Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN will perform their groundbreaking album, "Superunknown", in its entirety on Thursday, March 13 at the iTunes Festival during South By Southwest at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. The event will be streamed live via the via iTunes store, available on all personal computers and mobile devices. Those ...
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The Revolver Golden Gods awards show presented by Epiphone, America's only hard-rock and heavy-metal awards show, has announced its return to Club Nokia in Downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 23. Among this year's nominees are heavyweights BLACK SABBATH, KORN, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, METALLICA, and many more. Tickets for the 2014 Revolver Golden Gods awards show ...
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This year, reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN celebrate the 20th anniversary of this groundbreaking album "Superunknown" with a special reissue in two deluxe versions outlined below and available on June 3 via A&M Records/UMe. The Deluxe Edition is a 2-CD package featuring the remastered album along with disc two consisting of demos, rehearsals, B-sides and more. ...
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BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by legendary rapper Ice-T, will take part in this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. BODY COUNT's participation in the annual event was announced by Ice-T on the latest episode of his "Final Level" podcast. You can now stream it using the widget below. A couple of weeks ago, ...
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Video footage of of the Southern California hardcore band STRIFE performing on January 28 at Plan B in Moscow, Russia can be seen below. STRIFE's latest album, "Witness A Rebirth", was released on November 6, 2012 via 6131 Records. Some bands leave such an impression on fans that, even after two decades, their sound still ...
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David Swan of Australia's Faster Louder recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Faster Louder: Your new album, "Super Collider", didn't receive a great reception from critics and the press. Why do you think that was? Mustaine: I don't know where you're ...
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E-FORCE, the band led by former VOIVOD frontman Eric Forrest, will release its third album, "The Curse…", on April 11 via Mausoleum Records. "The Curse…" track listing: 01. Invitation 02. Perverse Media 03. Witch Wrk 04. Serpent's Kiss 05. Awakened 06. Psyclone 07. Devoured 08. Mass Deception 09. Your Beloved Hate 10. Infexxxous 11. The ...
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PitCam TV conducted an interview with guitarist Andrew Kline of the Southern California hardcore band STRIFE during he European Persistence Tour. You can now watch the chat below. STRIFE's latest album, "Witness A Rebirth", was released on November 6, 2012 via 6131 Records. Some bands leave such an impression on fans that, even ...
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DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo recently spoke to Lauren Wise of the Phoenix New Times about DOWN's recently completed new EP, which is tentatively due this spring. Asked how this effort will compare to the last DOWN record, Anselmo said: "Well, DOWN is DOWN, and the music we make isn't rocket science. You put ...
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Candlelight Records has announced the signing of ANCIENT ASCENDANT. ANCIENT ASCENDANT is a British-based quartet pioneering a unique brand of songwriting based on a solid foundation of black and death metal while injecting eclectic ideas from a wide range of fine metal traditions. Since the release of its critically acclaimed debut EP, "The Heathen Throne", ...
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Nuclear Blast USA's webshop will be the exclusive online distributor of the 10 seminal albums from SLAYER's American Recordings catalog on clear, Collector's Edition vinyl. Each album will be sold individually, is strictly limited to 666 hand-numbered copies, and can be shipped internationally. Full audio has been remastered from the original analog flat ...
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Stormbringer webzine conducted an interview with Christofer Johnsson of Swedish progressive/experimental metallers THERION prior to the band's December 12 concert in Vienna, Austria. You can now watch the chat below. Johnsson revealed in a recent online posting that the next THERION album will be a "rock opera… about the rise and fall of ...
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Dark Descent Records will release "Abysmal Thresholds", the full-length debut from Finland's CORPSESSED, on February 4. After terrorizing your ear drums with 2011's "The Dagger And The Chalice" and 2012's self-titled seven-inch single, CORPSESSED is poised to thoroughly decimate what's left of your auditory senses. "Abysmal Thresholds" is over 47 minutes of death metal the ...
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Brazilian gothic metallers RAVENLAND have released a new single called "Poisoned". The song was produced by Augusto Lopes (ex-TORTURE SQUAD, FANTTASMA, ETERNAL MALEDICTION) at Casanegra Studios, Studio 24h and Norcal Studios. To celebrate 15 years since its first release, "October Of 1998", RAVENLAND has issued a compilation CD, "Ravensongs For The Ravenhearts", consisting of the ...
