QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has collaborated with the visual art team SceneFour on a new art collection. Crafted over the last six months, "Spirits I-VII" showcases a unique visual side to the artistic legacy of Banali. Working with Sumi inks and Washi paper, Banali has focused an extraordinary amount of time crafting an unprecedented ...
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A month after sharing "quarantine versions" of the STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH songs "March Of The S.O.D." and "Chromatic Death", recorded with each member separated in their own homes, Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX), Scott Ian (ANTHRAX) and Dan Lilker (NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ex-ANTHRAX) have returned with another S.O.D. track, "Speak English Or Die", the lyrics of which have ...
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Who is the greatest heavy metal vocalist of all time? Philip Anselmo — a vocal great in his own right, with bands such as PANTERA and DOWN to his name — makes the case for JUDAS PRIEST's Rob Halford in a video uploaded by Revolver magazine earlier today. Check it out ...
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Danish/American rockers VOLBEAT have released a new animated video for "Leviathan", the latest single off the band's seventh studio album, "Rewind, Replay, Rebound". "Leviathan" was directed and animated by Steven Mertens and is based on a painting by Karsten Sand that originally appeared in the album artwork for "Rewind, Replay, Rebound". In "Leviathan", frontman Michael ...
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Mayhem Festival has postponed its return until 2021. On Sunday, the festival's official Instagram was updated with the following message: "as we're sure you've guessed.. due to the pandemic we have to sit this summer out, but 2021 we plan on being back in full swing" The festival originally teased its 2020 comeback last December ...
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WEEZER has released a new song called "Hero", the band's first new material since last year's Top 5 alternative radio hit "End Of The Game". "Hero" is a new song off WEEZER's forthcoming album, "Van Weezer", which was originally set for release this month; a new release date for the record will be coming soon. ...
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A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to save the legendary Los Angeles venue The Troubadour. After the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down live music for nearly two months, with no sign that music venues will reopen anytime soon, the storied 500-capacity — where artists such as MÖTLEY CRÜE, GUNS N' ROSES, ...
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EXODUS singer Steve "Zetro" Souza has offered an update on his bandmate Gary Holt, who recently tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, after returning from a European tour with TESTAMENT and DEATH ANGEL. Speaking in a new video on his YouTube channel, Zetro's Toxic Vault, Zetro said (see below): "I ...
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Extreme metal is supposed to get the blood pumping. It should make you feel ten-feet tall and bulletproof. It might even make you drive in a reckless manner from time to time. These are the rules. Don't shoot the messenger. The problem comes when you spend a large chunk of every day listening to brutal, ...
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HATEBREED drummer Matt Byrne has uploaded a drum-playthrough video of his band's cover version of the SLAYER classic "Ghosts Of War". The song originally appeared on HATEBREED's 2009 covers album "For The Lions", which sold around 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 58 on ...
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LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe says that he is not sure what a post-pandemic world will look like for the touring industry. Concerts around the world have been canceled and postponed in efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, with no clear date as to when they might resume. In early April, Dr. Ezekiel "Zeke" ...
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WITCHES HAMMER first began their death rumblings way back in the mid-eighties, and now the band is simply legendary in the extreme metal underground. Their reputation has only been solidified by the fact that key member Marco Banco played on BLASPHEMY's 1990 war metal benchmark "Fallen Angel of Doom….". The guitarist looks gargantuan and Herculean ...
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Former SLAYER and current SUICIDAL TENDENCIES drummer Dave Lombardo has been using the coronavirus downtime to work on "some unexpected projects," including SATANIC PLANET, which also features his DEAD CROSS bandmate Justin Pearson, producer Luke Henshaw, Justin's PLANET B bandmate Luke Henshaw, and Lucien Greaves, founder of The Satanic Temple. Other musicians contributing to the ...
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With a new election on the horizon and America still on the brink, MINISTRY's Al Jourgensen has re-entered the studio to create his missives that will become material for a to-be-announced new album on Nuclear Blast Records. The first taste comes today with the bold new track "Alert Level" accompanied by a provocative lyric video, ...
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This has already been a superb year for thrash. New albums from heavyweights like TESTAMENT, SEPULTURA and ANNIHILATOR and furious new wavers like HAVOK, SHRAPNEL, HOLYCIDE and SCHIZOPHRENIA have all confirmed that this peculiarly resilient subgenre is as vital and vibrant as it has ever been. What self-consciously cool folk fail to understand is that ...
