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JASON NEWSTED Slams Bands Who Charge Money For Meet-And-Greets: 'I Think It's Bullsh*t'

On December 18, Brandon Marshall of Sonic Excess conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Sonic Excess: Welcome back! The metal word has missed Jason Newsted. Every...

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CHIMAIRA To Enter Studio In February

CHIMAIRA frontman Mark Hunter has revealed to Metal Insider that the band is "really deep" into the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2011's "The Age Of Hell" for a tentative summer release via eOne Music. "We have twelve demos written and we've actually gone into the studio and demoed it pro...

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90-Year-Old Acting Legend CHRISTOPHER LEE Releases Christmas Heavy Metal Singles (Audio)

Legendary actor Christopher Lee, who has appeared in such cinematic milestones as "Lord Of The Rings", "Star Wars", "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Dracula", has released Christmas heavy metal singles "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Silent Night" via iTunes and Amazon. Audio samples of the songs ca...

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KORN, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, SCORPIONS Drummers To Take Part In 'Bonzo Bash NAMM Jamm 2013'

Bonzo Bash founder and S.U.N. guitarist Brian Thomas Tichy (also of WHITESNAKE) recently said, "As I sit here in a dimly lit room with my headphones from 1977 cranked, staring at the LP cover of 'Physical Graffiti', spinning a drum stick, hypnotized by the flanged snare drum in 'Kashmir', I smile t...

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PAUL DI'ANNO's U.S. Tour Officially Postponed

Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno's previously announced U.S. tour, which was scheduled to kick off this coming weekend, has now been officially postponed until 2013. The trek was called off due to the fact that the musician has yet to secure a proper working visa to be able to enter the countr...

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FLYLEAF To Join Forces With DROWNING POOL For U.S. Tour

FLYLEAF will join forces with DROWNING POOL for a U.S. tour in February/March. Exact cities and dates will be announced tomorrow. FLYLEAF's new lineup made its live debut on November 1 at the Grand Stafford Theater in Bryan, Texas in front of a sold-out capacity crowd of 400. The show featured the d...

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VINCE NEIL: 'I've Been Misunderstood' On Issue Of Gun Control

MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil says that he was "misunderstood" on the subject of gun-control laws and mental-health policy in the wake of the tragedy that unfolded last Friday (December 14) in Newtown, Connecticut. Following the mass shooting at a elementary school which resulted in the deaths of tw...

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SOUNDGARDEN Taps DAVE GROHL For 'By Crooked Steps' Video

Reunited grunge legends SOUNDGARDEN are filming the official music video for the song "By Crooked Steps" today (Tuesday, December 18) with Dave Grohl (FOO FIGHTERS, NIRVANA) at the helm. "By Crooked Steps" comes off "King Animal", the first collection of all-new material in 16 years from SOUNDGARDEN...

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CATHEDRAL: 'The Last Spire' Album Details Revealed

British doom legends CATHEDRAL are putting the finishing touches on what will be their last-ever album. Produced by Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings, with assistance from Jaime Gomez Arellano, "The Last Spire" is scheduled for an April 2013 release via Rise Above Records. The track listing for the CD...

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FIREWIND Joined By VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Singer On Stage In Thessaloniki (Video)

Fan-filmed video footage of the second of FIREWIND's two shows in Thessaloniki, Greece at the Mylos Club as part of the band's 10th-anniversary celebration can be found at this location. A couple of the clips are available below. The group blazed through a different setlist each night and played sev...

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From the Vaults Vol. 1

One of the genuine greats of the metal underground is Georgian sludge hounds, KYLESA. In league with fellow mud-prog maestros MASTODON, BLACK TUSK and BARONESS, KYLESA often becomes the forgotten noisy brats of their sweltering scene. Frankly, that reeks since they're one of the most inventive, bomb...

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Former HOLY TERROR Vocalist KEITH DEEN Dead At 56

Keith Deen, former vocalist of 1980s Los Angeles thrashers HOLY TERROR, died on Thursday, December 13 after a three-month battle with cancer. He was 56 years old. HOLY TERROR was formed in the mid-1980s by Kurt Colfelt (a.k.a. Kurt Kilfelt; ex-AGENT STEEL) and ex-DARK ANGEL drummer Jack Schwarz, who...

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ROBERT PLANT Sidesteps Question About LED ZEPPELIN Reunion On 'Sunday Morning'

In a preview of Anthony Mason's CBS-TV "Sunday Morning" interview with the British rock band LED ZEPPELIN, singer Robert Plant addresses Mason's questions about a possible reunion of the group. Check it out below. Also available is a performance clip of the song "Black Dog" from the band's recently...

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HELLOWEEN's 'Nabataea' Video Released

The official video for "Nabataea", the first single from "Straight Out Of Hell", the new album from German power metallers HELLOWEEN, can be seen below. The seven minute-plus composition about the legendary kingdom, located in today's Middle East, where the first real democracy existed over 3000 yea...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE Singer Blasts 'Sick' Twitter Followers Who 'Put Guns In Front Of Kids'

MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil engaged in a war of words with some of his followers on Twitter after his call for new gun-control measures was met with resistance. Following the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday which resulted in the deaths of twenty-eight people, including 2...