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SHINEDOWN Releases 'Short Film' For 'Asking For It' Song

The official "short film" for the new SHINEDOWN song "Asking For It" can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's fifth studio album, "Threat To Survival", which debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200 album chart, selling 65,000 copies in its first week of release. Commented SHINEDOWN singer...

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MACHINE HEAD To Release 'Is There Anybody Out There?' Single This Friday

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD will release a brand new single, titled "Is There Anybody Out There?", on June 3. "The song is about love, loneliness, racism, and not getting what is going on in the world/America," comments MACHINE HEAD guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn. "It's very much ab...

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Video: TWISTED SISTER Joined By QUIET RIOT's FRANKIE BANALI At 'Vegas Rocks! Hair Metal Awards'

TWISTED SISTER was joined by QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali for a two-song set on Sunday, May 15 at the first annual Vegas Rocks! Hair Metal Awards at the Casablanca Event Center At Eastside Cannery Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Video footage of the "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" per...

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THE AMITY AFFLICTION To Release 'This Could Be Heartbreak' Album In August

Australian metalcore masters THE AMITY AFFLICTION will release their new album, "This Could Be Heartbreak", on August 12 via Roadrunner. The band — Joel Birch [vocals], Ahren Stringer [bass, vocals], Ryan Burt [drums] and Dan Brown [guitar] — detailed the new material in a press conference earlier t...

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VINCE NEIL, TOM KEIFER, QUEENSRŸCHE, NIGHT RANGER, SAXON Set For MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise

The 2017 Monsters Of Rock cruise, the seventh edition of the ultimate hard rock/heavy metal experience at sea, will set sail February 2-7, 2017 aboard a new ship and has expanded to six days, visiting two additional ports in the Caribbean for the first time. Appropriately titled Gathering Of Titans,...

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METALLICA Goes Back To Its Early '80s Home, Receives Proclamation From Mayor

On April 16, immediately after their performance at Berkeley, California's legendary record store Rasputin Music in celebration of Record Store Day 2016, the four members of METALLICA and some of their closest friends and colleagues made their way over to 3132 Carlson Boulevard in El Cerrito, Califo...

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Incarnate

When metalcore hit an impetus, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE nearly did likewise with the unfortunate departure of Howard Jones, who left to battle Type 2 diabetes and depression. For many, Jones remains a brave voice along with Lajon Witherspoon of SEVENDUST for bringing soul to a genre that went a step furthe...

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Video: IRON MAIDEN's Fully Repaired 'Ed Force One' Plane Lands In Vancouver

Video footage of IRON MAIDEN's fully repaired Ed Force One plane touching down at Vancouver International Airport Saturday, April 9 can be seen below (courtesy of Joel Neufeld a.k.a Deathrattle) The Boeing 747 was back in the air late last month after a ten-day emergency repair mission following a g...

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WHITESNAKE's JOEL HOEKSTRA To Record Album With STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET

WHITESNAKE guitarist Joel Hoekstra has revealed plans to record an album with STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet. Hoekstra announced the project on the current episode of the "White Line Fever" podcast (download on iTunes),explaining he had built a strong relationship with Sweet while contributing to t...

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WHITESNAKE's DAVID COVERDALE Is Contemplating Retirement In 2017

Former DEEP PURPLE and current WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale says that he is contemplating retiring in 2017 on the 30th anniversary of the release of one of the best-selling hard rock albums in history, WHITESNAKE's "1987". During an interview with RollingStone.com that focused primarily on DE...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: 'Strength Of The Mind' Guitar Playthrough Video

Guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE recently stopped by the Guitar World studios to play along to their song "Strength Of The Mind" from their new album, "Incarnate". Check out the clip below. "Incarnate" debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 35,000 equ...

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MINISTRY's AL JOURGENSEN Isn't Scared Of DONALD TRUMP

In a new interview with music writer Joel Gausten, MINISTRY frontman Al Jourgensen discussed the current political climate in Europe. He said: "I talk to these European people, and they're frightened as shit of the possibility of a [Donald] Trump [U.S.] presidency. What they don't do is look in the...

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LITA FORD Responds To Negative Online Comments, Defends TONY IOMMI Abuse Accusations

In a revealing new interview with music writer Joel Gausten, '80s hard rock queen Lita Ford discusses a number of topics including her new album, "Time Capsule", her feud with Kenny Laguna (who manages her fellow former RUNAWAYS member Joan Jett) and her response to comments posted online against he...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's 'Incarnate' Cracks U.S. Top 10

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's new album, "Incarnate", debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200, having shifted 35,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 17. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, tr...

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Video: QUEENSRŸCHE Singer Performs 'Love Ain't No Stranger' With WHITESNAKE Guitarist

Fan-filmed video footage of QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre and WHITESNAKE guitarist Joel Hoekstra performing an acoustic cover version of the WHITESNAKE classic "Love Ain't No Stranger" during this year's Monsters Of Rock cruise — the four-day, four-night voyage which set sail from Miami, Florida...