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TONY DOLAN Fires Back At VENOM Purists Who Say Band Can't Exist Without CRONOS

In a recent interview with Australia's Metal Mal, former VENOM and current VENOM INC. frontman Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan was asked about some fans' criticism that VENOM cannot truly be VENOM without the band's singer Conrad "Cronos" Lant. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's qu...

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Todsünden

Hugely popular in their native Germany — and therefore, almost by default, in Austria and Switzerland, too — FEUERSCHWANZ have been injecting the folk / medieval metal scene with bombast and boisterousness since 2004. When they first emerged with debut album "Prima Nocte" in 2005, their sound was on...

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Take A Chance — A Metal Tribute To ABBA

Cards on the table: if you tend to listen to raw black metal demos that sound like they were recorded in a bucket, by a madman, then the prospect of an album of impossibly glossy ABBA covers performed by a Finnish symphonic metal band is unlikely to have much appeal. For a sizeable majority of the r...

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Former GHOST Guitarist MARTIN PERSNER Releases Music Video For MAGNA CARTA CARTEL's 'Darling'

MAGNA CARTA CARTEL — the Swedish band featuring former GHOST guitarist Martin Persner — released its latest album, "The Dying Option", in June via Vernal Vow Records and Border Music Distribution. The official music video for the LP's latest single, "Darling", can be seen below. The clip was directe...

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TED NUGENT: 'I'm Not In The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Because Of My Politics'

Ted Nugent has once again said that his political views are one of the main reasons he hasn't been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The conservative rocker, who been eligible for the honor as a solo artist since 2000, has enjoyed a remarkably successful and eventful musical career over...

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ABBA's BENNY ANDERSSON Covers FOO FIGHTERS' 'Learn To Fly' In Response To DAVE GROHL's T-Shirt

ABBA's Benny Andersson has shared a piano cover of FOO FIGHTERS' "Learn To Fly" in response to Dave Grohl wearing an ABBA shirt on stage at Glastonbury over the weekend. The FOO FIGHTERS frontman sported a black top that had the gold ABBA logo printed on it when he joined Paul McCartney during the l...

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LED ZEPPELIN Was Asked To Do ABBA-Style Avatar Show, Says JIMMY PAGE

The surviving members of LED ZEPPELIN were approached with the idea of staging an ABBA-style digital avatar show, guitarist Jimmy Page has revealed. At the annual Welsh literature event the Hay Festival on Thursday (June 2), Page said that he and his bandmates were asked to do "that sort of thi...

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Watch: IGGY POP Receives Prestigious Swedish Award POLAR MUSIC PRIZE

On Tuesday (May 24),legendary rocker Iggy Pop was presented with the 2022 Polar Music Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm. The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig "Stikkan" Anderson, the manager and music publisher of ABBA. A well-known lyricist, he also was the co-writer on many of their ea...

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Impera

You will have heard the singles and witnessed the ripples of excitement that greet every successive announcement. The fact is, the new GHOST album is an absolute riot and it's hard to see any future that doesn't involve this band becoming even bigger than they already are. Recent times have proven t...

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IGGY POP To Receive Prestigious Swedish Award POLAR MUSIC PRIZE

Iggy Pop will be honored with the prestigious Polar Music Prize. The legendary rocker has been chosen as one of the 2022 recipients of Sweden's biggest music award. The ceremony will take place in Stockholm on May 24. The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig "Stikkan" Anderson, the manager...

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TED NUGENT Says He Doesn't Take His Exclusion From ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Personally: 'I Don't Need It'

Ted Nugent says that he doesn't take his exclusion from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame personally. The conservative rocker, who been eligible for the honor as a solo artist since 2000, has enjoyed a remarkably successful and eventful musical career over the past five decades, but his music is increa...

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TED NUGENT: The People Who Run ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Are 'Rotten' And 'Dishonest'

Ted Nugent says that he hasn't been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because the people that run the organization are "dishonest" and "rotten." The conservative rocker, who been eligible for the honor as a solo artist since 2000, has enjoyed a remarkably successful and eventful musical c...

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COREY TAYLOR Loves Swedish Pop Superstars ABBA

SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor spoke to The New York Times about his love for Swedish pop superstars ABBA, who made a surprise announcement in September that they would release their first new album in 40 years. "Growing up in the '70s, there was such a weird amalgam of music all over the place," he said....

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LORDI To Release Seven New Studio Albums In November: 'Lordiversity' Box Set Details Revealed

Finnish heavy metal monsters LORDI will release no less than seven new studio albums in the fall. The LPs will mark the first new music from LORDI since the arrival of 2020's "Killection", a fictional compilation album which contained songs that LORDI would have written had the band existed between...

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Disco Balls to the Wall

Heavy metal is serious business to devoted metalheads the world over. It's also fair to say that heavy metal can take itself too seriously at times. But that doesn't mean that everyone in metal is afraid to crack a smile. TRAGEDY resides on the extreme end of that comical spectrum. But for the band...