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WESTFIELD MASSACRE Featuring MORBID ANGEL, Ex-DIVINE HERESY Members: 'Darkness Divides' Video

"Darkness Divides", the first music video from WESTFIELD MASSACRE, the new band featuring former DIVINE HERESY members Tommy Vext and Tim Yeung alongside guitarists Bill Hudson and Rick Di Marco, can be seen below. Former IN THIS MOMENT and SCAR THE MARTYR bassist Kyle Konkiel helped out during the...

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MASTODON's BILL KELLIHER Remembers Hearing METALLICA For First Time (Video)

This past summer, FaceCulture conducted an interview with guitarist Bill Kelliher of Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. Speaking about his early musical development, Bill said: "When I first heard of METALLICA, that's when my whole guitar rig and s...

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COAL CHAMBER To Tour North America With FILTER, COMBICHRIST, AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE

COAL CHAMBER, the reformed '90s alt-metal band fronted by current DEVILDRIVER singer Dez Fafara, will embark on a North American headlining tour in the spring of 2015. Support on the trek — which kicks off on March 6 in Tempe, Arizona and runs through April 12 in Dallas, Texas — will come from FILTE...

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TROUBLE: 'Paranoia Conspiracy' Video Released

"Paranoia Conspiracy", the new video from Chicago doom metal legends TROUBLE, can be seen below. The clip, which was filmed on October 25 at The House Of Shock in New Orleans, Louisiana, was produced by David Treadway of DDTstudio Productions. "Paranoia Conspiracy" is taken from TROUBLE's first stud...

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FAITH NO MORE Plays Surprise Set At Amoeba Records In San Francisco (Video)

FAITH NO MORE played a surprise set at Amoeba Records in San Francisco, California on Friday, November 28 in honor of Record Store Day's Black Friday event and the release of the band's "Motherfucker" single. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. "Motherfucker" is the first...

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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...

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Drummer KELLY SMITH Quits FLOTSAM AND JETSAM To Focus On His Family

Drummer Kelly Smith has left veteran Arizona metallers FLOTSAM AND JETSAM to focus on caring for his family. Kelly was instrumental in bringing FLOTSAM back to its current form with a touring and festival schedule that, since 2013, saw the band perform live in 15 countries and across the U.S. for mo...

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Back from the Abyss

Long one of the inarguable best of the doom-stoner sect is ORANGE GOBLIN. You either know them or you don't, and you if you do know them, dissatisfaction is not a part of the intake. Their latest project, "Back from the Abyss", is everything ORANGE GOBLIN fans are craving: a bit of BLACK SABBATH, a...

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DEE SNIDER Says TWISTED SISTER's Massive Success Came As 'A Shock'

TWISTED SISTED frontman Dee Snider was recently interviewed on the 89 WLS radio station in Chicago, Illinois. You can now watch a clip from the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On TWISTED SISTER's rise to fame in the mid-1980s: Dee: "It was a shock. I mean,...

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CARCASS: 'Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel' EP First-Week Sales Revealed

"Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel", a collection of previously unreleased and hard-to-find tracks from British extreme metal icons CARCASS, sold around 1,840 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 27 on the Billboard Hard Rock chart. All the songs on the EP were re...

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CARCASS Frontman JEFF WALKER: 'The Term 'Music Business,' To Me, Is An Oxymoron'

Neuweltmusic conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker of British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS on September 20 at The Academy in Dublin, Ireland. You can now watch the chat below. Asked to name his "least favorite part of the music business," Walker responded: "People who use the te...

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FAITH NO MORE: New Song 'Motherf**ker' Available For Streaming

"Motherfucker", the first new music to come from the influential alt-metal act FAITH NO MORE since 1997's "Album Of The Year", can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below (courtesy of RollingStone.com). "It feels apt that the first track we're releasing is 'Motherfucker', a song about accounta...

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IN FLAMES' GELOTTE Talks Supergroup Project, JESPER STRÖMBLAD And Ex-Singer's Royalty Claim (Video)

Germany's EMP Rock Invasion recently conducted an interview with guitarist Björn Gelotte of Swedish metallers IN FLAMES. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the much-rumored project featuring Gelotte, OPETH vocalist/guitarist Mikael Åke...

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BLOODBATH: 'Church Of Vastitas' Video Released

Swedish death metal supergroup BLOODBATH, which features in its ranks KATATONIA's Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström, as well as OPETH's Martin Axenrot, has recruited PARADISE LOST's Nick Holmes as its new lead singer. Holmes will make his BLOODBATH debut on the band's new album, "Grand Morbid Funeral"...

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Ex-SLAYER Drummer DAVE LOMBARDO Working On 'Insidious: Chapter 3' Score

Former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo is collaborating with American composer and actor Joseph Bishara on the score the upcoming horror prequel "Insidious: Chapter 3". The third installment in the "Insidious" franchise was written and directed by Leigh Whannell in his directorial deb...