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HAMMERFALL To Tour North America With FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

Swedish metallers HAMMERFALL will return to North America in 2018. The headlining trek, which features special guests FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, will kick off May 17 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and criss-cross the continent before concluding on June 19 in San Antonio, Texas. HAMMERFALL comments: "We're so f...

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SEVENDUST Has 'A Handful Of Songs' Written For Next Album

SEVENDUST will enter the studio this fall to record the follow-up to 2015's "Kill The Flaw" album for an early 2018 release. "We're starting pre-production in October and we'll be tracking in November, mixing in December," guitarist John Connolly told Totally Driven Radio (hear audio below). Regardi...

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MICHAEL WILTON: Fans Are Calling TODD LA TORRE 'The Voice Of QUEENSRŸCHE'

QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton spoke to NorthJersey.com about the band's 2012 decision to fire original singer Geoff Tate and replace him with former CRIMSON GLORY frontman Todd La Torre. "It's five years since Todd has come to the band and he is doing quite well with all the existing songs, t...

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NIKKI SIXX And SIXX:A.M. Announce Tenth-Anniversary Editions Of 'The Heroin Diaries' Memoir And Soundtrack Album

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Nikki Sixx's drug-soaked New York Times best-selling memoir "The Heroin Diaries" and SiXX:A.M.'s "The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack". To commemorate more than a decade of sobriety and life lessons learned, Sixx and SIXX:A.M. revisit the seminal work; a...

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Dead Cross

The future is canceled, and the season of the witch is nigh. Mike Patton emerges once more from the dark side of his own blood moon, bringing with him enough personae to give James McAvoy's 23 personalities from the movie "Split" reason for permanent exile. This moment has been a long time coming, i...

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DEE SNIDER: 'I Had To Stop Headbanging… My Neck Just About Had It'

During an August 17 appearance on the "Trunk Nation" show on SiriusXM channel Volume (106),Dee Snider spoke about TWISTED SISTER's decision to call it quits last year after completing a farewell fortieth-anniversary tour. "Basically, the level of intensity that I performed at with TWISTED SISTER, I...

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JAKE E. LEE's RED DRAGON CARTEL Is 'Trying To Stir Things Up A Little Bit' On Second Album

RED DRAGON CARTEL, the band led by former OZZY OSBOURNE and BADLANDS guitarist Jake E. Lee, recently entered Obscenic Arts studio in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania to begin recording its sophomore album for a tentative early 2018 release. Titled "Patina", the follow-up to the group's eponymous 2014 debut w...

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ROLAND GRAPOW Says HELLOWEEN Doesn't Want Him To Take Part In 'Pumpkins United' Tour

Chris Akin from "The Classic Metal Show" recently conducted an interview with guitarist Roland Grapow of German melodic metallers MASTERPLAN. You can listen to the entire interview below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On MASTERPLAN's new "PumpKings" album, which features...

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ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ Says ARCH ENEMY's 2014 Album 'War Eternal' Is 'A Masterpiece'

Metal Wani's Fernando Bonenfant recently conducted an interview with ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz. You can listen to the full interview below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the current state of ARCH ENEMY: Alissa: "It's great. We're all really excited. We've...

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DAVE LOMBARDO And MIKE PATTON Tease SLAYER Covers With DEAD CROSS (Video)

DEAD CROSS, the Southern California outfit featuring drummer Dave Lombardo (ex-SLAYER, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, MISFITS) and singer Mike Patton (FAITH NO MORE),played snippets of cover versions of SLAYER classics "South Of Heaven" and "Raining Blood" during its concerts in Las Vegas, Nevaada (August 11...

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THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD To Release 'Disomus' Album In October; 'Hate The Living' Single Streaming

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD has released new single titled "Hate The Living". The track is taken from the band's new album, "Disomus", which will be released on October 13 via Entertainment One Music (eOne) / Good Fight Music. "We really poured our souls into this one," says THROUGH THE EYES OF THE...

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GODSMACK Has Seven 'Great' Songs Completed For Next Album: 'It Is A New Sound For Us'

GODSMACK drummer Shannon Larkin spoke to The Morning Call about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band's follow-up to 2014's "1000hp" album. The group's seventh studio disc will arrive in 2018 to coincide with the group's twentieth anniversary. Larkin said: "We have a strong seven [so...

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EXIT EDEN Feat. AVANTASIA, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Singers: Video For Cover Of LADY GAGA's 'Paparazzi'

EXIT EDEN, the all-female four-piece ensemble featuring Amanda Somerville, Clémentine Delauney, Marina La Torraca and Anna Brunner, has released a video for its cover version of the song "Paparazzi", originally recorded by Lady Gaga. EXIT EDEN unites all attributes ascribed to the new millennium: co...

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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Recalls Getting Guitar Lessons From JOE SATRIANI: 'He's Always Played Incredibly'

In a new interview with the Vancouver radio station CFOX, METALLICA's Kirk Hammett spoke about the experience of getting taught how to play guitar by Joe Satriani more than three and a half decades ago. "I took lessons from him in 1981," Kirk said (see video below). "We knew each other way back when...

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GENE SIMMONS Doesn't Regret Attempting To Trademark 'Horns' Hand Gesture: 'I Regret Nothing'

Gene Simmons says that he has no regrets about attempting to trademark the so-called "devil's horns" hand gesture. The KISS bassist/vocalist withdrew his application to trademark the symbol in late June — less than two weeks after filing with the federal copyright office. Most music fans slammed Sim...