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BUTCHER BABIES To Release 'Goliath' In July

BUTCHER BABIES will release their debut album, "Goliath", on July 9 via Century Media Records. The Los Angeles-based band — frontwomen Carla Harvey and Heidi Shephard, guitarist Henry Flury, bassist Jason Klein and drummer Chris Warner — wrapped its tour with MARILYN MANSON in late February and went...

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VH1 CLASSIC's 'That Metal Show' Returns For 12th Season: More Details Revealed

It's time to get metaled up. VH1 Classic's centerpiece in original programming, "That Metal Show" is returning for its 12th season. The acclaimed hard rock and heavy metal talk show hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson, and Jim Florentine kicks off the latest season on Saturday, June 1 at 11:00 p.m....

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JASON NEWSTED Knocked Offstage By Fan In New York City; Video Available

Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted was knocked off stage by an overzealous fan during NEWSTED's May 21 concert at New York City's Highline Ballroom. According to Metal Insider, Newsted's new band was halfway through a rendition of METALLICA's "Whiplash" when "the fan leapt onstage, appeared to a...

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GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE Featuring JOHN MOYER, SASS JORDAN: Milwaukee Footage Available

Fan-filmed video footage of the current touring lineup of Geoff Tate's QUEENSRŸCHE — which includes bassist John Moyer (DISTURBED, ADRENALINE MOB) and backing singer Sass Jordan (who sings the duet with Tate in "Suite Sister Mary") — performing on May 16 at Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

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JASON NEWSTED: 'I'm In Much Better Shape Than I Was At 37'

Pop-Break's Bill Bodkin recently conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Pop-Break: What is different about Jason Newsted — the musician, the man — since you last...

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GEOFF TATE's QUEENSRŸCHE Performs Acoustically Inside 'Bjorn's Audio Video Live Music Lounge'

On April 26, Geoff Tate's QUEENSRŸCHE took part in an acoustic performance of two songs — "Eyes Of A Stranger" and "Silent Lucidity" — inside "Bjorn's Audio Video Live Music Lounge" on WOAI (1200 AM),a San Antonio, Texas, news/talk formatted radio station. You can watch video footage of their appea...

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GEOFF TATE Talks 'Frequency Unknown', 25th Anniversary Of 'Mindcrime' On 'Signals Of Intuition'

On May 21, Geoff Tate of QUEENSRŸCHE was interviewed on the "Signals Of Intuition" show, which airs on the Windsor-Detroit radio station 99.1 CJAM-FM. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. "Frequency Unknown", the new album from the Geoff Tate-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE, s...

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CYNIC Mixing New Album

Progressive rock/metal band CYNIC has begun mixing its new album for a fall release via Season Of Mist. The group's drummer, Sean Reinert, writes in an online posting: "Some people are gonna be pissed and others are gonna say 'thank you!!!' I'm with the latter!" CYNIC's new CD was recorded at Perfec...

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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Guitarist Interviewed On 'Beyond The Realms Of Metal' (Audio)

Guitarist Michael Gilbert of Phoenix, Arizona-based metal veterans FLOTSAM AND JETSAM was recently interviewed on the "Beyond The Realms Of Metal" show, which airs on the KSCU 103.3 FM radio station in Santa Clara, California. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. FLOTSAM...

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SHINEDOWN: New Audio Interview With ZACH MYERS

On May 14, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. SHINEDOWN's fourth album, "Amaryllis", came out last year. The CD debuted atop Billboard's "Rock Albums" chart and at #4 ove...

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NEWSTED Interviewed By MEGADETH's DAVID ELLEFSON (Video)

David Ellefson (MEGADETH) conducted an interview with NEWSTED members Jason Newsted (also formerly of METALLICA, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM and VOIVOD) and Mike Mushok (also of STAIND) backstage at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards on May 2 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California. You c...

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Ugly Noise

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM explored the still relatively novel approach of "fan funding" to finance their eleventh studio album, "Ugly Noise" - an album that would coincidentally see the veteran Arizona thrash institution welcoming back founding guitarist Michael Gilbert and drummer Kelly David Smith (both...

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JASON NEWSTED On Leaving METALLICA: I Had To Step Up And Make The Sacrifice For Everybody

Elliot Levin of NY Hard Rock Examiner recently conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. NY Hard Rock Examiner: Did you think about coming up with a band name, or di...

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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: Another New Song Available For Streaming

"Raped In Hatred By Vines Of Thorn", a brand new song from Michigan's unstoppable sons of molten melodic death metal THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below. The track comes off the band's sixth full-length album, "Everblack", which will be released on June 11 via...

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'Why I Hate Frequency Unknown' Contestants React To GEOFF TATE's Video Response

Deadline Music/Cleopatra Records launched a contest on April 26 for the best video rant on "how much you hate" "Frequency Unknown", the new album from the Geoff Tate-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE. The winner is being offered a free VIP trip to the June 29 show by Tate's QUEENSRŸCHE in Seattle along...