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BLACK SABBATH's First Manager Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

One of heavy metal's most unsung heroes has been presented with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his outstanding service to the industry. Jim Simpson is the music man who discovered a fledgling band that was originally called EARTH, cleverly name-changing them to BLACK SABBATH in 1968...

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W.A.S.P.'s BLACKIE LAWLESS: 'Like Most Entertainers, I've Lived In A Bubble My Whole Career'

In a new interview with Brian Aberback of The Aquarian Weekly, Blackie Lawless spoke about the 40th anniversary of the release of W.A.S.P.'s first album. To celebrate this classic metal album, W.A.S.P. is, for the first time in 40 years, playing the entire album from top to bottom, start to finish,...

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GREEN DAY, KORN And SLEEP TOKEN To Headline 2025 Edition Of U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival

United Kingdom's Download, the greatest rock and metal festival of all time, returns for its 22nd edition, reborn and recharged in 2025 as DLXXII. Announced today are three first-time headliners — GREEN DAY, SLEEP TOKEN and KORN — alongside over 90 more colossal names spanning the full spectrum of r...

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Tapping The Vein (Deluxe Expanded Edition)

Thrash metal was going through a very strange transition in 1992. Stunned and inspired by the massive success of METALLICA's self-titled colossus and assailed by the commercially vital force of grunge and alternative rock, many of the genre's most significant bands were chasing their own tails in an...

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HELLOWEEN Announces Fall 2025 40th-Anniversary European Tour

It was the banger of the year 2021: With their sixteenth record, the self-titled album "Helloween", the legendary metal band returned with a seven-member lineup and caused a global metal earthquake. The album easily cracked the No. 1 chart position in several countries and was celebrated freneticall...

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MACHINE HEAD Announces 2025 North American Tour With IN FLAMES, LACUNA COIL And UNEARTH

San Francisco Bay Area metal titans MACHINE HEAD have announced a massive North American tour alongside Swedish metal icons IN FLAMES, Italian alt-metallers LACUNA COIL and American metalcore maestros UNEARTH. The crushing five-week jaunt begins in Oakland, California at the legendary Fox Theater, t...

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CATEGORY 7 Feat. EXODUS, ARMORED SAINT, Ex-MACHINE HEAD And Ex-OVERKILL Members: 'Land I Used To Love' Music Video

CATEGORY 7, the new band featuring former MACHINE HEAD and current KERRY KING guitarist Phil Demmel, ex-ADRENALINE MOB guitarist Mike Orlando, ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX singer John Bush, SHADOWS FALL/ex-OVERKILL drummer Jason Bittner and EXODUS bassist Jack Gibson, has released the music video for th...

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AC/DC Rumored To Be Announcing 2025 North American Tour This Week

Legendary hard rockers AC/DC are rumored to be announcing a spring/summer 2025 North American tour later this week. According to several AC/DC fan sites, a Facebook event page for AC/DC's April 11, 2025 concert at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota popped up earlier today, only for it to be...

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GARY HOLT Says He Has 'Only Had Two Hecklers' At SLAYER Shows In Last 14 Years: 'That's A Pretty Good Track Record'

In a new interview with Greg Prato of Ultimate Guitar, EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt, who began filling in for Jeff Hanneman at SLAYER's live shows in 2011, and became the band's full-time co-guitarist as of 2013, while remaining a member of EXODUS, was asked what he remembers about his first show play...

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Watch: MAX CAVALERA Revives NAILBOMB For One-Off 'Dynasty Show' In Arizona

SOULFLY headlined the "Max Cavalera Dynasty Show" on November 9 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona. Also appearing at the event was Max's long-running project NAILBOMB, with three guitarists, Max, Max's son Igor Amadeus Cavalera and Travis Stone. The three previously took part in the CAVALERA...

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JOEY VERA On ARMORED SAINT's Next Studio Album: 'Our Number One Thing Is Just Writing Really Great Songs'

In a new interview with Metal Kaoz, ARMORED SAINT bassist Joey Vera spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to the band's eighth full-length album, "Punching The Sky", which came out in October 2020 via Metal Blade Records. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Enters Studio To Record Eighth Album

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE have entered the studio to begin recording their eighth album, tentatively due in 2025. Earlier today (Saturday, November 9),the band shared a few photos from the recording studio and included the following message: "Here we go again. #bfmv #bulletformyvalent...

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Watch: AC/DC Drummer PHIL RUDD Makes Return To Live Stage With New Zealand Party Band

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd made his return to the live stage on November 2, performing the band's classic song "T.N.T." with a local party act in New Zealand. Video of the performance can be seen below (courtesy of Marco's HIGH VOLTAGE Music Channel). In a November 2023 interview with New Zealand's Stu...

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MEGADETH Celebrates 30th Anniversary Of First-Ever Band Web Site And 'Youthanasia' Album

In October 1994, MEGADETH and their label took a chance with a new venture. To celebrate the release of the "Youthanasia" album, the pioneering band established Megadeth, Arizona. It was the first-ever band web site on the Internet. The web site — as Billboard (October 31, 2024) noted in a story cel...

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KERRY KING On His Time In MEGADETH: 'If DAVE MUSTAINE And I Could Have Co-Existed, It Would Have Been A Very Different Band'

In a new question-and-answer session with readers of U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was asked whom he would pick if he could have been in any other band. Kerry responded: "I was almost in MEGADETH. I think if myself and [MEGADETH leader] Dave Mustaine could have co-existed...