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Aftershock

God bless MOTÖRHEAD. At age 68, Lemmy Kilmister, of all the genuine rock 'n roll bad boys left to us, is monitoring his health. Having had to postpone numerous live dates including a European leg that just would've gotten started, the unstoppable Lem was recently sidelined after doctors discovered a...

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Serpents Unleashed

Quickly turning into ol' reliables of the neo-thrash circuit, SKELETONWITCH make next to no modifications to their turbulent speed routine for their fifth album, "Serpents Unleashed". If you've heard their 2007 breakout "Beyond the Permafrost" or their previous recording, "Forever Abomination", then...

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Tres Cabrones

30 years in the life and what a mondo bizarro ride it's been for the MELVINS. It's only appropriate they mark the occasion with a distorto-huffing nutjob album featuring the 1983 lineup. Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover reunite with original drummer Mike Dillard for the sometimes messy, always loud "Tre...

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MACHINE HEAD's ROBB FLYNN On Next CD: 'It Needs To Be A Timeless Album'

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn's latest installment of his online blog, "The General Journals: Diary Of A Frontman... And Other Ramblings", reads as follows: "As you may have noticed, there aren't any, 'Hey, we're in the recording studio' updates happening. That's because we're not! "A few journal...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's 'The Wrong Side Of Heaven' Volume 2 Enters U.S. Chart At No. 2

The second installment of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's masterwork titled "The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell", sold 77,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on November 19 via Pros...

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THE KENNEDY VEIL: New Song 'In The Ashes Of Humanity' Available For Streaming

Northern California death metallers THE KENNEDY VEIL will release their second album, "Trinity Of Falsehood", on January 21, 2014 via Unique Leader Records. The eleven-track offering "with an aggressive and unrelenting attitude… brings back a familiarity of big choruses and bludgeoning drums, but pl...

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TODD LA TORRE-Fronted Version Of QUEENSRŸCHE: 'Ad Lucem' Mini Movie Posted Online

The Todd La Torre-fronted version of QUEENSRŸCHE recently filmed a "mini movie," with the tracks "Spore", "Midnight Lullaby", "A World Without" and "X2" providing the score to a 10-plus minute story, dubbed "Queensrÿche: Ad Lucem". The film was created by Veva Entertainment Co. with director Daniel...

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SUNN O))) And ULVER Join Forces In A New Collaborative Work

SUNN O)))'s most recent studio album, 2009's "Monoliths And Dimensions", and ULVER's 2013 album, "Messe I.X-VI.X", found both evolving and longstanding groups venturing into the world of acoustic arrangement and contemporary orchestration. Besides arriving at this seeming parallel in vision, the pai...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's 'The Wrong Side Of Heaven' Volume 2 Projected To Sell 75K-80K First Week

The second installment of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's masterwork titled "The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell", is likely to sell between 75,000 and 80,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was ba...

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MACHINE HEAD's PHIL DEMMEL Stars In New Commercial For JACKSON Guitars

A new two-minute commercial for Jackson guitars starring MACHINE HEAD's Phil Demmel can be seen below. Clip description: "Even when he's not on the road, Phil Demmel is a hard worker. "The MACHINE HEAD guitarist recently put in some overtime at the Jackson offices taking orders over the phone, and i...

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SKELETONWITCH: 'Serpents Unleashed' First-Week Sales Revealed

"Serpents Unleashed", the new album from Ohio metallers SKELETONWITCH, sold around 5,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 62 on The Billboard 200 chart. Issued on October 29 via Prosthetic Records, the follow-up to 2011's "Forever Abomination" was rec...

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DREAM THEATER: 'On The Backs Of Angels' Performance Clip From 'Live At Luna Park'

On November 5, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release "Dream Theater: Live At Luna Park" on 2DVD, Blu-ray, visual digital formats and a deluxe edition. The deluxe edition is an 11.5" square 60 page hardback photobook containing the Blu-ray, 2 DVDs and 3 CDs presenting all the key physical formats in...

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Vengeance Falls

From the beginning in their late teens, TRIVIUM had a vision of success and few bands in the early 2000's wanted it more than these guys. Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu have proven to be a first-rate tag team of virtuoso guitarists and songwriters since starting their journey in impressive fashion wi...

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Wild Card

Floor Jansen is a proven dynamo and it's a lock she will emerge as a premiere figurehead in this scene. Now taking over for Anette Olzon on the NIGHTWISH tour, the former vocalist for AFTER FOREVER, MAYAN, STAR ONE and AYREON makes a second run with her agro-Goth metal ensemble REVAMP. By attrition...

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Night Demon

The thing with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was that seldom few bands outside of the U.K. were capable of reproducing it with full authenticity. It might be said that thrash metal was born out of American bands (OVERKILL, for example) trying with little success to reproduce the NWOBHM, then t...