Joel O'Keeffe of Australian hard rockers AIRBOURNE injured his leg when he fell off the stage during the band's September 22 concert in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The incident happened during the encore song "Running Wild" while O'Keeffe was in the middle of his guitar solo. O'Keeffe was picked up by the band's crew, who ...
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British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN, whose first major U.K. arena tour for six years will be announced on Friday, September 23, have gone to great lengths to ensure their fans are able to buy tickets at the intended price rather than at the ludicrously inflated prices prevalent on many secondary ticketing sites and also ...
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Earlier this week, Jaxon of the 93.3 WMMR radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania conducted an interview with METALLICA frontman James Hetfield. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. A few excerpts from the chat follow below (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the long gap between 2008's "Death Magnetic" album ...
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FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares celebrated his 50th birthday by playing two shows with his long-running ASESINO project earlier this month. Multi-camera footage of ASESINO's entire September 10 concert at Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California can be seen below. ASESINO is the death metal/grindcore project featuring Cazares and FEAR FACTORY/ex-STATIC-X bassist Tony ...
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Freddy Lim, human rights activist and youth culture advocate, was elected to the Taiwanese Parliament in January of 2016. He is the lead vocalist of CHTHONIC, a metal band with six popular studio albums that has won the Taiwan's Golden Melody awards, Golden Music Awards and best international artist for Tibet in Tibet Music Awards. ...
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During a recent interview with the Detroit Free Press, JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon shot down persistent talk of the band reuniting with its former singer Steve Perry, who sang on many of JOURNEY's best-known hits, including "Open Arms", "Any Way You Want It", "Don't Stop Believin'" and "Who's Cryin' Now". "You know, what ...
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On August 26, California rockers TESLA will release "Mechanical Resonance Live!", a live recording of their classic album, celebrating the original multi-platinum record's 30th birthday in style. With a few surprises up their sleeve, including the single "Save That Goodness" written and produced by Phil Collen of DEF LEPPARD, the effort will be made available ...
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FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares will celebrate his 50th birthday by playing two shows with his long-running ASESINO project in early September. The dates are as follows: Sep. 09 - Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA Sep. 10 - Whisky A Go Go - West Hollywood, CA Says Dino: "I can't believe I'm turning ...
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Dino Cazares says it was "really weird" playing with FEAR FACTORY while sitting down in a chair during the band's recent tour. The guitarist tore a muscle in his right foot after FEAR FACTORY's June 5 show in Melbourne, Australia. He saw a local doctor, who told him that he could not put any pressure ...
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The Grammy Foundation and Grammy Museum are partnering on September 1 to celebrate the life and legacy of B.B. King, 15-time Grammy-winning rhythm and blues singer. Titled "Icon: The Life And Legacy Of B.B. King", the live tribute, sponsored in part by Gibson USA, will include performances by multi-Grammy winners Keb' Mo', Derek Trucks and ...
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On August 26, California rockers TESLA will release "Mechanical Resonance Live!", a live recording of their classic album, celebrating the original multi-platinum record's 30th birthday in style. With a few surprises up their sleeve, including the single "Save That Goodness" written and produced by Phil Collen of DEF LEPPARD, the effort will be made available ...
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, a GUNS N' ROSES fan named Caroline Campos is claiming that a poster she brought to the band's concert in Nashville on July 9, which read "Where's Izzy?" — asking why original guitarist Izzy Stradlin was not involved in the current tour — was taken from her and ripped ...
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GUNS N' ROSES played the second show of its "Not In This Lifetime" North American stadium tour on Sunday night (June 26) at FedexField — home of the Washington Redskins — in Landover, Maryland near Washington, D.C. Prior to the concert, GN'R singer Axl Rose met Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his wife Tanya along ...
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GUNS N' ROSES kicked off its "Not In This Lifetime" tour Thursday night (June 23) at Detroit, Michigan's Ford Field. 41,000 fans packed the stadium to watch the band play a two-hour-and-35-minute show that started just before 9:45 p.m. Singer Axl Rose reportedly sported six different T-shirts, a leather jacket, five hats and a couple ...
