Rapper Tech N9ne has released a new single, "Bitch Slap", featuring a guest appearance by SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor. The song is taken from "More Fear", which is said to be a supplemental EP release to his latest album, "Enter Fear", which came out in April. Taylor previously worked with Tech N9ne ...
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As part of WRIF's "Virtual Rock Room" interview series, SEVENDUST frontman Lajon Witherspoon spoke to Meltdown about his upcoming debut solo album. He said (see video below): "I'm working slowly but surely. I'm very excited about it. You know the band RA — the lead singer Sahaj [Daniel Ticotin] is a very good friend of ...
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SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE's previously announced September 18 appearance as the headliner of Rockin' Fore The Kids at Cleveland's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has been canceled. According to Cleveland.com, representatives for Hagar have confirmed that the performance has been called off "due [to] city/state regulations on public gatherings." ...
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METALLICA's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich still look back fondly on their collaboration with pop superstar Lady Gaga at the 2017 Grammy Awards. "I just respect her as an artist," Hetfield said during an appearance Wednesday (August 12) on "The Howard Stern Show". "She was there for two hours before we even got there, working ...
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Corey Taylor has topped Billboard's Hard Rock Songwriters chart. One of the two new solo singles from the SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman, "CMFT Must Be Stopped" debuted at No. 11 on Hot Hard Rock Songs with 645,000 U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold in the tracking week, according to Nielsen ...
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian will release a new solo EP called "Elasticity" in the fall. Tankian recently filmed a video for the disc's apparent first single, "Rumi". Several stills from the shoot can be seen below. This past May, Tankian described "Elasticity" as a collection of "rock songs" that were first meant ...
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Corey Taylor says that he is open to doing more recording and touring with STONE SOUR in the future. One week after announcing in an interview that STONE SOUR had "run its course," the SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman elaborated on the latter band's current status, insisting that he hasn't completed closed the door on ...
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Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack has confirmed that a biopic about his father's early solo career and the singer's life with Sharon Osbourne is in the "very, very early" stages. "We have a writer," Jack, whose production company is working on the picture, told Rolling Stone. "We said to go from 1979 ...
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Chris Slade says that nobody from the AC/DC camp has told him he is no longer the band's touring drummer. The 73-year-old played drums for the legendary hard rock band's "Rock Or Bust" world trek after Phil Rudd was arrested for drug possession and threatening to kill an employee. Since then, AC/DC has apparently finished ...
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On October 23, ARMORED SAINT will release its eighth full-length album, "Punching The Sky", via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of the album, a video for the new single "End Of The Attention Span", directed by Robert Graves, can be seen below. Bassist Joey Vera comments: "We've teamed up with video director Robert ...
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In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station, SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor spoke about his upcoming debut solo album, "CMFT", which will be released on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. Taylor recorded the effort with his band consisting of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer ...
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ARMORED SAINT's new single and video, "End Of The Attention Span", will make its online debut tomorrow (Wednesday, August 12). The song is taken from the band's eighth full-length studio album "Punching The Sky", which is due on October 23 through Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2015's "Win Hands Down" was tracked with veteran ...
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Video of SEETHER's Shaun Morgan and Corey Lowery performing an acoustic version of the band's new single, "Dangerous", can be seen below. The clip was filmed and recorded at SEETHER's home studio in Nashville, Tennessee. "Dangerous" is taken from SEETHER's eighth album, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", which is due on August 28 via Fantasy ...
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Corey Taylor says that STONE SOUR has "run its course." The SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman, who will release his debut solo album in October, discussed STONE SOUR's current status during an appearance on "The Green Room With Neil Griffiths" podcast. He said: "I feel like STONE SOUR has kind of ...
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Jean-Paul Gaster of CLUTCH was recently interviewed by Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked for his thoughts on the state of rock music, Gaster said: "Rock depends so much on being able to get out and connect with fans, and we can't ...
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DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci has confirmed to Spain's Metal Hammer magazine that the band is planning to use some of its coronavirus downtime to work on the follow-up to last year's "Distance Over Time" album. "There's a lot going on musically this year," Petrucci said (see video below). "Obviously, everybody's trying to be creative. ...
