Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Gilby Clarke was recently interviewed by Dave "Higgo" Higgins of Australia's "Distortion" podcast. The full chat can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On how he came to produce records by bands like THE BRONX and L.A. GUNS: Gilby: "Back when I was around Hollywood ...
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Chris Jericho donned Paul Stanley's "Starchild" makeup for FOZZY's Halloween (October 31) concert at The Live Rooms in Chester, England. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. Jericho, who wrote in his book "A Lion's Tale: Around The World In Spandex" that he dressed as the Starchild for "a record-setting seven Halloweens ...
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DRAGONFORCE guitarist Herman Li has revealed to Metal Shock Finland that he is working on his first guitar instructional video. "It's not gonna be the same that you've seen out there," he said. "The reason I'm doing it is because I think everyone has approached a bunch of subjects except these ones that ...
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Tom Keifer spoke to Myglobalmind about being forced to cancel his concert in Pennsylvania earlier in the month due to a medical emergency. The CINDERELLA frontman was scheduled to perform at Jergel's in Warrendale on October 14 when he was taken ill. "It was a pretty rough and scary night," Tom admitted to ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach's October 27 performance at Manning Bar in Sydney, Australia can be seen below. Bach hasn't released a full-length disc since 2014's "Give 'Em Hell", which was criticized by some for sounding "too modern" and a departure from his '80s hard rock past. Asked in a ...
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AXS TV, the premier destination for classic rock programming, has greenlit a new eight-episode music series, "Trunkfest With Eddie Trunk", premiering in 2018. Hosted by beloved music historian and TV and radio host Eddie Trunk, the program gives viewers the ultimate front row seat to some of the nation's biggest music festivals as Trunk travels ...
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It's fascinating watching a professional wrestler break into mainstream entertainment, or any medium where he doesn't have to shred his body to eek out a living. Mickey Rourke's incredible portrayal of Randy "The Ram" Robinson in "The Wrestler", a film based on the secret lives of numerous pro grapplers of yesteryear (some folks attesting the ...
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It's time for a holiday celebration with THUNDER — before what promises to be a very busy 2018 gets underway. The band will release a brand new song, "Christmas Day", to bookend a very successful phase in its career, which culminated with two studio albums in a row entering the U.K. Top 10 chart. The ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil's October 21 performance at the Rockingham festival in Nottingham, England's Trent University can be seen below. MÖTLEY CRÜE called it quits in December 2015 following an eighteen-month tour that saw the group performing to packed houses all over the world. A tour film about CRÜE's final ...
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METAL ALLEGIANCE will return to Anaheim, California at the House Of Blues on Thursday, January 25 for its annual January metal assault. This year marks the introduction of Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth (OVERKILL) and John Bush (ARMORED SAINT, ex-ANTHRAX) to the group in addition to surprise guests that METAL ALLEGIANCE is known for. METAL ALLEGIANCE's House ...
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QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton has once again dimissed talk of a reunion with the band's original singer, Geoff Tate. Todd La Torre joined QUEENSRŸCHE as the replacement for Tate after the latter was fired in 2012. QUEENSRŸCHE has released two albums thus far with the former CRIMSON GLORY frontman on vocals: 2013's "Queensrÿche" and 2015's ...
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The third annual "Bowl For Ronnie" celebrity bowling tournament, benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, took place on Friday, October 6 at Pinz bowling center in Studio City, California. This year's event brought in $49,000 for the Dio Cancer Fund, now in its eighth year of raising awareness and much-needed ...
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For a limited time, guests at the British Music Experience will have the opportunity to come face to face to with a larger-than-life metal representation of the rock legend Slash. Famed for his time spent as GUNS N' ROSES lead guitarist, Slash has been hailed as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. ...
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Former SCORPIONS drummer James Kottak says he's in discussions with singer Lenny Wolf for a reunion of the original lineup of '80s rockers KINGDOM COME, a band perhaps best known for its uncanny musical resemblance to LED ZEPPELIN. Kottak played on the band's first two albums, 1988's "Kingdom Come" and 1989's "In Your Face" before ...
