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BIG WRECK Frontman Talks About His VELVET REVOLVER Audition

Canadian musician Ian Thornley (BIG WRECK) tells Jam! Music that he was approached by VELVET REVOLVER to audition for the vacant vocalist position in the band a short time after their split with Scott Weiland. "I got a phone call from Slash — how fucking weird is that?" said Thornley. "And they had...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE: Another New Song Available For Streaming

"Encased In Concrete", a brand new song from Florida-based death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE, can be streamed below. The track comes off the band's twelfth studio album, "Torture", which will be released on March 13 via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2009's "Evisceration Plague" offers up...

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CHRISTOPHER AMOTT: 'I Have Left ARCH ENEMY To Pursue My Solo Career'

Guitarist Christopher Amott has released the following statement regarding his departure from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY: "I have left ARCH ENEMY to pursue my solo career. I'm gonna continue to be very active in music, working with all kinds of styles — this does not rule out metal....

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ARCH ENEMY Parts Ways With CHRISTOPHER AMOTT, Taps ARSIS Guitarist

Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have amicably parted ways with guitarist Christopher Amott and have replaced him with 26-year-old American musician Nick Cordle (ARSIS). Christopher — the brother of ARCH ENEMY's other guitarist Michael Amott — was a member of ARCH ENEMY from 1996 to 2005...

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Enslaved

All these years later and SOULFY still brings it proper with the kind of tribal-infused thrashing aggression and groove that could only be connected to one man, guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera. He wasn't the only reason SEPULTURA blazed trails, as evidenced by the more than respectable catalogue of...

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Torture

CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz's description of one aspect of 12th studio album "Torture" as "the frenzied attack of 'Butchered at Birth' (1991) or 'Tomb Of The Mutilated' (1992)", is quite accurate. There is a direct, often unhinged lethality about it that does indeed remind of the contr...

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Incongruous

Initially impressed with the crunching complexity of 2007's "Mechanics Of Dysfunction" from Montreal tech-death darlings BENEATH THE MASSACRE, I was mildly disappointed with 2008's "Dystopia". There was something about presentation of the latter release that felt flat and lacking in staying power, e...

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Mask of Malice

Lots of speed and chunkiness, the occasional hook, and a whole lot of pulverizing death metal is what Germany's LAY DOWN ROTTEN has been about for over a decade now. The band has stuck to its guns and does little in the way of pushing its sound into unknown territories. As on past albums "Mask ...

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Guitarist GLEN DROVER Says He Left MEGADETH To Escape 'Destructive Atmosphere'

Canadian guitarist Glen Drover (MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND, TESTAMENT, EIDOLON) was interviewed on the "Metal Attack MTL" radio show on February 8 at Heavy MTL's "Battle Of The Bands" event in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where Drover was one of the judges. You can now watch the chat below. When asked if h...

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Former TNT Singer To Guest On STRYPER Frontman's Solo Album

Former TNT singer Tony Harnell will guest on the new solo album from STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet, due this summer on Big3 Records. Harnell will be a special guest vocalist on the song "Taking On The World Tonight". Commented Sweet: "I think Tony is truly one of the most underrated singers of all...

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KING'S X Drummer 'Still On A Ventilator' After Suffering Heart Attack

Jerry Gaskill, drummer for legendary rockers KING'S X, suffered a heart attack Sunday, February 26, and was rushed to the hospital. After undergoing an emergency operation, Jerry was placed in intensive care, where he currently remains. According to a posting on KING'S X's official Facebook page, "J...

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'There Are Some Positive Signs' Concerning KING'S X Drummer's Recovery Following Heart Attack

Jerry Gaskill, drummer for legendary rockers KING'S X, suffered a heart attack Sunday, February 26, and was rushed to the hospital. After undergoing an emergency operation, Jerry was placed in intensive care (where he currently remains). According to a posting on KING'S X's official Facebook page, "...

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KING'S X: All North American Tour Dates Canceled Following Drummer's Heart Attack

Jerry Gaskill, drummer for legendary rockers KING'S X, suffered a heart attack Sunday, February 26, and was rushed to the hospital. After undergoing an emergency operation, Jerry was placed in intensive care (where he currently remains). In light of Jerry's sudden hospitalization, all previously ann...

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KING'S X Frontman Interviewed On 'Heady Metal With Jeff Olson' (Audio)

Doug Pinnick, the bassist and singer for the progressive hard rock band KING'S X, was interviewed on the latest edition of "Heady Metal With Jeff Olson", the Internet radio show hosted by original TROUBLE drummer and current RETRO GRAVE mainman Jeff "Oly" Olson. You can listen to the chat in its ent...

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Report: GARY MOORE Died Of Heart Attack After Consuming 'Massive' Amount Of Alcohol

According to The Telegraph, legendary guitarist Gary Moore suffered a heart attack brought on by a massive amount of alcohol he consumed prior to being found dead in bed at a luxury Costa del Sol hotel last February. Moore had 380 mg of alcohol per deciliter of blood in his system, enough to ...