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The Last Real Rock n' Roll

Let's be real here. For every ten hard rock and metal bands out there, eight are Jonesing to be one of the following: METALLICA, BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, MOTORHEAD, IRON MAIDEN, FATES WARNING, JUDAS PRIEST or AC/DC. Indeed, the most emulated of these is AC/DC, a band that struck the right chord with t...

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Dreams and Visions

Yep, it's in the family. The Cavaleras have a veritable dynasty in the making as Max and Gloria's progeny are staking their own futures in metal. To say the elder Cavaleras are proud is to say the warnings of "Chaos A.D. " threaten to play out more than two decades after they were issued. Igor, ...

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Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora

DARKEST HOUR, one of the truly great modern metal bands, finds itself on its fourth label in as many albums. Quizzically the band is now on Southern Lord, the label apparently is expanding its horizons. Not that DARKEST HOUR can't roll here, but the band is hardly the same doomed-up, crunked-out, dr...

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Breathe In The Water

SoCal trio KYNG wastes little time following up its impressive 2014 debut "Burn The Serum" with a dynamic record that not only defies the sophomore jinx, it delivers a homogenous rock and metal blend more appetizing than even blueberry Craisins. Of course, blueberry Craisins are subjective to varyin...

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The Serenity of Suffering

Like MEGADETH, MOTÖRHEAD and AC/DC, KORN have their own unique sound. You know it's KORN by the band's lurching rhythms, its deep, deep chord chunks and the vibrating plucks off the neck of "Fieldy" Arvizu's bass, all before Jonathan Davis squeals or ralphs a single word. Like a star major-league pi...

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Love Us Or Hate Us: The Very Best of the Noise Years 1985-1992

If you followed thrash from its infancy, the name Noise Records rolls through the mind as readily as Megaforce, Metal Blade and New Renaissance. The hallowed German imprint, founded by Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, exposed some of the most respected thrash, power, doom and experimental metal acts of the d...

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Crazy Eyes

Richard Patrick has been searching for that next great moment in FILTER, one automatically held accountable to "Short Bus" and "Title of Record". Though it's a curse no artist wishes to be burdened with, Patrick has been answerable for NINE INCH NAILS, from which he and Brian Liesegang founded this...

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All Empires Fall

Brooklyn's TOMBS is one of the best American black metal outfits alongside AGALLOCH and WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM. Onstage these guys command vast space, even on tiny platforms. The main reason for the band's commanding performance being Mike Hill and company's daringness to try just about anything...

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PANTERA's 'I'm Broken' Featured In New Carl's Jr. Commercial (Video)

PANTERA's classic song "I'm Broken" is featured in a new commercial for the new Steakhouse Thickburger from Carl's Jr. , the American fast-food restaurant chain which predominantly operates in the Western and Southwestern states. Check out the spot below. This is not the first time Carl's Jr. has u...

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PANTERA: 'Vulgar Display Of Halloween' T-Shirt Now Available

A PANTERA Halloween shirt, which recreates the classic cover art of the band's 1992 album "Vulgar Display Of Power" but with a pumpkin instead of photo of a man being punched in the face, is now available from the band's official webstore. As previously reported, two new PANTERA compilations will be...

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Two New PANTERA Compilations Due This Fall

Two new PANTERA compilations will be released this fall. "History Of Hostility" is a nine-track PANTERA primer that includes some of the band's most legendary tracks from all five studio albums. It will be released on CD and LP on October 30. Rhino will also release a new boxed set and single disc c...

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STUCK MOJO Frontman's BONZ Forced To Cancel Tour Due To Van Fire

BONZ, the band led by STUCK MOJO vocalist Bonz, has been forced to cancel dates on the current leg of its "Broken Silence" tour through August 15 in Beckley, West Virginia. The band was involved in a fire in which their van and trailer were destroyed en route to the tour's opening show in Lansing, ....

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Lawsuit Filed Over EXODUS Fan's Arrest

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has filed a federal lawsuit (PDF file) on behalf of James Evans, the Muhlenberg County man previously arrested and charged with making threats online for posting song lyrics from the heavy metal band EXODUS. In 2014, Evans posted on his Facebook page ly...

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STUCK MOJO Frontman's BONZ Releases 'Broken Silence' Lyric Video

BONZ — the new band featuring original STUCK MOJO singer Bonz and former PRIMER 55 guitarist/bassist Curt Taylor — has released a lyric video for the title track off its debut album, "Broken Silence". The track's lyrics include many STUCK MOJO songtitles from Bonz's first tenure in the band which ar...

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Reunited STUCK MOJO Working On Material For New Studio Album

Rap/metal pioneers STUCK MOJO are working on material for their comeback album — their first to feature the lineup of Rich "The Duke" Ward on guitar, Bonz on vocals, Corey Lowery on bass and Frank Fontsere on drums since 1998's "Rising". During a recent appearance on 99.1 CJAM-FM's melodic metal rad...