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HELLOWEEN Shares Music Video For 'This Is Tokyo' Single From Upcoming 'Giants & Monsters' Album

German metal veterans HELLOWEEN will release their highly anticipated new album, "Giants & Monsters", on August 29 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM). The LP, now available for pre-order, follows HELLOWEEN's self-titled No. 1 2021 record and promises to be the most versatile and dynamic release of...

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Ex-EVANESCENCE Guitarist JEN MAJURA Is 'Stepping Away' From Music Industry: 'I Just Can't Identify With Today's Attitude And Values Anymore'

Former EVANESCENCE guitarist Jen Majura has announced her decision to "step away" from the music industry, at least temporarily, so that she can focus on doing "healthier and better things" with her life. Earlier today (Tuesday, June 10),Majura took to her social media to write: "Dear friends, I'm...

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Roar Like Thunder

Rock 'n' roll should be exciting, otherwise what's the point? BUCKCHERRY have always had that thought in the back of their sleazy, priapic minds. Over the course of 30 years and ten studio albums, Josh Todd's Anaheim diehards have done vastly more than the majority of their peers to keep traditional...

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GWAR Shares New Single 'The Great Circus Train Disaster' From Multimedia Release 'The Return of Gor Gor'

Shock rock legends GWAR continue their 40th-anniversary celebration with the release of their new single, "The Great Circus Train Disaster", the second track unveiled from their upcoming multimedia release "The Return of Gor Gor", due out July 25 via Pit Records and Z2 Comics. The new single arrives...

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Forever Now

Prog rock's resurgence has spanned more than 30 years, from the first fruits of a rejuvenated scene in the early '90s, to today's peculiar state of affairs wherein rock and metal bands are falling over themselves to proclaim a love of KING CRIMSON and YES. And so they should, because the best progre...

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Kriegsgötter MMXXV

Still one of Germany's best kept secrets, MYSTIC CIRCLE have been unearthing supernatural horrors and blasting like madmen for the last three decades. For those in the market for some eviscerating blackened death metal, this review would like to refer to you to the band's recent studio albums, "Erzd...

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FINGER ELEVEN Completes Work On First New Album In 10 Years, 'Last Night On Earth'

In a new interview with 105.7 The Point radio station, FINGER ELEVEN guitarist James Black offered an update on the band's upcoming studio album under FINGER ELEVEN's new recording deal with Better Noise Music. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Our new record is done. We don't have a re...

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DAVE MUSTAINE On METALLICA: 'I Wrote A Lot Of Their Music That Made Them'

During a three-hour interview with Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, and host of the Shawn Ryan Show, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine spoke about his brief stint as a member of METALLICA in the early 1980s. Asked how he ended up joining METALLICA, Dave responded (as transcribed by BLA...

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Over the last couple of decades, it has become increasingly hard to be enigmatic. Now that every band has to share the details of their daily itinerary, their dinner and their inside leg measurements, mystique and intrigue are decidedly out of fashion. Fortunately, VILDHJARTA have never played the c...

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HELLOWEEN's HANSEN And DERIS Explain 'Giants & Monsters' Album Title, Say They Are 'More Connected Now' As A Band

In a new interview with Hakos Pervanidis of the Metal Hammer Greece TV program TV War, HELLOWEEN singer Andi Deris and guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen spoke about the band's upcoming album, "Giants & Monsters", which is due on August 29 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM). Asked if they would agree t...

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Ex-ICED EARTH Singer STU BLOCK Hopes MATT BARLOW Rejoins The Band: 'It Just Works On So Many Levels'

Former ICED EARTH singer Stu Block says that he hopes Matt Barlow rejoins the band if founding guitarist Jon Schaffer decides to reactivate the group at some point in the future. Barlow, who served two stints with ICED EARTH — from 1993 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2011 — was asked about the possibility...

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FUGITIVE, Featuring POWER TRIP's BLAKE IBANEZ and SETH GILMORE, Shares New Song 'Spheres Of Virulence'

Hailing from Forth Worth, Texas, FUGITIVE features guitarist and bandleader Blake Ibanez and vocalist Seth Gilmore, who have been pulling double duty by globally selling out shows with both POWER TRIP and FUGITIVE throughout 2024. With FUGITIVE, Ibanez offers up even more of the tectonic plate-shift...

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Even In Arcadia

It's exciting to see this sort of excitement for a band; it's been a while. SLEEP TOKEN's sudden rise has already been dissected and debated, only adding to the luster of the anonymous gentleman at the heart of it all, The Vessel. His seamless genre-hopping has already moved SLEEP TOKEN beyond stand...

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MATT BARLOW Is Open To Singing For ICED EARTH Again, But Says 'That Would Be Entirely Up To' JON SCHAFFER

Last month, it was announced that ASHES OF ARES, the band featuring former ICED EARTH members Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales, will celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of ICED EARTH's third album, 1996's "The Dark Saga", on a European tour in September/October 2025. Vidales played with ICED EART...

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The S**t Ov God

Emboldened by the white-hot charisma of their leader, BEHEMOTH have steadily become the world's favorite Satanic metal band. And no, GHOST don't count. It was almost inevitable that Nergal and his comrades would get to this point. Since the release of the 2004's transformational "Demigod", BEHEMOTH...