Mats Levén has joined DENNER'S INFERNO, the new band featuring legendary KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE guitar player and composer Michael Denner. Levén is regarded as one of the strongest Swedish hard rock singers with a large vocal register and a strong resume. He spent almost ten years fronting doom metal legends CANDLEMASS until he ...
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It was always a match made in heavy metal heaven, this eminently classy collaboration between BLIND GUARDIAN's Hansi Kürsch and ICED EARTH's Jon Schaffer. The two albums the duo released in the early '00s ("Demons & Wizards" in 2000, and "Touched by the Crimson King" in 2005) delivered exactly what this joining of forces promised: ...
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Music icon, philanthropist, reality TV star and RV fanatic Bret Michaels is building a new custom coach tour bus as he heads out on this year's hottest stadium tour and is making a beautiful custom 2014 Entegra Aspire available at a realistic price. The RV has logged some of its 111,165 miles touring across the ...
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Kirk Hammett's long-professed his love of the wah-wah pedal will be challenged by Mrs. Smith, the guitar virtuoso alter-ego of actor-musician David Hanbury, at the "Cry Baby Battle Royale" on March 8 at the Senate in Columbia, South Carolina. The event will also feature a performance by the METALLICA guitarist's THE WEDDING BAND covers project, ...
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"Berserker", the new standalone mobile game from heavy metal Vikings AMON AMARTH in conjunction with Swedish video game developer/publisher Ride & Crash Games AB, is a mini adventure in the AMON AMARTH game series, which first came to life in 2017. Set on the shores of England, as Thor you must defeat four types of ...
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Grammy Award-winning heavyweights KORN and the iconoclastic, platinum-selling FAITH NO MORE today announced their epic co-headline North American tour. The trek will see both bands traversing the continent this summer and will give fans the chance to see two of the biggest forces in rock perform on the same stage each night. The tour will ...
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Former METALLICA bassist Ron McGovney has doubled down on his claim that he has never lamented his decision to exit the band. Ron made the comment in response to a tweet from a fan asking him if he has ever regretted "leaving METALLICA and seeing them have overwhelming success." "I would rather have privacy and ...
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Former BLACK VEIL BRIDES bassist Ashley Purdy has released the official music video for his new single, "King For A Day". Purdy wrote and produced the song, and also directed the clip, which can be seen below. Purdy's surprise departure from BLACK VEIL BRIDES came last November. His exit from the group took place not ...
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Former DREAM THEATER and current SONS OF APOLLO drummer Mike Portnoy spoke to World Prog-Nation about the passing of Neil Peart, who died on January 7 in Santa Monica, California after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The iconic RUSH drummer was 67 years old. Asked when the first time ...
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Keyboard legend Rick Wakeman & THE ENGLISH ROCK ENSEMBLE will release "The Red Planet" on April 3. The album features eight newly composed pieces, specially for this project, and harks back to Wakeman's critically acclaimed debut album "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII", where there were six heavy keyboard pieces based around a central subject ...
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Let's face it, ANNIHILATOR is Jeff Waters. The mainman, founding member, guitarist and vocalist of the Western Canadian thrashers has had a revolving door of members, and he has trudged through trends as well as the trials and tribulations that any long-running band endures. The band's apex had arguably come at its onset a whopping ...
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Drum-cam footage of SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph performing the songs "Postmortem" and "Hate Worldwide" during the band's September 14, 2019 concert at the Riot Fest in Chicago, Illinois can be seen below. SLAYER played its final concert on November 30, 2019 at the Forum in Los Angeles. Bostaph, who was previously SLAYER's drummer from 1992 ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of Bruce Dickinson's one-man speaking show on February 8 at Sala Radio in Bucharest, Romaniacan be seen below. The performance, dubbed "What Does This Button Do?" after the IRON MAIDEN singer's autobiography of the same name, featured an unscripted question-and-answer session with fans. Asked by one fan what will happen to IRON ...
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The first date for this year's Mayhem Festival — which is rumored to be headlined by MEGADETH and LAMB OF GOD — has been leaked: July 10 in Tinley Park, Illinois. The information was revealed by Chicago metal DJ/promoter Nick Fury in a social media post earlier today. The complete list of shows, as well ...
