Los Angeles quintet HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD has released the official music video for the new track "Idol", featuring a guest appearance from rapper Tech N9ne. Continuing to push the boundaries of ingenuity, "Idol" sees HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD effortlessly blend heavy riffs, huge hooks, dubstep-tinged industrial bombast and impassioned lyrical dexterity into a hard-hitting sonic canvas that is ...
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Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA have collaborated with HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale on their new single, "Talk To Me". The track, which has just been released digitally, can be streamed below. APOCALYPTICA's Eicca Toppinen stated: "After years of friendship, we are more than happy to release a song together with the amazing Lzzy of HALESTORM. "This ...
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Corey Taylor has once again said that his record company stopped him from singing with ANTHRAX when the opportunity for him to work with the band presented itself more than a decade ago. The SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman had harbored hopes of replacing Joey Belladonna for the follow-up to "We've Come For You All", ...
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During Tom Petty's final interview with the Los Angeles Times, as the triumphant 40th anniversary tour with THE HEARTBREAKERS was coming to an end, he announced that his next big focus would be to finally revisit his 1994 masterpiece "Wildflowers", co-produced with Rick Rubin and Mike Campbell. "Wildflowers" in many ways changed Tom's creative life ...
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Video footage of METALLICA performing the song "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from the upcoming "Metallica And San Francisco Symphony: S&M²" release can be seen below. METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony's September 6 and September 8, 2019 "S&M²" concerts were historic on multiple levels: They served as the grand opening of San Francisco's Chase Center, ...
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In a new interview with FM99 WNOR, HELLYEAH guitarist Tom Maxwell said that it was extremely difficult for him and his bandmates to complete the group's latest album, "Welcome Home", following the passing of their drummer, Vinnie Paul Abbott. "It was tough," he said (see video below). "We literally had to suck it up and ...
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SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor will release his debut solo album, "CMFT", on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. Taylor recorded the solo effort with his band consisting of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer on drums, and Zach Throne and Christian Martucci (STONE SOUR) on guitar. The LP was completed at Kevin Churko's ...
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THE PRETTY RECKLESS's Taylor Momsen teamed up with Alain Johannes, co-creator of the highly influential '90s alternative rock band ELEVEN as well as a key contributor on releases from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, THEM CROOKED VULTURES and Chris Cornell, to record a cover version of the Cornell song "The Keeper". The performance video, which ...
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Wolfgang Van Halen has denounced his detractors for not being "creative" enough with their insults. Earlier today, the VAN HALEN bassist tweeted, "Just vacuumed my living room and couch cushions like I'm some kind of adult or something", to which a Twitter user responded: "Who cares, your just a nepotism freak." This prompted the 29-year-old ...
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Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA have collaborated with HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale on their new single, "Talk To Me". The track will be released digitally on Friday, August 21. APOCALYPTICA's latest studio album, "Cell-0", came out in January. The effort was the band's first fully instrumental record in 17 years. 2015's "Shadowmaker" was APOCALYPTICA's first album ...
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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT will return with a mammoth new studio album, "The Symbol Remains", on October 9 via Frontiers Music Srl. Coming nearly two decades after the release of the band's last studio LP, "Curse Of The Hidden Mirror", the effort showcases a band which hasn't been slowed by the time passed but is simply ...
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Geezer Butler (BLACK SABBATH), Biff Byford (SAXON), Gilby Clarke (GUNS N' ROSES), David Ellefson (MEGADETH), Frank Bello (ANTHRAX), Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX), Stephen Perkins (JANE'S ADDICTION) and Andrew Freeman (LAST IN LINE) are among the rockers who have reacted on social media to the passing of iconic bass player Pete Way. The founder of UFO, WAYSTED ...
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During an appearance this past Wednesday (August 12) on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation Virtual Invasion", Corey Taylor was asked when he will know that it's time for him to walk away from SLIPKNOT due to the physical cost of performing with the band for so many years. He responded: "That's a good question. The honest answer ...
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An animated music video for SEETHER's new single, "Beg", can be seen below. The track will be included on the band's eighth album, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", which is due on August 28 via Fantasy Records. The clip was helmed by noted Turkish director Mertcan Mertbilek (Santana, Ray Charles, Ravi Shankar, Elvis Costello). SEETHER ...
