Emily is an Australian expat currently residing in Stockholm, Sweden. While most of her life has revolved around music, it was after seeing IRON MAIDEN — her favorite band — on their 2018 "Legacy Of The Beast" tour that the fires of obsession were stoked within. "The show was so bloody spectacular I needed to ...
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Guitarist Cory Churko made his live debut with SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS on June 25 at the Rockhal in Luxembourg. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. Churko is filling in for THE CONSPIRATORS' regular rhythm guitarist Frank Sidoris, who left the band's European tour to be in the ...
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Frank Sidoris, who plays rhythm guitar for SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS, will miss the remainder of the band's European tour as he travels back to the U.S. to be with his wife, Alexandria Finley, for her first full-on chemotherapy treatment in her battle with with cervical cancer. Cory Churko, who plays alongside ...
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SLEEPING WITH SIRENS will release its fifth full-length album, "How It Feels To Be Lost", on September 6 via Sumerian Records. The follow-up to 2017's "Gossip" was recorded at MDDN Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Zakk Cervini (YUNGBLUD, GOOD CHARLOTTE) and Matt Good (ASKING ALEXANDRIA). SLEEPING WITH SIRENS has released the first track ...
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Swedish industrial rockers DEATHSTARS are in the studio recording their fifth album for an early 2020 release. The band has also reunited with guitarist Cat Casino, a key character in the group's history. Cat, who has most recently been writing, producing and playing lead guitar for Hank Von Helvete (ex-TURBONEGRO), originally joined DEATHSTARS for the ...
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During a recent interview with Sara of the Philadelphia radio station 93.3 WMMR, ALICE COOPER guitarist Nita Strauss discussed her initial meeting with the legendary shock-rocker. "The first time I met Alice was in the most surreal situation that you could possibly imagine," Nita said. "When I met Alice, I had actually already gone through ...
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SHINEDOWN has unveiled the music video for explosive new single "Monsters", exploring the ever-present demons and self-sabotaging inner voices that we all battle, and serving as the next visual installment in the story of the "Attention Attention" album. Frontman Brent Smith shares: "The Opus continues... The next chapter to 'Attention Attention' has arrived... Introducing 'Monsters'." ...
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According to Associated Press, a federal appeals court agreed today (Monday, June 10) to give LED ZEPPELIN a new hearing to defend a jury's favorable verdict in a suit that claimed the opening lines of "Stairway To Heaven" had been plagiarized from the 1968 instrumental song "Taurus". Last September, a federal appeals court ...
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ShipRocked sets sail for an 11th year February 1-February 6, 2020 onboard Carnival Valor with a sensational music lineup led by HALESTORM and ALTER BRIDGE. Departing from New Orleans, with stops in Key West and Cozumel, the ultimate rock music cruise vacation features performances from over two dozen music artists, including the ShipRocked debut of ...
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Prior to SACRED REICH's May 17 performance in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), bassist/vocalist Phil Rind spoke with Metal Master Kingdom. The full conversation can be viewed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On why the group decided to make a new album, the forthcoming "Awakening": Phil: "Songs. All that time [since ...
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ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello recently spoke with Dom Famularo of The Sessions Panel. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his biggest influences: Frank: "Geddy Lee, Geezer Butler, Steve Harris — who's now my friend, and Geezer is too. You know what's weird? When ...
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JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon is celebrating what would have been Prince's 61st birthday today by releasing a free download of his cover version of "Purple Rain". Schon's track is taken from his upcoming solo album, "Universe", due in the fall. A few years ago, Schon and JOURNEY keyboardist Jonathan Cain told Billboard that ...
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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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Jay Weinberg says that being in SLIPKNOT has been "the most enjoyable" experience of his life. The now-28-year-old drummer discovered SLIPKNOT when he was a pre-teen, through his father Max, of Bruce Springsteen's E STREET BAND, and leader of the house band on Conan O'Brien's talk show. He was hooked immediately and was a huge ...
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STONE SOUR and HELLYEAH drummer Roy Mayorga was recently interviewed by Meltdown of Detroit's 101 WRIF radio station. You can now listen to the chat below. A few excerpts follows. On how he landed the HELLYEAH gig: "Basically, [STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor and HELLYEAH frontman Chad Gray] had a conversation about a conversation, and ...