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Australian hard rock legends ROSE TATTOO will release "Outlaws", a re-recording of the iconic "Rock N Roll Outlaw" LP, on March 6. In addition to classics like "Nice Boys (Don't Play Rock 'N' Roll)", "Rock N' Roll Outlaw", "One Of The Boys" and "Bad Boy For Love", which have etched their way into the music ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of KISS's February 4 concert at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Detroit Rock City 02. Shout It Out Loud 03. Deuce 04. Say Yeah 05. I Love It Loud 06. Heaven's On Fire 07. Tears Are Falling 08. War Machine ...
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The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, founded in memory of the late rock music legend, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of his passing and the formation of the charity with an Awards Gala on February 20, 2020. The Awards Gala, which will take place at The Avalon in Hollywood, will be ...
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PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS performed the PANTERA song "We'll Grind That Axe For A Long Time" live for the first time during their January 30 concert at Osaka, Japan's Umeda Club Quattro. The track, which is taken from PANTERA's final studio album, 1999's "Reinventing The Steel", had never been played live by the ...
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Modern progressive rock band COHEED AND CAMBRIA will return to the road for the 40-plus-date "Neverender NWFT" tour in 2020. Continuing the popular "Neverender" tour series, the group will perform its 2007 fourth studio album, "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume II: No World For Tomorrow", in its entirety. Additionally, fans can expect performances ...
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"A Bowie Celebration" returns to North America this March following a major European tour in January this year. The run kicks off in San Diego on March 3 and will stage 30 shows across the United States and Canada. The final appearance will take place on April 11 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tickets can be ...
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San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal giants TESTAMENT have announced a spring 2020 North American tour. The 30-date trek will kick off in Phoenix on April 20 and will make stops in Austin, Mexico, and Toronto before concluding in Anaheim on May 28. Joining them on the tour will be THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, MUNICIPAL ...
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Having toured extensively with SLAYER in the last few years, LAMB OF GOD guitarist Mark Morton was asked during a recent appearance on "That Jamieson Show" if he thinks the California thrash metal veterans are truly "done" playing live or if he thinks we haven't seen the last of them. Morton responded (see video below): ...
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KISS kicked off the winter 2020 North American leg of its "End Of The Road" Saturday night (February 1) at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. The band's setlist included the addition of two songs, "Tears Are Falling" (from KISS's 1986 album "Asylum") and "Parasite" (from KISS's 1974 album "Hotter Than Hell"), and the ...
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LORNA SHORE's music video for the song "King Ov Deception" can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's latest album, "Immortal", which was released on January 31 via Century Media. Austin Archey (drums) comments: "To celebrate the release day of 'Immortal', we have for you the official music video for 'King Ov ...
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Death metal delivery, black metal atmosphere: it's a simple enough formula, but it's amazing how many bands borrow it without adding anything remotely new. Italy's BLASPHEMER are noisily bucking that trend here, however. "The Sixth Hour" carves an almost entirely new trench for the sonic blood to flow down, with levels of brutality that would ...
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In a recent interview with BackstageAxxess, Rita Haney, the girlfriend of deceased PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, discussed how the legendary musician would have reacted knowing various charity events were held in his honor. "Dimebash" 2020 — an all-star tribute to Abbott — was held earlier this month at ...
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KATATONIA, the Swedish purveyors of dark progressive rock/metal, will release their new album, "City Burials", on April 24 via Peaceville Records. The disc's first single, "Lacquer", can be streamed below. Guitarist Anders Nyström commented: "In days and nights of black and silver, the dead-end king will come. From pieces of broken mirrors there will be ...
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Psycho Las Vegas will continue to redefine America's conception of what a festival can be, taking over Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for the second year in a row August 14-16, 2020. Now approaching its fifth consecutive year in the sweltering neon decadence of Las Vegas, the resort-wide casino takeover will utilize four stages including ...
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Canadian rockers NICKELBACK have released a series of videos ahead of their upcoming "All The Right Reasons Tour" this summer. In the videos, NICKELBACK members Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair discuss how they will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of their diamond-certified No. 1 album "All The Right Reasons" by performing ...
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