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"Distant Thing", the new video from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian's collaborative jazz-infused album "Jazz-iz Christ", can be seen below. Released on July 23, "Jazz-iz Christ" is Serj's brainchild, but truly is a collaborative effort between many musicians that Tankian curated to be part of the group and self-titled album. Among ...
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Germany's EMP Rock Invasion recently conducted an interview with AVENGED SEVENFOLD bassist Johnny Christ. You can now watch the chat below. Asked about recent comments from MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn, in which Flynn called AVENGED's new "Hail To The King" CD a "covers album" and specifically called AVENGED SEVENFOLD out for songs like "This ...
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Invade TV recently conducted an interview with drummer Steve Asheim of Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE. You can now watch the chat below. DEICIDE's latest album, "In The Minds Of Evil", sold 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. Issued on November 25 via Century Media Records, the follow-up to ...
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Eagle Vision has meticulously issued DEEP PURPLE live videos over recent years covering the variant Mark periods of the band. It's only fitting they unearth the reunion of the MKII-era lineup for "Perfect Strangers Live", a video document showcasing Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Roger Glover and the late Jon Lord as they reformed ...
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Earlier this week, Keven Skinner of Gotham News conducted an interview with former STATIC-X leader and current solo artist Wayne Static. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Gotham News: The last time we spoke, we talked about the old STATIC-X band dynamic and you had mentioned it was more of ...
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Christofer Johnsson of Swedish progressive/experimental metallers THERION has issued the following update: "The coming rock opera will be about the rise and fall of Antichrist and is inspired by and partly (not to be confused with 'entirely') based on Vladimir Soloviev's 'A Short Story Of The Anti-Christ'. "I have been attempting to write a regular ...
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PANTERA/DOWN vocalist Philip Anselmo recently spoke to Loudwire about the moment he knew PANTERA was over and how he misses having a friendship with the band's drummer, Vinnie Paul Abbott. "It is unfortunate," Anselmo said about the rift between him and Vinnie Paul (see video below). "I am a music fan. I hate ...
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"End The Wrath Of God", the new video from Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's latest album, "In The Minds Of Evil", which sold 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. Issued on November 25 via Century Media Records, the follow-up ...
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Bassist/vocalist Glen Benton of Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE was interviewed on the November 29 – December 1 edition of Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the Podbean player below. To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it airs, go to ...
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Underground death metal veterans ACHERON have completed work on their new album, "Kult Des Hasses"; their first for Listenable Records. Vocalist/bassist Vincent Crowley has been joined on the CD by longtime drummer Kyle Severn and guitarist Art Taylor. Also appearing on the recording as a guest second lead guitarist is Ricktor Ravensbruck from the bands ...
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A389 Recordings has announced the signing of Arkansas-based underlords NAPALM CHRIST. Formed in late 2010, NAPALM CHRIST unites a crew of longtime henchmen who have helped shape the Little Rock area extreme music scene over the past two or more decades. Since the early 1990s, the four horsemen who form NAPALM CHRIST have collectively spent ...
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WOLFPACK44, the new band featuring Ricktor Ravensbruck (THE ELECTRIC HELLFIRE CLUB, ACHERON), Julian Xes (KULT OF AZAZEL) and Paul Collier (ANGELCORPSE, PESSIMIST), will release its debut album, "The Scourge", before the end of the year via the French label Deadlight Entertainment. The CD was recorded at Glitch Mode Studio by Nik Skum (DOPE) and features ...
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BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by legendary rapper Ice-T, has begun recording the vocals for its new album, "Manslaughter", for a 2014 release via Sumerian Records. BODY COUNT's last album, "Murder 4 Hire", came out in 2006 via Escapi Music. Lyrically, the songs ranged from political ("The End Game"), personal ("You Don't ...
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Despite being listed as influences on countless notable bands, there has never been a book that tells the complete story of both FAITH NO MORE and MR. BUNGLE. Until now. Author/journalist Greg Prato's tenth book overall, "The Faith No More & Mr. Bungle Companion", serves as both a career overview and analyzation of both bands ...
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James Anaya of "The Hellion Rocks" on Bleach Bangs Radio recently conducted an interview with drummer Steve Asheim of Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. DEICIDE will release its new album, "In The Minds Of Evil", on November 25 via Century Media Records. The ...
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On October 22, Premier Guitar's Chris Kies was on location in Omaha, Nebraska where he caught up with the techs behind the rigs of AVENGED SEVENFOLD guitarists Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance, and bassist Johnny Christ, who all used their own signature Schecter instruments during the fall leg of the "Hail To The King" 2013 ...
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