Jason Rockman, SLAVES ON DOPE singer and on-air announcer/host of "Amped With The Rockman" on the Montreal, Quebec, Canada radio station CHOM 97 7, conducted an interview with former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo at this past weekend's Heavy MTL festival in Montreal. You can now watch the chat below. Anselmo's career-first solo ...
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NEWSTED — the band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — took part in an autograph signing and question-and-answer session on August 6 at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, New York. Check out video footage below. NEWSTED's debut album, "Heavy Metal Music", was released on ...
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Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted performed the classic METALLICA song "Phantom Lord" with MEGADETH last night (Sunday, August 11) at the final show of this summer's Gigantour in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Check out fan-filmed video footage of his appearance below. Newsted, who quit METALLICA in February 2001, is the frontman of a new band, simply ...
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Former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted was interviewed on the August 2-4 edition of Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it airs, ...
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Jägermeister U.K. conducted an interview with FIREWIND and OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G. (real name: Kostas Karamitroudis) at the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which is being held August 8-11 at Catton Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. You can now watch the chat below. FIREWIND celebrated its 10th anniversary by releasing a live album on June 24 ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of the reunited acclaimed 1990s rock band SAIGON KICK performing last night (Friday, August 9) at The Social in Orlando, Florida can be seen below. SAIGON KICK parted ways with bassist Tom DeFile earlier in the year. According to Tom, the split happened because of "personalities and other reasons." The remaining members ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of FIREWIND's entire August 9 performance at the Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent, West Midlands, United Kingdom can be seen below. FIREWIND celebrated its 10th anniversary by releasing a live album on June 24 via Century Media Records in Europe. Entitled "Apotheosis - Live 2012", the CD contains ...
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Former METALLICA bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA, the reality television-formed supergroup he launched seven years ago with former GUNS N' ROSES and ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA guitarist Gilby Clarke, Tommy Lee (MÖTLEY CRÜE) and Canadian vocalist Lukas Rossi. "It was a great experience, ...
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On August 6, the WRBR-FM (Real Rock 103.9 The Bear) radio station in South Bend, Indiana, conducted an interview with NEWSTED members Jason Newsted (formerly of METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM) and Mike Mushok (also of STAIND). You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. NEWSTED's debut album, "Heavy Metal ...
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Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted says that he is still "open" to perform a classic METALLICA song with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine on stage at one of the remaining shows on this summer's Gigantour. Newsted, who quit METALLICA in February 2001, is the frontman of a new band, simply called NEWSTED, which is taking part ...
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San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL will release their seventh album, "The Dream Calls For Blood", on October 11 in Eorpe (except for the U.K. where it will arrive three days later) and October 15 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2010's "Relentless Retribution" was recorded at Audiohammer Studios in ...
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ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante is recovering from surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. He writes on Twitter: "Surgeon fixed my hand, nothing broken, just carpal tunnel…behind my ANTHRAX drum kit soon, 9/13 in San Bernardino" ANTHRAX's current touring lineup includes SHADOWS FALL guitarist Jon Donais, who has been touring with ANTHRAX since Rob Caggiano's departure in ...
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On August 5, Lazer 103.3's Andy Hall conducted an interview with NEWSTED members Jason Newsted (formerly of METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM) and Mike Mushok (also of STAIND). You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. NEWSTED's debut album, "Heavy Metal Music", is being released today (Tuesday, August 6) in ...
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Brazil's Wikimetal podcast recently conducted an interview with guitarist Michael Gilbert of Arizona metal veterans FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM will play a special concert at the Keep It True XVII festival, set to take place April 25-26, 2014 at ...
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The Front Row Report conducted an interview with guitarist Jason Hook of Las Vegas metallers FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH at the July 26 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival stop in Noblesville, Indiana. You can now watch the chat below. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's fourth studio album, "The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side ...
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According to InFargo.com, the Gigantour 2013 concert scheduled for Sunday, August 4 at the Scheels Arena in Fargo, North Dakota has been canceled "due to circumstance beyond our control," arena officials announced Friday afternoon. Refunds will be available beginning Monday, August 5. Tickets purchased through Ticketmaster online or over the phone will be ...
