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OMEN To Release 'Hammer Damage' In June

Veteran metallers OMEN will release their new album, "Hammer Damage", on June 29 via Pure Steel Records. The band's eleventh CD was originally due at the end of April but had to be delayed after OMEN mastermind Kenny Powell's studio was damaged by a tornado. Commented Kenny: "First off, I hate to be...

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KISS, STEVEN TYLER, MATT SORUM Featured In 'Adopt The Arts' PSA

KISS, AEROSMITH's Steven Tyler and former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Matt Sorum are featured in a new public-service announcement for Adopt The Arts, a charity dedicated to preserving the arts in schools and founded by Sorum. You can watch the four-minute PSA below. On March 18, Adopt The Arts hosted a k...

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HIGH ON FIRE Frontman Talks About Making Of 'De Vermis Mysteriis'

Toby Cook of The Quietus recently conducted an interview with Matt Pike of the San Francisco Bay Area hard rock band HIGH ON FIRE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Quietus: The title of the [new HIGH ON FIRE] record, "De Vermis Mysteriis", obviously has links to the grimoires ...

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BARONESS: 'Yellow & Green' Teaser Available

A 41-second teaser for "Yellow & Green", the new album from the Savannah, Georgia-based quartet BARONESS, can be seen below. BARONESS' two prior releases ("Red Album" and "Blue Record") were awarded record-of-the-year honors from both Revolver and Decibel magazines and placed on year-end best-of...

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PARADISE LOST: 'Tragic Idol' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed

"Tragic Idol", the new album from British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST, has registered the following first-week chart positions: Germany: #6 Austria: #15 Switzerland: #23 Czech Republic: #27 France: #30 Denmark: #33 U.K.: #73 Belgium: #77 (Flemish Charts) Belgium: #78 (Wallonian Charts) Nethe...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Frontman Talks About AXEWOUND Project (Audio)

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman and chief songwriter Matt Tuck made an appearance on this past Monday night's (April 30) edition of the BBC Radio 1 "Rock Show" to announce the launch of his AXEWOUND side project. You can now listen to the eight-minute chat in the YouTube clip below. During the time...

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CRYPTOPSY Performs Brand New Song In Windsor; Video Available

Canadian extreme metallers CRYPTOPSY debuted a brand new song, "Amputated Enigma", during their April 29 concert at The Dominion House in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. CRYPTOPSY in January tapped bassist Olivier Pinard (NEURAXIS, VENGEFUL) a...

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MEGADETH: New Video Interview With CHRIS BRODERICK

Matt Bishop conducted an interview with MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick during the recently completed Gigantour. You can now watch the chat below. Gigantour — the critically acclaimed package festival founded in 2005 by MEGADETH — made its highly anticipated return for the first time since 2008....

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SCOTT WEILAND Would 'Definitely' Be Open To VELVET REVOLVER Reunion

VELVET REVOLVER reunited with STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland for a one-off performance at the January "Love You Madly: A Concert For John O'Brien" at the House Of Blues in West Hollywood, California. The band played a four-song set — including a cover version of the PINK FLOYD classic "Wis...

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PARADISE LOST: 'Tragic Idol' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Tragic Idol", the new album from British gothic metal pioneers PARADISE LOST, sold around 900 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 32 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artist...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM: 'Shovel Knockout' Video Released

A previously unreleased video for the song "Shovel Knockout" from Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM can be seen below. The clip, which was directed by Jussi Hyttinen for FLC415 (MTV3, The Finnish National Lottery),adeptly chronicles "what happens from the time a live show ends through to the next...

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AXEWOUND To Release Debut Album This Summer

During the time off between BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE albums, frontman and chief songwriter Matt Tuck grew restless. Recruiting Jason Bowld (PITCHSHIFTER, KILLING JOKE),routinely touted as the best session drummer in the U.K., and engineer Martyn "Ginge" Ford (BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, TRIVIUM),Matt...

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All Tomorrow's Funerals

Peaceville does AUTOPSY right once again with "All Tomorrow's Funerals", 73 minutes of the influential band's doomed up, mud 'n guts death metal, most of which compiles previously released, out of print EP material, remastered and repackaged in a terrific hardcover booklet with righteously reeking a...

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Last Man Standing

I'd call it Pure American Metal if all but one member of LEGACY OF DISORDER weren't based in New Zealand. However, the one guy that isn't a New Zealander, drummer Matt Thompson, is a Texan who got connected to LEGACY OF DISORDER through the band's Dallas-based producer Sterling Winfield (PANTERA, HE...

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Eat Dog Eat

How many times have you read a review in which the riff described was referenced as something reminiscent of Fast Eddie Clarke's work in MOTÖRHEAD or in some cases FASTWAY? His axe tone and the little things he does, like the twist at the end or a riff or a certain way that the run ...