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Rapper $NOT Says 'Racist Metalheads' Won't Leave Him Alone Over LIMP BIZKIT Tour

Rapper $NOT claims that he has been subjected to online abuse from "racist metalheads" after Mikey Doling of metal band SNOT lashed out at LIMP BIZKIT for agreeing to take $NOT out as one of the support acts on its spring 2022 tour. On Saturday (March 19),Doling shared a since-deleted video message...

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HEART's ANN WILSON Offered To Front New Band Featuring LED ZEPPELIN Members: 'I Threw My Hat In The Ring'

HEART's Ann Wilson says that she offered to audition to become the vocalist of a new project featuring LED ZEPPELIN members. Back in 2008, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were looking for a way to keep working following LED ZEPPELIN's incredible one-off performance at the O2 Arena in London in Decemb...

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MARC STORACE On Possibility Of KROKUS Playing Farewell U.S. Shows: 'Right Now, I Don't See It Happening'

Two years ago, Swiss hard rock legends KROKUS postponed their last-ever concerts in USA and Canada due to the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the globe. The 13-date trek was originally scheduled to kick off at Canton Hall in Dallas, Texas on September 18, 2020 and conclude at Whisky A Go Go in...

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Ex-ASKING ALEXANDRIA Singer DENIS 'STOFF' SHAFOROSTOV Shoots Down Rumor He Was Killed In Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

Ukrainian vocalist Denis "Stoff" Shaforostov, who recorded one album with ASKING ALEXANDRIA, "The Black", before exiting the band in October 2016, has shot down Internet chatter that he was killed during Russia's ongoing invasion of his country. The rumors apparently started when his Wikipedia page...

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We Are The Apocalypse

Black metal has undergone so many transformations and mutations over the last few decades that it is sometimes easy to overlook the simple thrill of bands like DARK FUNERAL. Always popular but never quite as critically lauded as some of their less direct contemporaries, the Swedes deal in big, brash...

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Skin

It starts with a burst of excoriating, abstract noise. As much as they have been hyped and praised by all kinds of notable people, HO99O9 are clearly not in the business of compromising to make their music more appealing. The first of 12 bewildering but utterly mesmerizing slabs of mutant sonic terr...

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LZZY HALE Says Meeting Her 'Idol' ANN WILSON For First Time Was 'Exciting'

In a new interview with iHeartRadio's Jess Jackson, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale revealed that she recently met one of her "idols" for the first time, Ann Wilson from HEART. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "This happened — what? — two weeks ago, I think. She was recording a new albu...

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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Announces More Summer/Fall 2022 North American Tour Dates

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE has added 14 shows to its previously announced summer/fall 2022 North American tour. The trek will now kick off on August 20 in Oklahoma City and conclude on October 29 at the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. Support at select dates will come from more than a dozen acts...

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TERROR Announces New Album 'Pain Into Power'

Hardcore legends TERROR will release their eighth full-length album, "Pain Into Power", on May 6 via Pure Noise Records. The LP finds the band reuniting with founding guitarist and current NAILS mastermind Todd Jones who produced the explosive new record. The resulting album is TERROR boiled down to...

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HALESTORM Announces May 2022 U.S. Tour; BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale

Grammy-winning hard rock band HALESTORM, which will release its fifth studio album, "Back From The Dead", on May 6, today announced new U.S. headline dates in May, their first U.S. shows since the conclusion of their co-headline dates with EVANESCENCE in January. Kicking off May 10 in Billings, Mont...

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LZZY HALE: How HALESTORM's New Album, 'Back From The Dead', Got Its Title

HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke to Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3 about the inspiration for the title of the band's upcoming fifth studio album album, "Back From The Dead". Due out May 6 via Atlantic, the follow-up to 2018's "Vicious" was produced by Nick Raskulinec...

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Damnum

Still striving to be the last word in maximalist modern metal, ALLEGAEON have been a formidable force over the last decade. Stoically progressive, technically dazzling and yet always in thrall to the uplifting power of melody, the Colorado crew have already released several extraordinary records, an...

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HALESTORM Releases Music Video For New Single 'The Steeple'

HALESTORM has released the official music video for "The Steeple", the second single from its upcoming fifth studio album album, "Back From The Dead". "The Steeple" follows the album's title track, "Back From The Dead", which arrived last summer. That track marked HALESTORM's sixth No. 1 at rock ra...

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HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Playing Concerts During Pandemic: 'Everyone's Going To A Show Like It's Gonna Be Their Last Show'

In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke about what it has been like for her and her bandmates to perform live again during the pandemic. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We did a quote-unquote secret show here in Nashville...

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W.A.S.P. Postpones European 40th-Anniversary Tour Until 2023

Due to coronavirus restrictions, W.A.S.P. has postponed its European 40th-anniversary tour, originally scheduled for spring of 2022, until the spring of 2023. The new dates will take place in March, April and May of 2023. All tickets previously purchased for the 2022 tour will be valid at the resche...