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Slash has once again credited GRETA VAN FLEET's success with "opening up doors for a lot of other kids" who are playing rock music for "all the right reasons." Despite the fact that GRETA VAN FLEET has been criticized for channeling a sound uncannily similar to LED ZEPPELIN, the Michigan band has wracked up millions ...
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MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio says that the band is "not retiring," despite the fact that it announced its "final" tour more than three years ago. Back in May 2016, MANOWAR revealed that it would say "thank you", "farewell" and "goodbye" to its fans on a world tour that would be "bigger and beyond anything" the ...
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SHINEDOWN has released the "Get Up" EP via Atlantic Records, featuring a new acoustic version of the band's hit crossover anthem "Get Up", along with the original song and the piano version. "'Get Up' is a song about empathy, it's a song about not being afraid to fail, it's a song about inspiring others and ...
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Gabrielle Crahan, the 22-year-old daughter of SLIPKNOT percussionist and co-founder M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, was remembered in her obituary as a "social butterfly" with an "outgoing personality, cheerful attitude, compassion and loving heart." Gabrielle died on May 18 in Los Angeles, with Shawn announcing the death the following day. Gabrielle was one of ...
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German "metal queen" Doro Pesch (DORO, WARLOCK) recently spoke with Sally Steele of Vegas Rocks! Magazine. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the early years of her career: Doro: "We were just doing what we loved. Back then, I felt I was one of the ...
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SLIPKNOT percussionist and co-founder M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan has thanked fans for their support after the passing of his 22-year-old daughter. Gabrielle Crahan died on Saturday (May 18). No cause of death has been revealed. Gabrielle was one of four children Shawn had with his wife, Chantel, whom he married in June 1992 in Des ...
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Vertigo Records issued the debut album by BLACK SABBATH on Friday, February 13,1970, and the world was never the same. Legendarily recorded in a single day in October 1969, the earth-moving self-titled set closed the book on hippie optimism with its dark magic and ushered in a brand-new genre, setting the metal template for decades ...
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Gabrielle, the 22-year-old daughter of SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown), died on Saturday, May 18 at the age of 22. No cause of death has been revealed. Crahan announced his daughter's passing in a social media post earlier today. He wrote: "It is with a broken heart, and from a place of the ...
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Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno says that he is going through "hell" waiting for a knee-replacement operation. Di'Anno has battled a number of health issues in recent years. He reportedly underwent an operation in 2016 to remove a "rugby ball-sized abscess" on his lungs and required a knee-replacement operation on both knees after getting ...
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A short video of IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson unveiling Sun And Steel, the first lager in the Trooper range, can be seen below. Sun And Steel is one of the most complex beers that Robinsons Brewery have ever produced; a double fermented lager created with authentic Japanese saké yeast. The idea for the beer, ...
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Former YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Tim "Ripper" Owens says that he doesn't think the Swedish guitarist likes him anymore. The ex-JUDAS PRIEST frontman made the comment after BLABBERMOUTH.NET published an excerpt from an interview Yngwie gave to Greece's Rock Hard magazine in which the legendary axeman explained why he hasn't worked with an outside ...
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SHINEDOWN has released the official music video for the stunning new piano version of its anthemic single "Get Up", which has become a crossover hit and is about to break into the Top 30 at Hot AC after spending several weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart. The new stripped-down version, propelled ...
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SHINEDOWN has announced new fall tour dates on its 2019 "Attention Attention" world tour, produced by Frank Productions, beginning September 17 and ending on October 19. PAPA ROACH, ASKING ALEXANDRIA and SAVAGE AFTER MIDNIGHT will support on select dates. SHINEDOWN has been selling out arenas and receiving rave reviews during its tour, backed by its ...
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Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman will embark on his first solo tour of America in 13 years in September. Wakeman's "The Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour" will combine spellbinding piano music with sidesplitting jokes and revealing insights into his 50-plus-year career. Expect an evening of superb musicianship, featuring music from YES, Rick's own solo epics and ...
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According to The Blast, the organizers of Woodstock 50 are suing their former financial partner, claiming the company had no right to announce the festival was canceled and accusing it of taking more than $17 million from a festival bank account. Promoter Michael Lang, who co-founded the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair, ...
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