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During an appearance on the "BREWtally Speaking Podcast", TESTAMENT vocalist Chuck Billy was asked if he feels an "obligation" to heavy metal fans to try to fill the void left by SLAYER after the legendary thrash metal act retired last year. He responded (hear audio below): "SLAYER's shoes are a big void to fill. I've ...
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Danish/American rockers VOLBEAT have revived their long-running "Official Bootleg" series with the release of a live video for "Leviathan", the latest single off the band's seventh studio album, "Rewind, Replay, Rebound". The clip, recorded last year at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Germany, was edited and directed by Brittany Bowman and Shelby Cude, with audio ...
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Former SLAYER and current SUICIDAL TENDENCIES drummer Dave Lombardo has been using the coronavirus downtime to work on "some unexpected projects," including SATANIC PLANET, which also features his DEAD CROSS bandmate Justin Pearson and producer Luke Henshaw. Lombardo told Rolling Stone: "It's odd — at a time where I thought, Well, ...
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Last November, Dean Guitars released a limited run of 50 handcrafted USA guitars designed in collaboration with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. Each USA Kerry King V Limited Edition 50 Pc guitar is priced at $8,666 and can be ordered from the Dean Guitars web site. In the four-minute video below, Pat ...
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In a recent interview with Dead Rhetoric's Matt Coe, frontman Chuck Billy of veteran Bay Area thrash metallers TESTAMENT talked about the impact their 1999 studio album "The Gathering" has had on their career. The album marked the first time TESTAMENT worked with then-up-and-coming British producer/engineer Andy Sneap, and also featured ...
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The popular vinyl collectible company Funko — best known for its big-headed Pop! figures — has released one of its latest artist collaborations: California thrash metal legends SLAYER. Figures of Tom Araya, Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman are now available from the official SLAYER webstore. Other artists who have gotten the ...
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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Glenn Danzig was asked if he has future plans for the MISFITS. He responded: "Not right now. I know we have a show we have to do on May 4th, some festival we're headlining. But that's it for a while, especially since DANZIG's going ...
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SUICIDE SILENCE guitarist Mark Heylmun recently spoke to RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program "Wired In The Empire", about the possibility of SLAYER returning for a reunion tour. The legendary thrash metal act completed its farewell trek last November, less than two years after announcing that it was planning to call it ...
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One of the strangest things about nostalgia for the '90s is how people tend to focus on grunge and nu-metal as the decade's primary phenomena. Both genres started well and ended badly, leaving a lot of truly dismal music behind. And a few classics, I'll grant you. But smart folk know that the '90s was ...
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Caninus Collars has announced its new line of branded dog collars featuring designs from legendary metal bands MÖTLEY CRÜE, MOTÖRHEAD and SLAYER. The latest designs add to their growing collection of branded pet accessories, which already include JUDAS PRIEST, MISFITS and SICK OF IT ALL. CANINUS originally began in 2001 as the first ever dog-fronted ...
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DARKANE guitarist Christofer Malmström has shared a video of him playing a cover of the SLAYER song "Angel Of Death" while accompanied his 12-year-old daughter Amanda on vocals. The two-and-a-half-minute clip, which can be seen below, opens with Christofer running through the opening riff of DIO's "The Last In Line" before abruptly stopping and switching ...
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Hard rock legends KISS and DEF LEPPARD will get the jigsaw puzzle treatment in April. Zee Productions will release two classic DEF LEPPARD album covers, "Hysteria" and "Pyromania", and four classic KISS album covers — "Rock And Roll Over", "Destroyer", "Love Gun" and "Dynasty" — as a 500-piece jigsaws, in April on Zee Productions imprint ...
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Former MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel has told the "Scandalous Podcast" that he has no misgivings about his 15-year stint with the band. "I will never regret being in MACHINE HEAD," he said. "It was an amazing time for me jumping into that band [in 2003], getting out of a failed marriage and going into ...
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In a recent interview with France's United Rock Nations, ANVIL frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow was asked if he had any regrets about the band's career path thus far. He responded (hear audio below): "You can always go 'shoulda, woulda, coulda,' but at the end of the day, if anything had changed… ...
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EXODUS and SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Holt said he received his results today (Tuesday, March 31), 11 days after he was tested. The San Francisco Bay Area-based axeman, whose wife was also tested, took to his Instagram earlier today to write: "So I ...
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