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DEF LEPPARD Guitarist PHIL COLLEN's MANRAZE Releases 'Lock, Stock & Barrel' Five-CD Box Set

MANRAZE has released a new five-CD box set, "Lock, Stock & Barrel", via Cherry Red Records/HNE Recordings. Supergroup? A term too often applied to bands that don't fully live up to the expectations that such descriptions might suggest. Not so with MANRAZE, a genuine super group comprising of DEF...

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Texas Death Metal Force CREEPING DEATH Signs With BLKIIBLK, Plots Third Studio Album

Texas's blazing death metal fivesome CREEPING DEATH has signed with BLKIIBLK, the heavy metal imprint of Frontiers Label Group. The partnership follows the recent announcement that CREEPING DEATH will be featured on "The Summer Slaughter Tour 2026 Part II" alongside HATEBREED, TERROR, INCANTATION, G...

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SYMPHONY X's RUSSELL ALLEN Is The Progressive Metal Powerhouse Vocalist With A Vulnerable Side

By David E. Gehlke SYMPHONY X's 2002 "The Odyssey" is anchored by its 25-minute epic title track. Based on Homer's "Odyssey", which details the trials and tribulations of the ancient Greek hero Odysseus, SYMPHONY X's "The Odyssey" was a seven-part drama spun through the lens of sublimely epic progre...

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All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

It was an event that cheered the soul. BLOOD INCANTATION released their third album in 2024. It was called "Absolute Elsewhere" and it was utterly fucking mind-blowing. A death metal band possessed by the spirit of progressive rock, the Colorado quartet are making music that both defies categorizati...

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Requiem For A Pipe Dream

A full decade has passed since ex-AMARANTHE frontman Jake E and former IN FLAMES guitarist Jesper Strömblad joined forces to form CYHRA. Purposefully positioned between thunderous melo-death and supremely catchy melodic metal, this almost-supergroup have released three previous albums full of shiny,...

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MOTIONLESS IN WHITE Announces Fall 2026 U.S. Tour With DAYSEEKER, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA And DARK DIVINE

Platinum-selling, Scranton, Pennsylvania powerhouse MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, which will release its new album "Decades" on July 17 via Roadrunner Records, has announced the second leg of "The Sweat And Blood Tour". DAYSEEKER will serve as direct support. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and DARK DIVINE will also a...

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ANDREW FREEMAN On His Former Bandmates In LAST IN LINE: 'I Did More Work On Those Records Than Any Of Those Guys Did'

In a new interview with the Hard Rock History Show, singer Andrew Freeman once again addressed LAST IN LINE drummer Vinny Appice's recent revelation that the band was looking for a new vocalist. Asked if he was surprised by the fact that he was fired from LAST IN LINE — which was originally formed b...

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PUSSY RIOT Releases 'Candy Dopamine' Single Featuring AVENGED SEVENFOLD

Protest and performance art collective PUSSY RIOT does not announce its debut album, "Cyka", with a cute Instagram carousel — instead the band launched it with an explosive protest at the Venice Biennale, the so-called "Olympics of the art world", timed deliberately to coincide with Russia's controv...

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Legendary Drummer TOMMY ALDRIDGE Announces Debut Art Collection 'Sonic Visions'

Legendary heavy rock drummer Tommy Aldridge has announced "Sonic Visions", his first-ever art collection, transforming decades of rhythm, power, and performance into a series of visual works created with Los Angeles art collective SceneFour. The collection features five original works inspired by Al...

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MARK KENDALL On New GREAT WHITE Songs: 'We Have Three Ready To Go, But We Have Seven On Tape'

In a new interview with Mind Behind The Music, the podcast hosted by John White, an American guitarist and composer from Albany, New York, GREAT WHITE guitarist Mark Kendall confirmed that the band is still working on new music with Brett Carlisle, who was officially named the band's new vocalist in...

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ALICE COOPER On A.I.: 'It Has No Emotion. It Has No Heart. It Has No Feel. It Has No Soul To It'

During a May 21 appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk", legendary rocker Alice Cooper weighed in on the growing popularity of artificial intelligence (A.I.) in music, particularly as relates to its possibilities and its implications in terms of the way we make, produce and distribu...

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DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT: 'A Sense Of Humor Has Kept This Band Together'

Issue 56 of Rock Candy magazine takes on a forensic examination of DEF LEPPARD's almost 50 years of playing live. From the tiny gigs to the stadium straddling monster tours, LEPPARD has played them all... many of them "In The Round". Rock Candy editor Howard Johnson spoke to every member of the band...

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Through Zero

A profoundly creative band with a transformative agenda, ELDER were proclaiming their progressive instincts loudly and proudly from the very start. Even on their earliest albums — the raw and doomy self-titled debut, the more expansive but still riff-driven "Dead Roots Stirring" — frontman Nick DiSa...

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THE DARKNESS's JUSTIN HAWKINS: 'I Think An Interactive OZZY OSBOURNE A.I. Is A Bit Of Fun For Fans'

In a new video on his YouTube channel Justin Hawkins Rides Again, THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins addressed the recently announced Ozzy Osbourne A.I. avatar, which is coming to life through a partnership between the Osbourne family, Hyperreal, the digital human technology company behind the pat...

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THE STOOGES: New 'Fun House' Reel-To-Reel And Dolby Atmos Self-Titled/'Fun House' Editions Arrive Today

THE STOOGES' self-titled and "Fun House" albums have been reimagined for audiophiles on new reel-to-reel and Dolby Atmos editions arriving today. "Fun House"'s open-reel debut and self-titled and "Fun House"'s immersive audio mix offer fans two fresh ways to experience its chaotic brilliance. "Fun H...