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JAKE E. LEE: NIKKI SIXX And TOMMY LEE Wanted Me To Replace MICK MARS In MÖTLEY CRÜE

Jake E. Lee says that Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee wanted him to replace Mick Mars in MÖTLEY CRÜE. According to the former OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist, the CRÜE musicians approached him about possibly joining their group in the early 1980s, before he got the call to work with the BLACK SABBATH frontman. Spe...

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JASON BONHAM Apologizes To JIMMY PAGE For 'Untrue And Derogatory Statements' About Cocaine Use

Jason Bonham has apologized to his father's LED ZEPPELIN bandmate Jimmy Page for claiming that the guitarist introduced him to cocaine. During a recent chat with Howard Stern, the now 52-year-old drummer, who fronts JASON BONHAM'S LED ZEPPELIN EVENING, recalled an alleged incident involving drugs w...

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Listen To ENTOMBED's 'Stranger Aeons' From 'Clandestine - Live' Album

ENTOMBED has uploaded the song "Stranger Aeons" from the upcoming "Clandestine - Live" release. The effort contains the unique experience of the band performing its second album "Clandestine" in full live for the first time ever for the album's 25th anniversary on November 12, 2016 at Malmö Live in...

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DISTURBED Raises Addiction + Mental Health Awareness With Powerful Video For 'A Reason To Fight'

There's a moment each night on DISTURBED's current arena tour when the music stops and lead vocalist David Draiman calls for the house lights to be turned up. He looks out at the packed-house crowd and asks, "By a show of hands, how many of you have dealt with the demons of addiction or depression...

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Ategnatos

A decade ago, as folk metal enjoyed its somewhat expected commercial explosion in Europe, the genre tag swiftly became synonymous with a kind of semi-comedic party metal. Not that there is anything wrong with TURISAS, FINNTROLL or even the relentlessly daft KORPIKLAANI, but there was always more to...

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RATT To Add Rarely Performed Songs To 2019 Setlist: 'We're Gonna Shake It Up A Bit,' Says STEPHEN PEARCY

Stephen Pearcy says that RATT fans can expect to see some fresh additions to the group's concert setlist when he and his bandmates return to the road next month. "We have so many cool songs that we wanna put in the set this year, so we're gonna change it up a bit and put in some of these other songs...

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Something Wicked Marches In

VLTIMAS is a veritable who's who in extreme metal music. Death metal drum god Flo Mounier, the sole original member of the renowned Canadian brutal technical death metal outfit CRYPTOPSY, steadies the beat, while guitars are handled by Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen who has spent decades with blackened...

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AEROSMITH Fans Are Concerned About JOE PERRY's Health After Watching Video Of Las Vegas Concert

A number of AEROSMITH fans are concerned about Joe Perry's health after a newly posted video showed the guitarist struggling to perform one of the band's classic songs. The clip in question, which was filmed on Saturday (April 13) during AEROSMITH's Las Vegas residency (and uploaded by YouTube user...

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Video Premiere: AMON AMARTH's 'Crack The Sky'

"Crack The Sky", the new video from Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's upcoming album, "Berserker", which will be released on May 3 via Metal Blade Records. The disc was recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California with producer Jay...

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DOUG ALDRICH Says He Almost Auditioned For MEGADETH

Former WHITESNAKE and DIO guitarist Doug Aldrich says that he nearly auditioned for MEGADETH in 1989. At the time, MEGADETH had just parted ways with Jeff Young and was preparing to go into the studio to record the now-classic "Rust In Peace" album. "Dave [Mustaine] and I are friends now — Dave Must...

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TRACII GUNS Recalls Seeing MICK MARS Perform For First Time: 'At The Time, There Was No One Like Him'

In an exclusive interview with Rock Scene, L.A. GUNS guitarist Tracii Guns looks back on his early experiences with music. He remembers being a young boy and sitting in the back of his mother's boyfriend's car in 1971 and hearing LED ZEPPELIN's "Whole Lotta Love" for the first time. "It was overwhel...

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JAKE E. LEE Disputes OZZY OSBOURNE Ant-Snorting Story From MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'The Dirt': 'There Was No Ants'

Jake E. Lee has disputed a story in the MÖTLEY CRÜE biopic "The Dirt" about Ozzy Osbourne allegedly snorting a line of ants. In "The Dirt", which premiered last month on Netflix, a young Ozzy Osbourne (played by Tony Cavalero) holds an impromptu gross-out contest of sorts with Sixx at a Lakeland, Fl...

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IRS Seeks To Recover More Than $800,000 In Unpaid Taxes From Estate Of SCOTT WEILAND

According to The Blast, the IRS has filed a federal tax lien against late STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland's estate, alleging he did not pay his federal income tax from 2012 to 2014. The lien lists his ex-wife, Mary Weiland, as his representative. Federal tax authorities filed the lien one w...

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No Bond For Black Metal Fan Suspected Of Setting String Of Fires At Churches In Louisiana; Hate Crime Charges Added

According to ABC News, a judge has denied bail for the 21-year-old black metal fan who is suspected of having set fires at three churches in Louisiana. Holden Matthews appeared in court on Monday. He entered a not guilty plea via his court-appointed lawyer. Matthews did not speak at the hearing, whe...

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KIRK HAMMETT: 'I Have A Ton Of Material' For METALLICA's Next Album

METALLICA's Kirk Hammett has told Australia's Mixdown magazine in a new interview that the band's "WorldWired" tour is scheduled to last until November 2019, after which it could be time to hop back into the studio. Fans had to wait five years for 2008's "Death Magnetic" and eight years for 2016's "...