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GWAR Frontman DAVE BROCKIE's Death Investigated As Drug-Related

According to WWBT, the NBC-affiliated television station for Richmond, Virginia, investigators looking into whether the death of GWAR lead singer Dave Brockie may have been drug-related. Law enforcement sources told the station the investigation is leading them to believe Brockie's death Sunday is d...

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TOOL Frontman Dedicates Cedar Park Concert To Late GWAR Singer ODERUS URUNGUS (Video)

TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan dedicated the band's March 24 performance at the Cedar Park Center in Cedar Park, Texas to Dave Brockie, who founded and fronted the theatrical shock rock band GWAR under the name Oderus Urungus. "Live every day like it's your last," Maynard said prior to launching...

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Members Of Extended GWAR Family Pay Tribute To DAVE BROCKIE (Video)

Richmond, Virginia CBS affiliate WTVR has posted a video report on the passing of Dave Brockie, who founded and fronted the theatrical shock rock band GWAR under the name Oderus Urungus. The three-and-half-minute clip features those closest to Brockie that were members of the extended GWAR family —...

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AUTOPSY To Release 'Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves' In April

U.S. death metal legends AUTOPSY have completed work on their seventh studio album, "Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves", for an April 29 release via Peaceville Records (April 21 in Europe). The CD was recorded at Fantasy Studios with producer Adam Munoz, and sees a continuation of AUTOPSY's pursuit o...

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Classic ALICE COOPER Album 'Billion Dollar Babies' To Be Released On Hybrid SACD

ALICE COOPER fans worldwide rejoice! Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will release Alice Cooper's classic album "Billion Dollar Babies" on Hybrid SACD on February 4. As a bonus, along with the meticulously reproduced artwork, enclosed in every CD is the very collectible replicated "Billion Dollar...

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HELL's ANDY SNEAP Speaks To Sweden's ACCESS: ROCK (Video)

On December 7, 2013, Anna Dave Bertram of Sweden's Access: Rock conducted an interview with with guitarist Andy Sneap of reactivated British occult metal legends HELL at Arenan/Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden during the band's European tour with AMON AMARTH. You can now watch the chat below. HELL's s...

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Voices in the Dark - Custom Red Vinyl LP Edition

I had the pleasure of chatting with three-fourths of SoCal thrashers ATTACKHEAD back in early November: guitarist George Portoulas, bassist Eddie "Munster" Ellis plus guitarist/vocalist (and sole original member) Mark Chapman. Of the topics we discussed off-the-cuff, we touched upon the red tape und...

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THE KENNEDY VEIL: New Song 'Enslave.Defile.Erase' Available For Streaming

Northern California death metallers THE KENNEDY VEIL will release their second album, "Trinity Of Falsehood", on January 21, 2014 via Unique Leader Records. The eleven-track offering "with an aggressive and unrelenting attitude… brings back a familiarity of big choruses and bludgeoning drums, but pl...

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CARCASS' WALKER: 'I'm As Guilty As NEIL PEART For Swallowing A Dictionary Or A Thesaurus When It's Necessary'

Greg Prato of Songfacts recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker of reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Songfacts: How different was it working on "Surgical Steel" than CARCASS' earliest albums? Jeff Walker: We...

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HELL's ANDY SNEAP Talks To Finland's KAAOS TV (Video)

Kaaos TV conducted an interview with guitarist Andy Sneap of reactivated British occult metal legends HELL on December 9 at Kaapelitehdas in Helsinki, Finland during the band's European tour as the support act for AMON AMARTH. You can now watch the chat below. HELL's second full-length album, "Curse...

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ANTHRAX's SCOTT IAN To Be Transformed At METALLICA Guitarist's 'Kirk Von Hammett's Fear FestEviL'

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and Joel Harlow Designs will be at METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett's first annual horror convention, dubbed Kirk Von Hammett's Fear FestEviL, which will take place February 6-8, 2014 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California. Ian will take part in a live "Bloo...

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THE KENNEDY VEIL: New Song 'In The Ashes Of Humanity' Available For Streaming

Northern California death metallers THE KENNEDY VEIL will release their second album, "Trinity Of Falsehood", on January 21, 2014 via Unique Leader Records. The eleven-track offering "with an aggressive and unrelenting attitude… brings back a familiarity of big choruses and bludgeoning drums, but pl...

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THE KENNEDY VEIL To Release 'Trinity Of Falsehood' In January

Northern California death metallers THE KENNEDY VEIL will release their second album, "Trinity Of Falsehood", on January 21, 2014 via Unique Leader Records. The eleven-track offering "with an aggressive and unrelenting attitude… brings back a familiarity of big choruses and bludgeoning drums, but pl...

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HELL: 'Darkhangel' Performance Video Released

Professionally filmed video footage of reactivated British occult metal legends HELL performing a new song, "Darkhangel", at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival can be seen below. "Darkhangel" comes off HELL's second full-length album, "Curse And Chapter", which will be released on November 22...

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TRIVIUM's COREY BEAULIEU Gets Animated For 'MK Ondergrond' Interview (Video)

"MK Ondergrond" (meaning "Underground" in Afrikaans) recently conducted an interview with guitarist Corey Beaulieu of Florida metallers TRIVIUM. You can now watch the chat below. "MK Ondergrond" (Facebook page) is South Africa's first dedicated underground music variety show, hosted by a macabre cre...