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MAYHEM FESTIVAL Co-Founder On Lack Of Metal Headliners: 'Heavy Rock Bands Aren't Overnight Sensations'

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival producers John Reese and Kevin Lyman spoke to AltPress.com about the end of the event, which performed to smaller-than-usual crowds this year amid controversy over the way the event was booked. SLAYER was this year's Mayhem headliner, but the main-stage lineup l...

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BROKEN HOPE: 'The Docking Dead' Performance Clip From 'Live Disease At Brutal Assault' DVD

Chicago death metallers BROKEN HOPE will release their first-ever concert DVD and Blu-ray, "Live Disease At Brutal Assault", on September 18 via Century Media. "Live Disease At Brutal Assault" was filmed and recorded at the 19th annual Brutal Assault festival in Josefov, Czech Republic on August 8,...

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SLAYER's 'Repentless' Video Is 'Pure Satanic, Evil Filth'

Canadian conspiracy theorist Mario Emery-Paul Brisson, known on YouTube as "The Vigilant Christian", has uploaded a 12-minute clip in which he dissects SLAYER's new video for "Repentless", the title track of the band's newly released eleventh album, and discusses the "satanic" influence in hard rock...

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Video Premiere: GHOST's 'From The Pinnacle To The Pit'

"From The Pinnacle To The Pit", the new video from Swedish occult rockers GHOST, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's third album, "Meliora", which entered The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 8 with first-week sales of just over 29,000 units — nearly all from pure album sales. Th...

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SOULFLY Taps HAVOK Bassist For Upcoming Tour

SOULFLY has tapped Mike Leon (HAVOK) to play bass on the band's upcoming North American headlining tour, which is scheduled to kick off on September 30 in Los Angeles, California. Handling bass duties for SOULFLY during the band's recent shows was mainman Max Cavalera's son Igor, who also sings for...

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SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: MAYHEM FESTIVAL Co-Founder 'Was An Idiot' For Making 'Gray, Bald And Fat' Comment

SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya says that Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival co-founder Kevin Lyman "was an idiot" for making disparaging comments about this year's edition of the event. The 2015 Mayhem Festival generated controversy earlier in the summer after Lyman blamed the event's low tick...

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GHOST's Nameless Ghoul Is Not Upset That SLAYER's KERRY KING Doesn't Like His Band

One of the nameless ghouls from GHOST says that he was not offended by SLAYER guitarist Kerry King's recent comments about the Swedish occult rock outfit, explaining that GHOST "is not for everybody." In an interview with Artisan News, King stated about GHOST: "Dude, I love the imagery… I love it. I...

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Video Premiere: SLAYER's 'Repentless'

SLAYER's video for "Repentless" — the title track of the band's new album — can be seen below. The clip was filmed on August 26 at the Sybil Brand Institute, the women's prison in East Los Angeles. While SLAYER performed the track under that punishing sun over an eight-hour period, the "prisoners" h...

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Video: DAVE LOMBARDO's PHILM Performs In Prague

Fan-filmed video footage of PHILM's September 7 concert at Klub 007 Strahov in Prague, Czech Republic can be seen below. PHILM features former SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo alongside guitarist/vocalist Gerry Paul Nestler (CIVIL DEFIANCE) and bassist Francisco "Pancho" Eduardo Tomaselli (WAR). Asked w...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING: 'People Online Are Ten Feet Tall And Bulletproof'

In a brand new interview with Spin.com, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King spoke about how the band manages to survive at a tume when the old-fashioned way of making money in the music business — selling recorded albums — has dropped off a cliff. "We're still recording great albums, sure we are, but nobody...

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'Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre' Feat. SLAYER, LAMB OF GOD, MORBID ANGEL Members; First Trailer

The official teaser for "Hairmetal Shotgun Zombie Massacre: The Movie" can be seen below. Also available is a short making-of documentary that has a bunch of clips from the movie in it. Also, all of the music in both the trailer and the documentary is new/original stuff from Singer Tim "Ripper" Owen...

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SLAYER's TOM ARAYA: DAVE LOMBARDO 'Was Beginning To Put Us In A Really Bad Light'

SLAYER frontman Tom Araya has "set the record straight" with regards to the latest departure of the band's original drummer, Dave Lombardo, explaining that the group "had to move forward" because Dave "was beginning to put us into a bad spot." Lombardo sat out SLAYER's Australian tour in February/Ma...

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GHOST Performs On French National TV; Video, Photos Available

The first part of GHOST live performance at l'Album de la Semaine was broadcasted yesterday (Monday, September 7) on the French TV channel Canal +. You can now watch "From The Pinacle To The Pit" below. More songs will be broadcasted this week as follows: * Sept. 8 - song #2 with an intro + ...

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SOULFLY: Win Copy Of 'Archangel' Album, Tickets To Upcoming Concert Courtesy Of FIXION MEDIA

Fixion Media is hosting a contest featuring the following prizes: There are five (5) prizes available to be won, each consisting of one (1) autographed copy of the new SOULFLY album, "Archangel", and two (2) general admission tickets to one (1) SOULFY concert of the entrant's choice during the SOULF...

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GOJIRA's MARIO DUPLANTIER Talks Next Album (Video)

Impact metal channel conducted an interview with drummer Mario Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA before the band's August 28 concert in Dublin, Ireland. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about the progress of the recording sessions for GOJIRA's follow-up to 2012's "L'Enfant...