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SLASH: 'The Collection' Book Due In November

Gibson Brands has announced the launch of Gibson Publishing in partnership with rock icon Slash. Gibson Publishing's first release, "The Collection: Slash", is a stunning, premium coffee-table book that explores in unprecedented detail the instruments Slash has used on countless hit records and on s...

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KINGDOM COME Recruits Drummer BLAS ELIAS While JAMES KOTTAK Is 'Recovering And Getting His Health Together'

According to Metal Sludge, KINGDOM COME has recruited Blas Elias (SLAUGHTER) to play drums for the band while James Kottak is "recovering and getting his health together." KINGDOM COME singer Keith St. John, who joined the band in 2018 as the replacement for original frontman Lenny Wolf, announced B...

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Watch: NIGHT RANGER Performs Cover Of OZZY OSBOURNE's 'Crazy Train' In Wellington, Ohio

Fan-filmed video of NIGHT RANGER performing a cover of the OZZY OSBOURNE classic "Crazy Train" on August 23 at the Lorain County Fair in Wellington, Ohio can be seen below. NIGHT RANGER has been playing "Crazy Train" regularly in recent years as a nod to the time when guitarist Brad Gillis took on t...

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JINJER Announces Fall 2022 USA Tour With Support from P.O.D.; BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale

Progressive groove metal juggernauts JINJER recently announced that with the support of the Ukrainian Ministry Of Culture, they were granted a special exemption to exit Ukraine in order to help their countrymen the best way they can — through music — and since hit the road on their just-wrapped Euro...

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KINGDOM COME's JAMES KOTTAK Says He Won't Join His Bandmates At Their Texas Shows: 'Don't Waste Your Time'

KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak says that he won't play with his bandmates at their upcoming concerts in Texas. In the early hours of Sunday morning (August 21),Kottak took to his Twitter to write: "I will not be at the Kingdom Come Plano or San Antonio shows so don't waste your time thanks jams...

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Watch ROBERT PLANT Blow Out Candles For His 74th Birthday

Robert Plant celebrated his 74th birthday onstage last night (Saturday, August 20) during his concert with Alison Krauss in Stateline, Nevada. At one point during the set at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey's, Robert's 43-year-old son Logan and his children wheeled on a birthday cake — decorated w...

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JINJER Was Inspired By Russia's War In Ukraine To Write New Songs

At last weekend's Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom, bassist Eugene Abdukhanov of Ukrainian modern metallers JINJER confirmed to Elena Marastoni from EMP that he and his bandmates have commenced work on a new album. "We actually have some songs written alre...

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Drif

The rise to prominence of bands like HEILUNG and WARDRUNA has been one of the more intriguing phenomena in recent underground history. Only tangentially linked to regular notions of heaviness, but palpably rooted in the same liberated ethos as the wildest post- and progressive metal, these new forms...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE: Why My Signature Flying V EXP Is The Best Body Shape For Ripping Onstage (Video)

Prior to MEGADETH's May 5 concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, Premier Guitar's Chris Kies talked gear with the band's leader Dave Mustaine, who ran down the specs of his signature Gibson Flying V and showed why it's the best body shape for ripping onstage. MEGADETH's dexterous lead guitarist K...

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STEVE GRIMMETT Hadn't Been Ill Before His Death: 'To Say This Was A Shock Is An Understatement', Says His Wife

Steve Grimmett's wife says that the GRIM REAPER singer wasn't ill prior to his tragic passing this past Monday (August 15). The 62-year-old's death came five years after he had his right leg partially amputated when an infected wound on his foot spread to the bones in his leg partway through his Sou...

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Watch DIMMU BORGIR Perform At U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Festival

Fan-filmed video of DIMMU BORGIR's August 13 performance at this year's Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom can be seen below. Two years ago, DIMMU BORGIR guitarist Sven Atle Kopperud (a.k.a. Silenoz) spoke to the "Vox&Hops" podcast about how his band has...

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ARCH ENEMY's ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ On Pandemic-Related Restrictions: 'I Definitely Don't Think That It Was Handled Very Well'

ARCH ENEMY vocalist Alissa White-Gluz spoke to Montreal Rocks about how she ended up flying to Germany from her native Canada in 2021 to work on her band's 11th album, "Deceivers". She ended up staying in Germany for a year due to the stiff pandemic-related restrictions in her hometown of Montreal a...

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MARK KENDALL Says New GREAT WHITE Singer ANDREW FREEMAN Is Able To Hit All The High Notes In Band's Classic Songs

This past May, GREAT WHITE announced that it had parted ways with singer Mitch Malloy and had replaced him with Andrew Freeman (LAST IN LINE). Malloy had been in GREAT WHITE for nearly four years, having joined the group in 2018 following the departure of Terry Ilous. Asked in a new interview with "...

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Totem

MAX CAVALERA wasn't joking when he gave his post-SEPULTURA band such a wide-eyed and hopeful name. SOULFLY have now been around for a quarter of a century, and if the band can be defined by anything, it is that they have been in a constant state of delighted evolution. From those early days when eve...

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TED NUGENT Blasts TAYLOR SWIFT For Her 'Hypocrisy', Admits He, Too, Flies Private

Ted Nugent has blasted pop superstar Taylor Swift for her "hypocrisy" after she topped a list of celebrities whose private jets have produced the highest amount of carbon dioxide so far this year. U.K.-based sustainability marketing firm Yard published a report last week revealing that Taylor used h...