering of other hits and favorites. THE ...
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Sharon Osbourne has slammed music blogger Bob Lefsetz as a brown-noser after he accused Ozzy Osbourne of becoming "so overexposed with story as opposed to music, he's become a cartoon character." Lefsetz, author of the Lefsetz Letter, praised Ozzy's new single, "Under The Graveyard", in a November 13 blog post, saying: ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE has fueled rumors of a possible reunion by promoting an online petition asking the group to come back. In 2015, MÖTLEY CRÜE completed "The Final Tour", closing the book on the band's iconic career after performing a total of 164 shows in 72 markets, grossing over $100 million. To cement the sense of ...
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Original BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward has released a new solo song called "Once This Was A Road". The track, which is credited to the BILL WARD BAND, can be streamed below. "Once This Was A Road" arrives more than a month after the release of another BILL WARD BAND song, "Arrows", which he issued ...
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BEHEMOTH frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski has revealed how he ended up joining SLAYER on stage during the latter band's concert this past June at Arena Gliwice in Gliwice, Poland to sing the SLAYER classic "Evil Has No Boundaries". Speaking during Zippo Encore's "Dudes Talking S#*t In A Truck" segment that was filmed several days later ...
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BLACK VEIL BRIDES have split with bassist Ashley Purdy. The band broke the news of Purdy's departure via a statement posted on its social media channels. "BLACK VEIL BRIDES and Ashley Purdy have mutually agreed to part ways," the statement reads. "We have enjoyed a wonderful run together and both parties wish one another continued ...
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Former LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler has returned to India to conduct a series of drum and music-business clinics and live shows titled "The Chris Adler Experience", presented by Gravity Talent. The live shows are seeing Adler supported by a number of the country's top musicians belting out the best-known LAMB OF GOD and ...
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THE BLACK CROWES played their second reunion show last night (Thursday, November 14) at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. The concert took place three days after brothers Chris and Rich Robinson announced a 46-date 2020 tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of THE BLACK CROWES' classic debut album, 1990's "Shake Your Money Maker". Joining ...
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"Goodbye Divinity", the new Vicente Cordero-directed video from SONS OF APOLLO — featuring former DREAM THEATER members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-GUNS N' ROSES), Billy Sheehan (THE WINERY DOGS, MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-JOURNEY, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE) — can be seen below. The song is ...
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"Outlaws & Outsiders" (featuring Travis Tritt, Ivan Moody and Mick Mars), the debut track from Better Noise Music Nashville's flagship artist Cory Marks mixes the passion and honesty of country music with the explosive energy of rock and roll. The track boasts guest appearances from country icon Travis Tritt, Ivan Moody from FIVE FINGER DEATH ...
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Ozzy Osbourne's daughter says that the family recently came very close to saying yes to a revival of the MTV reality show "The Osbournes", which followed the lives of the BLACK SABBATH singer and his family. "I'm not joking, every single year about every three months or so someone else gives us another offer and ...
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When Ozzy Osbourne relaunches his "No More Tours 2" in 2020, he'll be joined by special guest MARILYN MANSON for the North American shows. These dates are Ozzy's first shows since he announced earlier this year that all his 2019 performances would be postponed allowing him to heal from an injury sustained while dealing with ...
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Philip Anselmo says that it "would be a great honor" if PANTERA was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Despite the fact that artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single, iconic hard rock and metal bands like ...
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Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH, the solo project of former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name Olve Eikemo), have canceled the remaining shows on their South American tour. The band revealed it was calling off the dates in a statement earlier today. The group wrote: "It is with heavy heart that we have to announce the ...
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RATT has announced a dozen shows in December as part of its "In Your Direction" tour. The trek will kick off on December 12 in Buffalo, New York and will end on December 29 in Cincinnati, Ohio. RATT's current lineup includes original members Stephen Pearcy (vocals) and Juan Croucier (bass), along with drummer Pete Holmes ...
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earMUSIC will release DEEP PURPLE's "Live In Rome 2013" on December 6. This album takes the audience back to the "Now What?!" tour of 2013 when Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Steve Morse and Don Airey celebrated their first album after the passing of former bandmate and good friend Jon Lord. "Live In Rome ...
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Scott Weiland's widow Jamie Weiland is selling two of his VELVET REVOLVER-era hats on eBay, each with a starting bid of $3,500. A message on the eBay auction page reads: "Scott Weiland's Black and Red Skull Hat from VELVET REVOLVER Days – Authentic. This hat was gifted to me by my ...
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Sharon Osbourne says that it's been a "terrifying" experience seeing her husband Ozzy "so incapacitated" after suffering an injury in a fall earlier this year. The singer fell at his Los Angeles home in the middle of the night, aggravating years-old injuries from his 2003 ATV accident that required new surgery. As a result, Ozzy ...
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Norwegian progressive black avantgardists ENSLAVED have re-signed with Nuclear Blast, renewing a collaboration that has been ongoing for around ten years and two years ago produced the universally lauded album "E". Band founding member and guitarist Ivar Bjørnson stated about the re-signing: "It is with great pleasure we re-sign our record deal with Nuclear Blast ...
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Former THE BLACK CROWES drummer Steve Gorman, who recently published his tell-all memoir, "Hard To Handle: The Life And Death Of The Black Crowes", spoke in detail about the circumstances that led to the band's 2014 breakup during an appearance on Q104.3 New York's "Out Of The Box With Jonathan Clarke". "2013, we toured from ...
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THE DEAD DAISIES — the hard rock "collective" founded by Australian musician and businessman David Lowy — has entered La Fabrique Studios in the south of France to record its as-yet-untitled new album. A video recap of the first week in the studio can be seen below. This past August, THE DEAD DAISIES released "Righteous ...
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Jimmy Kay of The Metal Voice recently conducted an interview with guitarist Tommy Johansson and bassist Pär Sundström of Swedish metallers SABATON. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the differences between SABATON's latest album, "The Great War", and 2016's "The Last ...
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The obvious exceptions of IRON MAIDEN, SAXON and DEF LEPPARD aside, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal didn't produce much in the way of enduring heavy hitters. Righteous legends like DIAMOND HEAD and VENOM cashed in deserved credibility chips after the fact, of course, and if you don't listen to the first two TANK ...
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There has always been something reassuring about the arrival of a new NILE album. This band has stuck rigidly to their own uniquely myopic conceptual path for 20+ years now, exhibiting a huge amount of imagination and ingenuity along the way, but always remembering to crush as many skulls as possible. If you don't have ...
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It's an album that should really require no introduction, at least for anyone that has paid attention to the world of heavy metal over the last 25 years. "Cruelty and the Beast" was originally released in 1998 and was an obvious landmark in the evolution of a seminal extreme metal band. Whether you're a fan ...
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