KATATONIA guitarist Anders Nyström, bassist Niklas Sandin and guitarist Roger Öjersson recently spoke with The Metal Tris. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's return from their self-imposed year-long hiatus: Anders: "We always wanted to come back. It's never been a question of wanting ...
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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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GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge has confirmed to Ireland's Overdrive that he is planning on entering the studio in early 2020 to begin work on the follow-up to 2018's "Prequelle" album. "I think about it all the time," he said. "But let me be very transparent here. I am indeed going into the studio ...
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Video footage of GHOST performing an acoustic version of the song "Dance Macabre" live at Belgium's Studio Brussel can be seen below. Last year, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge told Loudwire about "Dance Macabre": "'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever. [Laughs] It's our 'Living After Midnight'. It's just ...
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California rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album, "We Stitch These Wounds", next year by releasing a re-recorded version of the LP, along with some new songs. "We Stitch These Wounds" was issued in July 2010 via StandBy Records and was BLACK VEIL BRIDES' only studio album to feature ...
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Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON have released the official lyric video for the song "The Red Baron". The track is the second single from the band's ninth full-length album, "The Great War", which is due on July 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band's 20th-anniversary record will be a concept effort covering stories from the ...
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In a brand new interview with All Things Loud, GHOST leader Tobias Forge was asked how he looks back on the band's latest album, "Prequelle", now that it has been out for exactly a year. "I don't think that much of the record," he responded. "To use a very business-oriented term, I think ...
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Armed with "Faith", the third hit single from GHOST's Grammy-nominated album "Prequelle", No. 15 in this, its fourth week at Active Rock Radio, GHOST premieres a brand-new webisode, "Chapter 7: New World Redro". This chapter first brings the viewer up to date with the Cardinal Copia-Papa Nihil-Sister Imperator storyline and then begins to lay the ...
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Around 75,000 fans attended METALLICA concert Saturday night (June 8) at the iconic venue Slane Castle in Meath, Ireland. The show marked METALLICA's first appearance in Ireland since the band played in Belfast in 2010 and Dublin in 2009. The legendary heavy metal act was unable to play in the country during the indoor leg ...
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The greatest heavy metal festival in the world, Wacken Open Air, will unleash its latest collection on July 26 through Silver Linings Music/Wacken Records when "Live At Wacken 2018: 29 Years Louder The Hell" smashes into stores. The 16th release in the "Live At Wacken" series, which dates back to 2002, is stuffed with pulverizing ...
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Swedish sleaze rockers CRASHDÏET will release their fifth studio album, "Rust", on September 13 via Diet Records in Scandinavia and Frontiers Music Srl in the rest of the world. The record marks the group's first full-length effort with vocalist Gabriel Keyes, who joined the band in December 2017. That same month, the group self-released a ...
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APOCALYPTICA has completed work on the long-awaited follow-up to its 2015 album, "Shadowmaker". The Finnish cello rockers recorded the new all-instrumental disc over a three-month period at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki. In a brand new interview with Ghost Cult, APOCALYPTICA drummer Mikko Sirén said that "it's been really fun to go back" ...
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Walt from Chicago radio station 101 WKQX recently conducted an interview with GHOST frontman Tobias Forge. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how the main riff from the song "Stand By Him" inspired him to launch GHOST: Tobias: "As you do when you're a guitar player, ...
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The official JayLaced Productions-produced music video for the song "I Came For Blood" from San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans DEATH ANGEL can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's ninth full-length album, "Humanicide", which is being released today (Friday, May 31) via Nuclear Blast Records. With "Humanicide", DEATH ANGEL has ...
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According to Entertainment.ie, airport-style security checks will be in place when METALLICA performs at the iconic venue Slane Castle in Meath, Ireland on June 8. As with most concerts, bag searches will be carried out. 75,000 fans are expected to attend the concert, which will mark METALLICA's first appearance in Ireland since the ...
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Tommy Vext spoke to HardDrive Radio about BAD WOLVES' recently completed second album, which tentatively due before the end of the year. "Gutars and bass were tracked in [Las] Vegas with Max Karon, who is one of John's [Boecklin, drums] oldest friends, who also works for GHOST," the singer said. "And then we did production ...
