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AMORPHIS Drops Music Video For New Single 'On The Dark Waters'
Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will release their fourteenth studio album, "Halo", on February 11, 2022 via Atomic Fire Records. The official music video for the LP's latest single, "On The Dark Waters", directed by Pekka Hara, can be seen below. Lyricist Pekka Kainulainen commen...January 28, 2022
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Stellar Stream Obscured
Veterans of the Swedish death metal underground, SARCASM first formed in 1990, split in 1994 and re-emerged in 2015 with a revamped sound and Hell's flames blazing in their eyes. Three albums later and it seems likely that "Stellar Stream Obscured" is exactly the record the band would have dreamt ab...January 27, 2022
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Watch Multi-Camera Video Of GHOST Performing New Song 'Kaisarion' In Reno
GHOST kicked off its co-headlining tour with VOLBEAT this past Tuesday night (January 25) at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada. During its 16-song set, GHOST debuted another song from its upcoming "Impera" album, called "Kaisarion". Multi-camera fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen b...January 27, 2022
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GHOST Announces 'Impera' Album, Shares Music Video For New Single 'Call Me Little Sunshine'
Swedish occult rockers GHOST will release their fifth album, "Impera", on March 11 via Loma Vista/Concord. The official music video for the LP's latest single, "Call Me Little Sunshine", lensed by iconic director Matt Mahurin and starring Ruby Modine, can be seen below. According to a press release,...January 20, 2022
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TRIVIUM's MATT HEAFY Is Looking For Ideas For 'Front Suit Piece' Of His Full-Body Tattoo
TRIVIUM's Matt Heafy has updated his fans on his quest to get his entire body tattooed. The 35-year-old Orlando, Florida-based musician, who got his first tattoo in 2005, has asked his social media followers for ideas for the front portion of his full bodysuit. Earlier today, Heafy took to his Insta...January 17, 2022
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AMORPHIS Announces Spring 2022 North American Tour
Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will embark on a North American tour this spring. The trek will kick off on April 13 in New York City and will make its way through nearly two dozen cities, coming to a close on May 12 in Baltimore, Maryland. Support will come from SYLVAINE and HOAX...January 12, 2022
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ABBATH Announces 'Dread Reaver' Album, Releases 'Dream Cull' Music Video
Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH, the solo project of former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name Olve Eikemo),have released the Francisco Munoz-created music video for a new song called "Dream Cull". The track is taken from the band's new opus, "Dread Reaver", which will arrive on March 25 via S...January 12, 2022
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DEEP PURPLE's IAN PAICE And MESHUGGAH's TOMAS HAAKE Get Ancient Fossils Named After Them
DEEP PURPLE's Ian Paice and MESHUGGAH's Tomas Haake are the latest hard rock and heavy metal musicians to get ancient fossils named after them. Ophiopetagno Paicei and Muldaster Haakei are two fossils of extinct brittle stars retrieved from 428-million-year-old rocks from the Swedish island of Gotla...January 10, 2022
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Thorns
When legendary bands replace iconic vocalists with new frontmen, apprehension takes hold. Bands as varied as AC/DC, DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, IRON MAIDEN, VAN HALEN and ALICE IN CHAINS were put to the test for various reasons — numerous times for some — and the results varied immensely. The debate withi...January 5, 2022
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JOEY DEMAIO Doesn't Know If Next MANOWAR Release Will Be Full-Length Album Or Another EP
Last month, MANOWAR announced that it has recorded a song titled "The Revenge Of Odysseus" for the band's upcoming studio album. Bassist Joey DeMaio also traveled to Athens to record a narration with father-and-son team Kostas and Konstantinos Kazakos. Kostas, hailed in Greece for his participation...December 6, 2021
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VOLBEAT Releases Lyric Video For New Song 'Temple Of Ekur'
Danish/American rock and rollers VOLBEAT have released a lyric video for the song "Temple Of Ekur". The track is taken from the band's eighth studio album, "Servant Of The Mind", which is being made available today (Friday, December 3) via Republic Records. For "Servant Of The Mind", the band, which...December 3, 2021
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AMORPHIS Releases Music Video For New Song 'The Moon'
Finnish melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS will release their fourteenth studio album, "Halo", on February 11, 2022 via Atomic Fire Records. The official music video for the LP's first single, "The Moon", created by renowned director Patric Ullaeus (rEvolver Film),can be seen below. Comment...December 3, 2021
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MANOWAR Shares Video Recap Of JOEY DEMAIO's Press Conference In Athens
A video recap of MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio's November 15 press conference in Athens announcing the band's return to Greece next June for a headlining performance at the Release Athens 2022 festival at Plateia Nerou can be seen below. According to DeMaio, MANOWAR will bring a crushing new productio...November 28, 2021
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Embers Of War
Someone at PROSTHETIC RECORDS deserves a pat on the back for continuing to explore the cutting edge of traditional heavy metal. Following on from stellar releases from PALADIN and JUDICATOR, "Embers Of War" shines a well-deserved beam onto the brilliance of ETERNITY'S END, a German quintet with two...November 24, 2021
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BLACK SABBATH's TONY IOMMI Meets His 469-Million-Year-Old Fossil (Video)
Some might already call him an old fossil, but legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has now come face to face with a pre-historic trace of life named after him. It comes after heavy metal-loving scientists from Scandinavia were so thrilled to discover a 469-year-old fossil in Russia that the...November 19, 2021