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SPIRITS OF FIRE Feat. TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS, CHRIS CAFFERY, STEVE DIGIORGIO And MARK ZONDER: 'Stand And Fight' Song

Frontiers Music Srl is known for building new bands/projects featuring musicians of outstanding quality and who come from unique backgrounds. After an intense brainstorming session, a dream team of renowned metal musicians including Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH),Chris Caffery (SA...

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THE WHO Announces 2019 North American 'Moving On!' Tour, First Album Of New Songs In 13 Years

For THE WHO fans everywhere, the announcement of a brand new tour means only one thing: the world's most untameable rock band is about to deliver the goods once again. Never ones for nostalgia, singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend will be unleashing the combustible force...

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Former SCORPIONS Guitarist ULI JON ROTH To Be Joined By RUDOLF SCHENKER At Japanese 50th-Anniversary Shows

SCORPIONS guitarist Rudolf Schenker will be Uli Jon Roth's very special guest at two Japanese shows during Uli's 50th-anniversary tour. Roth — who was in the SCORPIONS for five years before leaving the group in 1978, following the release of the live double album "Tokyo Tapes" — and Schenker will b...

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Former ALICE COOPER Guitarist KANE ROBERTS: Listen To New Solo Song 'King Of The World' Feat. NITA STRAUSS

Kane Roberts is back with a new solo album, "The New Normal", which will be released on January 25, 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl. The official lyric video for the album track "King Of The World", featuring Nita Strauss, is available for streaming below. Kane has involved some really amazing friend...

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VENOM Frontman Recalls Taking METALLICA Out On Its First-Ever European Tour

For its very first European tour in 1984, METALLICA hooked up with black metal pioneers VENOM, on the latter's "Seven Dates Of Hell" tour, which included concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Aardschok Festival in the Netherlands. In a brand new interview with Consquence Of Sound...

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ICED EARTH's JON SCHAFFER: 'I'm About As Close To An Anarchist As You Can Be'

ICED EARTH leader Jon Schaffer says that he isn't concerned about alienating any of his band's fans by voicing his political views in his interviews. The guitarist — who has previously described himself as "a constitutional conservative" — has been discarded by some as a conspiracy theorist after la...

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ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE Feat. MEGADETH's ELLEFSON, ANTHRAX's BELLO: U.S. Tour Dates Announced

ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE, the collaboration between ANTHRAX's Frank Bello and MEGADETH's David Ellefson — two virtuosic bass players who've anchored some of the fiercest thrash records of all time — has confirmed a handful of appearances ahead of the release of its debut album, "Get it Out", including a...

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Triumphant Hearts

Some of you reading this will know the name Jason Becker through his work in CACOPHONY, and his guitar and songwriting contributions with David Lee Roth and Marty Friedman. Additionally, you also might've seen the movie "The Theory of Everything", which painfully illustrates the physical debilitatio...

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Video: GLENN HUGHES Performs DEEP PURPLE Classics In Moscow

On November 19, Glenn Hughes played at Moscow International House Of Music in Moscow, Russia as part of his "Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live" tour. Fan-filmed video footage of the entire concert can be seen below. His setlist was as follows: 01. Intro 02. Stormbringer 03. Might Just...

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DEMONS & WIZARDS Feat. JON SCHAFFER And HANSI KÜRSCH: Long-Awaited Third Album To Arrive In January 2020

DEMONS & WIZARDS, the side project of ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer and BLIND GUARDIAN singer Hansi Kürsch, is tentatively planning to release its long-awaited third album in January 2020. Schaffer spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to 2005's "Touched By The Cri...

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JOE ELLIOTT Explains Why DEF LEPPARD Wouldn't Collaborate With BON JOVI

In a recent interview, Joe Elliott revealed why DEF LEPPARD wouldn't collaborate with BON JOVI. He told Rolling Stone that his band's 2008 collaboration with Taylor Swift was a more valuable exercise. Elliott explained: "The whole thing came together because somebody walked into our dressing room wi...

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TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK: Why I Had To Step Away From TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA

In a recent interview with Sonic Perspectives, TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick talked about how his short-lived involvement with SAVATAGE eventually resulted in him landing a gig with the holiday-themed rock opera TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA. "It's interesting how that whole situation connected to TR...

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UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER Was 'Lucky' To Find New U.D.O. Guitarist DEE DAMMERS

Former ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider told Russia's Mediator that he was "lucky" to find U.D.O.'s new guitarist, Dee Dammers. Dee replaced American musician Bill Hudson, who exited U.D.O. in April after touring with the band for only a year. "This time, I took more time to find the second guitar...

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GLENN HUGHES Says His Royalty Dispute Over DEEP PURPLE Catalog Has Finally Been Resolved

In a recent interview with the "Music And Me" podcast, Glenn Hughes confirmed that his dispute over the royalties to the DEEP PURPLE material that he co-wrote while a member of the band more than four decades ago has finally been cleared up. "As we sit here speaking, it's three months ago, it's all...

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ICED EARTH Mainman JON SCHAFFER's PURGATORY: 'In Your Dreams' Lyric Video

ICED EARTH mastermind Jon Schaffer has teamed up with his old pals in PURGATORY, the band that he originally founded in 1985, then later became ICED EARTH, to record five tracks that were written between 1985 and 1987, now to be released as the "Purgatory" EP on December 21 through Century Media. Al...