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TESTAMENT's ERIC PETERSON Recalls Last Time Band Performed 'The Legacy' Ballad (Video)

Vocalist Chuck Billy and guitarist Eric Peterson of San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT answered "five random questions" for Shockwave magazine aboard MOTÖRHEAD's Motörboat cruise, which took place September 22-26. You can watch the question-and-answer session below. Asked to name his "favori...
October 23, 2014
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SLIPKNOT's '.5: The Gray Chapter' Headed For No. 1 On Next Week's BILLBOARD Chart

SLIPKNOT's long-awaited fifth studio album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", is likely to sell between 100,000 and 110,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on one-day sales reports compiled after the record arri...
October 22, 2014
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EXODUS' 'Blood In Blood Out' Cracks U.S. Top 40

"Blood In Blood Out", the new album from San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans EXODUS, sold around 8,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Exhibit B: The Human Condition", opened with aroun...
October 22, 2014
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SLIPKNOT Members Look Back On Nearly Two Decades Of Trials, Tribulations, Victories And Tragedies (Video)

As they release their long-awaited fifth studio album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", the members of SLIPKNOT look back on the last four years since the passing of their co-founder and bass player Paul Gray, and at their nearly two decades of trials, tribulations, victories and tragedies as a band. Forget...
October 22, 2014
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KERRY KING: Next SLAYER Album Will Contain 'Fast', 'Heavy' And 'Spooky' Material

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King says that fans will "dig" the band's next album because it contains much of the same type of material that SLAYER has covered on its previous efforts. SLAYER's new CD is being produced by Terry Date, who previously worked with the band on the song "Implode", which was mad...
October 21, 2014
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MACHINE HEAD Members Get Strung Up And Hung For 'Now We Die' Video Shoot

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD filmed a video for the song "Now We Die" on October 3 in Oakland, California. The clip is being helmed by director Mike Sloat, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT and HATRIOT. Photos from the video shoot can be seen below. "Now We Die" is taken from...
October 20, 2014
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EXODUS Singer Says 'Big Four' Of Thrash Metal Is Really 'The Big One And The Other Three'

In a brand new interview with the Argentinian radio station Rock & Pop 95.9 FM, vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza of San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans EXODUS was asked why his band rarely gets mentioned alongside the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER...
October 18, 2014
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CARCASS' JEFF WALKER: 'We Seem To Have Somehow Attracted A New Generation Of Younger' Fans

Daniel P. Carter of Scuzz TV conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker and guitarist Bill Steer of British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which was held August 7-10 at Catton Hall, Walton-On-Trent, West Midlands, United Kingd...
October 16, 2014
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ACCEPT: Fan-Filmed Video Footage Of Toulouse Concert

Fan-filmed video footage of ACCEPT's October 14 performance at Le Bikini in Toulouse, France can be seen below. ACCEPT's new album, "Blind Rage", sold around 6,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The band's previous CD, 2012's "Stalingrad", opened with around 5,400 units to...
October 15, 2014
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PRESIDENT OBAMA Impersonator REGGIE BROWN Joins Celebrity Rockers At 'Rock N' Bowl' (Video)

The T.J. Martell Foundation's Rock 'N' Bowl tournament, held last week at the PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California, brought together a myriad of celebrity rockers, comedians and music industry executives to raise funds for cancer research. The event, chaired by Wendy Dio, president and co-...
October 15, 2014
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SLAYER's PAUL BOSTAPH: 'You've Gotta Write Music For Yourself And Enjoy What You Do'

SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph says that no band has ever managed to have the kind of career where every one of their albums was universally praises by critics and fans alike, explaining that most "good" songwriters compose music for themselves first. Commenting on the criticism that is constantly leve...
October 13, 2014
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Ex-SLAYER Drummer DAVE LOMBARDO: Video Footage Of Bogotá Clinic

Fan-filmed video footage of former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo's October 2 clinic at La Hamburguesería Colina in Bogotá, Colombia can be seen below. In a recent interview with Brazil's Portal 7, Lombardo was asked if he has any plans to ever get back together with the members of S...
October 13, 2014
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CARCASS: 'The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills' Music Video Released

"The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills", the new video from British extreme metal icons CARCASS, can be seen below. CARCASS will issue a collection of previously unreleased and hard-to-find tracks this November. Titled "Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel", all the songs on the EP were recorded during t...
October 13, 2014
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ACCEPT: Mixing 'Old-School Songwriting' With 'Modern, Tighter Production'

TJ Fowler of Skullbanger Media conducted an interview with guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes of German/American metallers ACCEPT before the band's September 27 concert in Tampere, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET)....
October 10, 2014
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Ex-ANTHRAX Singer NEIL TURBIN Slams SCOTT IAN For 'Fabricating Lies'; Calls Guitarist's Book 'Work Of Fiction'

Former ANTHRAX vocalist Neil Turbin has slammed the band's guitarist Scott Ian for "fabricating lies" about the singer "in order to draw attention" to Ian's upcoming autobiography, "I'm The Man: The Story Of That Guy From Anthrax". In a recently published excerpt from the book, which will be release...
October 10, 2014