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BOBBY GUSTAFSON Opens Up About Exit From VIO-LENCE

Guitarist Bobby Gustafson has opened up about his fall 2022 exit from San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans VIO-LENCE. The 57-year-old musician, who is based in Florida, told the "Metal Mayhem ROC" podcast: "Yeah, [the cross-country commute] was hard. And with the economy, the way it was, eve...

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Watch: DEVILDRIVER Plays First Concert In Nearly Four Years

California groove metallers DEVILDRIVER played their first show in more than three and a half years last night (Wednesday, March 8) at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona. The concert was the first date of the band's "Double Trouble Live" 2023 U.S. co-headlining tour with CRADLE OF FILTH. Fan-film...

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MARTY FRIEDMAN On Being A TV Personality In Japan: 'It's Allowed Me To Live The Exact Life That I Want To Do'

In a new interview with Greg Prato of Consequence, former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman, who has been living and recording music in Japan since 2003, was asked what it is about Japan that drew him there in the first place. He responded: "It was definitely the music. I wanted to make Japanese mus...

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KIX Recruits Drummer MATT STARR While JIMMY CHALFANT Is Continuing His Recovery

KIX has recruited Matt Starr (ACE FREHLEY, MR. BIG, BLACK SWAN) to play drums for the band while Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant continues his recovery after collapsing onstage less than three months ago. On November 18, Chalfant apparently suffered a heart attack during KIX's concert at the Tally Ho The...

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WILLIAM DUVALL Felt Like He Was Part Of ALICE IN CHAINS' Creative Process 'Fairly Early On'

In a new interview with "Whiplash", the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, William DuVall, who joined ALICE IN CHAINS in 2006 as the replacement for vocalist Layne Staley, who died of a heroin overdose four years earlier, was asked when and how he felt integrated into the band's creative p...

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TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Has Grown To Love GUNS N' ROSES' Music And AXL ROSE's Voice

During an appearance on a recent episode of the GUNS N' ROSES-centric "Appetite For Distortion" podcast, former JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim "Ripper" Owens was asked what he initially thought of GUNS N' ROSES and Axl Rose's vocal performance when he first heard the "Appetite For Destruction" album. Owens...

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Remember… You Must Die!

There was a brief moment when SUICIDE SILENCE appeared to have pissed on their own fireworks. This story has a happy ending, of course: as hinted at loudly on 2020's "Become The Hunter", and confirmed beyond doubt and with white-hot venom here. But back in 2017, that now notorious self-titled album,...

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IRON MAIDEN: 'The Paul Di'Anno Years' Photo Book Coming In July

Rufus Publications has announced the third title in a new series of black-and-white books called "Portraits" featuring the legendary IRON MAIDEN and covering the years the band emerged as a major force in British Heavy Metal with singer Paul Di'Anno. It features hundreds of previously unseen, carefu...

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WILLIAM DUVALL Says There Are 'No Plans' For New ALICE IN CHAINS Music Right Now

In a new interview with Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA, ALICE IN CHAINS singer William DuVall was asked about a possible follow-up to the band's "Rainier Fog" album, which came out in August 2018. He said: "I would suppose [there will be new music coming soon]. Th...

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KITTIE's MORGAN LANDER Says 'The Soul Of PANTERA Is Gone', But She 'Definitely' Wants To See Reformed Band Play Live

KITTIE frontwoman Morgan Lander has weighed in on the fact that PANTERA's surviving members Philip Anselmo (vocals) and Rex Brown (bass) have united with guitarist Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) and drummer Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) for a world tour under the PANTERA banner. Anselmo...

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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Announces 'Parallax II' Tour; BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale Available

Grammy Award-nominated progressive metallers BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have announced a tour that will find them performing 2012's "The Parallax II: Future Sequence" album in its entirety. Support on the trek, which will launch on June 16 in Charleston, South Carolina, will come from THANK YOU SCIEN...

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DEVILDRIVER To Release New Album, 'Dealing With Demons Vol. II', In May

As the world was upended in 2020, California groove metallers DEVILDRIVER didn't pause, releasing the acclaimed first installment of their two-part "Dealing With Demons" saga, "Dealing With Demons I". Now, as society emerges more hardened and determined than before, so does DEVILDRIVER's tenth full-...

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KAMELOT's THOMAS YOUNGBLOOD: 'I've Never Allowed Someone Else To Dictate My Path'

By David E. Gehlke When KAMELOT was shopping for a record deal in the desolate, unforgiving mid-1990s, founding member and guitarist Thomas Youngblood was thinking long term. Rather than signing with a stateside label that may not understand KAMELOT's brand of melodic metal, Youngblood and company h...

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Black Metal Cross-Country Skiing And Norse Mythology: IVAR BJØRNSON Shares How ENSLAVED Assembled 'Heimdal'

By David E. Gehlke "Our albums are old enough to drive now," cracks guitarist, primary songwriter and one-half founding member of ENSLAVED, Ivar Bjørnson. Bjørnson is referring to the band's newest opus, "Heimdal", which is album number 16 for ENSLAVED. The script of ENSLAVED's early 1990s Viking me...

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Ex-OZZY OSBOURNE Bassist PHIL SOUSSAN Recalls Headlining Over METALLICA On 1986 Tour: 'We Just Saw Them Explode'

Back in 1986, Ozzy Osbourne embarked on "The Ultimate Sin" tour, with METALLICA in tow as the opening act. After supporting Ozzy for six months, METALLICA began a headlining tour in September of that year, but the trek was cut short due to the tragic death of METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton (the tour...