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Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach says that his next solo album will sound like "a mix between THE EAGLES and MÖTLEY CRÜE." Bach hasn't released a full-length disc since 2014's "Give 'Em Hell", which was criticized by some for sounding "too modern" and a departure from his '80s hard rock past. Asked in a ...
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Norwegian rockers TNT have once again parted ways with their American vocalist Tony Harnell. Harnell rejoined TNT in May 2016, less than a year and a half after his previous departure from the group. At the time of Harnell's latest exit from TNT, the band was said to be working on a new studio album ...
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Stet Howland says that he is open to returning to W.A.S.P. for a "handful" of dates featuring a partial reunion of the band's classic lineup. The veteran drummer, who has been a member of METAL CHURCH since earlier this year, tells Duke TV: "I'm very happy where I am. I somehow landed in ...
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In a brand new interview with May The Rock Be With You, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the long-awaited follow-up to his 2014 solo album, "Give 'Em Hell". "We are currently in the demo material, songwriting, gathering [ideas as] part of making a ...
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QUEENSRŸCHE and SKID ROW honored the victims of last week's Las Vegas mass shooting during their joint concert Saturday night (October 7) in Henderson, Nevada. A gunman opened fire on October 1 from thirty-second floor the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during the Route 91 Harvest festival, killing fifty-eight people and wounding ...
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Sebastian Bach has once again slammed Christian rockers STRYPER, saying that their music "sucks." The feud beween the former SKID ROW singer and STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet began in November 2016 when Sweet shared a video on Facebook of 16-year-old emerging artist Moriah Formica perfoming the SKID ROW track "I Remember You", along with the ...
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In a brand new interview with Australia's Music Injection, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was asked if it is hard to maintain a positive attitude in a world that is filled with hate, terrorism, bigotry and racism. "Well, the Internet, as when we invented the Internet, we are not sure how we're ...
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Rob Botten of Metal Master Kingdom conducted an interview with frontman Mikael Stanne of Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY prior to the band's September 18 show at The Mod Club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On DARK TRANQUILLITY having ...
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Marilyn Manson was injured Saturday night when a stage prop fell on him while he was playing in New York City. The incident happened about forty-five minutes into Manson's set at Hammerstein Ballroom as he was performing a cover of EURYTHMICS' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" . Manson made his way toward the back ...
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FOZZY — the band featuring WWE wrestling superstar Chris Jericho alongside members of STUCK MOJO — will embark on "Fozzy Across America" next month. The event will consist of three live performances in three separate cities and three different timezones in just one day — a feat that has never been attempted before by any ...
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Sebastian Bach has spoken out against climate-change deniers and has called for stricter gun-control laws. The former SKID ROW singer's comments came during an interview with Australia's The Rockpit, conducted ahead of his headlining tour of the country. Speaking about the current political situation in the U.S., Bach said: "What's going on here ...
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"Midnight Madness", the new video from international metal superstars DRAGONFORCE, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's latest album, "Reaching Into Infinity", which was released on May 19 via earMUSIC on CD, LP and a special-edition CD and DVD. The follow-up to 2014's "Maximum Overload" marks the band's third full-length studio ...
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Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach and members of JUDAS PRIEST appeared at the Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp earlier this month in Hollywood, California. The campers jammed with Rob Halford, Richie Faulkner, Ian Hill and Scott Travis of JUDAS PRIEST and Sebastian Bach at the private Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp facility, participated in ...
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During a brand new interview with Australia's Heavy, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was once again asked if he gets annoyed when people constantly call for a reunion of the group's classic lineup. "I expect it and I understand the feeling of seeing your favorite band reunite, and how cool that is," ...
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, Marilyn Manson said in a new interview with Apple Music that he and NINE INCH NAILS mainman Trent Reznor are on good terms again and that the possibility of the two musicians collaborating is not too far-fetched. Speaking with Zane Lowe of Beats 1, Manson said that the recent ...
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During an interview with Autralia's Loud, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach spoke about the recent sixteenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the new slew of conspiracy theories that tend to surface every year. Asked what his take is on "that type of thinking," Bach responded: "Well, I would say ...
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