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TESLA's FRANK HANNON Speaks To BackstageAxxess.com (Audio)

BackstageAxxess.com recently conducted an interview with TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. TESLA's new studio album, "Simplicity", sold around 14,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 24 on The Billb...

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NONPOINT: 'The Return' Trailer Available

NONPOINT will release its eighth studio album, "The Return", on September 30 via Razor & Tie (one day earlier internationally via Metal Blade Records). A 26-second trailer for "The Return" is available below. After 17 years in the game, the Florida quintet sustains the same energy that sparked i...

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Cop Killer Who Posted MEGADETH, DETHKLOK Lyrics Before Going On Shooting Rampage Pleads Guilty

A 24-year-old man who killed three police officers and wounded two others in the Canadian city of Moncton after quoting the lyrics of a MEGADETH song has pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. According to CBC News, Justin Bourque could face consecu...

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TESLA Interviewed On 'Sex Drugs & Rock-N-Roll' Show (Audio)

Californian rockers TESLA were interviewed on the latest installment of the "Sex Drugs & Rock-N-Roll" show. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. TESLA's new studio album, "Simplicity", sold around 14,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at...

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AMON AMARTH Bassist: 'You Can Never Relax Just Because You Reached A Certain Level In Your Career'

ARTE Concert conducted an interview with Ted Lundström (bass) and Olavi Mikkonen (guitar) of Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 31 - August 2 in Wacken, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. On how difficult it was for the bandmember...

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CARCASS' JEFF WALKER: 'We're Still Stuck In The Mindset Of When We Were Teenagers'

ARTE Concert conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker of reactivated British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 31 - August 2 in Wacken, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. Asked about where CARCASS gets its lyrical and...

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ACCEPT: Third 'Blind Rage' Trailer Available

The third and final trailer for "Blind Rage", the new album from German/American metallers ACCEPT, can be seen below. The CD will be released on August 15 (postponed from the previously announced July 18) via Nuclear Blast. Like its two predecessors, 2010's "Blood Of The Nations" and 2012's "Staling...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Explains Why He Refused To Share Stage With DISSECTION And ROTTING CHRIST

"Met Al Metal" — Israel's metal radio show hosted by brothers Lior and Niv Peleg — conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine ahead of what was supposed to be the band's August 6 appearance in the country (since canceled due to ongoing security issues in the area). You can now listen...

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MEGADETH Plays Impromptu Acoustic Show In Istanbul (Video)

According to the Hürriyet Daily News, MEGADETH played an impromptu three-song acoustic set following the band's August 4 concert in Istanbul, Turkey. The intimate performance at the Hard Rock Cafe in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district in the early hours of August 5 included "unplugged" arrangements of the...

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'NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990' Book Due In November

"NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990", Tony Rettman's ambitious oral history, captures ten years of struggle, including the scene's regional rivalries with D.C. and Boston, the birth of moshing, the clash and coming to terms of hardcore and heavy metal, the straightedge movement, and the unlikely infl...

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Ex-MEGADETH Members NICK MENZA, JAMES LOMENZO Cover METALLICA's 'Creeping Death'; Audio Available

Former MEGADETH members Nick Menza (drums) and James Lomenzo (bass) last month announced a working musical relationship that will lead into a full working, writing, recording and touring band at some point. Menza and Lomenzo's first jam session took place on June 25 at Menza's Disintegrator Studios...

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MOTÖRHEAD's MIKKEY DEE: 'It's Very Strange To Have So Much Time Off'

ARTE Concert conducted an interview with MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mikkey Dee at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 31 – August 2 in Wacken, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. Asked how he spent his time off from MOTÖRHEAD in the past year while the band's frontman, Lemmy Kilm...

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Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival Sells Out In Record 12 Hours

The 25th-anniversary edition of Wacken Open Air just ended 36 hours ago and the promoters are already able to confirm that next year's installment of the annual metal festival has sold out. It is the 10th year in a row that all tickets to Wacken have been snapped up. Within 12 hours, 75,000 tickets...

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SAVATAGE To Reunite For Appearance At Next Year's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Classic American metal band SAVATAGE, which was active from 1978 until 2002, will reunite for an exclusive European appearance at next year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 30 - August 1, 2015 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to appear at the event is TRANS-SIBERIA...

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POWERMAN 5000's SPIDER ONE Speaks To Metalholic.com (Audio)

On July 3, Rustyn Rose of Metalholic.com conducted an interview with POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider One. You can now listen to the chat below. POWERMAN 5000's new album, "Builders Of The Future", sold around 4,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 63 on...