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On August 26, California rockers TESLA will release "Mechanical Resonance Live!", a live recording of their classic album, celebrating the original multi-platinum record's 30th birthday in style. With a few surprises up their sleeve, including the single "Save That Goodness" written and produced by Phil Collen of DEF LEPPARD, the effort will be made available ...
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Duff McKagan has described seeing GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose perform with AC/DC as "magical." AC/DC postponed the last ten dates of its recent North American trek after singer Brian Johnson was advised to stop playing live or "risk total hearing loss." The band has since completed the European leg of its "Rock Or ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of FEAR FACTORY's June 11 peformance at The Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa can be seen below. As previously reported, FEAR FACTORY's Dino Cazares tore a muscle in his right foot after the band's June 5 show in Melbourne, Australia. The guitarist saw a local doctor, who told him that he ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of AC/DC's June 9 performance at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Rock Or Bust 02. Shoot To Thrill 03. Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be 04. Back In Black 05. Got Some Rock N' Roll Thunder 06. Dirty Deeds Done ...
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FEAR FACTORY's Dino Cazares tore a muscle in his right foot after the band's June 5 show in Melbourne, Australia. The guitarist saw a local doctor, who told him that he could not put any pressure on the foot for the next two weeks. As a result, Cazares will be sitting in a chair for ...
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AC/DC became the first band to perform a major concert at The Stadium at London, England's Queen Elizabeth's Olympic Park. The concert, which took place Saturday night (June 4), was the first major event in the stadium after the transformation works were completed. The stadium had been undergoing work since 2013 to turn it into ...
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Zeena Koda of VEVO conducted an interview with LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which was held May 20-22 in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the process of writing his memoir, "Dark Days: A Memoir", which came out last year, Randy ...
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, fans shouldn't approach GUNS N' ROSES and current AC/DC vocalist Axl Rose for an autograph if they see him. While the formerly reclusive singer has been open and friendly with fans during his run of European shows with the latter band, Axl has apparently had enough of people getting ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of AC/DC's May 29 performance at Stade de Suisse in Bern, Switzerland can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Rock Or Bust 02. Shoot To Thrill 03. Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be 04. Back In Black 05. Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder 06. Dirty Deeds ...
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Germany's publicly owned television channel Das Erste has filed a two-and-a-half-minute video report on AC/DC's May 26 performance at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. You can now watch the segment below. According to The Pulse Of Radio, AC/DC guitarist Angus Young said in a new interview with NDR.de that he's not really sure what AC/DC will do ...
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"Bottom of a Bottle" became a major party hit in 2003 just as nu-metal was phasing out. SMILE EMPTY SOUL's ballsy "do it for the drugs" mantra threw enough shock factor into a song that would've otherwise rang as a blatant LINKIN PARK knockoff to propel the song onto the US charts. Love it or ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of AC/DC's May 26 performance at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Germany can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Rock Or Bust 02. Shoot To Thrill 03. Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be 04. Back In Black 05. Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder 06. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt ...
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AC/DC guitarist Angus Young says that no decisions have been made yet regarding the band's future after the completion of its current tour featuring Axl Rose on vocals. The legendary Australian rock band postponed the last ten dates of its recent North American tour after doctors told singer Brian Johnson he faced "total hearing loss." ...
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The official video recap of AC/DC's May 22 concert in Prague, Czech Republic can be seen below. AC/DC performed the song "Touch Too Much" live for the first time in more than 35 years in Prague. The show marked GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose's sixth appearance as the temporary frontman for AC/DC. For the ...
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Former AC/DC drummer Simon Wright has weighed in on the strange situation regarding AC/DC and singer Brian Johnson. The legendary Australian rock band postponed the last ten dates of its recent North American tour after doctors told Johnson he faced "total hearing loss." AC/DC has since announced that it will use GUNS N' ROSES singer ...
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AC/DC performed the song "Touch Too Much" live for the first time in more than 35 years earlier tonight (Sunday, May 22) in Prague, Czech Republic. The last time the song was aired live in concert was on December 14, 1979 in Nice, France. The Prague show marked GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose's sixth ...
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