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FAITH NO MORE Bassist BILL GOULD To Release First TALKING BOOK Album In Nine Years

TALKING BOOK, the San Francisco-born experimental trio whose music evokes the "distorted sepia tone imagery of a bygone era" (Cyclic Defrost),returns with its first album in nine years, "Talking Book II", on April 24 via Koolarrow Records. The group features FAITH NO MORE's Bill Gould with GIGANTE...

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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Is 'Completely Blown Away' By Opportunity To Perform At PETER GREEN Tribute Concert

On February 25, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett will perform at an all-star tribute concert to FLEETWOOD MAC co-founder Peter Green at the London Palladium. The event, which is being curated by Green's fellow FLEETWOOD MAC co-founder Mick Fleetwood, will feature additional appearances by Billy Gibb...

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JOHN BUSH On Upcoming ARMORED SAINT Album: 'We've Written Songs That Take It To A Whole Other Level'

ARMORED SAINT singer John Bush spoke to the "Shockwaves Skullsessions" podcast about the progress of the recording sessions for the band's new album, tentatively due in late 2020 via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2015's "Win Hands Down" is being tracked with veteran producer/engineer Bill Me...

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CARCASS To Release New Album In August

CARCASS will release its new album on August 7. The British extreme metal pioneers revealed the projected arrival date for the follow-up to 2013's "Surgical Steel" in a Facebook post earlier today. The group wrote: "New album? August 7th." No further details about the LP have yet been made available...

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MICHAEL SWEET And TONY HARNELL To Team Up For 'Tour 1987' In May

STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet and former TNT singer Tony Harnell will join forces for the "Tour 1987" in May. Sweet said: "I'm excited to officially announce that I'm going on tour this spring, full-band electric, with my good friend Tony Harnell, and special guest Moriah Formica! Our first round o...

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KORN And FAITH NO MORE Announce Co-Headline North American Summer Tour

Grammy Award-winning heavyweights KORN and the iconoclastic, platinum-selling FAITH NO MORE today announced their epic co-headline North American tour. The trek will see both bands traversing the continent this summer and will give fans the chance to see two of the biggest forces in rock perform on...

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Rumor: RATT, TOM KEIFER, SKID ROW And SLAUGHTER To Team Up For Summer U.S. Tour

According to Metal Sludge, RATT, Tom Keifer, SKID ROW and SLAUGHTER will team up for a U.S. tour this summer. Although there has been no confirmation yet of any of the bands taking part in the trek, Keifer revealed during an appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation" on Monday (February 17) that he has...

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VINNY APPICE, GILBY CLARKE, STEVE LUKATHER, MARC BONILLA, Others To Perform At 'Change AB5' Event

Ultimate Jam Night, the long-running community-oriented music show in residency at the Whisky A Go Go, and Independent Music Professionals United present "Change AB5", a night of music and unity to raise awareness surrounding the damaging effects of California's new AB5 law on California's music pro...

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OPETH's MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT Suffering From 'Acute Laryngitis'; Band Cancels Three Shows On North American Tour

Swedish progressive metallers OPETH have been forced to cancel three shows on their ongoing North American tour due to acute laryngitis suffered by the band's frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt. Åkerfeldt broke the news of the cancelation earlier today in a social media post. He wrote: "I regret to inform yo...

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APOCALYPTICA Joined By AMARANTHE's ELIZE RYD For 'I Don't Care' Performance In Oslo (Video)

Fan-filmed video footage of APOCALYPTICA performing the song "I Don't Care" on February 16 in Oslo, Norway, with a special guest appearance by AMARANTHE's Elize Ryd on lead vocals, can be seen below. Released in 2008, "I Don't Care" was APOCALYPTICA's first No. 1 rock radio hit in the U.S. The track...

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Watch Pro-Shot Video Of ALICE COOPER's Performance At FIRE FIGHT AUSTRALIA Concert

Professionally filmed video footage of Alice Cooper's February 16 performance at the Fire Fight Australia benefit concert in Sydney can be seen below. The legendary rocker played a four-song set consisting of "Department of Youth", "I'm Eighteen", "Poison" and "School's Out" medleyed with PINK FLOYD...

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MIKE PORTNOY On His Friendship With NEIL PEART: 'It Was A Relationship That I'll Always Cherish'

Former DREAM THEATER and current SONS OF APOLLO drummer Mike Portnoy spoke to World Prog-Nation about the passing of Neil Peart, who died on January 7 in Santa Monica, California after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. The iconic RUSH drummer was 67 years old...

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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's REED MULLIN: Video Tribute From Raleigh Memorial Posted Online

A video tribute that was shown at the memorial for CORROSION OF CONFORMITY drummer Reed Mullin can be seen below. The "Remembering Reed Mullin" event was held on February 9 at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mullin died on January 27 at the age of 53. Two days later, the remaining me...

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BLACK SABBATH's TONY IOMMI Featured In Hour-Long 'Icons' Episode From GibsonTV

To mark the 50th anniversary of BLACK SABBATH's genre-defining self-titled debut album, GibsonTV has uploaded an hour-long "Icons" episode featuring guitarist Tony Iommi talking about his early years in Birmingham, England, the accident that almost ended his career as a guitarist and his 55-year mus...

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Hear PEARL JAM's New Song 'Superblood Wolfmoon' By Pointing Your Cellphone At The Moon

Powster — an award-winning interactive creative studio/production company for over 150 movie distributors — has joined forces with Universal Music Group, Republic Records and multi-Grammy Award-winning band PEARL JAM join forces for the launch of the single "Superblood Wolfmoon", from the upcoming P...