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SOUNDGARDEN's KIM THAYIL Talks About His Appreciation For Early METALLICA, EXODUS And METAL CHURCH

During an appearance on the Turned Out A Punk podcast, SOUNDGARDEN guitarist Kim Thayil, who is promoting his upcoming memoir, "A Screaming Life: Into The Superunknown With Soundgarden And Beyond", was asked if he and his bandmates were frustrated by the fact that they were "marketed into the metal...

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DEVILDRIVER Shares Music Video For 'Dead In The Water' Single From Upcoming 'Strike And Kill' Album

In anticipation DEVILDRIVER's rabid new album, "Strike And Kill", due out July 10 via Napalm Records, the groove metal veterans first released the boisterous lead single "Dig Your Own Grave", cracking over 400,000 cross-platform streams, becoming a mainstay on SiriusXM's Liquid Metal and stampeding...

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TIM MONTANA Recruits SLASH, BILLY GIBBONS And JERRY CANTRELL For New Album 'Entire State Of Tim Montana'

Rock singer/guitarist/songwriter Tim Montana will release a new album, "Entire State Of Tim Montana", on July 31 via BMG. The sixteen tracks on the record feature some assists from music's heaviest hitters, including Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN CHAINS),Slash (GUNS N' ROSES),Billy F Gibbons (ZZ TOP) a...

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VOIVOD's New Concept Album Tentatively Due In Late 2027: 'It's Gonna Sound A Bit Like A Movie Soundtrack'

In a new interview with Robert Cavuoto of Metal Rules, VOIVOD's drummer and founding member Michel "Away" Langevin spoke about how the band's "Symphonique" live album, a special collaboration with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique De Québec),inspired the songwriting process for n...

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SYMPHONY X's RUSSELL ALLEN Is The Progressive Metal Powerhouse Vocalist With A Vulnerable Side

By David E. Gehlke SYMPHONY X's 2002 "The Odyssey" is anchored by its 25-minute epic title track. Based on Homer's "Odyssey", which details the trials and tribulations of the ancient Greek hero Odysseus, SYMPHONY X's "The Odyssey" was a seven-part drama spun through the lens of sublimely epic progre...

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CRO-MAGS Release First New Song In Six Years, 'Wired For Chaos'

Rolling Stone magazine has premiered the official by Rex Miller-directed music video for CRO-MAGS' first new song in six years, "Wired For Chaos". The track — which shares a name with a recent documentary about CRO-MAGS frontman Harley Flanagan's life — will appear on the New York hardcore legends'...

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QUEENSRŸCHE's TODD LA TORRE Says A Growing Number Of TRUMP Supporters Are Experiencing 'Buyer's Remorse'

In a recent interview with Hakos Pervanidis of the Metal Hammer Greece TV program TV War, QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Todd La Torre defended his right to speak out on political issues, explaining that he has "every right" to share his views publicly. After Pervanidis noted that he always thought of QUEENSR...

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BUTCHER BABIES Release Music Video For Latest Single 'Blame It On The Wind'

BUTCHER BABIES have released their powerful new single "Blame It On The Wind", produced by Howard Benson. This marks the fourth release from their forthcoming album via Judge & Jury Records. The track serves as a key chapter in an album that functions as a deeply personal love letter to vocalist...

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Symphonique

For most of the last 40 years, VOIVOD have been the progressive metal gift that keeps on giving. Perpetually ahead of the game, they have weathered every obstacle and pitfall imaginable to arrive at this point, and it seems only fitting that this most adventurous and free-thinking band should celebr...

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Sanctuary

When it comes to women in rock and metal music in the early 2000s, Amy Lee and EVANESCENCE were as big as it got. The band's dark, gothic music struck a chord with listeners around the world, and she and the band also paved the way for other women to get on the radio and stand alongside the many mal...

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All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

It was an event that cheered the soul. BLOOD INCANTATION released their third album in 2024. It was called "Absolute Elsewhere" and it was utterly fucking mind-blowing. A death metal band possessed by the spirit of progressive rock, the Colorado quartet are making music that both defies categorizati...

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Requiem For A Pipe Dream

A full decade has passed since ex-AMARANTHE frontman Jake E and former IN FLAMES guitarist Jesper Strömblad joined forces to form CYHRA. Purposefully positioned between thunderous melo-death and supremely catchy melodic metal, this almost-supergroup have released three previous albums full of shiny,...

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MASTODON Announces 'The Poisonous Weapons' September/October 2026 Tour With DEAFHEAVEN And ALCEST

Distilling the intensity of an incredibly difficult year, Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have returned with a sonically massive and richly melodic new single, "Your Ghost Again". Written and recorded amidst an unimaginably chaotic and difficult time, the track confronts the untimely death of...

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MOTIONLESS IN WHITE Announces Fall 2026 U.S. Tour With DAYSEEKER, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA And DARK DIVINE

Platinum-selling, Scranton, Pennsylvania powerhouse MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, which will release its new album "Decades" on July 17 via Roadrunner Records, has announced the second leg of "The Sweat And Blood Tour". DAYSEEKER will serve as direct support. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and DARK DIVINE will also a...

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TOMMY LEE Looks Back On His Exit From MÖTLEY CRÜE More Than 25 Years Ago: 'I Was Creatively Dying Slowly'

In a new interview with the Zach Sang Show, MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee spoke about the band's upcoming "The Return Of Carnival Of Sins" tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of CRÜE's groundbreaking 2005-2006 "Carnival Of Sins" tour and the 45th anniversary of the band. The 33-city Live Nation-pr...