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ANTHRAX Announces Its Own Craft Beer, 'Wardance'

It's funny how an offhanded comment can make a dream come true, but that's exactly what happened with thrash icons ANTHRAX. Last year, the members of the band were hanging out at New York's West Village bar Daddy-O and mentioned to owner Phil Casacelli how they'd love to have their own brand of beer...

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EUROPE To Record New Album At Legendary ABBEY ROAD Studios

Swedish hard rockers EUROPE will enter London, England's legendary Abbey Road studios in early February to begin recording the follow-up to 2015's "War Of Kings" album. "It's gonna be quite exciting because this is gonna be the first album that I'm involved in that we're gonna record in England," EU...

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ANTHRAX: Trailer For Limited Tour Edition Of 'For All Kings'

ANTHRAX will embark on its first full European headline tour in more than a decade in February. All shows will see the band celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of its classic "Among The Living" by performing the LP live in its entirety along with fan favorites from throughout the band's...

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SAGA To Call It Quits After 'Final Chapter' Of Touring

Photo credit: Alexander Mertsch, www.bsights.de After forty years together, Canadian rockers SAGA will call it quits following one more "Final Chapter" of touring in 2017. SAGA's original singer Michael Sadler said in a statement: "This year marks four decades of writing, recording and touring as a...

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IAN PAICE: DEEP PURPLE Hasn't Decided Yet If 'Long Goodbye' Will Be Band's Last Big Tour

British rock legends DEEP PURPLE will release their new album, "InFinite", the highly anticipated follow-up to their worldwide chart-topping effort "Now What?!", on April 7 via earMUSIC. The first single, "Time For Bedlam", was recently made available via a lyric video, which can be seen below. Spea...

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GRIM REAPER Frontman STEVE GRIMMETT's Right Leg Was Amputated Below The Knee

Vocalist Steve Grimmett of STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER, the revamped version of the cult '80s British metal act GRIM REAPER, had part of his right leg amputated after an aggressive infection spread from his toes to his knee. As BLABBERMOUTH.NET first reported yesterday, the singer had been at an in...

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GLENN HUGHES Says New RAINBOW Singer RONNIE ROMERO Is Doing 'A Reasonably Good Job'

Glenn Hughes says that Ronnie Romero is doing a "reasonably good job" singing the classic songs from RAINBOW's and DEEP PURPLE's catalogs and insists that all is "good" between him and his former bandmate Ritchie Blackmore. The former DEEP PURPLE bassist/vocalist spoke to Metal Express Radio about B...

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Your Turn to Remember: The Definitive Anthology 1970-1990

One of my decompression activities is reading old issues of "Heavy Metal" (the illustrated sci-fi mag) with any of the following albums playing: BLUE OYSTER CULT's "Tyranny and Mutation", KING CRIMSON's "Islands", GENTLE GIANT's "Acquiring the Taste" or either of these from URIAH HEEP: "Demons and W...

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JOHN 5 Says 'Season Of The Witch' Is 'By Far' His Favorite Solo Record

Former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 will release his eighth full-length solo album, "Season Of The Witch", on March 3. The fully instrumental disc, which features his band THE CREATURES (bassist Ian Ross and drummer Rodger Carter),contains experimentation with various genr...

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BAD BRAINS Frontman's Eccentric Life And Spiritual Struggles Revealed in 'Finding Joseph I' Documentary

Paul "HR" Hudson is a misunderstood spiritual warrior. As the voice of BAD BRAINS, punk/hardcore pioneers, one of the most influential bands to rise out of the 1980s, and Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominees, HR has trail blazed a musical aesthetic and codified a way of living. "Finding Joseph I", di...

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GREG LAKE's Posthumous Memoir 'Lucky Man' To Be Published This Spring

Little, Brown has acquired the memoir of the late Greg Lake, the former frontman of progressive rock group EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER. The memoir, called "Lucky Man", is written in Lake's own words and was completed just before the rock star died from cancer last month, according to Andreas Campomar...

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LOU GRAMM Confirms He Will Rejoin FOREIGNER 'For A Song Or Two' On 40th-Anniversary Tour

Singer Lou Gramm has confirmed that he and the other founding members of FOREIGNER will join the group's current lineup "for a song or two" at a concert on the band's upcoming tour. Although he initially insisted that he hadn't been invited to reunite with FOREIGNER on the trek, he tweeted on Monday...

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FOREIGNER To Be Joined By LOU GRAMM And Other Original Members At Select 40th-Anniversary Shows

According to Billboard, FOREIGNER will be joined by original members Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood on select dates on the band's 40th-anniversary tour this summer. Support on the trek, which kicks off July 11 in Syracuse and runs through through September 9 in Auburn, Washington, will com...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist: 'From Day One, All I Ever Wanted To Do Was Play With Other People'

Hit The Pit's Eric Yelowitz and Chuck Meyers recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked how he gets so much energy to put into his live performances, Ian said: "I just really enjoy playing. From day one, all I ever wanted to do was ....

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DEEP PURPLE Sues Longtime Accountant For Allegedly Misappropriating Millions Of Dollars

According to The Times, DEEP PURPLE has filed a lawsuit against its longtime accountant, accusing him of siphoning off up to £4 million (approximately $4.93 million) in band royalties. Vocalist Ian Gillan, drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover have sued Dipak Shanker Rao, who has been working f...