THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins has defended GRETA VAN FLEET over accusations that the Michigan rockers have ripped off LED ZEPPELIN. Despite the fact that GRETA VAN FLEET has managed to sell out shows all over the world, the four-piece has been criticized for channeling a sound uncannily similar to LED ZEPPELIN, with some music ...
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The entire touring lineup for MACHINE HEAD's "Burn My Eyes" 25th-anniversary tour was interviewed by Rock Hard magazine prior to the band's October 5 show in Frieberg, Germany at Sick Arena Musikclub. You can watch the chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the biggest difference for MACHINE HEAD touring in 1994 ...
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"In The Basement With Jesse Bruce" of Grand Haven, Michigan radio station 93.1 WMPA recently conducted an interview with BLACK STAR RIDERS guitarist Scott Gorham. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the band's new album, "Another State Of Grace": Scott: "If ...
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Parlophone Records will continue its reissues series of the IRON MAIDEN catalog with the fourth and final set of digipak CD titles in "The Studio Collection - Remastered", to be released on November 22. The albums are "Dance Of Death", "A Matter Of Life And Death" (standard/collectors), "The Final Frontier" and 2015's double album "The ...
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Finland's Kaaos TV recently conducted an interview with vocalist Jake E and guitarist Euge Valovirta of multi-national pop metallers CYHRA. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what CYHRA wanted to accomplish with its forthcoming second studio album, "No Halos In Hell": Jake: ...
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The official music video for the song "The Not Forgotten" from SKYBLOOD, the solo project of acclaimed Swedish hard rock singer Mats Levén, can be seen below. His name belongs to the most influential and illustrious ones in Swedish metal. Levén's distinctive and colorful voice has graced albums by CANDLEMASS, THERION, KRUX, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and ...
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According to Billboard, AEROSMITH's "Deuces Are Wild" residency has grossed $31.1 million and sold 151,837 tickets since opening on April 6. The legendary rockers have played 24 shows at the Park Theater in Las Vegas, plus a few shows at other MGM locations around the country (three at The Theater at ...
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Ex-STATIC-X guitarist Tripp Eisen has accused his former bandmates of "violating the memory" of the group's late frontman, Wayne Static, by altering some of the previously unreleased songs he wrote with Static. Last year, STATIC-X announced plans to release "Project Regeneration", its first new album in a decade, featuring the last recordings of Wayne, who ...
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DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke to Lux of the 105.7 The Point radio station about the inspiration behind the band's recent single "A Reason To Fight", which tackles depression and addiction. He said (see video below): "We've written over a hundred-something songs together, so a lot of times, not to rehash old ideas, David [Draiman, ...
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SLIPKNOT bassist Alessandro "VMan" Venturella told Bass Guitar Magazine that he landed in the band after getting a phone call from Jim Root while working with MASTODON as guitarist Brent Hinds's tech. "Me and Jim became friends while I was teching," Venturella said. "He was asking if I knew any bass ...
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TOTO's founding guitarist Steve Lukather has told The Morning Call in a new interview that the band's current lineup — which also includes other founding members Steve Porcaro and, until recently, David Paich, as well as longtime vocalist Joseph Williams — will be over once the group's 40th-anniversary tour ends on ...
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Philip Anselmo has confirmed that there are tentative plans for DOWN to reunite in 2020 for some shows in celebration of the 25th anniversary celebration of the band's classic debut album. "We do have the 20th [sic] anniversary of 'NOLA' coming up, and I know that we have been offered some shows," Anselmo told
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Clint Switzer of the "Music Mania" podcast recently conducted an interview with WARRANT guitarist Joey Allen. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On celebrating the 30th anniversary of WARRANT's "Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich" debut: Joey: "It's a little strange to think that everything that we've ...
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MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn has revealed the lyrical inspiration for his band's new song "Do Or Die". Released last Friday (October 11), "Do Or Die" has been described by some fans and media outlets as a "diss" track aimed at MACHINE HEAD's detractors, in particular those who have been critical of the band's last ...
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A doctor has refuted Eddie Van Halen's theory that he developed cancer after keeping guitar picks in his mouth during shows. The guitarist was treated for tongue cancer in 2000, resulting in surgery which removed a third of his tongue. He was declared cancer-free in 2002. In a 2015 interview with Billboard, Van Halen revealed ...
