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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Releases Music Video For 'Letting You Go'

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE have released the official music video for their new single, "Letting You Go". The song is taken from the band's sixth studio album, "Gravity", which will be made available on June 29. BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck says: "'Letting You Go' was a ve...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Bassist On Group's Remaining Goals: 'We're Not The Biggest Band In The World Yet'

Prior to AVENGED SEVENFOLD's performance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, bassist Johnny Christ spoke with HardDrive Radio's Lou Brutus. The full conversation can be viewed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On the decision to tour this summer with...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Wanted To Make 'Gravity' Album 'Far More Focused And Direct'

France's Loud TV recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET. On incorporating electronics into BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's sound on the band...

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CAYNE Feat. Original LACUNA COIL Guitarist: 'Beyond The Scars' Album Due In June

Italy's CAYNE will release a new album, "Beyond The Scars", on June 29 via Graviton Music Services. "Beyond The Scars" is more than a new album for CAYNE. It represents a rebirth, an awakening, a new chapter for the band, after a long silence lasting four years. During these years of turmoil, the gr...

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' ERIC KRETZ Names Drummers That Inspired Him To Play

iRock Radio conducted an interview with singer Jeff Gutt and drummer Eric Kretz of STONE TEMPLE PILOTS at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which was held earlier in the month in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below. Asked to name the drummers that inspired him to become a musician...

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RAGE OF LIGHT Signs With NAPALM RECORDS

RAGE OF LIGHT has signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records. RAGE OF LIGHT is a Swiss trance metal/melodic death metal band, created by vocalist/keyboardist Jonathan Pellet, known for his past works with TROPHALLAXY and DYSRIDER. Jonathan came up with the idea to create a hybrid of trance and melo...

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Original VENOM Guitarist JEFF 'MANTAS' DUNN Is Recovering After Successful Heart Surgery

Former VENOM and current VENOM INC. guitarist Jeff "Mantas" Dunn underwent a successful emergency open-heart surgery earlier in the month. In a statement posted on the VENOM INC. Facebook page, the musician, who lives in Portugal, revealed that he felt an "unbearable" pain on April 30 while making a...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Guitarist Says DIMEBAG Inspired Him To Become A Musician

iRock Radio conducted an interview with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which was held earlier in the month in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below. Asked who his biggest inspiration was that made him want to become a mus...

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POWERWOLF: Video Recap Of 'The Sacrament Of Sin' Listening Session

German metallers POWERWOLF will release their seventh album, "The Sacrament Of Sin", on July 20 via Napalm Records. The follow-up to 2015's "Blessed & Possessed" was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with producer Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with KREATOR, DRAGONFORC...

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PRONG Announces Summer 2018 European Dates With DEW-SCENTED

American power trio PRONG has announced a short 2018 European "Zero Days" summer tour, featuring a return to Reload Festival as well as a run of headline shows. DEW-SCENTED has been confirmed as special guest on most of the shows. PRONG founder Tommy Victor says: "PRONG and Europe is always somethin...

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And Justice for None

"Blabbermouth can fucking suck it, 'cause they never fucking knew me..." Never underestimate the power of publicity, positive and negative. Ivan Moody and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are riding their latest mount of angst rock into the summer as early on concert breadwinners. Yet surrounding Moody is un...

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Watch NANCY WILSON And NUNO BETTENCOURT Perform HEART's 'Barracuda' At 'Soundcheck Live'

HEART's Nancy Wilson made an unannounced appearance at this past Saturday's (May 26) weekly "Soundcheck Live" event at Lucky Strike Live in Los Angeles, California. Wilson, one of the founding members of legendary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame group, joined event curator Nuno Bettencourt (EXTREME),ba...

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TOBIAS FORGE Laments Lack Of Success For Pre-GHOST Outfit REPUGNANT: 'If I Look Back On How I Did Things, It Was Unprofessional'

Tobias Forge says he wanted his pre-GHOST death metal outfit REPUGNANT "to become a big band" similar to AMON AMARTH but laments their stalled progress because they were "unfashionable" and "unprofessional." Forge formed REPUGNANT in 1998 and performed under the name "Mary Goore", eventually releasi...

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CHTHONIC Frontman And Taiwanese Politician FREDDY LIM Tries To Keep Metal And Politics Separate

Australia's Heavy TV recently conducted an interview with frontman Freddy Lim of Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC, who also is a part of Taiwan's parliament. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On CHTHONIC's origins: Freddy: "In the beginning, t...

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RIOT V Bassist Explains Name Change: 'It Just Means That A New Chapter In The Book Is Written'

RIOT V, the band featuring members of legendary metal pioneers RIOT, released its latest album, "Armor Of Light", on April 27 via Nuclear Blast. Donnie Van Stavern, a longtime collaborator with RIOT founder Mark Reale, plays bass in RIOT V and is one of its chief songwriters. After Reale passed awa...