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Prey

Cooked up during long, locked down months and polished to what sounds like close to perfection, "Prey" is a debut album that oozes class. We are firmly in symphonic extreme metal territory here, with echoes of all the usual post-DIMMU subjects, but HALIPHRON rarely sound entirely in thrall to other...

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For fans of infernally catchy hard rock performed by mutant gonks from outer space, LORDI have been an increasingly fertile source of delight in recent times. You might even say that Mr. Lordi has been spoiling us. The Finnish band's most recent album, "Lordiversity", was, in fact, seven albums in o...

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Watch: METALLICA's ROBERT TRUJILLO Joined By His Wife And Daughter For Performance Of BLACK SABBATH's 'Hand Of Doom'

METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo was joined by his wife Chloe (vocals) and daughter Lullah (drums),along with MINISTRY guitarist Cesar Soto, for a performance of the BLACK SABBATH classic "Hand Of Doom" at this past Tuesday night's (March 28) "Ultimate Jam Night" at the Whisky A Go Go in West Holl...

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Fundraising Campaign Launched For Daughter Of Fallen SALIVA Guitarist WAYNE SWINNY

SALIVA singer Bobby Amaru has started a GoFundMe campaign for the daughter of SALIVA founding guitarist Wayne Swinny who died last week at the age of 59. In an introductory message on the GoFundMe page, Bobby wrote: "The SALIVA family is mourning the tragic loss of our brother Wayne Swinny. Wayne le...

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IMMORTAL Announces Release Date For 'War Against All' Album, Shares Title Track

Norwegian black metal band IMMORTAL will release a new album, "War Against All", on May 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. The group's tenth studio LP will feature eight new songs in classic IMMORTAL style. The "War Against All" title track can be streamed below. The band's founder Harald "Demonaz" Nævda...

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JAMES KOTTAK Explains How He Cracked Three Ribs And His Left Hip In Two Separate Incidents Months Apart

Former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak says that he feels "great" after undergoing physical therapy for a hip that he "cracked" last fall when he "tripped and fell on the pavement." The 60-year-old musician, who missed some of KINGDOM COME's shows last September because he wa...

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NIGHTWISH Singer And SABATON Drummer Are Expecting Their Second Child

NIGHTWISH singer Floor Jansen and SABATON drummer Hannes Van Dahl are expecting their second child. Jansen and Van Dahl already have a six-year-old daughter named Freja, who was born on March 15, 2017. The Dutch-born vocalist revealed the news in a social media post earlier today (Monday, March 20)....

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EDDIE OJEDA Explains His Absence From TWISTED SISTER Reunion Performance

TWISTED SISTER reunited for a three-song performance on January 26 at the Metal Hall Of Fame charity gala at The Canyon club in Agoura Hills, California. Most of the surviving members of the band's classic lineup — Dee Snider (vocals), Jay Jay French (guitar) and Mark Mendoza (bass) — was joine...

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KINGDOM COME's KEITH ST. JOHN Says JAMES KOTTAK 'Should Have Started Working On His Health' Before SWEDEN ROCK Performance

KINGDOM COME singer Keith St. John, who joined the band in 2018 as the replacement for original frontman Lenny Wolf, spoke to Italy's Poisoned Rock about the absence of drummer James Kottak from some of the group's recent shows. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "James needed some time o...

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ALICE COOPER Wanted 'No Overdubs' On His Upcoming Studio Album

In a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, legendary rocker Alice Cooper discussed some of the new music he has been working on. He said: "Well, there's a new album coming out with my touring band right now. I wanted to show off the touring band, so we wrote songs, went in the studio, and I said...

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MORGAN LANDER: 'It's The Perfect Time' For New KITTIE Music

In a new interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, Morgan Lander of Canadian metallers KITTIE spoke about the band's plans for the coming months. She said: "There's a lot of plans coming up. Not too much that I can share, but definitely more shows are in the works. I don't think that it's eve...

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DEZ FAFARA Says COAL CHAMBER Reunion Happened 'Very Organically' After His Near-Death COVID Experience

COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara spoke to Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program "Wired In The Empire", about the band's upcoming reunion shows at this year's edition of the Blue Ridge Rock Festival, set to take place September 7-10 in Alton, Virginia, as well as at Sick New World festi...

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Watch: CHILDREN OF BODOM Members Walk You Through Official Photo Exhibition

In the 11-minute video below, drummer Jaska Raatikainen, bassist Henri "Henkka T. Blacksmith" Seppälä and keyboardist Janne Wirman walk you through the first official CHILDREN OF BODOM photo exhibition that took place in October 2022 at the Espoo Cultural Center in Espoo, Finland. The "Strikes And G...

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QUEENSRŸCHE's TODD LA TORRE Opens Up About Touring Lifestyle: 'It Can Get Depressing' And 'Lonely'

During an appearance on the latest episode of the "Talk Louder" podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist "Metal Dave" Glessner and lifelong hard rock/metal vocalist Jason McMaster, QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Todd La Torre discussed some of the sacrifices touring musicians have to make while sometimes s...

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Remember… You Must Die!

There was a brief moment when SUICIDE SILENCE appeared to have pissed on their own fireworks. This story has a happy ending, of course: as hinted at loudly on 2020's "Become The Hunter", and confirmed beyond doubt and with white-hot venom here. But back in 2017, that now notorious self-titled album,...