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BABYMETAL Performs Sold-Out London Show In Front Of 2,300 Fans

U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine spoke to BABYMETAL fans who attended the band's sold-out July 7 concert at the Forum in London. Check out the footage below. BABYMETAL is the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and heavy metal...

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AMON AMARTH's OLAVI MIKKONEN On Songwriting: 'We Don't Waste Time Working On Stuff That We Don't Believe In'

Shure, maker of microphones and audio gear, recently conducted an interview with Swedish melodic death metallers AMON AMARTH. You can now watch the chat below. On whether they are happy with their longtime record label, Metal Blade: Johan Hegg (vocals): "As far as Metal Blade goes, they are doing th...

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BABYMETAL Wants To Start New Musical Genre Called 'Cute Metal'

BABYMETAL — the heavy metal offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and metal — was interviewed at the U.K. edition of the Sonisphere festival, which is being held July 4-6 at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire. You can now watch...

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SLIPKNOT To Headline U.S. KNOTFEST Featuring DANZIG, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, VOLBEAT, Others

The second installment of SLIPKNOT's Knotfest will be held on October 24-26 in San Bernardino, California. The Iowa-based band will headline two days (Friday and Saturday) of the event, playing a different set each night, with more than two dozen other acts rounding out the rest of the the three-day...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE: Authorized Biography 'Bible Of Butchery' Due In September

Death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE will unleash their first-ever official authorized biography in September. Written by Joel McIver, author of "Justice For All: The Truth About Metallica" and biographies on BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, SLIPKNOT and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, "Bible Of Butchery - Cannibal...

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BABYMETAL Kicks Off World Tour In Paris; Video Available

BABYMETAL — the heavy metal offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and death metal — kicked off its world tour with a headlining show last night (Tuesday, July 1) at La Cigale in Paris, France. Fan-filme video footage of the...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE: New Song 'Sadistic Embodiment' Available For Streaming

Death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE will release their new album, "A Skeletal Domain", on September 16 via Metal Blade Records. The CANNIBAL CORPSE collective — vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, bassist Alex Webster, guitarists Pat O'Brien and Rob Barrett and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz — appro...

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KING DIAMOND Already Has Title In Mind For His Band's Next Studio Album

Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond has revealed to RollingStone.com that he is working on a new album from his namesake band, tentatively due next year. "We've done a lot of stuff," he said. "We are going in some new ways that are going to be amazing." He continued: "I've been building a ...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE To Release 'A Skeletal Domain' Album In September

Death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE will release their new album, "A Skeletal Domain", in early September via Metal Blade Records. The track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. High Velocity Impact Spatter 02. Sadistic Embodiment 03. Kill Or Become 04. A Skeletal Domain 05. Headlong Into Carnage...

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Video: DAVID LEE ROTH Performs 'The Oo-oka River Blues' In Tokyo

Video footage of VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth and the Kabuki Orchestra performing "The Oo-oka River Blues" at Onkio Haus in Tokyo, Japan can be seen below. Roth has been living part-time in Tokyo since 2012. He's been renting recording studio space in Japan and having fun learning Japanese. In ad...

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ANAAL NATHRAKH Signs To METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announce the signing of Birmingham, England's ANAAL NATHRAKH. Comments ANAAL NATHRAKH: "We are very pleased to announce our signing with Metal Blade Records. It means we are joining a roster with some truly titanic figures, and a label responsible for releasing some utterly l...

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KING DIAMOND Announces North American Tour

KING DIAMOND has confirmed what has been rumored for several weeks: the band will return to North America for a full tour this fall! The trek, which will wrap up with the previously announced performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, begins on October 11 in Atlanta, Georgia. A limited-editio...

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BELIEVER Keyboardist/Bass Player JEFF KING Opens Up About Battle With Disease

Jeff King, bassist/keyboardist of Pennsylvania-based technical thrash metal veterans BELIEVER, has released the following statement: "The last couple years have been difficult for BELIEVER. Since early 2013 we've probably met together as a band in the hospital as much as anywhere else. "I suffered f...

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Ex-AS I LAY DYING Guitarist NICK HIPA Wasn't Shocked By TIM LAMBESIS' Murder-For-Hire Arrest

Ex-AS I LAY DYING guitarist Nick Hipa says that he wasn't shocked when he first learned of Tim Lambesis' attempt to hire a hitman to kill Tim's estranged wife, Meggan, saying that the move "wasn't completely out of character" for the then-AS I LAY DYING singer. In an interview with MetalSucks, Hipa...

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WOVENWAR Featuring Former AS I LAY DYING Members: New Song 'The Mason' Available For Streaming

WOVENWAR, the new band featuring the talents of Jordan Mancino (drums),Nick Hipa (guitar),Phil Sgrosso (guitar) and Josh Gilbert (bass) of San Diego, California based metal act AS I LAY DYING, and Shane Blay (vocals) of OH, SLEEPER, will release its self-titled debut album on August 5 via Metal Bl...