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OVERKILL Recruits Ex-KREATOR Bassist CHRISTIAN 'SPEESY' GIESLER For European Shows

New Jersey thrashers OVERKILL have recruited KREATOR bassist Christian "Speesy" Giesler as a temporary replacement for D.D. Verni, who is dealing with an ongoing "shoulder issue". Fan-filmed video of OVERKILL's September 9 concert at Collosseum Club in Košice, Slovakia, featuring Giesler on bass, ca...

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JON SCHAFFER's Sentencing Hearing Postponed For Fifth Time, This Time To Late October

According to The Republic, a federal judge has agreed to push back Jon Schaffer's sentencing hearing for the fifth time, this time to October 25 from the previously announced September 13. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta also set a deadline for prosecutors and defense attorneys to make their case...

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Former ATREYU Vocalist ALEX VARKATZAS's New Band DEAD ICARUS Announces Debut Album 'Zealot'

DEAD ICARUS, the new band of former ATREYU lead vocalist Alex Varkatzas, as well as Gabe Mangold of ENTERPRISE EARTH and Brandon Zackey, will release its debut album, "Zealot", on October 31 via MNRK Heavy. Produced and co-written by Mangold, "Zealot" is a precise and pummeling execution of airtight...

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TESTAMENT's ALEX SKOLNICK To Perform At 'Headbangers For Harris' Virtual Fundraiser For HARRIS-WALZ Campaign

New York City councilman Justin Brannan (guitarist of INDECISION and MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD),Albuquerque "metal" mayor Tim Keller and Danica Roem, a former heavy metal singer who in 2017 became the first openly transgender elected official in Virginia's history, are putting together an online virtual...

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The Imperious Horizon

Whether aiming for some ornate and extravagant expression of inner iciness, or blasting away in a state of primal, animalistic euphoria, black metal was never designed or intended to be reassuring. And yet here we are, witnessing the birth of another WINTERFYLLETH album that is so observably superio...

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NIGHTWISH Releases Music Video For New Single 'An Ocean Of Strange Islands'

Symphonic metal veterans NIGHTWISH have released the official music video for "An Ocean Of Strange Islands", the third single from their upcoming album, "Yesterwynde", due on September 20, 2024 via Nuclear Blast. It marks the band's tenth studio LP, following on from the release of "Human. :II: Natu...

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CHUCK BILLY On Upcoming TESTAMENT Album: It Sounds 'New And Modern And Fresh'

In a new interview with Metal Express Radio's Bryce Van Patten, TESTAMENT vocalist Chuck Billy was asked how the songwriting process has changed since the band's early days in the late 1980s and 1990s. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Oh, it's night and day. Before, back then, we...

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BOBBY 'BLITZ' ELLSWORTH: No New OVERKILL Album Before 2026

In a new interview with Germany's Moshpit Passion, vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL talked about when fans can expect to hear the follow-up to 2023's "Scorched" album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, we just kind of slot it into a tim...

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LINKIN PARK's EMILY ARMSTRONG Responds To DANNY MASTERSON Support Claims: 'I Misjudged Him'

New LINKIN PARK singer Emily Armstrong has addressed criticism over her past support of convicted rapist and actor Danny Masterson. Shortly after Armstrong was announced as LINKIN PARK's new vocalist on Thursday (September 5),THE MARS VOLTA's Cedric Bixler-Zavala, whose wife, Chrissie Carnell-Bixle...

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SPIRITBOX Returns With Explosive New Single 'Soft Spine'

Grammy-nominated progressive heavy metal mainstays SPIRITBOX have unleashed their blistering new single, "Soft Spine", available today via their label Pale Chord in partnership with Rise Records. Earlier this week, the band began teasing the song with a cryptic puzzle viewable at app.spiritbox.com,...

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Draconian Darkness

A melodic death metal band with a pagan spirit, WOLFHEART have made steady progress over the last decade. When founder and frontman Tuomas Saukkonen unveiled his new project with debut album "Winterborn" back in 2013, the strength of his musical vision was obvious. This was a subtly new take on a we...

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MERCYFUL FATE: 40th-Anniversary Vinyl Repress Of 'Don't Break The Oath' Coming In November

"Don't Break The Oath", the second studio album by Danish heavy metal icons MERCYFUL FATE, will see a special vinyl repress on Metal Blade Records on November 1. Initially issued in 1984 through Roadrunner Records, the Metal Blade edition celebrates the groundbreaking record's 40th anniversary. Comm...

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MOTÖRHEAD To Release 'We Take No Prisoners: The Singles 1995-2006' Box Sets In October

Back in the golden era of the single of the 1970s and 1980s, MOTÖRHEAD would regularly assault the ears of Top 40 chart listeners on a Sunday afternoon with a string of smash hits. The single as a format may have been less prominent from the 1990s onwards due to the dawn of the CD, but that didn't d...

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PHILIP ANSELMO's SCOUR Announces Only Concert Of 2024

SCOUR, the extreme metal supergroup featuring Philip H. Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, EN MINOR),John Jarvis (AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED),Derek Engemann (PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS),Mark Kloeppel (MISERY INDEX) and Adam Jarvis (PIG DESTROYER, LOCK UP),will play its only concert of 2024 on Friday,...

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Ex-NIGHTWISH Bassist/Vocalist MARKO HIETALA Unveils New Single 'Frankenstein's Wife'

Former NIGHTWISH bassist/vocalist Marko Hietala is back with a mesmerizing new single, "Frankenstein's Wife", a tragic love song that blends dark humor with haunting melodies. Released today, this rock hymn is a journey into the gothic world of a mad scientist's desperate attempt to reanimate the lo...