DEFTONES kicked off a co-headlining tour with INCUBUS last week, but don't expect to hear any new songs on the trek. Although the band has nearly completed work on its eighth studio release, singer Chino Moreno told The Pulse Of Radio why fans will have to wait a little longer to hear the new material ...
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DEFTONES are completing the mixing process for their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2012's "Koi No Yokan" album for a tentative September 25 release. The band's keyboardist/DJ Frank Delgado told Diffuser last week about the songwriting process for the new CD: "This one was different. This one was a lot of starting and stopping, which ...
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Swedish occult rockers GHOST will play an extensive run of headline shows — covering a multitude of European countries — this coming November/December. The first of these dates have now been revealed: Nov. 16 - Germany, Cologne, Live Music Hall Nov. 18 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Den Atelier Nov. 19 - Swizerland, Geneva, L'Usine Nov. 20 ...
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Vocalist Dave Matrise of Wisconsin death metallers JUNGLE ROT has slammed Kerry King over the SLAYER guitarist's controversial comments about the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, saying that Kerry "could've waited until he was done after the tour to open his mouth." In a recent interview with Metal Insider, King criticized this year's ...
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SLAYER guitarist Kerry King says that the organizers of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival "tried to reinvent" the event this year and "didn't put enough thought into it," resulting in poor attendance figures. In a recent interview with Metal Insider, King criticized this year's edition of Mayhem, saying: "Do I know ...
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SLAYER's Kerry King says that his recent comments about Swedish occult rockers GHOST — who share management with SLAYER and have toured with King's band in the past — were "taken out of context." In an interview with Artisan News, King stated about GHOST: "Dude, I love the imagery… I love it," King responded (see ...
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LoudTV.net recently conducted an interview with one of the Nameless Ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how GHOST's new album, "Meliora", compares to 2013's "Infestissumam": "Whereas the previous album, stylistically, was hovering in a baroque milieu, this ...
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At this past Sunday night's (July 19) Rockstar Energy Mayhem Drink Festival in Hartford, Connecticut, Metal Insider asked SLAYER guitarist Kerry King about Mayhem co-founder Kevin Lyman's recent comment that metal "chased girls away" because the genre "got gray, bald and fat." King responded: "It's a very generalizing statement and it ...
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The 2015 HardDrive Live Tour, sponsored by long-running new rock radio program "HardDrive", is set to hit the road this coming September.with co-headliners TREMONTI and TRIVIUM. The 33-city tour is scheduled to kick off in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on September 9 and will run through October 20, when it will wrap up in Denver. Exclusive ...
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SLAYER guitarist Kerry King has slammed Kevin Lyman over comments the co-founder of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival made regarding the state of the heavy metal scene and the future of the traveling event. In an article published on July 8 by Detroit Free Press, Lyman was quoted a ...
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"From The Pinnacle To The Pit", a brand new song from Swedish occult rockers GHOST, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's third album, "Meliora", which will be released on August 21 via Loma Vista Recordings. The follow-up to 2013's "Infestissumam" was helmed by Klas Åhlund, a prolific songwriter, producer and ...
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"Embers", a brand new song from Richmond, Virginia-based metallers LAMB OF GOD, can be streamed below. The track, which features a guest appearance by DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno, is taken from the band's new album, "VII: Sturm Und Drang", due on July 24 via Epic in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast Entertainment in all territories ...
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A new one-minute clip in which Swedish occult rockers GHOST introduce their "new" singer, Papa Emeritus III, can be seen below. GHOST's June 3 warm-up show at at Doom in Linköping served as the group's live debut with Papa Emeritus III, the three-month-younger brother of GHOST's previous frontman, Papa Emeritus II. GHOST's third album, "Meliora", ...
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PitCam.tv recently conducted an interview with a Nameless Ghoul of Swedish occult rockers GHOST at Berlin, Germany's Michelberger Hotel. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On GHOST's third album, "Meliora", which is a Latin word for "better," and whether it was GHOST's intention to ...
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MARILYN MANSON's video for the song "Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge" can be seen below. The track is taken from the shock-rocker's latest album, "The Pale Emperor", which was released on January 20 via the singer's own label — Hell, etc. — in a joint venture with Cooking Vinyl and Loma Vista Recordings. ...
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Kevin Lyman (pictured), the co-founder of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, has apologized for his recent remarks regarding the state of the heavy metal scene and the future of the traveling event, explaining that "it is our yearly mission to create the greatest festival for you to come out celebrate and herald heavy ...
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Kevin Lyman (pictured), the co-founder of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, has told the Detroit Free Press that the tour is "at risk of going away at any given moment" due to the limited number of headline-worthy acts in metal. "The bands at the top all demand a certain level of ...
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In a brand new interview with Australia's Music Feeds, one of the nameless ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST was asked if the bandmembers perhaps see themselves as going into battle against the music industry in some way due to the themes covered in the group's music. He responded: "I would not put ...
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HELL OR HIGHWATER, the rock band featuring ATREYU drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller on lead vocals, is back with a brand new single and web site. The band just launched the video for "I'll Be Waiting", which you can watch below. The song is also available for free download. "I'll Be Waiting" was recorded by the band ...
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France's RockNLive recently conducted an interview with one of the nameless ghouls from Swedish occults rockers GHOST. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the band's new costumes, the nameless ghoul said: "This album ['Meliora'] takes place not at the same time as the last one. So we wanted it to ...
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One of the nameless ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST was interviewed on a recent edition of the "Metal Hammer Magazine Show". You can now listen to the chat at this location. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the title of GHOST's third album, "Meliora": "I think that the super-correct ...
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TEAM SLEEP, the side project of DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno, has premiered the new version of the "Ever (Foreign Flag)". The track, which can be streamed below, was captured last fall during the band's live/in-studio sessions at the Applehead Recording studio in Woodstock, New York. Due on July 10 via LP/CD, the "Woodstock Sessions" will ...
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In a recent interview with Artisan News, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was asked for his opinion of the Swedish occult rockers GHOST, who share management with SLAYER and have toured with King's band in the past. "Dude, I love the imagery… I love it," King responded (see video below). "I just hate the fucking music. ...
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A lot has happened in the LAMB OF GOD camp the past five years, the most intense events surrounding vocalist Randy Blythe. Consult the band's haunting "As the Palaces Burn" docufilm if you're not up to speed on Blythe's exoneration following his captivity in Prague following the death of a fan at a 2010 LAMB ...
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SLAYER performed two new songs — "Repentless" and "When The Stillness Comes" — live for the first time at the opening show of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on Friday, June 26 at Sleep Train Amphitheater in Chula Vista, California. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. SLAYER's eleventh studio ...
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DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about the band's forthcoming album, which is tentatively due on September 25. He stated about the CD's musical direction: "In a lot of ways, that's the hardest question. I feel like each album is a snapshot of a time and place of our ...
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Marilyn Manson says that being accused of inspiring the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre to commit their killing spree "really shut down [his] career entirely," to the point where he could not get any gigs. After Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in 1999 and murdered 12 students and ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of Swedish occult rockers GHOST performing two brand new songs, "Majesty" and "From The Pinnacle To The Pit", on June 20 at the Copenhell festival in Copenhagen, Denmark can be seen below. The tracks are taken from GHOST's third album, "Meliora", which will be released on August 21 via Loma Vista Recordings. ...
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Australia's The Rockpit recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mark Morton of Richmond, Virginia metallers LAMB OF GOD. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Rockpit: How was the creative process on [your upcoming album "VII: Sturm Und Drang"]? Was it any different to previous albums? Mark: It was basically ...
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