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Francisco Zamudio of KNAC.com recently conducted an interview with JUDAS PRIEST frontman Rob Halford. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On "Celestial", his forthcoming Christmas album that mixes holiday classics with all-new compositions: Rob: "The story of the way 'Celestial' was created ...
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GHOST leader Tobias Forge has told Worcester Magazine in a new interview that he feels that the band's best album has yet to be recorded. He is also looking forward to expanding GHOST's live show beyond what the band was able to present on this year's "Ultimate Tour Named Death". "I ...
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British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST will enter Orgone Studios in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom at the end of the month with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano to begin recording their new album. An early 2020 release is expected. PARADISE LOST previously worked with Arellano on "The Plague Within" (2015) and "Medusa" (2017) albums. This past ...
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Nuclear Blast has announced the signing of the modern metal outfit AMARANTHE. The Swedish/Danish six-piece is currently working on its sixth studio album, which will tentatively be unleashed in 2020. AMARANTHE's Olof Mörck states: "It feels amazing to unveil our cooperation with the giants at Nuclear Blast! Ever since we held our shiny new Nuclear ...
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Following last week's international release of METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony, "S&M²", the film has cemented itself as the largest ever global rock event cinema release having earned $5.5 million at the box office across more than 95 countries in more than 3,700 cinemas worldwide. Trafalgar Releasing are now pleased to announce that due to ...
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PERIPHERY, which recently wrapped up its wildly successful "Periphery IV: Hail Stan" North American tour, has extended the outing, adding a winter 2020 swing through the U.S., with festivities kicking off on January 30 in San Francisco. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on ...
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Iconic rockers QUEEN have hit back at the critics of their "Bohemian Rhapsody" film, claiming that "a lot of the media" hates the fact that the band is "too fucking popular." Released last November, "Bohemian Rhapsody" has become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all time, bringing in more than $1 billion at the worldwide box ...
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METALLICA has announced three additions to the Nixon x Metallica watch collection, including one very limited-run collectible, the 51-30 LTD "Enter Sandman" Nixon watch. Announced in 2018, Nixon's collaboration with METALLICA originally included eight watches plus one limited edition. "The fact that each and every one of the band members wanted ...
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Swedish heavy metal band LION'S SHARE has made a new song, "Pentagram", available on on streaming services and digital service providers. LION'S SHARE singer Nils Patrik Johansson explained the lyrical inspiration for the track, saying: "The new single 'Pentagram' is based on a true story about someone I know. All of a sudden, he decided ...
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Robb Flynn has extended an olive branch to Edsel Dope after they exchanged social media posts over a lyrical similarity in songs from MACHINE HEAD and DOPE. On Monday, Flynn dismissed comparison between MACHINE HEAD's new track "Do Or Die", which features the line "Die, Motherfucker, Die", and DOPE's 2001 song "Die MF Die", insisting ...
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Former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak says that he is "sick" of seeing commercials featuring "interracial couples," insisting that "this is not reality." Earlier today, Kottak tweeted: "You know I am sick of every other commercial having inter racial couples...this is not reality. It is Hollywood shoving it down our throat. I ...
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Death metal fans of a certain age will already be familiar with KONKHRA. One of the few bands to successfully blend the brutality of the underground with the churning grooves popularised by the likes of SEPULTURA and MACHINE HEAD in the mid '90s, they never received the recognition that albums like "Spit Or Swallow" (1995) ...
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Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired worldwide rights to "The Rainbow", directed by Zak Knutson. The documentary features interviews with rock and roll legends Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Gene Simmons, Lita Ford and the late Lemmy Kilmister. The documentary will be available on demand October 29. "The Rainbow" explores the vast history of ...
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Edsel Dope has responded to Robb Flynn after the MACHINE HEAD frontman took a shot at DOPE in two separate Instagram posts earlier this week. On Monday, Flynn dismissed the lyrical similarity between MACHINE HEAD's new song "Do Or Die", which features the line "Die, Motherfucker, Die", and DOPE's 2001 song "Die MF Die", insisting ...
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GUNS N' ROSES' "Sweet Child O' Mine" is now officially the first music video from the 1980s to rock its way into YouTube's Billion Views Club. This new milestone marks the second decade milestone for the band whose 1992 video for the epic masterpiece "November Rain", broke records in 2018 as the first (and so ...
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