Japanese pop-metal sensation BABYMETAL was joined by a very special guest during their last show supporting RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS at the O2 Arena on December 18 — none other than RHCP drummer Chad Smith! After a high-octane performance of "Gimme Chocolate!!", BABYMETAL exited the stage and darkness quickly descended upon the arena. Unnoticed by ...
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Florida death metal veterans DEICIDE have parted ways with longtime guitarist Jack Owen and have replaced him with Mark English (MONSTROSITY). One of the founding members of CANNIBAL CORPSE, Owen joined DEICIDE in 2004 and played on the latter band's last four studio albums: "The Stench Of Redemption" (2006), "Till Death Do Us Part" (2008), ...
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Legendary heavy metal band SLAYER has teamed up with "Metalocalypse" writer Jon Schnepp and "Twilight Zone" artist Guiu Vilanova for a three-issue Dark Horse Comics series, "Slayer: Repentless", with covers by Eisner Award-winning British comics artist Glenn Fabry. The first issue, with a variant cover by Eric Powell ("The Goon", "Hillbilly"), is scheduled for release ...
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Metal Blade has announced the signing of Swedish death metallers EVOCATION. The band's fifth full-length album will be released in the first quarter of 2017. Comments Marko Palmén of EVOCATION: "We are extremely proud to announce the signing of a new world wide recording agreement with Metal Blade Records. "EVOCATION will, from this day on, ...
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PREVIEWSworld.com recently conducted an interview with writer Jon Schnepp ("Metalocalypse"), who penned the three-issue Slayer: Repentless comic series that was inspired by the band's "Repentless" music videos. Asked how he got involved with Slayer: Repentless, Schnepp said: "A few years back, while I was directing and producing the cult hit Adult Swim animated ...
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Ned of the Rock 108 radio station conducted an interview with one of the Nameless Ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST on October 5 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the influence of horror movies on GHOST's stage presentation and overall image, the Nameless Ghoul said: "I think ...
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Florida-based death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE have recorded the theme song to the "Squidbillies", the bizarre animated series on Adult Swim. The band stated about how the collaboration came about: "The producers of 'Squidbillies' hit us up a few weeks ago and asked us to record the theme song for their Halloween episode that aired ...
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Max Cavalera has accused Jonathan Davis of "being childish" by claiming that SEPULTURA's 1996 album "Roots" was a "blatant KORN rip-off." Davis made his comment during a recent interview with TeamRock in which he spoke about the bands KORN has inspired over its 23-year career. He said: "One that I thought was a big compliment, ...
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Dee Snider has apologized to CANNIBAL CORPSE for saying that he threw the band's first album in the trash because "it was being vulgar and disgusting just for shock value." The TWISTED SISTER frontman made his comments during a discussion with Noisey about censorship. The musician, who in 1985 found himself giving ...
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More than thirty years after TWISTED SISTER's classic song "We're Not Gonna Take It" was included in Parents' Music Resource Center's (PMRC) "Filthy Fifteen" list of objectionable songs, the band's frontman, Dee Snider, says that most of the tunes that made the list are "easy listening by today's standards!" He told Noisey ...
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The self-titled debut album from SERPENTINE DOMINION, the new band featuring KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Shannon Lucas, can be streamed in its entirety in the YouTube clip below. The disc was made available on October 28 via Metal Blade. "Serpentine Dominion" track ...
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"Bring Me Home", the new video from Knoxville, Tennessee death metallers WHITECHAPEL, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's sixth full-length album, "Mark Of The Blade", which was released on June 24 via Metal Blade Records. WHITECHAPEL singer Phil Bozeman stated about the "Bring Me Home" clip: "This video means more ...
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According to ABC News, a couple's engagement photo shoot was accidentally crashed by a black metal band. John Awesome and Nydia Hernandez were having pictures taken in Holy Jim Canyon, California, when they came across the black metal band COLDVOID, which was also in the woods shooting promo photos. "During the last part ...
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"Aggressor", the new video from Hungarian extreme metallers EKTOMORF, can be seen below. The song is the title track of the band's new album, "Aggressor", which was released in October 2015 via AFM. The CD was once again produced by Tue Madsen at Denmark's Antfarm Studio (DARK TRANQUILLITY, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SICK OF IT ALL). ...
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Long-running Canadian metallers INFERNAL MAJESTY have inked a deal with High Roller Records for the release of their fourth album, "No God". The CD's title track will be made available for download and streaming on October 15. Commented INFERNAL MAJESTY vocalist Christopher Bailey: "We are extremely excited to be working with High Roller Records and ...
