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STYX Frontman's 'Sing For The Day! Tommy Shaw And Contemporary Youth Orchestra' Special To Air Next Month

Classical music and classic rock collide as AXS TV presents STYX frontman Tommy Shaw in the premiere of the 2016 concert special "Sing For The Day! Tommy Shaw And Contemporary Youth Orchestra", airing Sunday, July 9 at 10:00 p.m. The broadcast follows the season premiere of the popular AXS TV origin...

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Former JUDAS PRIEST Singer And Ex-PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS Guitarist: Entire 'The Uprising' EP Available For Streaming

"The Uprising", the six-song EP from former SUPERJOINT RITUAL and PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS guitarist Marzi Montazeri and ex-JUDAS PRIEST and ICED EARTH singer Tim "Ripper" Owens, can be streamed below. Released on June 23 via Montazeri's recently launched Crunchy Western Records, the effort...

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NIGHTWISH's TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN Joins Forces With Wife In AURI Project

AURI, the project featuring NIGHTWISH mainman/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen and his wife, popular Finnish singer Johanna Kurkela, has inked a deal with Nuclear Blast. AURI's debut album is tentatively due in early 2018. AURI begun its life with three people, united through their shared need to hear...

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MIKE HOWE Says METAL CHURCH Was 'Bullied' By Management During The Making Of 1993's 'Hanging In The Balance'

myRockworld conducted an interview with METAL CHURCH lead singer Mike Howe prior to the band's June 13 show at Backstage München in Munich, Germany. You can listen to the full chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On why he left METAL CHURCH in 1995: Mike: "I left MET...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: My 15 Favorite Metal And Hard Rock Albums

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich will dedicate this weekend's episode of his Apple Music Beats 1 radio show "It's Electric" to his fifteen favorite heavy metal and hard rock records of all time. The list, which he initially prepared for Rolling Stone magazine, covers a wide spectrum of styles, from the...

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BLACK SABBATH To Release 'The Ten Year War' Limited-Edition Vinyl Box Set In September

A foreboding storm is gathering overhead. Bells toll, lighting cracks, rain falls…something dark and sinister is heading this way. It's 1970 and four guys from Birmingham, with the release of their debut self-titled album, have single-handedly created what would become known forever as heavy metal....

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Video: ROB ZOMBIE Performs At Stockholm Amusement Park

Fan-filmed video footage of Rob Zombie's June 20 concert at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm, Sweden can be seen below. Rob Zombie is planning to enter the studio this summer to begin work on the follow-up to last year's "The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser"...

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Former JUDAS PRIEST Singer And Ex-PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS Guitarist Release 'A Monster Within' Song

Former SUPERJOINT RITUAL and PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS guitarist Marzi Montazeri has joined forces with ex-JUDAS PRIEST and ICED EARTH singer Tim "Ripper" Owens to record a six-song EP, "The Uprising". Due on June 23 via Montazeri's recently launched Crunchy Western Records, the effort was re...

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REVOLUTION SAINTS Feat. DEEN CASTRONOVO, DOUG ALDRICH, JACK BLADES: Release Date For Second Album

REVOLUTION SAINTS, the band featuring Deen Castronovo (JOURNEY, BAD ENGLISH),Doug Aldrich (THE DEAD DAISIES, WHITESNAKE, DIO),and Jack Blades (NIGHT RANGER, DAMN YANKEES),will release its second album on Friday, October 13. The disc was recorded in Italy with producer Alessandro Del Vecchio, who...

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ROB ZOMBIE Announces New Fall 2017 U.S. Tour Dates; Special BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale Available

ROB ZOMBIE has announced four more dates in the USA in October. They include appearances in Greenville, South Carolina on October 2; Atlanta, Georgia on October 3; Portsmouth, Virginia on October 5 and Richmond, Virginia on October 6. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, June...

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ROB ZOMBIE To Begin Work On New Album In August

Rob Zombie is planning to enter the studio this summer to begin work on the follow-up to last year's "The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser" album. The rocker-turned-film-director told Kerrang! Radio at this weekend's Download festival in the U.K.: "Right now we're just...

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JEFF WATERS On Upcoming ANNIHILATOR Album: 'This Is One Of The Best Ones We've Done'

Metal Wani's Laura Vezer recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Jeff Waters of Canadian thrash metal veterans ANNIHILATOR. You can now listen to the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On ANNIHILATOR's upcoming follow-up to 2015's "Suicide Soci...

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NIGHTWISH To Launch Nine-Month 'Decades: World Tour' Next March In North America

In March 2018, symphonic metal legends NIGHTWISH will begin their nine-month-long "Decades: World Tour 2018" starting with 34 shows in North America. The band will have a very special setlist for the tour, featuring rarely heard material from the earlier era, and excitingly for both band and fans, t...

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ERIK TURNER: 'In An Ideal World, We All Wish JANI LANE Was Alive And Healthy And Singing In WARRANT'

Mark Dean of Antihero Magazine recently conducted an interview with WARRANT guitarist Erik Turner. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Antihero Magazine: You had massive success as a band in the '80s. Was that difficult to deal with at the time? Erik Turner: "It was only difficult when...

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DON DOKKEN Performs Acoustically At 'A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors' 30th-Anniversary Event

Don Dokken performed an acoustic set at the special "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" event on Saturday, June 3 at Underground Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. The ultimate Wizard World Horror Fest celebration marked the 3...