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COREY TAYLOR On SLIPKNOT's New Stage Show: 'There's So Much Stuff Going On, It's Insane'

Mistress Carrie of the Worcester/Boston, Massachusetts radio station WAAF conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor before the band's December 7 concert at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. You can now watch the chat below. Asked whether SLIPKNOT's current stage show is the...

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BLACK STAR RIDERS: 'The Killer Instinct' Artwork Unveiled

BLACK STAR RIDERS will release their seond studio album, "The Killer Instinct", in February 2015 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2013's "All Hell Breaks Loose" was recorded in October at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Nick Raskulinecz (RUSH, FOO FIGHTERS, ALICE IN CHAINS, MASTODO...

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Today Marks 10th Anniversary Of DIMEBAG DARRELL's Death

Today (Monday, December 8) marks the 10th anniversary of the death of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. Abbott, one of the most beloved and respected musicians in hard rock, was shot onstage during a DAMAGEPLAN concert on this date in 2004 at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbu...

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SLIPKNOT: Fan-Filmed Footage Of Uncasville Concert

Fan-filmed video footage of SLIPKNOT's December 5 performance at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut can be seen below. SLIPKNOT's first major headlining tour in support of its new album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", dubbed "Prepare For Hell", also features KORN and KING 810. The trek kicked off on Oc...

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JIM ROOT Says SLIPKNOT Has Never Made Money From Record Sales

In a brand new interview with The Morning Call, SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim Root spoke about the success of the band's latest album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", which sold approximately 132,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart. It was SLIPKNOT's sec...

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HELLYEAH's TOM MAXWELL Says New Hard Rock Bands Write Music That Is 'Unfocused' And Lacks 'Passion'

HELLYEAH guitarist Tom Maxwell believes that a lot of the newer hard rock bands lack their own style and write songs that are "unfocused" and lack "passion," in turn contributing to music fans' diminishing interest in buying full-length albums. Speaking to Matt McCreary of KJAG Radio in Wichita, Kan...

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SLIPKNOT, ANTHRAX, MASTODON, MOTÖRHEAD Among GRAMMY AWARDS Nominees

SLIPKNOT, ANTHRAX, MASTODON, MOTÖRHEAD and TENACIOUS D are among the nominees for the 57th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on February 8, 2015 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. The nominees in the "Best Metal Performance" category are as follows: ANTHRAX -...

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COREY TAYLOR: 'I Don't Know' If JOEY JORDISON Will Ever Return To SLIPKNOT

MusikUniverse.net conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor before the band's November 30 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether the new SLIPKNOT musicians — believed to be drumme...

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SNOT's MIKEY DOLING: 'Why Shouldn't We Go Out And Rock?'

Wisconsin radio station 107.5 The Rock recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mikey Doling of the reunited Santa Barbara metal/punk rock hybrid SNOT. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. A couple of excepts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On SNOT'...

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Former SLIPKNOT Drum Tech Confirms Identities Of New Drummer, Bassist

A former drum tech for SLIPKNOT has posted a photo of his personal itinerary which lists all the current members of the band, including their new drummer and bassist, whose identiies SLIPKNOT has not officially revealed. As expected, the itinerary lists SLIPKNOT's new drummer as Jay Weinberg, son of...

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IN THIS MOMENT's MARIA BRINK: 'When I Walk Out On Stage Now, I'm Confident'

Niclas Müller-Hansen of RockSverige.se recently conducted an interview with IN THIS MOMENT singer Maria Brink. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. RockSverige.se: When you read comments [online] about you, there's a lot of stupid stuff about the way you look or about your voice, but I g...

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COREY TAYLOR On STONE SOUR's Split With JIM ROOT: 'It Was The Right Decision'

STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor says that Jim Root "wasn't happy" before he was dismissed from the group late last year so that the guitarist could work on material for the new SLIPKNOT album, explaining that the split was necessary "to make sure that both bands could still exist." Root recently comp...

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SLIPKNOT, LINKIN PARK, JUDAS PRIEST Confirmed For Next Year's ROCK ON THE RANGE

Rock On The Range, America's premier hard rock festival, returns to central Ohio's Columbus Crew Stadium May 15, 16 and 17, 2015 for its ninth year with a stellar lineup of top rock bands led by multiplatinum band LINKIN PARK, global rock juggernauts SLIPKNOT and heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST — w...

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COREY TAYLOR Doesn't Think SLIPKNOT Will Ever Perform Without Masks

Jesse Modz of Ontario, Canada's 97.7 HTZ-FM radio station recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Asked if he thinks SLIPKNOT could ever be SLIPKNOT without the masks, Taylor said: "I think in a way we could...

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KREATOR's MILLE PETROZZA: BABYMETAL 'Will Not Hurt' Any 'Real' Metal Bands

The Age Of Metal recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza of German thrash metal veterans KREATOR. You can now watch the chat below. Asked to weigh in on the Japanese pop-metal group BABYMETAL, which has been described by some as the most polarizing thing to hit heavy m...