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On May 15, GHOST played a short acoustic set during a 101 WKQX intimate in-studio session in Chicago, Illinois. Check out video footage and photos below. Earlier in the month, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge confirmed to Revolver that he will return to the studio in January 2020 to begin work on the band's follow-up to ...
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Andrew McKaysmith of the "Scars And Guitars" podcast recently conducted an interview with bassist Pär Sundström of Swedish metallers SABATON. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On remaining down to earth while SABATON's career remains busy as ever: Pär: "I think 20 years of ...
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"Graven", the new video from Californian death metal pioneers POSSESSED, can be seen below. Directed by Scott Hansen (WILLIE NELSON, A DAY TO REMEMBER, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, DEICIDE, PRONG), the clip features actor and friend of the band, Peter Stormare ("Fargo", "Constantine", "The Brothers Grimm"). POSSESSED frontman Jeff Becerra comments: "We are extremely excited to ...
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Sweden is a hotbed of all things metal—from djent progenitors MESHUGGAH and prog inclined wizards OPETH, all the way over to the nation's signature death, black and melodeath scenes. In recent years, the likes of GHOST, SABATON and AMARANTHE have churned out catchy, classic metal—or metal inspired—songs delivered with a modern twist, gaining commercial acclaim ...
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Seven new dates for the "Ultimate Tour Named Death", GHOST's six-week North American headline arena tour are announced, adding shows in Edmonton, Toledo, Moline, Youngstown, Huntington, Hamilton, and Ottawa. A series of ticket pre-sales begins today at 12 noon local, and the public on-sale starts at 10 a.m. local this Friday, May 24. Log on ...
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In a recent interview with Australia's Tone Deaf, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge was asked if separating the art from the artist is a thing that music fans should embrace more or should discuss more. He responded (see video below): "What we have done, or we try to do with GHOST is not very different from ...
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FAITH NO MORE singer Mike Patton and renowned French composer Jean-Claude Vannier, who is perhaps best known for his work with Serge Gainsbourg, will release "Corpse Flower" on September 13 via Ipecac Recordings. "Jean-Claude and I met while working together on a Gainsbourg retrospective at the Hollywood Bowl in 2011," explains Patton. "We bonded immediately. ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of GHOST's May 10 performance at Letzigrund Stadion in Zurich, Switzerland as the support act for METALLICA can be seen below. Last week, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge confirmed to Revolver that he will return to the studio in January 2020 to begin work on the band's follow-up to 2018's "Prequelle" album. Forge ...
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GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge has confirmed to Revolver that he will return to the studio in January 2020 to begin work on the band's next album. "I want to make a different record from [2018's] 'Prequelle'," he said. "I want it to feel different. If I dare to say heavier, people think that ...
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In a brand new interview with Jorge Botas of the "Metal Global" radio show, which airs on the Portuguese public TV and radio broadcaster RTP, GHOST leader Tobias Forge was asked how he decides on a setlist for the band's current European stadium tour as the support act for METALLICA. He responded (hear audio below): ...
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GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge has made Expressen's list of top-earning young Swedes. The 38-year-old musician came in at No. 7 on the newspaper's list of top earners in Stockholm under the age of 40, with a taxable income of 7,979,300 Swedish kronor (approximately $837,000) in 2017. Forge founded GHOST more than a decade ...
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KnuckleBonz, creator of the Rock Iconz music collectible series, has announced the production of a new range of GHOST figures, available for pre-order now at this location. Each of the new GHOST figures — Papa Emeritus II, Cardinal Copia in a red cassock and Cardinal Copia in a black tuxedo — is incredibly ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna recently spoke with WMMR's Sara and recalled meeting legendary RUSH drummer Neil Peart, along with his GODSMACK bandmate Shannon Larkin, and the funny interaction the two drummers had. "Me and my drummer Shannon, who idolized Neil, finally got to meet him several years ago," Sully said (hear audio below). "It was ...
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Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON have released the official music video for the song "Fields Of Verdun". The track is the first single from the band's ninth full-length album, "The Great War", which is due on July 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band's 20th-anniversary record will be a concept effort covering stories from the ...
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