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SABATON's JOAKIM BRODÉN Speaks To FaceCulture At FORTAROCK (Video)

FaceCulture conducted an interview with vocalist Joakim Brodén of Swedish metallers SABATON on May 31 at the FortaRock festival in Nijmegen, The Netherlands . You can now watch the chat in two parts below. SABATON's new album, "Heroes", sold around 3,100 copies in the United States in its first week...

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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Bassist SHAVO ODADJIAN To Appear In '37: A Final Promise' Film

SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian will make an appearance in the upcoming film "37: A Final Promise", which is set for theatrical and VOD release on August 8 by Gravitas Ventures. Odadjian as a small role in the movie as a pot-smoking preacher/rock star. Based on the Guy Blews memoir "How Ange...

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BABYMETAL 'Did Not Know What Metal Was' When Band First Started

Colin McQuistan of The Huffington Post conducted an interview with BABYMETAL — the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and heavy metal — before the band's sold-out July 7 concert at the Forum in London, England. BABYMETAL...

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ICED EARTH's JON SCHAFFER Says 'Everything Went Smooth' During His Latest Operation

ICED EARTH was recently forced to cancel a number of festival appearances and headlining shows this summer so that the band's guitarist and leader Jon Schaffer could undergo surgery to address continued pain from a neck injury he suffered nearly 20 years ago. In a new message on the band's Facebook...

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AMORPHIS Talks To METAL4 At Germany's ROCKHARZ OPEN AIR (Video)

Metal4 conducted an interview with guitarist Esa Holopainen and vocalist Tomi Joutsen of Finnish melancholic dark metal forerunners AMORPHIS at this year's Rockharz Open Air festival on July 10 in Ballenstedt, Germany . You can now watch the chat below. AMORPHIS will perform a special concert at the...

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SABATON's JOAKIM BRODÉN Speaks To METAL4 At Germany's ROCKHARZ OPEN AIR (Video)

Metal4 conducted an interview with vocalist Joakim Brodén of Swedish metallers SABATON at this year's Rockharz Open Air festival on July 10 in Ballenstedt, Germany . You can now watch the chat below. SABATON's new album, "Heroes", sold around 3,100 copies in the United States in its first week of re...

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Former OVERKILL Drummer RAT SKATES Uses HITLER And Holocaust Footage In Bizarre Anti-'Dictator' Video

According to RawStory.com, founding OVERKILL drummer Lee "Rat Skates" Kundrat has written ad directed a new ad that uses graphic Holocaust footage in an apparent attempt to downplay the idea of global warming. Check it out below. Skates, who grew up in a middle-class household in New Providence, New...

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Former DIO Guitarist CRAIG GOLDY Taps Bassist DARIO SEIXAS For New Project

Ex-DIO guitarist Craig Goldy and former QUIET RIOT frontman Mark Huff have recruited bassist Dario Seixas (FIREHOUSE, STEPHEN PEARCY, CROWN OF THORNS, JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE) for their new project. Goldy says: "[Dario is] a very experienced and knowledgeable musician and quite multi-faceted, if...

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SOILWORK's BJÖRN 'SPEED' STRID Suffers Serious Back Injury

Swedish metallers SOILWORK have been forced to cancel their appearance at this year's Rockharz Open Air festival on July 11 in Ballenstedt, Germany due to a serious back injury suffered by their singer, Björn "Speed" Strid. This decision was a hard one for the band to make, especially since it is th...

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WOLF: Video Footage From Making Of 'Devil Seed'

Video footage from the making of "Devil Seed", the seventh studio album from Swedish metallers WOLF, can be seen below. The CD will be released on August 25 in Europe and on September 2 in North America via Century Media. This time around, the wolves teamed up with Jens Bogren (KREATOR, PARADISE LOS...

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BABYMETAL Performs Sold-Out London Show In Front Of 2,300 Fans

U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine spoke to BABYMETAL fans who attended the band's sold-out July 7 concert at the Forum in London. Check out the footage below. BABYMETAL is the offshoot of the Japanese pop idol group SAKURA GAKUIN that performs a distinctly Japanese mix of schoolgirl J-pop and heavy metal...

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NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN Offers Headbanging Tips (Video)

The Floor Jansen - Head up High Facebook page recently conducted an interview with Dutch singer Floor Jansen (NIGHTWISH, REVAMP). You can now watch the chat in two parts below. Asked if she had any tips for headbanging in a way that doesn't result in any neck pain or long-term physical damage, Janse...

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SUICIDE SILENCE: 'You Only Live Once' Pro-Shot Performance Video From Hamburg

Professionally filmed video footage of California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE performing the song "You Only Live Once" on June 10 at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany can be seen below. "You Can't Stop Me", SUICIDE SILENCE's first album to feature Hermida and their first since the tragic loss of...

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TRIVIUM's COREY BEAULIEU Says Split With Drummer NICK AUGUSTO 'Needed To Happen'

Impact metal channel conducted an interview with guitarist Corey Beaulieu of Florida metallers TRIVIUM before the band's June 17 concert in Dublin, Ireland. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On the abrupt mid-tour spli...

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Study: Headbanging Can Cause Brain Injury

According to The Daily Beast, a new case study published in the medical journal Lancet has revealed that headbanging — described as violently shaking the head in time with the music, most commonly in the rock, punk and heavy metal music genres — can cause damage as the brain bumps up against the ...