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PROPHETS OF RAGE Feat. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Members: Debut Show Announced

PROPHETS OF RAGE, the new band featuring members of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE alongside rappers Chuck D (PUBLIC ENEMY) and B-Real (CYPRESS HILL),will make its live debut tonight (Tuesday, May 31) at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California. Tickets go on sale this morning at 10 a.m. PT at th...

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HELLOWEEN And GAMMA RAY Founding Member KAI HANSEN To Release 'XXX' Solo Album

Kai Hansen, earMUSIC and the Wacken Foundation have announced the release of "XXX", the first "solo project" album by Kai Hansen, one of the most influential guitarists and singers to emerge from Germany during the first part of the '80s. He first made his name with the groundbreaking band HELLOWEEN...

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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Guitarist Talks SHINEDOWN Tour (Video)

LA Rock of the Rock 105 radio station conducted an interview with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Zoltan Bathory at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which was held May 20-22 in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's upcoming co-headlining...

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JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD To Perform With BABYMETAL At 'Alternative Press Music Awards'

JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford will join the Japanese teenage girl pop metal band BABYMETAL for their performance at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards, set to take place the evening of July 18 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. "Honestly, I am still at a loss of what to feel," say...

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Sword Songs

Anyone who has idled time lounging in their rooms with power metal and barbarian pulp novels cracked open will consider it time hanging with GRAND MAGUS well spent. Particularly if you're underage, the appeal of it all is amped by sneaking beers behind your folks' backs with the sound of whumping fa...

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Ad Mortem Festinamus

Alright, kids, let's play some word association. "Fuck No, Too Slow." So that's four words; semantics. Even a metal yeoman will automatically parallel such lowbrow phraseology with thrash. Pasadena retro-speedsters ANGER AS ART return with its fifth LP after gaining some underground notoriety with 2...

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From Worlds Beyond

Showtime has "Masters of Horror" and "Masters of Sex". Heavy music has MASTERS OF METAL. Without making too light of things, the side project of AGENT STEEL members Robert Cardenas, Bernie Versailles, Rigo Amezcua and Juan Garcia has whipped up a buzz in the underground. Fans have been anxiously awa...

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FEMME FATALE's Long-Awaited Second Album Finally Sees Light Of Day

FEMME FATALE's long-awaited second album, "One More For The Road", has just been released via FnA Records. The LP was recorded back in 1989/90 with the original band members and has never seen the light of day…until now. In 1988, FEMME FATALE made some big noise on radio and MTV with two very popula...

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Abbath

Olve Eikemo isn't a familiar name to metalheads, but his pseudonym Abbath, short for Abbath Doom Occulta, has been known globally by extreme metal enthusiasts for more than 20 years for his work with IMMORTAL. Even further back, Abbath was cutting his teeth on dark American death metal-inspired band...

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KORN Forced To Cut ROCK IN RIO LISBOA Set Short Due To Technical Issues (Video)

KORN's set at the Rock In Rio Lisboa festival in Lisbon, Portugal last night (Friday, May 27) was halted three times due to technical issues before the band finally gave up after only six songs. The initial power failure occurred during the opening track of KORN's set, "Blind". The band then left th...

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MEGADETH's DAVID ELLEFSON: 'When A Bass Looks Cool, You Want To Play It'

A new video interview with MEGADETH's David Ellefson about the design, pickups, tone controls and other key features of his new Jackson 2016 USA signature Concert Bass models can be seen below. "This might sound very immature, but when a bass looks cool, you want to play it," said Ellefson. "It's be...

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DEATH ANGEL's ROB CAVESTANY Was In Talks With NICK MENZA About Forming New Project

DEATH ANGEL guitarist Rob Cavestany has revealed to The National Student that he was in talks with Neck Menza about forming a new project together prior to the former MEGADETH drummer's death. Rob said: "This is actually the first time I'm going to tell this story in public whatsoever: while we were...

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Brazilian All-Female Thrash Trio NERVOSA: 'Hostages' Video Released

"Hostages", the new video from the Brazilian all-female thrash group NERVOSA, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's new album, "Agony", which will be released on June 4 via Napalm Records. The CD was mixed and mastered by Andy Classen. According to a press release, "Agony" sees NERVOS...

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Ex-SLAYER Drummer DAVE LOMBARDO Still Thinks About JEFF HANNEMAN

Former SLAYER and current DEAD CROSS drummer Dave Lombardo was interviewed on a recent installment of HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta's official podcast, "The Jasta Show". You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Speaking about how the recent spate of rock star deaths have af...

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Ex-SLIPKNOT Drummer JOEY JORDISON And DRAGONFORCE's FRÉDÉRIC LECLERCQ Announce More SINSAENUM Album Details

Frédéric Leclercq, virtuoso bass player of London-based power metallers DRAGONFORCE, and Joey Jordison, formerly of SLIPKNOT and currently of VIMIC, have revealed details of their collaboration on an exciting new project, SINSAENUM. Having worked on some material that owed more to death metal than t...