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OPETH: Entire 'Pale Communion' Album Available For Streaming

"Pale Communion", the highly anticipated eleventh studio album from Swedish progressive metallers OPETH, can be streamed in its entirety at Pitchfork.com. The follow-up to 2011's "Heritage" will be released on August 26 via Roadrunner Records. The cover artwork was once again created by Travis Smith...

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MACHINE HEAD: Fan-Filmed Footage Of Antwerp Concert

Fan-fimed video footage of MACHINE HEAD's August 7 performance at Trix in Antwerp, Belgium can be seen below. MACHINE HEAD will release its new album, "Bloodstone & Diamonds", in November via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The CD was recorded in part at GREEN DAY's JingleTown Recording compound in...

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CARCASS' JEFF WALKER Speaks To EQPTV At BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR (Video)

Elliot Paisley of EQPTV conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker of reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which was held August 7-10 at Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent, West Midlands, United Kingdom. You can now wa...

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CARCASS Frontman Defends BABYMETAL Against Criticism From Metal Purists

British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS have defended BABYMETAL against the "gimmick" tag given to them by critics who liken them to the success of Swedish occult metallers GHOST. Established in 2010, BABYMETAL is the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Ja...

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MACHINE HEAD To Release 'Bloodstone & Diamonds' Album In November

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD will release their new album, "Bloodstone & Diamonds", in November via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The CD was recorded in part at GREEN DAY's JingleTown Recording compound in Oakland, California. Says MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn: "I cannot even...

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Strength and Conditioning

SOS have always one of the more unique punk acts out there, unique being subjective at this point. They've been around since the late Nineties and now through five albums, band leader Mike SOS has apparently decided that playing NYC street 'core wasn't enough. Some lineup changes and an abrupt alter...

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Trailer For Forthcoming Documentary About TWISTED SISTER's Early Days

A trailer for "We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!", the forthcoming movie about TWISTED SISTER's club days by German filmmaker Andrew Horn, can be seen below. Horn took to the crowdfunding site Indiegogo last year to help raise the $150,000 he has projected it will take for the film to receive a full re...

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WHILE HEAVEN WEPT To Release 'Suspended At Aphelion' In October

Virginia's long-running epic metallers WHILE HEAVEN WEPT will commemorate their 25th year with the October 27 release of their sixth full-length album, "Suspended At Aphelion", via Nuclear Blast. "Suspended At Aphelion" is undoubtedly the band's most ambitious, epic, and progressive album so far, fe...

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STEEL PANTHER's MICHAEL STARR Says Negotiations For TV Show Are Still Ongoing

Alex Obert of Journey Of A Frontman recently conducted an interview with singer Michael Starr (real name Ralph Saenz; ex-L.A. GUNS) of Los Angeles glam-metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Journey Of A Frontman: What would you say are the best parts about b...

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STERN Announces Improved AC/DC Pro Pinball Machine

Stern Pinball, Inc., the world's oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball games, announced an upgraded AC/DC Pro model with all LED lighting and a newly designed swinging bell. Originally released in early 2012, AC/DC and Stern Pinball have made history by creating a fan-favorite pinbal...

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Heavy Metal At The Gates Of Paleontology

A collision from deep time to present: a half-meter long worm with deadly jaws that lived 420 million years ago, and paleontologist Mats E. Eriksson (Lund University) who discovered its impressive and never-before-seen remains. A diehard fan of Scandinavian metal legend King Diamond, Eriksson dubbed...

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KID ROCK Blasts Legal Teams Involved In INSANE CLOWN POSSE Glass-Dildo Case

Detroit-based rocker Kid Rock, who was recently dragged into an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit between the INSANE CLOWN POSSE and a former employee of their Psychopathic Records, has sent expletive-laced letters to the legal teams involved in the case, saying that he didn't know what they were ta...

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MOTÖRHEAD's MIKKEY DEE: 'It's Very Strange To Have So Much Time Off'

ARTE Concert conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mikkey Dee at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 31 – August 2 in Wacken, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. Asked how he spent his time off from MOTÖRHEAD in the past year while the band's frontman, Lemmy Kilm...

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Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Sells Out In Record 12 Hours

The 25th-anniversary edition of Wacken Open Air just ended 36 hours ago and the promoters are already able to confirm that next year's installment of the annual metal festival has sold out. It is the 10th year in a row that all tickets to Wacken have been snapped up. Within 12 hours, 75,000 tickets...

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KING DIAMOND: Fan-Filmed Video Footage Of Entire Stockholm Concert

KING DIAMOND played its first show with new bassist, Swedish musician Pontus Egberg (THE POODLES, LION'S SHARE, ZAN CLAN),on July 25 at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden. Fan-filmed video footage of the entire concert can be seen below. Egberg joined KING DIAMOND following the recent departure of Hal...