Atlanta, Georgia's NORMA JEAN has released its explosive new single, "Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda". The track is taken from the band's upcoming seventh full-length, "Polar Similar", due out September 9 via Solid State Records. "Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda" features guest vocals from Sean Ingram of metalcore pioneers COALESCE, with a performance that perfectly complements the ...
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There's been a bucket load of MOTÖRHEAD live albums and videos over the years, including bonus live sets and radio performances scattered upon the Sanctuary Records remasters from 2005 and '06. Frankly, it was easy to take them for granted while Lemmy Kilmister was still alive. Last December, the widely beloved Lemmy took his last ...
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AEROSMITH drummer-turned-coffee-mogul Joey Kramer soon will be rockin' and roastin' across the airwaves as a guest deejay on 100.7FM WZLX, Boston's Classic Rock. From Wednesday, June 29 through Friday, July 1, Kramer will become "DJ Kramedog" during the morning drive program from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. The special three-day airing will culminate with a ...
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According to Newsweek, a poster advertising IRON MAIDEN's upcoming concert in Lithuania has been banned by the Baltic country's authorities because the band's Eddie mascot may frighten little kids. A Lithuanian spokesman for concert promotion agency Live Nation told local news site Delfi that authorities had expressed concern at the effect the poster ...
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MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was interviewed by Terrie Carr for the latest edition of "Box Of Rock" on WDHA-FM 105.5 FM, the rock music station licensed to Dover and Morristown, New Jersey. You can now watch the second part of the chat at this location. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). ...
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Brazil's Imprensa Do Rock recently conducted an interview with SANCTUARY and NEVERMORE singer Warrel Dane. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). A how he takes care of his voice: Warrel: "The most important thing for a singer is you have to get a ...
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According to Billboard.com, BMG will relaunch the seminal metal label Noise Records. Noise was a German record label founded by well-known industry figure Karl Ulrich Walterbach. Walterbach had originally started Modern Music Records in Berlin, with a two-pronged approach of promoting German-speaking punk bands (SLIME, DAILY TERROR and TOXOPLASMA) and licensing American bands ...
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SANCTUARY and NEVERMORE singer Warrel Dane was interviewed on the latest installment of HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta's official podcast, "The Jasta Show". You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his current relationship with ex-NEVERMORE guitarist Jeff Loomis (now in ARCH ENEMY): ...
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In a brand new interview with U.K.'s Loaded, THE CULT guitarist Billy Duffy argues his band had more to do with the birth of the grunge movement than they're given credit for. "I wouldn't say we invented grunge," he says. "But there are a couple of facts that can't be disputed. The first ...
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According to Olive Press, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson flew an endangered turtle to Spain. Dickinson's personal plane flew Terri the turtle to the Canary Islands after she was washed up on a Jersey beach with a damaged shell and a nasty infection. A crowdfunding campaign raised €8,000 to rescue the reptile and ...
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Metal Shock Finland conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain at this year's NAMM show, which took place January 22-24 in Anaheim, California. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his return to Sonor drums: Nicko: "I left [Sonor] in '92 and ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of VENOM INC., the new band featuring original VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Anthony "Abaddon" Bray (drums) alongside ex-VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, performing on January 20 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California can be seen below (courtesy of Capital Chaos TV). In a 2015 ...
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Rock legend Joey Kramer, drummer for AEROSMITH and founder of the Rockin' & Roastin' coffee brand, will open Joey Kramer's Rockin' & Roastin' Café in April and the team currently is accepting applications for all positions. Situated at the intersection of Routes 1 and 1A in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, Joey Kramer Rockin' & Roastin' Café ...
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British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN will make their highly anticipated first-ever visit to China in April on "The Book Of Souls" world tour, playing at Beijing LeSports Center on April 24 and Shanghai Mercedes-Benz Arena on April 26. Tickets go on sale from 2 p.m. on January 19 through ticketing hotline 400-610-3721, and online ...
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"A Christmas Cheers", an animated Christmas card created by artist Val Andrade for British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN as a gift to their fans celebrating an incredible 2015, is available below. IRON MAIDEN's latest album, "The Book Of Souls", debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 75,000 equivalent album units in ...
