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FILTER Leader Working On 'Ambient' New Album

Richard Patrick is working on an "ambient"-based FILTER album that he will make available through all the streaming music services later in the year. The FILTER leader revealed his plans for the disc — tentatively titled "Sounds For Sloan And Other Restless Children" — via a video message posted on...

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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT: 'One Of My Main Goals As A Musician Is To Have My Own Sound'

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett was interviewed on the December 19 edition of "Whiplash", the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie. You can now listen to the chat using the widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On preventing his creative enthusiasm from...

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QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Confronts 'Hater' At Tampa Concert: 'I Don't Tell You To F**k Off At Your House'

QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Todd La Torre confronted a man who was flipping him off during the band's show in Florida by returning the gesture and scolding the concertgoer. While in the middle of performing "Screaming In Digital" with his bandmates on December 1 at The Cuban Club in Tampa, Todd noticed the...

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'Lords Of Chaos' Norwegian Black-Metal Movie Shooting In Oslo: First Look

The English-language film "Lords Of Chaos", based on true events in the Norwegian black metal music scene in the early 1990s, has begun filming in Oslo and the Norwegian movie news site Filter Film Og TV has posted several photos and a video clip of the set, showing actor Emory Cohen ("Brooklyn", "T...

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STARSET To Release 'Vessels' Album In January; Listen To 'Monster' Single

STARSET's new album, "Vessels", is due on January 20, 2017 via Razor & Tie. The sophomore release from the band, helmed by frontman Dustin Bates, is a data-stream rendered in sound where Bates becomes the deus-ex-machina in an age of information overload that is increasingly complex yet ultimate...

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Echoes of the Tortured

A smorgasbord of musicians from death and black metal bands with power metal and nu metal luminaries coming together in one band doesn't make much sense on paper, but the devil is in the details. It seems that's what SINSAENUM is attempting to summon with their debut, "Echoes of the Tortured", sonic...

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SLAYER Is Selling Collectible Plaques Commemorating 30th Anniversary Of 'Reign In Blood'

SLAYER is selling 18"x24" collectible plaques commemorating the 30th anniversary of the band's classic 1986 album "Reign In Blood". This will only be made once in a limited edition of 50. The plaques contain a certificate of authenticity plate that is numbered. The setlist reproduction portion is si...

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IN FLAMES Guitarist BJÖRN GELOTTE: 'We Always Divide Our Listeners Into Two Camps'

Metal Wani editor in chief Owais "Vitek" Nabi recently conducted an interview with guitarist Björn Gelotte of Swedish metallers IN FLAMES. You can now listen to the chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how the first two songs from IN FLAMES' upcoming album, "Battle...

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Victorious

Andrew Stockdale is, for all intents and purposes these days, WOLFMOTHER. A few years back, he tried, to no avail, to drop the moniker altogether and work under his own name. Contract obligations brought WOLFMOTHER back as a playing entity, and this cycle of confusion resulted in the independently r...

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GENE SIMMONS Says Celebrities Shouldn't Speak Out On Politics: 'They Should All Shut Their Pieholes'

In a brand new interview with Yahoo! Music, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons, who competed in Donald Trump's "The Celebrity Apprentice" in 2007, once again praised his former boss for transforming American politics but stopped short of formally endorsing him in the White House race. "What you see...

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Producer GREG FIDELMAN Talks About Working On Latest METALLICA, SLIPKNOT Albums

When METALLICA and producer Greg Fidelman hunkered down to begin work on the legendary band's latest record, he knew he needed the flexibility to hop in and out of the band's studio and from instrument to instrument with ease. "They're really busy guys, so we wanted to have all of our sounds for dru...

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Crazy Eyes

Richard Patrick has been searching for that next great moment in FILTER, one automatically held accountable to "Short Bus" and "Title of Record". Though it's a curse no artist wishes to be burdened with, Patrick has been answerable for NINE INCH NAILS, from which he and Brian Liesegang founded this...

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Unleashed

Since breaking out, Grammy-nominated and Dove Award-winning Christian rockers SKILLET have been averaging a new album every three years since 2003's "Collide". In the wake of the release of 2013's "Rise", John Cooper — SKILLET's lead vocalist, bassist and co-founder — reportedly began writing the so...

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PAUL STANLEY Talks About Possibility Of Another KISS Studio Album, Future Without Any Original Members

Legendary KISS frontman Paul Stanley recently stopped by David Fishof's Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp and participated in a question-and-answer-style interview interview with 16-year-old radio host Miles "The Shoe" Schuman. You can now watch the chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBER...

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PAUL STANLEY Comments On LED ZEPPELIN Lawsuit, War Of Words With NIKKI SIXX And Reunion With ACE FREHLEY

Russ Rollins of the "Monsters" recently conducted an interview with KISS frontman Paul Stanley. You can now listen to the chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On LED ZEPPELIN being accused of copying the iconic guitar riff in "Stairway To Heaven" from SPIRIT's 1968 in...