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STONE SOUR Begins Recording New Album

STONE SOUR has entered Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California to begin recording its new album for a tentative summer 2017 release via Roadrunner Records. STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor recently told Matt Pinfield that the band had written and demoed eighteen songs for its sixth studio effo...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Debuts New Stage Production In Dublin (Video)

AVENGED SEVENFOLD debuted its new stage production last night (Saturday, January 7) in Dublin, Ireland at the opening concert of the band's European tour with DISTURBED and IN FLAMES. Check out fan-filmed video footage of the performance below. AVENGED SEVENFOLD worked with the producers of Cirque D...

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SEPULTURA Guitarist Says Human Beings Are 'Getting Lazier And Dumber'

Benjamin Smith of Australia's AMNplify recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andreas Kisser of Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA. An excerpt from the chat follows below. AMNplify: [SEPULTURA's new] album ["Machine Messiah"] has a real theme running through it and focusses on technology...

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ELUVEITIE Announces New Lineup

Swiss folk metallers ELUVEITIE have announced their new lineup (pictured from left to right): * Jonas Wolf (guitar) * Matteo Sisti (whistles, bagpipes, mandola) * Nicole Ansperger (fiddle) * Alain Ackermann (drums) * Chrigel Glanzmann (vocals, whistles, mandola, bagpipes, bodhran) * Fabienne Erni (v...

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AMON AMARTH Guitarist: 'We Only Write What Comes From Our Hearts'

Spark TV, which is part of the Czech monthly magazine Spark, recently conducted an interview with guitarist Olavi Mikkonen of Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH. You can now watch the chat below. Asked if he thinks AMON AMARTH's latest album, "Jomsviking", is more "mainstream" than some of the band...

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FIREWIND: 'Immortals' Track-By-Track Breakdown

Greek melodic power metal masters FIREWIND, the group led by guitar wizard and OZZY OSBOURNE band member Gus G., will release their eighth studio album, "Immortals", on January 20 via the band's longtime label partner Century Media Records in Europe. A track-by-track breakdown of "Immortals" by Gus...

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Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer BLAZE BAYLEY To Release 'Endure And Survive' Album In March

British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) will release his ninth solo album, "Endure And Survive (Infinite Entanglement Part II)", on March 3, 2017 via Blaze Bayley Recording. The record is an exciting and enthralling sequel to his 2016 release "Infinite Entanglement", which...

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WINTERSUN Completes Work On Third Album

Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN have completed work on their third studio album, due later in the year via Nuclear Blast. According to a press release, the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2012's "Time I" features main songwriter Jari Mäenpää once again breaking the boundaries of metal and adding a new...

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Machine Messiah

With the constant bickering between the Kisser and Cavalera camps, and ditto amongst the band's fans, it might be time to consider a rebrand ofSEPULTURA. Not a disband, this unit has proven itself and doesn't have to answer to the negativity hovering over it. There are still plenty of people in supp...

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KREATOR Frontman: 'Once You Start Thinking Old, You Become Old'

LoudTV.net recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza of German thrash metal veterans KREATOR. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On having a fresh, positive attitude: Mille: "Age is a state of mind, I would sa...

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Drummer JOCKE WALLGREN: 'I Wanna Be In AMON AMARTH For A Long Time'

Austria's Metal Underground conducted an interview with new AMON AMARTH drummer Jocke Wallgren (formerly of OCTOBER TIDE and VALKYRJA) on November 19 in Munich, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what it has been like touring...

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While They Were Sleeping

For its eighth album, Brooklyn experimental metalcore band CANDIRIA attempts a concept record. This is a band who survived a van crash on tour and snidely convalesced with its 2004 response album, "What Doesn't Kill You". For its troubles, legal issues followed, along with lineup changes and a tempo...

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Swedish cult metal horde GHOST is one of the hottest metal acts these days, and the unholy unit scored big amongst fans and critics last year with its adventurous album "Meliora". Hardly letting the iron cool, the band releases its second EP reaching beyond 2013's "If You Have Ghost", the stupid coo...

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AMON AMARTH's 'Jomsviking' Album Started Out As Movie Script

Finland's Kaaos TV conducted an interview with guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg of Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH on December 13 in Helsinki, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the songwriting process for AMON AMARTH's latest album, "Jomsviking", Olavi said:...

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MASTODON's BRENT HINDS Claims His Comments About 'Hating' Heavy Metal Were Taken Out Of Context

MASTODON guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds says that his comments about "hating" heavy metal were taken out of context. In a June 2016 interview with Guitar Player, Hinds appeared to come clean about his attitude towards metal, and he didn't mince words. He was quoted as saying: "I never really liked h...