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ANTHRAX's CHARLIE BENANTE Goes Head To Head With JESSICA BURDEAUX For Game Of Drummer's Horse

Jessica Burdeaux is always up for a challenge — whether it's playing drums with Seth Meyers's live band or at Reverb in a drum-off with acclaimed drummers. This time, Jessica goes head to head in a challenge with thrash-metal drum hero Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) for a game of drummer's Horse. The mat...

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HATEBREED Replaces IN FLAMES On 'The Metal Tour Of The Year'

Due to international visa issues, Swedish metallers IN FLAMES have pulled out of "The Metal Tour Of The Year", co-headlined by MEGADETH and LAMB OF GOD and featuring special guests TRIVIUM. Replacing them on the bill will be HATEBREED. Earlier today (Tuesday, July 13),IN FLAMES released the followi...

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OVERKILL Bassist To Release Debut Album From D.D. VERNI & THE CADILLAC BAND

D.D. VERNI & THE CADILLAC BAND has released "Cadillac Man", the first single and video from their debut album, "Let's Rattle", out September 17 (via MVD). Expect high-energy original swingin' and rockin' big-band music from D.D. Verni, the songwriter/founding member/bassist for heavy metal pione...

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METALLICA Shares Alternate Version Of 'The Unforgiven' From Remastered Deluxe Box Set Of 'Black' Album

METALLICA has shared "The Unforgiven (May 14th, 1991 Rough Mix)", taken from the "Rough & Alternate Mixes" 2CD included in the remastered deluxe box set of its self-titled fifth album — also known as "The Black Album" — due on September 10 via the band's own Blackened Recordings. Check it out be...

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Who Invented The Devil Horns? AXS TV's 'Music's Greatest Mysteries' Attempts To Get To Bottom Of Decades-Long Debate

An episode of AXS TV's popular investigative documentary series "Music's Greatest Mysteries" focusing on the origin of the so-called "devil horns" will premiere on Wednesday (July 14). A preview is available below. "Music's Greatest Mysteries" presents an immersive journey that puts the spotlight on...

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Desolate

You very well might be picking up your jaw from the floor after hearing any 20-second excerpt from OPHIDIAN I's new album, "Desolate", by virtue of the dizzying, intricate barrage of blasting, soloing and riff-work at hand. The Icelandic band has been touted as a newcomer, but that isn't exactly the...

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AC/DC Catalog To Be Administered By SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING

Sony Music Publishing today announced its worldwide deal with Australian music company Alberts. The agreement is to administer the complete song catalogues of iconic rock and roll band AC/DCand powerhouse songwriting and producing team Vanda, Young and Wright. One of the most influential bands of al...

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EUROPE's JOEY TEMPEST Pays Tribute To RONNIE JAMES DIO With 'Heaven And Hell' Acoustic Performance

EUROPE frontman Joey Tempest has paid tribute to legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio by performing an acoustic cover version of the classic BLACK SABBATH song "Heaven And Hell". Check out the video below. Ronnie passed away of stomach cancer on May 16, 2010 at the age of 67. Dio was renown...

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BUTCHER BABIES To Perform Entire 'Goliath' Album On Fall 2021 U.S. Tour

BUTCHER BABIES are excited to return to the road this fall as they have announced a headlining tour, "Butcher Babies Vs. Goliath", which will feature the high-octane band performing their critically acclaimed debut album, "Goliath" — released in 2013 via Century Media Records — in its entirety along...

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THE DOORS' ROBBY KRIEGER To Release First-Ever Memoir 'Set The Night On Fire'

Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as THE DOORS, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, THE DOORS' notoriously quiet guitarist, Robby Krieger, is ready to set the record straight. In his first-ever memoir, "Set The...

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Give Us Life

After two widely praised albums established them as a vicious new force in German thrash, SPACE CHASER are audibly well-equipped for their first big label full-length. METAL BLADE clearly know their stuff, and "Give Us Life" delivers the kind of no-nonsense, undiluted thrash assault that, for those...

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VINNY APPICE Says Other Members' Lack Of Punctuality Is Reason He Left KILL DEVIL HILL

In a new interview with Hard, Heavy & Hair With Pariah Burke, legendary drummer Vinny Appice once agin spoke about the importance of punctuality when it comes to being in a band, especially as it relates to performing live. Asked what advice he would give to younger musicians looking to make the...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Is Officially Recording Its Ninth Album

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has entered the Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada to begin recording its new album for a 2022 release. Helming the effort once again is Kevin Churko, the Canadian record producer/engineer and songwriter who has previously worked with OZZY OSBOURNE, DISTURBED, IN T...

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GAMMA RAY To Release '30 Years Live Anniversary' Album In September

Hamburg, Germany's GAMMA RAY has delivered impressive statements of its own musical philosophy to the worldwide heavy metal community for more than 30 years now. Founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the famous German power metal band HELLOWEEN, GAMMA RAY recorded 11 studio albu...

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STEPHEN PEARCY Once Again Floats Possibility Of Classic RATT Reunion: 'I'm Opening The Door'

Stephen Pearcy has once again floated the possibility of the surviving members of the classic RATT lineup reuniting to play live shows or make a new studio album. Pearcy made the comments three months after he was joined by his former bandmate Bobby Blotzer during the RATT singer's livestream concer...