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METALLICA Announces Casting Calls For New Video

METALLICA will film a video for an as-yet-undisclosed new song on October 11-12 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band has issued casting calls for multiple roles of all ethnicities, including for fans to cheer on while METALLICA performs and individuals who are able to "engage in lightly choreogra...

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THE ANSWER Releases Video For 'Solas' Title Track

Northern Irish rockers THE ANSWER will release their new album, "Solas", on October 28 via Napalm. The CD was produced by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh, who previously worked with THE ANSWER on their 2006 album "Rise". "Solas", which is the Gaelic (Irish language) word for "light," is also the...

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ROBERT TRUJILLO Is 'Excited' To Play METALLICA's New Songs And 'Blow People's Minds'

#PunkRockPolitics recently conducted an interview with METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below (starting at around the 36-minute mark). A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the fan response to METALLICA's tenth studio a...

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WHITESNAKE's DAVID COVERDALE Is Not Ready To Retire Just Yet

Former DEEP PURPLE and current WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has dimissed reports that he is contemplating retiring in 2017 on the 30th anniversary of the release of one of the best-selling hard rock albums in history, WHITESNAKE's "1987". Asked by Argentina's Vorterix radio if there is any tr...

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JASON BECKER Is Working On New Album; Here's How You Can Help

Jason Becker, the guitarist/composer who has had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's Disease) for over 27 years, has written a full album of amazing music to be performed and recorded by many of his peers. The effort will comprise of a few compositions that have been waiting for thi...

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Making Of METALLICA's New Song 'Moth Into Flame' (Video)

Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of METALLICA's new song "Moth Into Flame" can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's tenth studio album, "Hardwired...To Self-Destruct", which is scheduled for a November 18 release via Blackened Recordings. The long-awaited follow-up to 2008's "D...

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Video: SUICIDE SILENCE Performs New Song At OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST

Fan-filmed video footage of SUICIDE SILENCE performing a brand new song during this year's Ozzfest Meets Knotfest, which was held September 24-25 a at San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore, California, can be seen below. Joining the band on stage during the performance was Jose Mangin, SiriusXM on-air h...

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Video: DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN Performs With TESLA In Eugene, Oregon

Phil Collen (DEF LEPPARD) joined TESLA on stage on September 30 at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon to perform the TESLA song he wrote and produced, "Save That Goodness". Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. The studio version of "Save That Goodness" appears on "Mechan...

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Watch EVANESCENCE Singer AMY LEE's 'If You're a Star' Animated Video

"If You're A Star", the new animated video from Amy Lee, the Grammy Award-winning co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band EVANESCENCE, can be seen below. The song is taken from Lee's children's album, "Dream Too Much", which was released via Amazon. The LP, which features 12 newly recorded son...

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METALLICA Shares Tour Tales In 'The Tonight Show' Web-Exclusive Clip

METALLICA made its "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" debut last night (Thursday, September 29),performing their new song "Moth Into Flame" for the first time on national television. While backstage at "The Tonight Show", James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett shared ro...

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DIRKSCHNEIDER: Listen To 'Breaker' From 'Live - Back To The Roots' Album

DIRKSCHNEIDER, the band fronted by former ACCEPT and current U.D.O. singer Udo Dirkschneider, will release a live album called "Live - Back To The Roots" on October 28 via AFM Records. The effort, which was recorded on April 2 at Kaminwerk in Memmingen, Germany, will be made available as two-CD digi...

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Watch METALLICA Perform 'Moth Into Flame' On 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'

METALLICA performed its new song "Moth Into Flame" on last night's (Thursday, September 29) edition of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". You can now watch video footage of the band's appearance below. "Moth Into Flame" is taken from METALLICA's tenth studio album, "Hardwired...To Self-Destru...

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METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD: 'We Stay Away From Politics And Religion'

METALLICA spoke to BBC 6 Music 's Matt Everitt about the band's forthcoming album, "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct", which is scheduled to arrive on November 18. Asked what is different about this record, drummer Lars Ulrich said: "I'm still kind of tripping on the sonics. It just sounds really good an...

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DEEP PURPLE: 'Fire In The Sky' Book About 'Smoke On The Water' Due Next Spring

These days DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke On The Water" is such a ubiquitous rock "anthem" that it almost seems as if it has been out there forever. Yet the story of how this most famous of metal tracks came into being is shot-through with chance incidents, any one of which could have seen the recording stifl...

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JOE LYNN TURNER's 'The Sessions' To Include Guest Appearances By DEF LEPPARD, WHITESNAKE Members

Vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, best known for fronting Ritchie Blackmore's RAINBOW during that band's creative peak in the 1980s and later as the frontman for Yngwie Malmsteen, has been called The Man With The Golden Voice, and it's easy to understand why; nearly everything Turner records sounds blessed...