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ANTHRAX's Next Album Will Be 'Weird And Pissed Off,' Says CHARLIE BENANTE

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante says that the band's next album will be "weird and pissed off." The follow-up to 2016's "For All Kings" will be ANTHRAX's third full-length release since the 2010 return of singer Joey Belladonna, who came back into the fold for the "Big Four" shows with METALLICA, SL...

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DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT Guests On DOCTORS OF MADNESS's Comeback Album, 'Dark Times'

DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott makes a guest appearance on the comeback album by the reunited British protopunk art rock band DOCTORS OF MADNESS. Joe contributed backing vocals to six songs on "Dark Times", including the LP's first single, "Make It Stop!" DOCTORS OF MADNESS were active as a recordin...

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MAYAN/Ex-STREAM OF PASSION Singer MARCELA BOVIO Is Battling Cervical Cancer

Marcela Bovio, the Mexican singer, violinist, songwriter, and vocal teacher, who is currently a member of the Dutch symphonic death metal band MAYAN, is undergoing treatment for cervical cancer. Known for her melancholic, emotional voice and her other work with bands like STREAM OF PASSION, AYREON,...

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ONI LOGAN To Sing For LYNCH MOB On MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise

According to Mike Gaube's Headbangers, Oni Logan will be singing for LYNCH MOB when the George Lynch-led outfit performs on this year's Monsters Of Rock cruise. Monsters Of Rock sails in February 2020 from Fort Lauderdale to Belize, with additional performances by TESLA, KROKUS and EXTREME, among ma...

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MOONSPELL Drummer Says His Band Helped Create Goth Metal With 1996's 'Irreligious' Album

Charlene from Austria's Metal Underground conducted an interview with drummer Miguel Gaspar of Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL prior to the band's November 21 show at SimmCity in Vienna, Austria. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On MOONSPEL...

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SATYRICON Bassist ANDERS ODDEN Diagnosed With Colon Cancer

Norwegian heavy metal musician Anders Odden is preparing to undergo surgery for colon cancer. The procedure, which is scheduled for next Monday (January 6),is expected to remove the malignant tumors and any nearby lymph nodes. Odden, the co-founder and guitarist of the death metal band CADAVER and...

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BLACK BREATH Drummer Pays Tribute To Bassist ELIJAH NELSON: 'His Kindness, Generosity And Beauty Cannot Be Overstated'

Seattle death metal band BLACK BREATH has thanked fans for their support following the passing of the band's bassist, Elijah Nelson (pictured). Late last night, BLACK BREATH drummer Jamie Byrum took to the group's social media to write :"As some of you may already know, our brother and bassist Elija...

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MIKE PORTNOY On Possibility Of Making Music With JOHN PETRUCCI Again: 'We Would Both Love It'

Mike Portnoy says that he would "love" to make music with John Petrucci again. The drummer commented on the possibility of working with his former bandmate in DREAM THEATER just a couple of weeks after Portnoy took to his social media to upload two photos of him and the DREAM THEATER guitarist, alon...

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BLACK BREATH Bassist ELIJAH NELSON Dies

Elijah Nelson, bassist for the Seattle death metal band BLACK BREATH, passed away over the weekend. No cause of death has yet been revealed. He was 40 years old. A number of other artists have paid tribute to Nelson in the wake of his passing, including Swedish extreme grindcore act NASUM, who wrote...

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STRIGOI Bassist: 'There's Been More Suffering Caused By Organized Religion Than Any Natural Disaster'

Kyle McGinn of Dead Rhetoric recently conducted an interview with bassist Chris Casket of STRIGOI, the new U.K. extreme metal band that also features PARADISE LOST/VALLENFYRE guitarist Greg Mackintosh. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Dead Rhetoric: STRIGOI stems from the ashes of VALLENFY...

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DREAM THEATER's MIKE MANGINI On His Drum Setup: 'I Need To Be Like An Orchestra'

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Mangini spoke to Argentina's TMPlay about his drum setup for the band's "Distance Over Time" tour, which kicked off earlier in the year. He said (see video below): "I've chosen the model of drums, cymbals — I mean, basically, everything here — for the shows, because of a c...

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Death Atlas

If there's one thing that separates the truly great from the rest, it's vision. CATTLE DECAPITATION have long stood out as one of extreme metal's most fervently creative and intelligent bands. As far back as 2004's "Humanure", Travis Ryan's maverick deathgrind crew were messing with formerly revered...

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Abandon All Faith

Greg Mackintosh is not happy. And thank Satan for that. Over the last three decades, the PARADISE LOST guitarist has been involved in a huge number of seminal and ground-breaking metal records, from early PL classics like "Gothic" and "Draconian Times" through to three uniformly astonishing albums w...

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Enraged And Unbound

Thanks to the fact that there are literally thousands of brutal death metal bands active right now, it is becoming increasingly difficult to accurately separate nutritious wheat from mediocre chaff. Thankfully, there are still occasions when an album leaps from the speakers, grabs the terrified revi...

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SATYRICON's FROST Says SATYR 'Has Become One Of The Greatest Composers' In Black Metal Today

Dead Rhetoric's Kyle McGinn recently conducted an interview with drummer Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON. A few excerpts from the chat follow below. Dead Rhetoric: Looking back on "Rebel Extravaganza", what were your intentions for the album when writing it? Fr...