MOTÖRHEAD's official social media pages have been updated with a teaser video promoting the Motorhead79.com web site. The clip, featuring footage of important political and pop-culture events from 1979, as well as brief glimpses of MOTÖRHEAD performing, includes the tagline: "We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for the following important news update..." 2019 ...
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The iconic art of some of metal's most influential and highly regarded albums will be presented in puzzle form for the first time ever. U.K.'s Zee Productions will release the first four classic METALLICA album covers as 500-piece jigsaws: "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master Of Puppets" and "…And Justice For All" will be ...
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Danish/American hard rock group VOLBEAT has just released its new song "Cheapside Sloggers", featuring a guest guitar solo by Gary Holt of EXODUS and SLAYER. The track comes off VOLBEAT's forthcoming seventh album, "Rewind, Replay, Rebound", due on August 2 via Republic Records. "I wanted to add something new and not typical, so why not ...
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IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris says that he doesn't care that his band has yet to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame despite the fact that it has been eligible since 2004. "I don't mind that we're not in things like that," he told Rolling Stone in a new ...
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PUDDLE OF MUDD will release its long-awaited new album, "Welcome To Galvania", on September 13 via Pavement Entertainment. It marks the band's first full-length collection of new material since "Volume 4: Songs In The Key Of Love And Hate". Having sold over seven million albums worldwide and releasing a string of chart-topping hits, including "Blurry", ...
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"Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story" has received praise from Rolling Stone and Billboard to San Francisco Chronicle and The Playlist. After premieres in San Francisco and London, the lauded documentary is headed on the road, with screenings at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas across the country in August and ...
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Tim "Ripper" Owens says that the recently completed North American leg of the "Dio Returns" tour changed a lot of people's opinions about the Ronnie James Dio hologram. Dio died in 2010 at the age of 67 from stomach cancer. His hologram was created by a company called Eyellusion — with Ronnie's widow and manager ...
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MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell will release his debut solo album, "Old Lions Still Roar", later this year via Nuclear Blast. The disc, which has been in the works for more than five years, will include guest appearances by Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST), Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER) and Alice Cooper, among others. Commented Campbell: "I'm really ...
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James Kottak says that "anyone against America is a socialist communist asshole." The unusual Independence Day greetings came after the former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer wished his 18 thousand followers a happy holiday on Twitter. "Happy Fourth.... Trump rules!" the 56-year-old musician wrote, adding in a separate tweet: "Any one against America is ...
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During an appearance on the "Do You Know Jack?" podcast, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was asked how old he was when he was first explosed to Geezer Butler's (BLACK SABBATH) playing. He responded (hear audio below): "I didn't hear Geezer until I was quite a bit older. I guess I probably heard 'Paranoid', 'cause I ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of KROKUS's June 21 performance at the Rock The Ring festival in Hinwil, Switzerland can be seen below. As previously reported, KROKUS will extend its last-ever tour to include dates in USA, Canada and Mexico. Back in September 2018, the Swiss hard rock legends announced that they were going to be embarking ...
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Former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak says that America should take care of its "homeless problem" before accepting any more "outsiders." Earlier today, the 56-year-old musician tweeted: "I wrote a new song.... 'Get out of My Kountry' ie: stay out of my space! We don't need anymore outsiders. We can't even fix ...
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What do you get when you combine an international rock star, Mikkey Dee of MOTÖRHEAD and SCORPIONS, with a lawnmower powered by Briggs & Stratton? Well, we know the answer. A hell of a lawnmower, that's for sure. On a cold winter day in 2019, Mikkey Dee met with the Briggs & Stratton top-notch team ...
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France's Duke TV has uploaded footage of Chris Holmes's May 11 performance at the Vienna Metal Meeting. The 14-minute video was directed by Antoine de Montremy and includes the songs "Let It Roar", "Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)" and "Rockin' In The Free World". The former W.A.S.P. guitarist recently released a four-song EP, ...
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Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Last Day Under The Sun", the new video from the Danish/American hard rock group VOLBEAT, can be seen below. The clip was directed by Jakob Printzlau, who has previously directed VOLBEAT's videos for "The Devil's Bleeding Crown", "Lonesome Rider", "16 Dollars" and "Cape Of Our Hero". VOLBEAT frontman Michael ...