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Rapper Tech N9ne has released a new single, "Bitch Slap", featuring a guest appearance by SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor. The song is taken from "More Fear", which is said to be a supplemental EP release to his latest album, "Enter Fear", which came out in April. Taylor previously worked with Tech N9ne ...
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As part of WRIF's "Virtual Rock Room" interview series, SEVENDUST frontman Lajon Witherspoon spoke to Meltdown about his upcoming debut solo album. He said (see video below): "I'm working slowly but surely. I'm very excited about it. You know the band RA — the lead singer Sahaj [Daniel Ticotin] is a very good friend of ...
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SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE's previously announced September 18 appearance as the headliner of Rockin' Fore The Kids at Cleveland's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has been canceled. According to Cleveland.com, representatives for Hagar have confirmed that the performance has been called off "due [to] city/state regulations on public gatherings." ...
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METALLICA's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich still look back fondly on their collaboration with pop superstar Lady Gaga at the 2017 Grammy Awards. "I just respect her as an artist," Hetfield said during an appearance Wednesday (August 12) on "The Howard Stern Show". "She was there for two hours before we even got there, working ...
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Corey Taylor has topped Billboard's Hard Rock Songwriters chart. One of the two new solo singles from the SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman, "CMFT Must Be Stopped" debuted at No. 11 on Hot Hard Rock Songs with 645,000 U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold in the tracking week, according to Nielsen ...
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian will release a new solo EP called "Elasticity" in the fall. Tankian recently filmed a video for the disc's apparent first single, "Rumi". Several stills from the shoot can be seen below. This past May, Tankian described "Elasticity" as a collection of "rock songs" that were first meant ...
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Corey Taylor says that he is open to doing more recording and touring with STONE SOUR in the future. One week after announcing in an interview that STONE SOUR had "run its course," the SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman elaborated on the latter band's current status, insisting that he hasn't completed closed the door on ...
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Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack has confirmed that a biopic about his father's early solo career and the singer's life with Sharon Osbourne is in the "very, very early" stages. "We have a writer," Jack, whose production company is working on the picture, told Rolling Stone. "We said to go from 1979 ...
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Chris Slade says that nobody from the AC/DC camp has told him he is no longer the band's touring drummer. The 73-year-old played drums for the legendary hard rock band's "Rock Or Bust" world trek after Phil Rudd was arrested for drug possession and threatening to kill an employee. Since then, AC/DC has apparently finished ...
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On October 23, ARMORED SAINT will release its eighth full-length album, "Punching The Sky", via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of the album, a video for the new single "End Of The Attention Span", directed by Robert Graves, can be seen below. Bassist Joey Vera comments: "We've teamed up with video director Robert ...
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In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station, SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor spoke about his upcoming debut solo album, "CMFT", which will be released on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. Taylor recorded the effort with his band consisting of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer ...
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ARMORED SAINT's new single and video, "End Of The Attention Span", will make its online debut tomorrow (Wednesday, August 12). The song is taken from the band's eighth full-length studio album "Punching The Sky", which is due on October 23 through Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2015's "Win Hands Down" was tracked with veteran ...
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Video of SEETHER's Shaun Morgan and Corey Lowery performing an acoustic version of the band's new single, "Dangerous", can be seen below. The clip was filmed and recorded at SEETHER's home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. "Dangerous" is taken from SEETHER's eighth album, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", which is due on August 28 via Fantasy ...
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Corey Taylor says that STONE SOUR has "run its course." The SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman, who will release his debut solo album in October, discussed STONE SOUR's current status during an appearance on "The Green Room With Neil Griffiths" podcast. He said: "I feel like STONE SOUR has kind of ...
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Jean-Paul Gaster of CLUTCH was recently interviewed by Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked for his thoughts on the state of rock music, Gaster said: "Rock depends so much on being able to get out and connect with fans, and we can't ...
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DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci has confirmed to Spain's Metal Hammer magazine that the band is planning to use some of its coronavirus downtime to work on the follow-up to last year's "Distance Over Time" album. "There's a lot going on musically this year," Petrucci said (see video below). "Obviously, everybody's trying to be creative. ...
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