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SLASH: 'World On Fire' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed

"World On Fire", the third album to be made available under the Slash solo banner, sold around 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on September 16 via Slash's own label Dik Hayd International...

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JIM ROOT Says That He 'Wasn't Really Happy' In STONE SOUR Anymore

Former STONE SOUR guitarist Jim Root says that he was hurt and angry after he was fired from the band at the end of last year but claims that it all worked out "for the better" because he "wasn't really happy" in the Corey Taylor-fronted group anymore. Root, who is also a member of SLIPKNOT ...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Denies 'The Negative One' Was Written About JOEY JORDISON

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor has denied that the band's new track "The Negative One" was written about the group's former drummer Joey Jordison, claiming that the song's lyrics deal with "the ugliness that we all have in us." The first new tune released by SLIPKNOT in six years, "The Negative One" i...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Compares 'Gray Chapter' Album To QUENTIN TARANTINO Movie

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor says that the group's fifth studio album and first since 2008's "All Hope Is Gone" will show the emotions that he and his bandmates went through in the four years since he passing of SLIPKNOT's bassist, Paul Gray. The disc, titled ".5: The Gray Chapter", is also the band...

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THE PRETTY RECKLESS Acoustic Album In The Works

THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen has confirmed that the band is working on an acoustic album, to be released in the coming months. "We just recorded an acoustic version of a medley," Momsen told LA Rock of the Jacksonville, North Carolina radio station Rock 105.5 on September 17 (see video b...

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'Real To Reel With Slash' Hour-Long Special To Debut Tomorrow On AXS TV

Ernie Ball, one of the world's leading manufacturers of guitar strings and musical instrument accessories, will present "Real To Reel With Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators", a documentary featuring the iconic Grammy-winning guitarist Slash and his band. The hour-long special docume...

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GODSMACK: Fan-Filmed Footage Of Entire Irvine Concert

Fan-filmed video footage of GODSMACK's entire September 16 performance at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine, California as part of the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival can be seen below. GODSMACK's sixth studio album, "1000hp" (One Thousand Horsepower),sold approximately 58,000 copies in...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR On 'Gray Chapter' Artwork: 'The Minute I Saw That Image, I Knew That It Was The Cover'

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that when he first saw the image that became the cover artwork for the band's long-awaited fifth album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", he was "so blown away" that he immediately knew SLIPKNOT had found what it was looking for. The ".5: The Gray Chapter" was designed by M...

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Is SLIPKNOT's New Drummer A 'S**tbag'?

Laura Jane Grace, the lead vocalist for the punk-rock band AGAINST ME!, appears to have slammed the group's former drummer, Jay Weinberg (pictured),as a "shitbag" after it was revealed that Weinberg has joined SLIPKNOT as the replacement for Joey Jordison. Weinberg — the 24-year-old son of Max Wein...

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SLIPKNOT: Closer Look At New Masks

As with every album cycle, the members of SLIPKNOT have unveiled brand-new masks to coincide with the release of their fifth studio CD, ".5: The Gray Chapter", which will arrive on October 21 via Roadrunner. Buzzfeed has premiered a two-minute "closer look" at the new SLIPKNOT "identities." Check it...

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THE CROWN To Release 'Death Is Not Dead' Album In January

Reactivated Swedish death/thrash metallers THE CROWN will celebrate their 25th anniversary with the release of a new studio album, "Death Is Not Dead". The CD's cover artwork was created by Björn Gosses of Killustrations and can be seen below. Says the band: "So, what's new in THE CROWN camp? Well,...

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SLIPKNOT Struggled To Find 'Exact Wording' For New Album Dedication To Late Bassist

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor says that the band wanted to pay tribute to its late bassist Paul Gray with the group's fifth studio album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", but struggled to get the right wording for the CD title. "We had a handful of [ideas] that we were kind of bandying about," Taylor told Mis...

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ROB ZOMBIE Guitarist JOHN 5 Says His Upcoming Pay-Per-View Concert Will Be 'Cool'

On October 18, former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 will play his first-ever solo concert, bringing his twisted musical visions to life as he performs songs spanning his entire solo career including, live tracks from his new studio album, "Careful With That Axe", released th...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR: Firing JOEY JORDISON 'Was One Of The Hardest Decisions We Ever Made'

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor says that firing Joey Jordison, the band's drummer of 18 years, was "one of the hardest decisions" the group ever made, but insists that he and his bandmates are "happy" to have moved on. SLIPKNOT announced its split with Jordison in December 2013 but did not disclose th...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Says He Is 'Probably The Most Famous Person That No One's Ever Heard Of'

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor says that the fact that he is not a household name has helped him avoid all the "crappy side effects" of being the frontman of not only one but two world-renowned metal bands. Asked how he unplugs from his many different projects, which have included solo...