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SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT: We Put The New Drummer 'Through The Wringer'

SLIPKNOT's fifth album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", will be released on October 21 via Roadrunner. It's the band's first CD without founding drummer Joey Jordison, who was fired in 2013, and late bassist Paul Gray. The identities of the band's new bassist and drummer have not yet been revealed, but both...

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JIM ROOT Says He Was Fired From STONE SOUR By Phone

Guitarist Jim Root says that he is still unsure as to why he was fired from STONE SOUR, claiming that he "hasn't talked to certain guys" in the band to get more insight about his departure from the group. Root and SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor much of the last four years recording and touring behind...

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METALLICA, LINKIN PARK And DEFTONES Confirmed For Inaugural U.S. Edition Of ROCK IN RIO

METALLICA, LINKIN PARK and DEFTONES are among the confirmed bands for the inaugural United States edition of the Rock In Rio festival, set to take place on May 8-9, 2015 and May 15-16, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will feature six stages and unique lineups for each of the four days. The anno...

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'FREDDIE MERCURY' Meets 'LUCIANO PAVAROTTI' In 'The Mercurotti'

One week after the unearthing of a long-lost collaboration between Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson comes "The Mercurotti", singer-songwriter Marc Martel's tribute to two of his favorite singers, Luciano Pavarotti and Freddie Mercury. This amazing performance was delivered in one take by Martel,...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Says Making 'Gray Chapter' Album Was 'More Emotional Than It Was Stressful'

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that the band didn't feel any pressure making the its first album in six years, ".5: The Gray Chapter", calling the experience "more emotional than it was stressful." The new CD is the first by SLIPKNOT since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray and the late 2013 f...

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MACHINE HEAD: New Single 'Now We Die' Available For Streaming

"Now We Die" a brand new song from San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The track is taken from the band's new album, "Bloodstone & Diamonds", which will be released on November 10 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The CD was recorded in part a...

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MACHINE HEAD: Fifth 'Bloodstone & Diamonds' Studio Webisode

The fifth in a series of video blogs featuring footage from the recording sessions for "Bloodstone & Diamonds", the new album from San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD, can be seen below. Due on November 10 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment, the CD was recorded in part at GREEN DAY's Jing...

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JIM ROOT Says That He 'Wasn't Really Happy' In STONE SOUR Anymore

Former STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root says that he was hurt and angry after he was fired from the band at the end of last year but claims that it all worked out "for the better" because he "wasn't really happy" in the Corey Taylor-fronted group anymore. Root, who is also a member of SLIPKNOT ...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Denies 'The Negative One' Was Written About JOEY JORDISON

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor has denied that the band's new track "The Negative One" was written about the group's former drummer Joey Jordison, claiming that the song's lyrics deal with "the ugliness that we all have in us." The first new tune released by SLIPKNOT in six years, "The Negative One" i...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Compares 'Gray Chapter' Album To QUENTIN TARANTINO Movie

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor says that the group's fifth studio album and first since 2008's "All Hope Is Gone" will show the emotions that he and his bandmates went through in the four years since he passing of SLIPKNOT's bassist, Paul Gray. The disc, titled ".5: The Gray Chapter", is also the band...

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THE PRETTY RECKLESS Acoustic Album In The Works

THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen has confirmed that the band is working on an acoustic album, to be released in the coming months. "We just recorded an acoustic version of a medley," Momsen told LA Rock of the Jacksonville, North Carolina radio station Rock 105.5 on September 17 (see video b...

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FREDDIE MERCURY's Duet With MICHAEL JACKSON Featured On 'Queen Forever' Album

Three previously unreleased QUEEN songs featuring late singer Freddie Mercury spearhead an exciting new QUEEN album, "Queen Forever", due November 10 on the Virgin Records label. The tracks include a long-anticipated track from QUEEN and Michael Jackson, "There Must Be More to Life Than This", a pre...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR On 'Gray Chapter' Artwork: 'The Minute I Saw That Image, I Knew That It Was The Cover'

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that when he first saw the image that became the cover artwork for the band's long-awaited fifth album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", he was "so blown away" that he immediately knew SLIPKNOT had found what it was looking for. The ".5: The Gray Chapter" was designed by M...

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Is SLIPKNOT's New Drummer A 'S**tbag'?

Laura Jane Grace, the lead vocalist for the punk-rock band AGAINST ME!, appears to have slammed the group's former drummer, Jay Weinberg (pictured),as a "shitbag" after it was revealed that Weinberg has joined SLIPKNOT as the replacement for Joey Jordison. Weinberg — the 24-year-old son of Max Wein...

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RONNIE JAMES DIO Cancer Fund Presents $100,000 To Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, founded in memory of the late heavy metal singer, last week presented a check for $100,000 to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. This donation is the second installment in a commitment to fund gastroesophageal cancer research spearheaded...