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ArmyOfOneTV conducted an interview with SANCTUARY and NEVERMORE singer Warrel Dane on October 17 before SANCTUARY's show at Terminal 5 in New York City. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On why he doesn't do as many high-pitched screams as he used to: "There's ...
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MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine spoke to Australia's Music Feeds about the band's new lineup and the group's forthcoming fifteenth studio album, "Dystopia", which is scheduled to arrive in January. Tracked earlier in the year in Nashville, Tennessee and mixed by Josh Wilbur, who has previously worked with LAMB OF GOD, ALL THAT REMAINS ...
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Josh Rundquist (a.k.a. That Drummer Guy) conducted an interview with SANCTUARY and NEVERMORE singer Warrel Dane on October 10 at The Triple Rock in Minneapolis, Minnesota a during SANCTUARY's current North American tour. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of VENOM INC., the new band featuring original VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Anthony "Abaddon" Bray (drums) alongside ex-VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, performing on October 13 in Zagreb, Croatia can be seen below. In a recent interview with Canada's The Metal Voice, Dunn stated about how ...
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According to the Los Angeles Times, legendary guitarist Steve Vai has sold home and recording studio in the Hollywood Hills for $1.5 million. Vai, 55, purchased the 1,400-square-foot studio, called the Mothership Studio, and 3,981-square-foot home in 1987 for $330,000. It includes a live room, a booth, a microphone room, a control room, ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of VENOM INC., the new band featuring original VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Anthony "Abaddon" Bray (drums) alongside ex-VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, performing on September 21 at Scala in London, England can be seen below. In a recent interview with Canada's The Metal Voice, Dunn stated ...
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IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson recently spoke to Radio.com about the band's epic 18-minute song "Empire Of The Clouds" from MAIDEN's new album, "The Book Of Souls". Check out the clip below. In an interview with Noisey, Dickinson stated about the writing process for "Empire Of The Clouds": "I won a ...
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"Existence Fading", the new video from SANCTUARY, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's comeback album, "The Year The Sun Died", which was released in October 2014 via Century Media. Recorded in Seattle at Soundhouse Studios with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris (SOULFLY, SHADOWS FALL, HATEBREED, MUNICIPAL WASTE), the CD features 11 ...
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In a brand new interview with Overdrive, IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain was asked if he thought the band was over when it was discovered that MAIDEN lead singer Bruce Dickinson had a cancerous tumor. "Well, I'd be a liar if I didn't think for a minute that IRON MAIDEN [was] finished," he ...
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According to Billboard.com, IRON MAIDEN's "The Book Of Souls" debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 75,000 equivalent album units in the week ending September 10. That equals MAIDEN's highest rank ever, first achieved with 2010's "The Final Frontier". The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the ...
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France's Hard Force magazine recently conducted an interview with IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson. You can now listen to the chat in three parts below. Speaking about whether he has any plans to work on a new solo album to follow up 2005's "Tyranny Of Souls", Dickinson said: "'If Eternity Should Fail', the ...
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In a recent interview with "Nights With Alice Cooper" producer Katherine Turman, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson, who was in New York City on September 11, 2001, recounted his memories of the tragedy exactly fourteen years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11. You can watch the clip below. Dickinson told Travel Trade Gazette back in ...
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IRON MAIDEN's new album, "The Book Of Souls", has topped the official chart in the United Kingdom with with combined sales of just over 60,000. The band last topped the chart in 2010 with "The Final Frontier". Released globally on September 4 through Parlophone Records (Sanctuary Copyrights/BMG in the U.S.), "The Book Of Souls" was ...
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In a brand new interview with Ronan McGreevy of The Irish Times, IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain spoke about the making of the band's new album, "The Book Of Souls". "We talked about doing an album three years ago when we were all at the bar drinking," he said. "We were all looking ...
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A performance video for QUEENSRŸCHE's new song "Arrow Of time" can be seen below. The clip was filmed during the band's performance at the 2015 edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, which was held last month in Wacken, Germany. "Arrow Of Time" is taken from QUEENSRŸCHE's new album, "Condition Hüman", which will be released ...
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