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Danish/American hard rock group VOLBEAT has released the official music video for its new song "Last Day Under The Sun". The clip was directed by Jakob Printzlau, who has previously directed VOLBEAT's videos for "The Devil's Bleeding Crown", "Lonesome Rider", "16 Dollars" and "Cape Of Our Hero". VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen has revealed that the ...
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The progression of extreme metal legends DARKTHRONE from black metal genre pioneer to ambassadors of pure heavy metal expression has been fun to experience. While some of their contemporaries continue to put out competent-yet-watered-down rehashes of works that defined the genre and others self-destructed under the weight of their own psychological excesses, Fenriz and Nocturno ...
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"Rock Hard With Jay Conroy" recently conducted an interview with frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what territories ANVIL had a record deal while opening up for larger bands during the early part of their career: ...
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SAXON vocalist Biff Byford recently spoke with rock journalist Mark Taylor. The full conversation can be viewed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's forthcoming "The Eagle Has Landed 40 (Live)", which features 40 songs covering four decades: Biff: "It was a nightmare picking them. We listened to all the ...
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KROKUS will extend its last-ever tour to include dates in USA, Canada and Mexico. Back in September 2018, the Swiss hard rock legends announced that they were going to be embarking on a farewell tour dubbed "Adios Amigos" before calling it a day. At the time, they said their final show would take place on ...
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Legendary rock heroes find new life in an innovative line of books from Fantoons, best-known for their ongoing relationship with the famous rock n’ roll power trio RUSH. The Los Angeles-based publisher now introduces an expanded fall lineup featuring a new project created in partnership with MOTÖRHEAD. The deal was brokered by Global Merchandising Services, ...
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The greatest heavy metal festival in the world, Wacken Open Air, will unleash its latest collection on July 26 through Silver Linings Music/Wacken Records when "Live At Wacken 2018: 29 Years Louder The Hell" smashes into stores. The 16th release in the "Live At Wacken" series, which dates back to 2002, is stuffed with pulverizing ...
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SCORPIONS guitarist Rudolf Schenker has confirmed to Scorpions News that the band has commenced the songwriting process for a possible new studio album. If it materializes, the upcoming disc will mark the German hard rock legends' first release since 2017's "Born To Touch Your Feelings - Best Of Rock Ballads", which was an anthology of ...
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On August 2, SAXON, the British heavy metal vanguards who continue to deliver their seminal metal music to sold-out venues worldwide, will salute their 40th anniversary by releasing "The Eagle Has Landed 40 (Live)" via Militia Guard/Silver Lining Music, a cracking, crunching and wholly representative celebration of four decades as one of the U.K.'s ...
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In May, poker powerhouse PokerStars asked a thousand of its European customers which song they liked the best from a list of songs. It came down to two choices — Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" and MOTÖRHEAD's "Ace Of Spades", and it is no gamble to say that "Spades" not only won but crushed Lady Gaga's ...
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Over the weekend, METALLICA shared a video of frontman James Hetfield rocking out and singing along to MOTÖRHEAD's classic song "Ace Of Spades" while driving in his car and flashing the "devil horns" hand gesture. The band wrote in an accompanying message: "Happy Memorial Weekend!!!" METALLICA paid tribute to MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy on its latest ...
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Michael "MettleAngel" Francisco of Sonic Perspectives recently conducted an interview with guitarist Brian Tatler of NWOBHM legends DIAMOND HEAD. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On "Belly Of The Beast", the opening track from the band's forthcoming "The Coffin Train" studio album: Brian: "It's ...
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RAVEN bassist/vocalist John Gallagher recently spoke with Australia's Heavy magazine. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the band's international momentum: John: "It's a big world, but it's getting smaller these days. After we kind of got over [guitarist] Mark's [Gallagher] accident [Editor's note: ...
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A lifelong MOTÖRHEAD fan, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian recently critiqued five classic albums from the Lemmy-fronted band's catalog for the official MOTÖRHEAD YouTube channel. Check out the clip below. Last fall, Ian spoke to Landry.Audio about his friendship with Lemmy, who died in December 2015 at the age of 70 shortly after learning he had ...
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Given the dogmatic way of things, this review should probably be full of dramatic statements about Scott Reagers being the original and therefore the ultimate frontman for SAINT VITUS, undisputed lords of American doom. But let's face it, arguing about whether Reagers or Scott "Wino" Weinrich deserve the requisite accolade is a bit like arguing ...
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