MEGADETH was joined by a number of musicians, including Slash (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE), Jason Newsted (NEWSTED, METALLICA, VOIVOD), David Draiman (DISTURBED, DEVICE) and Vinnie Paul Abbott (HELLYEAH, PANTERA) on stage at last Friday night's (July 12) 97.1 The Eagle Presents BFD 2013 concert at Gexa Energy ...
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France's L'Enôrme TV conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted at this year's Hellfest, which was held June 21-23 in Clisson, France. You can now watch the chat below. As previously reported, three songs from NEWSTED are featured in the newest episode of Break ...
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Maryland doomsters IRON MAN have completed work on their fifth full-length album, "South Of The Earth", for a September 30 release via Rise Above. Recording and mixing took place at Hudson Street Sound in Annapolis, Maryland with producer/engineer Frank Marchand III. "Every time IRON MAN goes into the studio, we treat it like a blank ...
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"Ampossible", a brand new song from NEWSTED — the new band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below. As previously reported, three songs from NEWSTED are featured in the newest episode of Break Media's hit web series ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of VOIVOD's entire June 23 concert at Hellfest in Clisson, France can be seen below. Joining the band on stage at the gig were their former bassist Jason Newsted and DOWN/ex-PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo to perform the songs "Voivod" and "Astronomy Domine" (PINK FLOYD cover), respectively. Newsted joined VOIVOD in 2002 ...
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Video footage of NEWSTED — the new band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — working on its debut album and Jason discussing the meaning behind NEWSTED's brand new track "Above All" at the Chophouse studio in Walnut Creek, California can be seen below. As ...
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"War Of Will", the new album from Michigan's BATTLECROSS, sold around 2,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 134 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD landed at position No. 2 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by ...
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Video footage of Jason Bittner's (SHADOWS FALL) July 16 clinic at Guitar Center in Boston, Massachusetts can be seen below. SHADOWS FALL tapped Willis Mathiasen of 2CENTS to sit behind the drums for some of their shows at the end of 2012 while Bittner received treatment for acute pancreatitis. Bittner rejoined his bandmates on stage ...
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Fret 12 conducted an interview with NEWSTED — the new band featuring former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok — before their July 3 show on the kickoff night of Gigantour 2013 in New Hampshire. You can now watch the chat below. As previously reported, three songs ...
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Australian thrashers TRUTH CORRODED have entered the studio to record their new album, "The Saviours Slain", for a late 2013 release in Australia and New Zealand through Truth Inc Records. The band will be working with Mark Lewis at Audiohammer Studio in Sanford, Florida for mixing and mastering. Lewis has had a huge year of ...
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Shortly after FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH played the U.K.'s Download festival this past June, guitarists Zoltan Bathory and Jason Hook talked Total Guitar magazine through their latest Dean and Gibson signature models; the Dean AR-6 and Gibson M4 Sherman Explorer. Check out the footage below. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH singer Ivan Moody has revealed in ...
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BUTCHER BABIES' debut album, "Goliath", sold around 3,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 107 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD came out on July 9 via Century Media Records. The Los Angeles-based band — frontwomen Carla Harvey and Heidi Shephard, guitarist Henry Flury, ...
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Three songs from NEWSTED — the new band led by former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted — are featured in the newest episode of Break Media's hit web series "Man At Arms". NEWSTED's heavy metal pairs as background for the gritty series, which follows famous Hollywood blacksmith Tony Swatton as he ...
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Mark Diggins of The Rock Pit recently conducted an interview with drummer Mike Portnoy (ADRENALINE MOB, FLYING COLORS, THE WINERY DOGS, DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Rock Pit: There is a great chemistry between [all the members of THE WINERY DOGS]. Was that there ...
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MEGADETH's David Ellefson, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's John "J.D." DeServio, HELLYEAH's Bob "Zilla" Kakaha and DEATH DIVISION's Jerry Montano discussed their Hartke rigs while on the road as part of this summer's Gigantour. Check out the clip below. This year's edition of Gigantour, the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine, ...
