According to Billboard, SHINEDOWN holds the record for the most top 10s in the history of Billboard's Rock Airplay chart. The band has just scored its 11th top 10 with "Get Up", the second single from its latest album, "Attention Attention". SHINEDOWN was previously in a tie with FOO FIGHTERS for the most ...
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA has released a brand new live video for its hugely successful single "Alone In A Room". Having spent 28 weeks on the Active Rock radio chart and peaking at No. 7, it is the band's third top ten hit at rock radio. The song has amassed a whopping 16.3 million streams on Spotify ...
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Former KORN drummer David Silveria has launched a new band called BIAS. He is joined in the Orange County, California-based group by bassist Chris Dorame, guitarists Joe Taback and Mike Martin and singer Rich Nguyen. Silveria, Dorame and Taback previously played together in CORE 10, which "imploded" earlier this year after releasing a couple of ...
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California alternative-rock quartet PAPA ROACH will release its 10th studio album, "Who Do You Trust?", on January 18, 2019 through Eleven Seven Music. The 12-track disc features the band's signature heavy rhythmic guitars and catchy hooks on "Who Do You Trust" and "Renegade Music", with "Not The Only One" supplying melody and emotionally charged lyrics. ...
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WARRANT's longtime drummer Steven Sweet has been diagnosed with moderately aggressive prostate cancer. A GoFundMe campaign has been started by his friend Glenn Noyes to help Steven raise $25,000 to cover the drummer's medical expenses while he is unable to perform live and support his family. A message on the GoFundMe page states: ...
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INTO ETERNITY is known for providing a bridge between prog metal and melodic death metal, but since its inception in 1997, the Canadian band has marched to the beat of its own drum, assembling the pieces in a distinctly unique manner. The Regina, Saskatchewan-based collective has, for the most part, improved with each subsequent release. ...
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Prior to CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's performance in Cardiff, Wales on November 3, guitarist Woody Weatherman spoke with Metal Underground. The full conversation can be viewed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On their latest album, "No Cross No Crown": Woody: "We had a lot of material. We left a few ...
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Last month, Massachusetts metallers ALL THAT REMAINS suffered a tragic and incredibly painful loss when their globally renowned, highly respected, and immeasurably talented lead guitarist and founding member Oli Herbert, unexpectedly passed away. Herbert played on all nine albums in the band's discography and was especially proud of the new album, "Victim Of The New ...
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Kane Roberts is back with a new solo album, "The New Normal", which will be released on January 25, 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl. The album track "Forever Out Of Place", featuring Kip Winger, is available for streaming below. Kane has involved some really amazing friends in the making of "The New Normal", including Alice ...
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PAPA ROACH has announced a special run of five shows in its home state of California to celebrate the release of the band's forthcoming 10th studio album. The group will close out this run with three very special shows at the landmark West Hollywood venue The Roxy, presented by SiriusXM. Singer Jacoby Shaddix said: "It's ...
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The official video for "That Crazy White Boy Shit", a new song from New York hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's twelfth studio album, "Wake The Sleeping Dragon!", which was released today (Friday, November 2) via Century Media. The follow-up to 2014's "The Last ...
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According to Law360, LED ZEPPELIN's attorneys have asked the Ninth Circuit appeals court to reconsider its recent ruling in the "Stairway To Heaven" copyright lawsuit. In late September, a federal appeals court decided unanimously to overturn a jury's decision that LED ZEPPELIN's 1971 classic was not a rip-off of the 1968 instrumental song ...
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Steve Harris says that he isn't concerned about whether IRON MAIDEN will eventually be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Even though artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single, iconic hard rock and metal groups like MAIDEN, ...
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In the first episode of AVENGED SEVENFOLD's "Breakdown" series, singer M. Shadows and guitarist Synyster Gates talk about the writing and recording process for the song "The Stage" from the album of the same name. Check it out below. Gates told the "Two Doods Reviews" podcast that he feels "The Stage" "absolutely" achieved what the ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE's Nikki Sixx will apparently play bass for JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES on the ROB ZOMBIE guitarist's upcoming U.S. tour. After John 5 posted an Instagram photo of a new t-shirt that will be available on sale when his band hits the road later this week, Nikki chimed in with a ...
