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Immortal Legacy

HIRAX is a band deep thrash fans have always embraced and forgiven their numerous ins-and-outs from the scene because when this band is on, they're freaking on. Lone original member Katon W. De Pena never really got his due during the Eighties, probably because HIRAX is more extreme than LIVING COLO...

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Jetpack Soundtrack

Maryland rockers LIONIZE celebrate superheroes, sci-fi, Micro Machines and ballistic missile hit parades in their music, making them kindred spirits to fellow statesmen and fuzz rawk warlords, CLUTCH. On their fifth album and first for the CLUTCH-backed Weathermaker Music, LIONIZE reportedly scrubbe...

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In a Mirror Darkly

German progressive thrashers MEKONG DELTA have long been one of the most intelligent metal acts on the planet and they seldom get their due. As the oft-referred "best-kept secret in the world" since the mid-Eighties, MEKONG DELTA has seen its ranks shifted and reassembled numerous times with bassist...

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PARADISE LOST Guitarist's VALLENFYRE: New Song 'Odious Bliss' Available For Streaming

VALLENFYRE, the U.K. death metal band featuring Gregor Mackintosh, songwriter and guitarist of PARADISE LOST, alongside members of MY DYING BRIDE, AT THE GATES and DOOM, will release its second full-length album, "Splinters", on May 12 in Europe and on May 13 in North America via Century Media Recor...

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EYEHATEGOD's MIKE WILLIAMS Interviewed On 'Metal Hammer' Radio Show (Audio)

Metal Hammer editor Alexander Milas recently conducted an interview with EYEHATEGOD frontman Mike Williams for the "Metal Hammer" radio show on TeamRock Radio. You can listen to the chat using the SoundCloud player below. EYEHATEGOD will unleash its long-anticipated new studio recording later this s...

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Video: BRUCE DICKINSON, GLENN HUGHES, IAN PAICE Pay Tribute To Late DEEP PURPLE Keyboardist JON LORD

Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, CALIFORNIA BREED),Bruce Dickinson (IRON MAIDEN),Ian Paice (DEEP PURPLE),Don Airey (DEEP PURPLE, OZZY OSBOURNE, RAINBOW),Rick Wakeman (YES),and Micky Moody (WHITESNAKE) are among the musicians who celebrated late DEEP PURPLE keyb...

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Redefined Mayhem

Doro Pesch has rightly earned her sustained crown as The Queen of Metal, yet never make the mistake of discounting Sabina Classen. Well before thrash broke out of Germany and the American West Coast, Classen was on the scene, joining HOLY MOSES in 1981. Though the truly defined thrash element of the...

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BLACK STONE CHERRY: 'Me And Mary Jane' Video Released

"Me And Mary Jane", the new video from Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY, can be seen below. The clip was directed by Mason Dixon in Nashville, Tennessee. "We wanted to make a cool, interesting, and dangerous video… all the while keeping it sexy and rock 'n' roll," BLACK STONE CHERRY frontman Chri...

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MAX CAVALERA Talks About Getting 'Kicked Out' Of SEPULTURA, Hanging Out With OZZY OSBOURNE

Tom Reardon of the Phoenix New Times recently conducted an interview with Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, SEPULTURA, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, KILLER BE KILLED). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Phoenix New Times: So why [write your memoir "My Bloody Roots"]? Why now? Max: It felt like it was a go...

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JOE SATRIANI: Techno Mix Of 'Until We Say Goodbye' Available For Streaming

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release "Joe Satriani: The Complete Studio Recordings", a 15-CD library box housing the rock guitar virtuoso's most comprehensive anthology ever, on Tuesday, April 22. "Joe Satriani: The Complete Studio Recordings" will also b...

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's 'Catacombs Of The Black Vatican' Cracks U.S. Top 5

The new BLACK LABEL SOCIETY studio album, "Catacombs Of The Black Vatican", sold around 26,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous studio CD, "Order Of The Black", opened with around 33,000 units to enter...

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Sixth Annual REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS Awards Show To Air In May On VH1 CLASSIC

According to Billboard.com, the Revolver Golden Gods awards show presented by Epiphone, America's only hard-rock and heavy-metal awards show, will return to TV on Saturday, May 24 via VH1 Classic at 8 p.m. ET/PT, produced by Dick Clark Productions and Revolver magazine. The four-hour live show will...

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Live in Japan 2012

One of the modest heroes of stoner rock are English dogs LEAF HOUND, even if there was no such "stoner" tag when they first operated in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Originally known as BLACK CAT BONES, one of the biggest notables to the first ensemble was that it housed Paul Kossoff and Sim...

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U.S. Rock

1976 was a momentous year in music. On one end of the spectrum, ABBA and WINGS delivered more sugar pops than Kellogg's. On the other, both the RAMONES and SEX PISTOLS were turning rock music on an ugly, though thrilling dime. On the brink of that punk insurgency, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES were help...

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Harvest Earth

Right behind SIERRA comes another discovery for the KYLESA-backed Retro Futurist label, JAGGED VISION. Instead of plunging through the deep American South where KYLESA calls home and allies themselves with other underground sludge monsters, Retro Futurist first tapped into the Canadian scene to turn...