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HINDER: 'Hit The Ground' Lyric Video Released

Oklahoma-based rockers HINDER have signed with The End Records. The band's new single, "Hit The Ground", will be released on November 24 and will be followed by a full-length album in 2015. The official "Hit The Ground" lyric video can be seen below. Comments HINDER drummer Cody Hanson: "We couldn't...

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PHILIP ANSELMO Is Co-Producing New AUTHOR & PUNISHER Album

AUTHOR & PUNISHER, the San Diego-based one-man doom outfit that uses machinery to create music, is in the studio recording its Housecore Records debut for an 2015 release. The as-yet-untitled CD is being tracked at Nodferatu's Lair in North Shore, Louisiana with Housecore founder Philip H. Ansel...

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KARYN CRISIS’ GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES Signs To CENTURY MEDIA

KARYN CRISIS' GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES, the new musical project featuring visual artist and former CRISIS vocalist Karyn Crisis alongside EPHEL DUATH mastermind Davide Tiso, will release its new album next year through Century Media Records. Karyn Crisis is a name worthy of more praise and attention. W...

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NICKELBACK's 'No Fixed Address' Projected To Sell 60-65K Copies First Week

NICKELBACK's new album, "No Fixed Address", is likely to sell between 60,000 and 65,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to industry web site Hits Daily Double. The estimate was based on two-day sales reports compiled after the record arrived in stores on November...

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FAITH NO MORE: New Song 'Motherf**ker' Available For Streaming

"Motherfucker", the first new music to come from the influential alt-metal act FAITH NO MORE since 1997's "Album Of The Year", can be streamed using the SoundCloud widget below (courtesy of RollingStone.com). "It feels apt that the first track we're releasing is 'Motherfucker', a song about accounta...

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NICKELBACK's CHAD KROEGER: JAMES HETFIELD 'Pretty Much Thinks The Entire World Hates Him'

Samuli Väänänen of Finland's Radio Nova last week conducted an interview with guitarist Ryan Peake and guitarist/vocalist Chad Kroeger of Canadian rockers NICKELBACK. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how it feels to be hated by so ma...

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DAVE LOMBARDO Says LARS ULRICH Was 'Smart' For Trying To Fight Against NAPSTER File-Sharing Service

Mike "The Big Cheese" of the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show recently conducted an interview with former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the continued decline i...

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METALLICA: Official Footage From BLIZZCON Gaming Convention

METALLICA performed live at this year's BlizzCon gaming convention on Saturday, November 8 in Anaheim, California. As with previous years, the performance took place during the convention's closing ceremony. Fly-on-the-wall footage shot by a MetOnTour reporter at Blizzcon can be seen below. Footage...

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MINISTRY Announces 2015 Touring Lineup

Industrial metal pioneers MINISTRY have confirmed their touring lineup for next year. Joining mainman Al Jourgensen in the band's latest incarnation will be guitarists Monte Pittman (PRONG, MADONNA) and Sin Quirin, bassist Tony Campos (SOULFLY, STATIC-X),drummer Aaron Rossi and keyboardist John Bec...

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NICKELBACK Frontman Explains 'No Fixed Address' Album Title

NICKELBACK is streaming its entire new album, titled "No Fixed Address", in full at iTunes less than a week ahead of the record's November 17 release date. Frontman Chad Kroeger told The Pulse Of Radio that title of the record was inspired by the way it was recorded. "We kind of did it all over ...

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RICHARD BRANSON: 'There Is Absolutely No Truth To' LED ZEPPELIN Reunion Rumors

Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson says that "there is absolutely no truth to the story" that he had offered LED ZEPPELIN's surviving members nearly $800 million to reunite, only for singer Robert Plant to tear up the offer in Branson's face. According to the original report published by the UK...

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Video Premiere: MACHINE HEAD's 'Now We Die'

"Now We Die", the new video from San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD, can be seen below. The clip was filmed on October 3 in Oakland, California with director Mike Sloat, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT and HATRIOT. "Now We Die" is taken from MACHINE HEAD's new album, "Bloodstone...

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FEAR FACTORY Begins Recording New Album

FEAR FACTORY has entered NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California with longtime producer/collaborator Rhys Fulber and engineer Mike Plotnikoff to begin tracking its new album for an early 2015 release via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The CD will be mixed by acclaimed British producer And...

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METALLICA: Pro-Shot Footage Of BLIZZCON Performance

METALLICA performed live at this year's BlizzCon gaming convention on Saturday, November 8 in Anaheim, California. As with previous years, the performance took place during the convention's closing ceremony. Check out video footage of the performance below. Also available is a backstage interview wi...

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SAMMY HAGAR Predicts MICHAEL ANTHONY Will Be Back In VAN HALEN

Ex-VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar was asked by VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner at this week's Classic Rock Roll Of Honour event in Hollywood if he knew anything about reports — which have since been debunked — that his former bandmates are currently mixing the follow-up to "A Different Kind Of Truth"....