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BEAR MCCREARY Shares 'Cool Kids' Single Featuring SLASH, DUFF MCKAGAN And CHAD SMITH

"The Singularity" is the name of Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winning composer Bear McCreary's symphonic metal project. In 2024, McCreary released an ambitious hard rock concept album of the same name. The album featured guest appearances by an extraordinary lineup of rock talent, including Serj Tankian (S...

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WEDNESDAY 13 Announces High-Octane Live Album 'Un-Alive At Pol'and'Rock 2025'

It was a hot day in the Polish summer, over 750,000 fans had crammed their way into the Czaplinek-Broczyno airfield in northwestern Poland for the 2025 Pol'and'Rock festival, a storied tradition for over 30 years. WEDNESDAY 13 — the namesake band of the former frontman of the MURDERDOLLS — hot off i...

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JOE SATRIANI Says He Spent Hours Watching YouTube Videos Of Other Guitarists Playing EDDIE VAN HALEN's Parts While Preparing For 'The Best Of All Worlds' Tour

In a new interview with Andy Guitar, Joe Satriani reflected on taking part in the 2024 "The Best Of All Worlds" tour with Sammy Hagar during which Hagar and his bandmates in THE CIRCLE — Satriani and ex-VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony — performed largely VAN HALEN material. Asked if he watched a l...

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In Somnolent Ruin

Major players in the world of ornate, gothic misery for the last 30 years, DRACONIAN have little to prove in 2026. The Swedish band's last two albums garnered some of the most effusive reviews they have ever received, and 2020's "Under a Godless Veil" appears to have been their most successful relea...

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BEAR MCCREARY Recruits GUNS N' ROSES, GOJIRA, MESHUGGAH Members, Others For 'The Singularity: Ekleipsis' Album

"The Singularity" is the name of Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winning composer Bear McCreary's symphonic metal project. In 2024, McCreary released an ambitious hard rock concept album of the same name. The album featured guest appearances by an extraordinary lineup of rock talent, including Serj Tankian (S...

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WEDNESDAY 13 Announces 'Shocktober Blood' Fall 2026 U.S. Tour

Heavy horror punk icon Wednesday 13, who is perhaps best known as the frontman of renowned horror punk supergroup MURDERDOLLS, will embark on a fall 2026 U.S. tour. Support on the 31-date trek will come from DEAD ON A SUNDAY and ABOVE SNAKES (except where otherwise noted). Tickets will go on sale th...

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MISERY INDEX Signs With SEASON OF MIST; New Music To Arrive Later This Year

MISERY INDEX has signed a new deal with Season Of Mist. The band's eighth full-length album is tentatively due later this year. For 25 years, MISERY INDEX has stood out for its high-intensity combo of death metal, grindcore and cutting social commentary. Featuring current and former members of PIG D...

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EVA UNDER FIRE Announces New Album 'Villainous', Shares Title Track Featuring IN THIS MOMENT's MARIA BRINK

Listening to EVA UNDER FIRE is hard rock therapy, turning scars and demons into anthems of inner strength. As a licensed therapist and singer-songwriter, Amanda Lyberg blends emotional insight with powerful songwriting, delivering lyrics and performances that connect deeply and hit listeners right i...

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THE 69 EYES Announces New EP 'I Survive', Shares Cover Of THIN LIZZY's 'Cold Sweat'

Finnish rock band THE 69 EYES will release a new EP, "I Survive", on June 5, 2026 via BLKIIBLK. To celebrate the announcement, THE 69 EYES has shared a cover of the timeless THIN LIZZY hit "Cold Sweat". After touring Europe earlier this year with D-A-D on the "Cowpunks & Glampires" tour and cont...

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JOE SATRIANI Reflects On Being Asked To Play With ALEX VAN HALEN And DAVID LEE ROTH: 'I Kept Saying, 'I'm Not The Guy. Call NUNO BETTENCOURT''

In a new interview with The Weekly Show With David J. Maloney, Joe Satriani once again reflected on being approached to reproduce Eddie Van Halen's guitar parts as part of an all-star VAN HALEN tribute project with Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth. Recalling how the proposed pairing came about, Joe...

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Swedish Crossover Thrash Veterans KAZJUROL Release 'Forty Years Of Misery'

In Fagersta, Sweden's coal-black yet fiercely resilient musical history, there are bands that never truly disappeared — they were merely biding their time. One of them is KAZJUROL. Forged in the rust and concrete of the mid-1980s — amid cigarette cartons, smoke-filled rehearsal rooms, bootleg liquor...

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PRONG Releases 'Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck' From Upcoming Live Album 'Live And Uncleansed'

PRONG will release a new live album, "Live And Uncleansed", on March 6 via SPV/Steamhammer. Recorded over seven nights in July and August 2025, the LP sees guitarist/vocalist Tommy Victor and bandmates Christopher Dean (bass) and Tyler Joseph (drums) deliver eleven powerful live songs (plus three li...

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EVA UNDER FIRE Shares New Single 'Murder Scene'

Listening to EVA UNDER FIRE is like hard rock therapy, turning scars and demons into anthems of inner strength. Nowhere is that clearer than on the Detroit band's latest single, the sonically fierce and lyrically razor-sharp "Murder Scene", released today (February 6) via Better Noise Music. "'Murde...

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MAYHEM's ATTILA CSIHAR Confronts His Mortality On 'Liturgy Of Death'

By David E. Gehlke Recent chatter from founding MAYHEM bassist Jørn "Necrobutcher" Stubberud suggested there's an expectation that the long-running, infamous and highly influential Norwegian black metal outfit will survive long enough to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2034. It's not an unrealis...

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See NAILBOMB's Entire Performance In Los Angeles

Video of NAILBOMB's entire January 20 performance at 1720 in Los Angeles, California can be seen below. NAILBOMB is the long-running project of former SEPULTURA and current SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera. NAILBOMB's current lineup includes three guitarists — Max, Max's son Igor Amadeus Cavalera and T...