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KING DIAMOND's November 2015 concerts in Philadelphia and Detroit during the "Abigail In Concert 2015" tour were filmed for the band's forthcoming DVD. The massive, multi-camera shoot was directed by Denise Korycki, who has previously worked with CANNIBAL CORPSE and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE). In a brand new update on KING DIAMOND's Facebook page, the band's singer ...
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Florida's KAMELOT may never be fully credited as one of the first in a second wave of symphonic power-prog metal bands, a subgenre that has gained momentum through the efforts of BLIND GUARDIAN, NIGHTWISH, EPICA, LEAVES' EYES, SONATA ARCTICA, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS and numerous others. Guitarist Thomas Youngblood began his quest for a perfected blend ...
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If you followed thrash from its infancy, the name Noise Records rolls through the mind as readily as Megaforce, Metal Blade and New Renaissance. The hallowed German imprint, founded by Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, exposed some of the most respected thrash, power, doom and experimental metal acts of the day. HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, VOIVOD, OVERKILL, EXCITER, GAMMA ...
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SERPENTINE DOMINION, the new band featuring KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Shannon Lucas, will release its self-titled debut album on October 28 via Metal Blade. In the new clip below, Dutkiewicz performs the song "On The Brink Of Devastation" from "Serpentine Dominion". "Serpentine ...
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Metal Wani writer Dawn "Mama Love" Brown conducted an interview with drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz of Florida death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE at a recent stop on the "Summer Slaughter" tour. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether it ever becomes difficult for CANNIBAL CORPSE to come ...
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SERPENTINE DOMINION, the new band featuring KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Shannon Lucas, will release its self-titled debut album on October 28 via Metal Blade. "Serpentine Dominion" track listing: 01. Intro 02. The Vengeance In Me 03. Vanquished Unto Thee 04. Divide, Conquer, ...
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Karl Sanders of South Carolina-based extreme technical death metallers NILE was interviewed on a recent edition of the "Neckbreaker" podcast. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below (starting around the one-hour, 53-minute mark). Speaking about how the licensing rates for streaming music are threatening the livelihood of songwriters and artists, ...
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2016 marks the last time BLACK SABBATH will be on tour, and likely the last time the band will be fully active in its current incarnation. So there’s no better time for the legendary band's entire history to be fully documented with the new book "The Complete History Of Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks" by ...
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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Shannon Lucas have set SERPENTINE DOMINION as the name of their new extreme project. Accoding to a posting on SERPENTINE DOMINION's newly launched Facebook page, the first music from the new band will make its online ...
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On July 19, ResidentRockStar.com conducted an interview with guitarist Bill Steer of British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS in Denver, Colorado. You can now watch the chat below. Asked if CARCASS fans can expect to see the follow-up to the band's "Surgical Steel" album (2013) anytime soon, Steer said: "Definitely not, 'cause we're still ...
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SCOUR, the new extreme metal "supergroup" featuring Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT) alongside members of CATTLE DECAPITATION and PIG DESTROYER, will headline next year's Blastfest, set to take place February 22-25, 2017 at USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. The self-titled debut EP from SCOUR was released on July 15 via Anselmo's Housecore label. The six-track ...
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"Great Is Our Sin", the new album from the Boston, Massachusetts-based technical metal act REVOCATION, can be streamed in its entirety using the SoundCloud widget below. The CD will be released on July 22 via Metal Blade. Having delivered five killer albums boasting some of the most potent, technical and abrasive metal unleashed over the ...
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The self-titled debut EP from SCOUR, the new extreme metal "supergroup" featuring Philip Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT) alongside members of CATTLE DECAPITATION and PIG DESTROYER, can be streamed in its entirety using the SoundCloud widget below. Due on July 15 via Anselmo's Housecore label, the six-track effort was mixed by Dave Otero (CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE ...
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Just in time for this year's Wacken Open Air festival that will see another 75,000 metalheads having the time of their lives this summer, UDR Music is pleased to announce the release of "Live At Wacken 2015 - 26 Years Louder Than Hell", a double CD/DVD (or Blu-ray) set hitting North American stores on August ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of KING DIAMOND's June 21 performance at O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, United Kingdom can be seen below. KING DIAMOND's November 25, 2015 and November 28, 2015 live shows in Philadelphia and Detroit, respectively, were flmed for the band's forthcoming DVD. The set is being helmed by director Denise Korycki (CANNIBAL ...
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