DRAGONFORCE guitarist Herman Li recently dropped by Kerrang! to talk the U.K. magazine through his favorite guitar riffs of all time. A four-minute clip of Li discussing his selections — which include MEGADETH's "Holy Wars", METALLICA's "Creeping Death", Joe Satriani's "The Extremist", SYMPHONY X's "Sea Of Lies" and DREAM THEATER's "Under A Glass ...
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MUTATION is a U.K.-based extreme metal band formed in 2013 by Ginger (real name: David Walls), one of British rock's official living legends and the man behind the rock group THE WILDHEARTS. The underground three-piece will release its new album, "Mutation III: Dark Black", on June 30 via Undergroove Records. Described as "an aural exorcism ...
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Norwegian progressive metallers LEPROUS will release their fifth studio album, "Malina", on August 25 via InsideOut Music. The official video for the disc's first single, "From The Flame", can be seen below. The clip was directed by David Solbjørg of Twitchy Films. The band checked in with the following comment about "From The Flame": "'From ...
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According to EonMusic, Steve Vai and Devin Townsend will reunite on stage for the first time in almost a quarter century at the Starmus Festival IV: Life And The Universe, set to take place June 18-23 in in Trondheim, Norway. Vai and Townsend originally teamed up in 1993 for Steve's "Sex & Religion" ...
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For more than 30 years, Metal Hammer has been the biggest heavy metal magazine on the planet, and after a turbulent end to 2016, and their resurrection in 2017, they threw the party of all parties for their readers at this year's Golden Gods Awards 2017 in association with Orange Amplification. Taking place at IndigO2 ...
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Hardcore/punk outfit COMEBACK KID has signed a deal with New Damage for Canada and Nuclear Blast for the rest of the world. The band's new single, "Absolute", featuring a guest appearance by Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend, can be streamed below. Commented COMEBACK KID singer Andrew Neufeld: "We are ecstatic to be signing with Nuclear Blast. ...
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Vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH was interviewed by Rock Hard publisher Holger Stratmann at this year's Rock Hard Festival, which was held June 2-4 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. You can now watch the chat in four parts below. When asked about his proposed project with Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend, Mikael said: "Well, actually, ...
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Part three of a three-part interview with the members of DRAGONFORCE about their new album, "Reaching Into Infinity", can be seen below. In this clip, they talk about musicians they look up to and the very first instrument they learned. "Reaching Into Infinity" was released on May 19 via earMUSIC on CD, LP and a ...
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Part two of a three-part interview with the members of DRAGONFORCE about their new album, "Reaching Into Infinity", can be seen below. In this clip, the musicians talk about the songwriting, recording with drummer Gee Anzalone for the first time and funny moments on stage. "Reaching Into Infinity" will be released on May 19 via ...
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Norwegian progressive metallers LEPROUS will release their fifth studio album, "Malina", on August 25 via InsideOut Music. They have also announced an extensive European tour with Iceland's AGENT FRESCO, Australia's ALITHIA and fellow Norwegians ASTROSAUR. Following a hugely successful European tour as support to labelmates DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, LEPROUS started recording the follow-up to 2015's ...
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