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Scott Travis says JUDAS PRIEST got to know producer Andy Sneap well enough during the "Firepower" recording sessions that they felt comfortable asking him to fill in for guitarist Glenn Tipton, who had to retire from full-time touring activities due to his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. While there were plenty of talented prospects available, the ...
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The official lyric video for "Wake The Sleeping Dragon!", the title track of the twelfth studio album from New York hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL, can be seen below. Due on November 2, the follow-up to 2014's "The Last Act Of Defiance" was produced by Jerry Farley (EVERY TIME I DIE, DEMON HUNTER) over ...
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Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, has spoken to KNAC.COM about her onetime gig as the in-house guitarist for the LA KISS, the now-defunct arena football team owned by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of KISS. Asked how many people she beat out for the job, Nita ...
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IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has told AndrewHaug.com in a new interview that beating cancer in 2015 motivated him to write his memoir, "What Does This Button Do?" "People have been me asking me to do it for years, and I consistently turned it down," he said (hear audio below). "'Cause I knew ...
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PAPA ROACH guitarist Jerry Horton has confirmed to the Milwaukee radio station 102.9 The Hog that the band's tenth studio album will arrive in January. The follow-up to 2017's "Crooked Teeth" will include the songs "Renegade Music" and "Who Do You Trust?", which were released earlier this month. Asked why PAPA ROACH decided to work ...
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LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe, one of extreme metal's most politically aware musicians who has written about social and political issues in the past, has told Metal Hammer magazine that he doesn't believe the Trump presidency has had any effect on touring. "I don't really think it has," he said. "But I haven't been ...
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Mark "The Fuzz Man" Doss of "The Great Metal Debate" podcast conducted an interview with guitarist Asim Searah and bassist Jukka Koskinen of Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN prior to the band's October 6 concert at Bottom Lounge in Chicago, Illinois. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts ...
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According to former DIO guitarist Craig Goldy, legendary DEEP PURPLE axeman Ritchie Blackmore prevented Goldy's then-band GIUFFRIA from having a guitar solo spot during the 1984 "Perfect Strangers" tour because Ritchie feared being upstaged. Goldy, fresh off his gig with ROUGH CUTT and being secretly courted by Ronnie James Dio, said Blackmore was going to ...
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Prior to NIGHTWISH's performance at the British festival Bloodstock Open Air on August 12, vocalist Floor Jansen spoke with "The Unchained Rock Show" about NORTHWARD, her new side project with PAGAN'S MIND guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the origins of ...
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New York hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL will release their twelfth studio album, "Wake The Sleeping Dragon!", on November 2. The follow-up to 2014's "The Last Act Of Defiance" was produced by Jerry Farley (EVERY TIME I DIE, DEMON HUNTER) over a two-and-a-half-week period at Nova Studios in Staten Island, New York and was ...
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In a recent interview with "Live With Lilo", drummer Mike Portnoy (SONS OF APOLLO, ex-DREAM THEATER) was asked if he has ever thought about writing a book. He responded (see video below): "Actually, I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially ...
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA guitarist Ben Bruce told "Two Doods Reviews" at this past weekend's Aftershock festival that he and his bandmates feel "somewhat" vindicated by the success of their latest single, "Alone In A Room". "For some reason, for whatever reason, I feel like nothing ever stops or slows down," he said (see video below). "I ...
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Kyle McGinn of Dead Rhetoric recently conducted an interview with vocalist Elize Ryd of Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Dead Rhetoric: 2017 was a tough year with Jake [E] leaving and the search for a replacement looming. Do you feel that the band is in a ...
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Paul Stanley says that it's unlikely KISS will produce any new music before finally calling it quits at the end of its upcoming "farewell" tour. KISS hasn't released a full-length disc of new music since 2012's "Monster", which sold 56,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position ...
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U.K. metalcore act ASKING ALEXANDRIA has released a brand new video for the beautifully stripped down, acoustic version of its third Top 10 radio hit "Alone In A Room" (currently No. 8 on the Active Rock chart). "Alone In A Room" is the second single from ASKING ALEXANDRIA's self-titled fifth studio album, which was released ...
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