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In a new interview with Guitar World, LIFE OF AGONY guitarist Joseph Zampella, a.k.a. Joey Z. spoke about the fact that album sales are continuing to fall as the music business inches closer to an access-over-ownership model. "Music has lost a lot of mystery now with YouTube and the Internet," he ...
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DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci will release his second all-instrumental solo album, "Terminal Velocity", on all digital and streaming platforms on August 28 and on CD and vinyl on October 30 through The Orchard Music on his Sound Mind Music record label. "Terminal Velocity" was written and produced by Petrucci, recorded by James "Jimmy T" ...
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In a new interview with Colorado's 95 Rock radio station, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor was asked if he ever feels the "urge" to go back to making the kind of "brutal" music that characterized the band's first two albums. He responded (hear audio below): "I'm always ready for that. Sometimes it's harder to push that ...
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Drummer Jean-Paul Gaster of Maryland rockers CLUTCH has told Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station that the band commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2018's "Book Of Bad Decisions" album. "We've been writing some material," he said. "I would expect we'll get into the studio probably sometime this winter." ...
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The official video for THE ROLLING STONES' new song "Scarlet" can be seen below. The clip features Emmy-nominated actor Paul Mescal, who starred in critically acclaimed television series "Normal People". A love letter to "Scarlet", the video was directed by directing duo Us and filmed with a socially distanced shoot at London's iconic Claridge's hotel. ...
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Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY will release their seventh studio album, "The Human Condition", on October 30 via Mascot Label Group. The collection will be available in digital, deluxe CD and vinyl formats, with an array of music and merch bundle options and a U.K.-exclusive purple vinyl, which you can pre-order now at
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When Glenn Danzig unveiled his long-awaited full-length tribute to the King Of Rock 'N' Roll, Elvis Presley, fans and critics alike swooned. Rolling Stone called it "a reverent tip of the pompadour to the King" and Classic Rock magazine admired that the album "mostly avoids the obvious greatest hits, favouring instead reverb-heavy lo-fi treatments that ...
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Legendary rock photographer Neal Preston joined QUEEN as official tour photographer at a crucial stage of their evolution into one of the greatest rock bands in history. Preston captured QUEEN at their most intimate and ecstatic, never missing a beat, committed to revealing the passion and dedication of the band on and off stage. "Queen: ...
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SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor's new single "Black Eyes Blue" is the number one most added song at Active Rock radio, entering the Mediabase / BDS chart at No. 26 and currently sitting at No. 16 on the building chart. This marks the highest debut at the format for Taylor, surpassing previous first ...
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EVANESCENCE and HeadCount, the non-partisan, non-profit voter registration organization, unveiled a public service announcement today dubbed "Use My Voice" along with a campaign to encourage Americans to check or update their voter registration status. Watch the PSA, which features a portion of EVANESCENCE's upcoming anthem "Use My Voice" (out August 14) as its theme music, ...
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Ex-YES singer Jon Anderson has told Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station that he is still hopeful he can reunite with his former bandmates to mark the group's 50th anniversary. "I'd love to get the whole of YES together one day in the next couple of years — everybody, 20 of ...
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Video footage of METALLICA performing the song "Moth Into Flame" from the upcoming "Metallica And San Francisco Symphony: S&M²" release can be seen below. METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony's September 6 and September 8, 2019 "S&M²" concerts were historic on multiple levels: They served as the grand opening of San Francisco's Chase Center, reunited the ...
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Trent Reznor has collaborated with avant-garde electronic artist Tobacco on a new song called "Babysitter". The track will appear on Tobacco's upcoming album, "Hot Wet & Sassy", which will be released on October 30 via Ghostly International. "I've always been an album guy and my albums are my zone, so Trent being on this one ...
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PEARL JAM guitarist Stone Gossard recently spoke to SiriusXM's Pearl Jam Radio (Ch. 22) about how he was influenced and inspired by late SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell. He said (hear audio below): "I can't tell you enough about how big of a Chris Cornell fan I am in terms of just [the] impact he's had ...
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