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DREAM THEATER Releases Animated Video For 'Barstool Warrior' Song

Progressive music titans DREAM THEATER have released an animated video for the song "Barstool Warrior". The track comes off the band's recently released album, "Distance Over Time", which was met with critical and fan acclaim worldwide. The song has become a live show favorite and tells the fictiona...

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PARADISE LOST Guitarist GREG MACKINTOSH Launches STRIGOI

When PARADISE LOST guitarist Greg Mackintosh put to rest his VALLENFYRE side project in 2018, he closed a difficult but an ultimately cathartic period in his life. Created as a tribute to his father John, who passed away in 2009, VALLENFYRE originally served as a sounding board for Greg's grief, but...

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SKILLET: Making Of 'Legendary' Video

Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the music video for SKILLET's new single, "Legendary", can be seen below. The song is taken from the two-time Grammy nominees' tenth full-length album, "Victorious", which was released on August 2 via Atlantic. SKILLET frontman John Cooper told Billboar...

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SONS OF APOLLO Announces Early 2020 North American Tour With TONY MACALPINE

SONS OF APOLLO — the progressive metal supergroup featuring vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, JOURNEY),bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH),guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES),keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION) and drummer Mike Portnoy (D...

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IN THIS MOMENT's MARIA BRINK To Play Solo Piano Lounge Set On Next Year's SHIPROCKED Cruise

ShipRocked 2020 has added HELLYEAH and IN THIS MOMENT's Maria Brink — in her first-ever solo piano lounge set — to the music lineup for the 11th year of the ultimate rock music cruise vacation. RA — with its first performances in over five years — and AEGES also join the bill for ShipRocked 2020, wh...

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Singer JEFF GUTT Came Close To Auditioning For ALICE IN CHAINS

During an appearance on the latest episode of the "Appetite For Distortion" podcast, Jeff Gutt confirmed that he came close to auditioning for the singer position in ALICE IN CHAINS back in the early 2000s, just a couple of years after the death of the band's original frontman, Layne Staley. "It's...

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AEROSMITH Is Continuing To Play Shows Without Drummer JOEY KRAMER

Fan-filmed video footage of AEROSMITH's August 18 concert at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey can be seen below. The band has played the last few shows of the "Deuces Are Wild" tour without drummer Joey Kramer, who is still recovering after twisting his ankle during rehearsal. F...

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RUSH: New Trailer For 'Cinema Strangiato' Film

A new trailer for RUSH's "Cinema Strangiato: An Annual Exercise In Fan Indulgence" is available below. The film will get a one-night-only cinematic screening on August 21. "Cinema Strangiato: An Annual Exercise In Fan Indulgence", which takes viewers behind the scenes of RUSH's 2015 "R40" 40th-anniv...

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TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Announces 2019 Winter Tour, 'Christmas Eve And Other Stories'

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (TSO),the multi-platinum, critically-acclaimed progressive rock group, today announced its highly anticipated winter tour 2019. Returning with all-new staging and effects is the unforgettable show that started it all, "Christmas Eve And Other Stories". TSO's show that start...

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THE ANSWER Singer Signs Solo Deal With SOCIAL FAMILY RECORDS

Cormac Neeson, the lead singer of Northern Irish rock band THE ANSWER, has inked a deal with the independent label Social Family Records (SFR). The label will be responsible for the re-release of Neeson's Americana/country soul/blues-based debut solo album, "White Feather", which has been well recei...

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WEDNESDAY 13: 'I Like To Keep People Guessing; I Don't Like To Put The Same Record Out'

Australia's Heavy magazine recently conducted an interview with Wednesday 13. You can listen to the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the "movie element" to the band's forthcoming "Necrophaze" studio album: Wednesday: "I've always had this movie element...

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STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET Says He Walks Away With 'About $7,000-$10,000' For Every Album He Makes

Michael Sweet says that he doesn't make music "for the money." The STRYPER frontman made the comment in response to a question from a fan about Sweet's latest solo single, "Better Part Of Me", which follows an "old-school metal" direction that is not far removed from the band's recent output. Asked...

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DAVE GROHL Doesn't Rule Out THEM CROOKED VULTURES Return

Dave Grohl isn't ruling out a return of THEM CROOKED VULTURES. The supergroup he formed more than a decade ago with LED ZEPPELIN's John Paul Jones and Josh Homme (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) released its first and only album to date in 2009 and toured extensively behind the LP, but hasn't performed liv...

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DAVID ELLEFSON Reunites With Ex-MEGADETH Drummer CHUCK BEHLER On Stage For First Time In More Than 30 Years: Video, Photos

Former MEGADETH drummer Chuck Behler, who played with the band from 1987 to 1989 and appeared on the group's classic album "So Far, So Good… So What!", reunited with bassist David Ellefson on stage for the first time in more than 30 years last night (Friday, August 16) at the Token Lounge in Westlan...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE Shares Fourth Snippet From 'The Dirt' Audiobook

MÖTLEY CRÜE's official biography, "The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band", was recently made available in audiobook format from HarperAudio and Dey Street Books. "The Dirt" is the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred New York Times best-selling book by MÖTLEY CRÜE. Celebrat...