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BLACK SABBATH Interviewed By Comedian JIM NORTON (Audio)

As the progenitors of hard rock, BLACK SABBATH blazed a trail for generations of musicians and fans to follow. Now, after nearly 35 years between albums, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler have returned as conquering rock overlords with the release of their brand new opus, "13". Joining the...

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SLIPKNOT's CLOWN To Make Documentary About Eating Disorders

SLIPKNOT mastermind/percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan has posted the following message: "As many of you know, I have produced documentaries for all of SLIPKNOT ‘s album cycles. Recently, I also worked on a documentary about the scariest haunted house in America, the House Of Shock in New Orleans...

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TONY IOMMI On Original BLACK SABBATH Reunion: 'It's Like We've Never Been Apart'

Martin Boulton of Australia's The Age recently conducted an interview with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On the making of the new BLACK SABBATH album, "13": Iommi: "When we started this project, we went to [producer] Rick's [Rubin] house and he...

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BLACK SABBATH Bassist Says Hardest Part Of Lyric Writing Is Coming Up With Different Themes

David Swan of Australia's Faster Louder recently conducted an interview with BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. On naming the new BLACK SABBATH album, "13": Butler: "[BLACK SABBATH singer] Ozzy [Osbourne] came up with that last year. We were going t...

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DAVE MUSTAINE: 'You Can't Say What You Wanna Say Anymore Without People Vilifying You'

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine recently spoke to Revolver TV about his lyrical direction for the band's new album, "Super Collider", his thoughts on former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and holy wars. Check out the clip below. "Super Collider" is being released today (Tuesday, June...

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SERJ TANKIAN Discusses Timeless Concept Behind New Music-And-Artwork Project

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is working on a new project, "Disarming Time Paintings", where he creates pieces of artwork based around his music and goes so far as to embed speakers and MP3 players within the artwork itself. "I have a number of p...

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TOOL Drummer's VOLTO! To Release 'Incitare' In July

From the very get-go, VOLTO! was an oddity. Here is a band comprised of some of the most accomplished musicians in Los Angeles (including the drummer of Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum-selling band TOOL) who were down right excited about playing cover tunes in a tiny jazz club in the Valley. Th...

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METALLICA Bassist: 'JAMES HETFIELD's Worst Riff Would Be Another Band's Best Riff'

There has been a lot of talk about METALLICA's next album, with singer/guitarist James Hetfield saying they've got a handful of music already and drummer Lars Ulrich stating he'd be surprised if their next record comes out before 2015. So what's the holdup? VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner asked META...

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METALLICA Bassist Says RICK RUBIN Is Still 'A Strong Possibility' To Produce Next Album

Sergio Pereira of South Africa's Muse magazine conducted an interview with METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo last month when the band returned to South Africa for three shows — one in Johannesburg and two in Cape Town. Muse: Would you ever be interested in recording with a South African producer in...

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JASON NEWSTED On Season Premiere Of VH1 CLASSIC's 'That Metal Show': Preview Clip Available

It's time to get metaled up. VH1 Classic's centerpiece in original programming, "That Metal Show" is returning for its 12th season. The acclaimed hard rock and heavy metal talk show hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson, and Jim Florentine kicks off the latest season on Saturday, June 1 at 11:00 p.m....

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FORBIDDEN's CRAIG LOCICERO Pays Tribute To SLAYER's JEFF HANNEMAN

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Craig Locicero (pictured below; FORBIDDEN, MANMADE GOD, SPIRALARMS) has posted the following message on his Facebook page regarding the passing of SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman: "I haven't said very much publicly about the passing of Jeff Hanneman, because I...

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BLACK SABBATH's '13' Reviewed By U.K.'s METAL HAMMER Magazine

Veteran British rock journalist Geoff Barton has penned a review of "13", the first BLACK SABBATH record in 35 years to feature singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler all playing together, for the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine. He writes, in part: "Gripes? No Bill...

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MASTERPLAN: 'Keep Your Dream Alive' Video Released

"Keep Your Dream Alive", the new video from multinational melodic metallers MASTERPLAN, can be seen below. The clip was filmed in February in the Luftverteidigungsbunker Erndtebrück, also called "Bunker Erich." "Keep Your Dream Alive" comes off MASTERPLAN's new album, "Novum Initium", which will be...

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BLACK SABBATH's IOMMI Says He Will Probably Have To Get Cancer Treatment For Rest Of His Life

Guitar World magazine recently spoke to BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi about the making of the band's new album, "13" — the first in 35 years to feature Tony, singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler. Asked what it was like working with legendary producer Rick Rubin, who is notorious for b...

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METAL CHURCH Guitarist Checks In From The Studio

Reunited METAL CHURCH — Ronny Munroe on vocals, Kurdt Vanderhoof and Rick Van Zandt on guitars, Steve Unger on bass, and Jeff Plate on drums — recently entered Vanderhoof's English Channel studio in Washingtion to begin work on its comeback album for a late 2013 release via Kurdt's label Body Of Wor...