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On Wednesday, July 10, "Beyond The Watch" conducted an interview with vocalist Jonny Davy of Arizona extreme metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY at the Toronto, Ontario, Canada stop of this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. You can now watch the chat below. JOB FOR A COWBOY's latest album, "Demonocracy", sold 4,900 copies in the ...
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FIREWIND and OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Gus G. (real name: Kostas Karamitroudis) was recently interviewed on Windsor-Detroit's 99.1 CJAM-FM on the melodic metal show "Signals Of Intuition". Topics discussed included his time in DREAM EVIL, MYSTIC PROPHECY and ARCH ENEMY, as well as his early influences, singer Apollo Papathanasio's departure from FIREWIND, recording and touring with ...
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Jay Nanda of the San Antonio Metal Music Examiner conducted an interview with NEWSTED — the new band led by former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted — on July 14 at the Corpus Christi, Texas stop of this year's Gigantour. You can now watch the chat below. Gigantour, the critically acclaimed ...
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"Music & Mayhem With Jon Russell" recently conducted an interview with QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate. You can now watch the second part of the chat below. "Frequency Unknown", the new album from the Geoff Tate-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE, sold around 5,500 copies in its first week of release in the United States to land at ...
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John Parks of Legendary Rock Interviews recently conducted an interview with Jason Bonham, son of legendary LED ZEPPELIN drummer John Bonham. An excerpts from the chat follows below. Legendary Rock Interviews: You've said before that your current touring band, JASON BONHAM'S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE, was in part inspired by the LED ZEPPELIN show ...
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MEGADETH was joined by a number of musicians, including Slash (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE), Jason Newsted (NEWSTED, METALLICA, VOIVOD), David Draiman (DISTURBED, DEVICE) and Vinnie Paul Abbott (HELLYEAH, PANTERA) on stage at this past Friday night's (July 12) 97.1 The Eagle Presents BFD 2013 concert at Gexa ...
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Under normal, everyday circumstances, tempers might flare, fists fly, and even vomit spew over the mention of a relatively pure southern rock album being reviewed on these here pages; but when said album issues from the sharp-toothed maw of the eclectic Neurot Recordings, you can rest assured there's some kind of radical and unpredictable sonic ...
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MEGADETH was joined by a number of musicians, including Slash (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE), Jason Newsted (NEWSTED, METALLICA, VOIVOD), David Draiman (DISTURBED, DEVICE) and Vinnie Paul Abbott (HELLYEAH, PANTERA) on stage at last night's (Friday, July 12) 97.1 The Eagle Presents BFD 2013 concert at Gexa Energy ...
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Cindy Scull of the Dallas radio station 97.1 The Eagle recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked about the rumors that MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine may join forces with former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted on stage on this summer's Gigantour to perform a classic ...
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A 30-second audio sample of the song "Above All" from NEWSTED — the new band led by former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Newsted — can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The track comes off NEWSTED's full-length debut, "Heavy Metal Music", which will be released on August 6 in North ...
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Former TNT singer Tony Harnell has released the following statement: "I'm extremely excited and honored to announce that I have been chosen to be a celebrity spokesperson for the American Association Of Clinical Endocrinologists' 2013 thyroid cancer awareness campaign. "As some of you know, I had thyroid cancer in 2009 and had successful surgery and ...
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Jason Price of Icon Vs. Icon recently conducted an interview with drummer Mike Portnoy (ADRENALINE MOB, FLYING COLORS, THE WINERY DOGS, DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Icon Vs. Icon: Do you feel there are a lot of misconceptions circulating about you? Portnoy: I think I ...
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In a recent interview with Jason MacNeil of ShawConnect, ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist Jerry Cantrell spoke about the pressure of following up 2009's "Black Gives Way To Blue", which was the group's first all-new collection of material in 14 years. "I think we probably felt better, more at ease in some ways," the ...
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Former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted was interviewed on a recent edition of "The Classic Metal Show", which is heard live on Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. EST at TheClassicMetalShow.com. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Asked ...
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MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has uploaded behind-the-scenes footage from the July 9 Gigantour stop at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. Check out the clip below. This year's edition of Gigantour, the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine, features headliners MEGADETH, along with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, DEVICE, the new ...
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