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THE DEFILED Preparing To Enter Studio

With hangovers still raging from last week's Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, where THE DEFILED scooped the "Best New Band" award, London's saviors of alternative metal have revealed that they will begin work on the follow-up to last year's "Grave Times" album this summer. Funding the album themselv...

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JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE, FASTER PUSSYCAT Kick Off 'America Rocks' Tour In Santa Clara

The "America Rocks" tour — featuring JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE, FASTER PUSSYCAT, BULLETBOYS, PRETTY BOY FLOYD and LILLIAN AXE — kicked off this past Friday, June 15 at Avalon in Santa Clara, California. Fan-filmed video footage of some of the performances can be seen below. Jack Russell's GREAT WHI...

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RITCHIE BLACKMORE, CANDICE NIGHT Welcome Second Child

Former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW and current BLACKMORE'S NIGHT guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (a.k.a. Richard Hugh) and his wife, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Candice Night (a.k.a. Candice Lauren),welcomed their second child, Rory Dartanyan, on February 7. The couple have a two-...

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Former TESLA Guitarist Releases Second Solo Album

Former TESLA guitarist Tommy Skeoch has released his second solo album, "Brand Of Metal", via CDBaby. The effort will also be available in a few days via Amazon, iTunes and other digital distributors. "Brand Of Metal" track listing: 01. Fsdsrrmf 02. Scapegoat 03. Hit Away 04. Hate To Hate 05. Destru...

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1349: New Video Interview Posted Online

Char Tupper of MetalTitans.com recently conducted an interview with bassist Seidemann of Norwegian black metallers 1349. You can now watch the chat below. 1349 recruited JOB FOR A COWBOY's Jon "The Charn" Rice to sit behind the kit for 1349's North American tour as the support act for MARDUK. The tr...

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FOZZY Guitarist Interviewed At U.K.'s DOWNLOAD Festival (Audio)

Peter Keevil of The Midlands Rocks conducted an interview with FOZZY guitarist Rich Ward at this year's Download festival, which was held June 8-10 at Donington Park in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. You can now listen to the chat using the Mixcloud player below. FOZZY's new album, "Sin And Bones",...

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TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION: 'Turn It Up' Video Released

"Turn It Up", the new video from red-dirt metal rockers TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's long-awaited new album, "Peacemaker", which will be released on August 14 via Carved Records. This is the third studio CD for TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, which features the re...

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BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION: Video Footage From The Studio

The members of BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, the English-American rock band featuring the talents of bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, TRAPEZE, BLACK SABBATH),blues rock guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN),and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER),have...

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FOZZY: Performance Footage Of New Song Available

Fan-filmed video footage of FOZZY — the band featuring WWE wrestling superstar Chris Jericho and STUCK MOJO mastermind Rich "The Duke" Ward — performing a brand new song, "Sandpaper", at the pre-awards show boat party that cruised up the Thames to the Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards on Monday, June...

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FOZZY: 'Sin And Bones' Cover Artwork Unveiled

FOZZY, the band featuring WWE wrestling superstar Chris Jericho and STUCK MOJO mastermind Rich "The Duke" Ward, has set "Sin And Bones" as the title of the follow-up to 2010's "Chasing The Grail", due on August 14 (one day earlier internationally) via the group's new label, Century Media Records. Th...

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BILLY CORGAN Blasts RADIOHEAD

According to The Pulse Of Radio, SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan has blasted RADIOHEAD in a new interview with NME, saying that the British band is part of a current cultural view of rock music that he can't stand. Corgan explained, "I can't think of any people outside of Weird Al Yankovic w...

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AEROSMITH Bassist Interviewed On 'The Emily Rooney Show' (Audio)

On Monday, June 11, "The Emily Rooney Show", which airs on the 89.7 WGBH radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, conducted an interview with AEROSMITH bassist Tom Hamilton. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Interview (audio): ...

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ICARUS WITCH To Release 'Rise' In July

On July 3, Cleopatra Records will release the fifth studio record from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based melodic metallers ICARUS WITCH. "Rise" is an epic twelve-track display of songwriting and musicianship from one of the most-watched heavy music bands of the decade. From the driving, anthemic "(We A...

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AEROSMITH Guitarist Says New Album Was A Decade In The Making

According to The Pulse Of Radio, AEROSMITH guitarist Joe Perry admits he's still amazed how the band has managed to keep it together over the past 40 years. Perry explained to the Boston Herald that somehow when it came time to craft the material on the group's upcoming album, "Music From Another Di...

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AGALLOCH To Release 'Faustian Echoes' EP

Portland musical enigmas AGALLOCH have announced a month-long bout of live performances this summer. Slated to commence with a hometown show July 11, the tour will include a nightly rotating set list featuring both new and early material with stage times anticipated to be between 90 and 120 minutes....