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On July 7, Superskum.com conducted an interview with Carla Harvey and Heidi Shepherd of BUTCHER BABIES at the Englewood, Colorado stop of this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. You can now watch the chat below. BUTCHER BABIES' debut album, "Goliath", sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week ...
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Video footage of guitarist Jason Hook of Las Vegas metallers FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH laying down guitar solos on the band's forthcoming album, "The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 2", can be seen below. Says Hook in the clip: "So we're out here on the [Rockstar Energy Drink] Mayhem ...
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Long Beach rock 'n' roll band RIVAL SONS has announced the departure of bassist Robin Everhart. Friend and associate David Beste will take up bass duties for Jugendfest and Parkenfest Norway, plus the upcoming U.S. tour including dates with Sammy Hagar beginning August 20. RIVAL SONS wishes Robin all the best and they are excited ...
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Richard Bienstock of the Denver Westword recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Denver Westword: Prior to [Gigantour], there was talk that you and Jason Newsted, two METALLICA vets, would pair up to jam on one of the tunes that you had ...
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Vocalist Jonny Davy of Arizona extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY was interviewed for a recent episode of "Hard" on the AUX music channel out of Canada. You can now watch the chat below. JOB FOR A COWBOY's latest album, "Demonocracy", sold 4,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release to ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of ANTHRAX's July 31 performance at Arena in Zagreb, Croatia as the support act for IRON MAIDEN can be seen below. ANTHRAX's current touring lineup includes SHADOWS FALL guitarist Jon Donais, who has been touring with ANTHRAX since Rob Caggiano's departure in January, and former TESTAMENT/SLAYER and current ANIMETAL USA drummer Jon ...
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Jacksonville, Alabama radio station WLJS-FM (91.9 FM) conducted an interview with BUTCHER BABIES at a recent stop on this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. You can now watch the chat below. BUTCHER BABIES' debut album, "Goliath", sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position ...
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San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL will celebrate the release of their new album by performing at Slim's in San Francisco on October 18. Also scheduled to appear are 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, BATTLECROSS and REVOCATION. Tickets, which include a copy of the new CD, will go on sale this Friday, August 2. DEATH ...
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Soundcrave Magazine conducted an interview with Carla Harvey and Heidi Shepherd of BUTCHER BABIES on July 19 at the Camden, New Jersey stop of this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. You can now watch the chat below. BUTCHER BABIES' debut album, "Goliath", sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week ...
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Miami psychedelic noise conjurers ORBWEAVER are readying the release of their "Strange Transmissions From The Neuralnomicon" EP. A maniacal journey through modulating realities, the five-track mind eraser was recorded at Miami's Pinecrust Studios with Jonathan Nunez of TORCHE at the controls and mixed/mastered with Brian Elliott at Mana Recording Studios (HATE ETERNAL, CANNIBAL CORPSE, GOATWHORE, ...
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"Long Time Dead", a brand new song from NEWSTED — the band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — is available for free download at Twitmusic.com. It can also be streamed below. The track comes off NEWSTED's debut album, "Heavy Metal Music", which ...
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NEWSTED — the new band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — was forced to miss last week's Gigantour dates in Canada after Jason was diagnosed with "walking pneumonia." In a new message on his Facebook page, Newsted writes: " I'm feeling a bit better. ...
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Video footage of Ace Frehley (KISS), Jason Hook (FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH) and Bill Kelliher (MASTODON) jamming together on July 22 at the Gibson Showroom in New York City can be seen below. In a 2011 interview with Examiner.com, Hook stated about Frehley: "I know Ace. I played in Ace's band for about 10 minutes." ...
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Former OZZY OSBOURNE and DAVID LEE ROTH guitarist Joe Holmes has launched a YouTube channel for FARMIKOS, his new band with vocalist Robert "Robbie" Locke (ex-LAIDLAW). The inaugural video, which can be viewed below, shows Joe cutting guitar tracks for the song "Exit Stencils" at the Mouse House in Pasadena, California. FARMIKOS' initial ...
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