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SLAYER/EXODUS Guitarist GARY HOLT Talks To GITARRE & BASS About Signature Guitars (Video)

Gitarre & Bass magazine recently conducted an interview with SLAYER and EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt. You can now watch the chat below. During an appearance at this past January's NAMM show in Anaheim, California, Holt unveiled his new signature model based on the ESP Eclipse. The Gary Holt signat...

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Video: GHOST Performs In Paris

Video footage of GHOST's December 7 performance at La Cigale in Paris, France can be seen below. GHOST is among the nominees for the 58th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 15, 2016 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. GHOST is nominated for the ...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING: Heavy Metal 'Doesn't Alienate Children Against Parents Or Any Age Group'

Maniacs Japan conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King at this year's Loud Park festival, which took place in early October at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan. You can now watch the chat below. On SLAYER's music transcending generations: "I think metal, in general, is a thing...

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Video: DAVE LOMBARDO's DEAD CROSS Performs In Pomona

DEAD CROSS, the new "punk" outfit featuring former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo alongside members of THE LOCUST and RETOX, performed on December 3 at The Glass House in Pomona, California. Fan-filmed video footage of the entire concert can be seen below. DEAD CROSS's lineup is as f...

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CILVER To Release 'Not The End Of The World' Album In March

CILVER will release "Not The End Of The World" on March 18, 2016 via Entertainment One Music. The band's own Leon Lyazidi produced the album with help from well-known producer Johnny K at Groovemaster Studios in Chicago. "This is the perfect time to release this record," says CILVER vocalist Uliana...

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ANTHRAX: 'For All Kings' Track Listing, Formats Unveiled

ANTHRAX will release its long-awaited new album, "For All Kings", on February 26, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. The band has just uploaded a new trailer. Watch Joey Belladonna, Jonathan Donais, Frank Bello, Charlie Benante and Scott Ian talk about what fans can expect from ANTHRAX's upcoming album below....

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KERRY KING On Not Canceling Tour In Wake Of Paris Attacks: 'If You Cave In And You Go Home, You're Letting The Terrorists Win'

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King says that canceling the remainder of the band's current European headlining tour was "never an issue" following the events of November 13 in Paris, France, when more than 129 people were killed in seven coordinated terrorist attacks. The greatest number of deaths took pla...

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Video: DAVE LOMBARDO's DEAD CROSS Performs Live For First Time

DEAD CROSS, the new "punk" outfit featuring former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo alongside members of THE LOCUST and RETOX, made its live debut this past Tuesday, December 1 at the Casbah in San Diego, California. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. DEAD CROSS...

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ANTHRAX's FRANK BELLO On Paris Terror Attacks: 'I Don't Understand How Anybody Feels Good About Killing'

ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello says that the band's new song "Evil Twin" — which was lyrically inspired by the Charlie Hebdo shooting — is being performed with renewed vigor following last month's terrorist attacks in Paris which left more than 129 people dead. Speaking to Gigs And Festivals ahead of t...

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SLAYER, TESTAMENT, CARCASS: North American Tour Dates Officially Announced

In support of "Repentless", the band's twelfth studio album and its career-highest chart debut, SLAYER will launch 2016 by pillaging and marauding its way across North America, headlining some two dozen dates over a five-week period. With special guests TESTAMENT and CARCASS on all dates, the tour s...

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STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET: 'We're Bigger Rebels Than Most Bands Out There'

In a brand new interview with TheGreat Southern Brainfart, STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet addressed accusations by some fans that the band's "faux Christian schtick" is nothing more than a marketing "gimmick." He said: "The people that do say or have said that it's a gimmick or that we do it for th...

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KERRY KING Owns A SLAYER Christmas Sweater

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was asked by AXS.com if owns a SLAYER Christmas sweater, and if he does, if he has ever worn it. He responded: "I've certainly not worn it. I do have one, though. I remember the first year it came out I was adamantly against it. I thought it was ...

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Late SLAYER Axeman JEFF HANNEMAN's Personal Guitars Acquired By BROKEN HOPE's JEREMY WAGNER

The January 2016 issue of Guitar World magazine (on stands now) has an exclusive feature regarding the reactivation of famous guitars owned by SLAYER's late axeman Jeff Hanneman. Following Hanneman's death in 2013 from liver failure, his widow, Kathryn, put several of his guitars up for auction, wit...

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Ex-SLAYER Drummer DAVE LOMBARDO: Video Recap Of Australian Clinic Tour

A video recap of Dave Lombardo's (SLAYER, PHILM) October 2015 "The Repercussion Of Dave Lombardo" clinic tour of Australia can be seen below. Lombardo is deemed one of the most influential drummers of our time. Born with extraordinary musical aptitude, Lombardo was intuitive to rhythm at a very earl...

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EXODUS's STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA: 'Thirty Years After The First Record, We Are Still Relevant'

Rock Revolt Magazine recently conducted an interview with EXODUS singer Steve "Zetro" Souza. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Rock Revolt Magazine: When I was first approaching this interview, I was going to gear it towards a "wrap-up" of the past year since "Blood In Blood Out" was released....