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MARTY FRIEDMAN Completes Recording New Solo Album

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman has completed recording his new solo album. On Sunday (December 10),Marty took to his social media to share a photo of him laying down a solo at a studio in Italy, and he included the following message: "I just finished all the tracking for my new album. Thi...

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DEE SNIDER 'Won't Be Surprised' If TWISTED SISTER Reunites This Election Year 'To Champion Some Important Causes'

Nearly a year after TWISTED SISTER's one-off onstage reunion at the Metal Hall Of Fame in Agoura Hills, California, Dee Snider has confirmed to Canada's The Metal Voice that the band will likely come back together in 2024 for special performances at different political rallies that need TWISTED SIST...

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ARMORED SAINT Announces Summer 2024 European Tour

Iconic heavy metal outfit ARMORED SAINT will return to Europe in the summer for a full run of club shows and handpicked festivals. Comments ARMORED SAINT vocalist John Bush: "What up Euro SAINT heads. Long time no talk. Well, that's about to end. After not performing on European soil since 2019, we'...

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DRAGONFORCE Releases Beat Saber-Inspired New Song 'Power Of The Saber Blade'

Extreme power metallers DRAGONFORCE is featured on Beat Saber's Original Soundtrack 6 with their new song, "Power of the Saber Blade", originally composed for the best-selling, award-winning VR game. DRAGONFORCE's "Power Of The Saber Blade" will be the fastest song ever introduced in Beat Saber at a...

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AMON AMARTH Announces Spring 2024 North American Tour With CANNIBAL CORPSE, OBITUARY And FROZEN SOUL

Following their summer run crisscrossing the continent with their metal comrades in GHOST, Swedish heavy metal icons AMON AMARTH will return to U.S. and Canadian stages this spring on the "Metal Crushes All Tour 2024" produced by Live Nation; the band's biggest North American tour to date! Set to co...

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QUEEN Concert Film 'Queen Rock Montreal' Coming To IMAX Theaters For Limited Engagement

IMAX and Pathé Live in partnership with Mercury Studios and Queen Films announced today that, for the very first time, one of the world's biggest bands will perform on cinema's biggest screens with the global release of "Queen Rock Montreal", exclusively in IMAX beginning January 18, 2024. This exhi...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN's Next Solo Album Will Be 'Dramatic And Orchestral'

During the question-and-answer portion of this month's Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp's "Metalmania III" in Los Angeles, Marty Friedman spoke about his upcoming solo album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET; video by TheSilverdude): "I've got 15 solo albums now, and each time I try to do somet...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN Explains Why He 'Failed Miserably' During His OZZY OSBOURNE Audition

During the question-and-answer portion of this month's Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp's "Metalmania III" in Los Angeles, Marty Friedman reflected on his audition for Ozzy Osbourne's band back in the late 1980s. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET; video by TheSilverdude): "I failed miserably. I...

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SACRED REICH To Enter Studio In April 2024

Arizona thrash metal veterans SACRED REICH are planning to enter the studio in April 2024 to begin recording the follow-up to 2019's "Awakening". The band's recording plans were revealed earlier today (Thursday, November 23) in a Thanksgiving Day social media post by SACRED REICH bassist/vocalist Ph...

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HELLOWEEN Is 'Looking Forward' To Completing Next Studio Album

The reunited expanded classic lineup of German power metallers HELLOWEEN has announced plans to take the next few months off from the road to make another album to follow up 2021's acclaimed self-titled effort. After playing 60 extremely emotional shows in support of their chart-topping album "Hello...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN's 'The Art Of Soloing' Masterclass Series Coming From TRUEFIRE

TrueFire, which includes 50,000 video lessons taught by industry-leading teachers, Grammy Award-winning artists and world-class touring musicians, is offering a groundbreaking three-volume masterclass series, "The Art Of Soloing", from former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman. "The Art Of Soloing" i...

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MR. BIG Has Between 10 And 13 Songs Written For New Studio Album

In a new interview with Troy Patrick Farrell of the weekly live "This That And The Other" radio show, MR. BIG singer Eric Martin spoke about the band's ongoing last worldwide tour, aptly titled "The BIG Finish". Since the band's original drummer and co-founder Pat Torpey lost his battle with Parkins...

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X JAPAN Bassist HIROSHI 'HEATH' MORIE Died After Battle With Colorectal Cancer, The Band Says

X JAPAN bassist Hiroshi "Heath" Morie died on October 29 after a battle with colorectal cancer, the band has revealed. He was 55 years old. Heath joined X JAPAN in 1992 and played on the 1993 album "Art Of Life" and 1996's "Dahlia". After breaking up in 1997, the band reunited in 2007 and performed...

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SLAYER's 'Show No Mercy' To Be Re-Released On Vinyl In Celebration Of Album's 40th Anniversary

Formed in 1981, SLAYER assaulted the world with a new hybrid of metal and punk — heavier, faster and darker than the rest — and set a new standard, defining not only a genre, but an attitude. Throughout SLAYER's history, the band never faltered in unleashing their extreme and focused aural assault,...

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ULI JON ROTH Has Been 'Recording A Lot' In Recent Months: 'There Are Quite A Few Tracks In The Making'

In a new interview with Canada's The Metal Voice, legendary German guitarist Uli Jon Roth was asked if there are any plans for him to release a new studio album in the not-too-distant future. He responded: "I've been recording a lot, particularly recently in Cologne [Germany] at the Dierks Studios w...