JUDAS PRIEST members Rob Halford (vocals), Richie Faulkner (guitar) and Glenn Tipton (guitar) were recently interviewed by BUILD Series. The full conversation can be viewed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On the strong first-week sales of the group's new album, "Firepower": Rob: "We can't get to where we get to, and ...
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"Decisions Are Death Here", the new Bobby Bates-directed video from VEXES, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's debut full-length album, "Ancient Geometry", which will be released on February 23. VEXES frontman Charlie Berezansky says: "It was 15 degrees in Paterson, New Jersey when we filmed this video. I was confident ...
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ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann was interviewed by Metal Eye Witness before the band's November 17 concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can now watch the chat below. Asked if ACCEPT intentionally revisited some of its earlier classics while writing the music for its latest album, 2017's "The Rise Of Chaos", Hoffmann said: "It's almost impossible ...
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Russell Allen has spoken out about the road accident he was involved in last July that resulted in the death of his ADRENALINE MOB and TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA bandmate, bass player David Zablidowsky. The singer, who is also a member of SYMPHONY X, says that TSO's recent winter tour saw him feeling "more free" than ever ...
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A few decades after BLACK SABBATH first extracted heavy metal from the human spirit in Birmingham, England, hometown younglings GODFLESH burst forth welding that heavy metal with clanging industrial steel on 1989's "Streetcleaner". Sure, across the big pond MINISTRY was playing with its own industrial/metal hybrid a year earlier with "The Land of Rape and ...
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"Helion", a new song from VEXES, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's debut full-length album, "Ancient Geometry", which will be released on February 23. VEXES guitarist John Klagholz said: "'Helion' was the first song we wrote together as a band, and basically encompasses everything that we want to hear in ...
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Guitarist Jeff Worley and bassist Roman Glick of long-running southern hard rockers JACKYL have co-authored a cookbook, "Dawg Eat Dawg: A Rockstar's Guide To A Healthy Life While Being The Life Of The Party". Described as a "fun and factual guide to exercise, fitness and eating healthy on the road," with additional chapters on "kicking ...
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From the ashes of renowned Pennsylvania/New Jersey-based rock and metal groups A LIFE ONCE LOST, FURY OF FIVE, VESSL and DOWNSTAGE rises a vital new lifeform, VEXES — the experimental, eclectic, groove-infused new post-rock outfit featuring frontman Charlie Berezansky, guitarist John Klagholz, drummer Justin Graves, and the band's newest member, bassist Bobby Carpenter. VEXES' debut ...
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Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST), Ace Frehley (KISS), Slash (GUNS N' ROSES) and David Ellefson (MEGADETH) are among the musicians who performed at Alice Cooper's 16th annual "Christmas Pudding" show to benefit the legendary rocker's Solid Rock Teen Center. Also appearing at the event, which was held on Saturday (December 9) at the Celebrity Theatre in ...
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Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station recently conducted an interview with Gene Simmons. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. The KISS bassist/vocalist — who is a former contestant on Donald Trump's "The Celebrity Apprentice" series — was asked if he still speaks to the billionaire real estate mogul. He ...
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