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MAX CAVALERA Talks About Getting 'Kicked Out' Of SEPULTURA, Hanging Out With OZZY OSBOURNE

Tom Reardon of the Phoenix New Times recently conducted an interview with Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, SEPULTURA, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, KILLER BE KILLED). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Phoenix New Times: So why [write your memoir "My Bloody Roots"]? Why now? Max: It felt like it was a go...
April 16, 2014
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THE AMITY AFFLICTION To Release 'Let The Ocean Take Me' In June

Roadrunner recording group THE AMITY AFFLICTION has announced details of its eagerly awaited new album. "Let The Ocean Take Me" — the Australian metalcore masters' fourth full-length release — arrives on June 10. Named one of 2014's "most anticipated" albums by Alternative Press, "Let The Ocean Take...
April 15, 2014
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NIGHT RANGER To Release 'High Road' In June

Iconic rockers NIGHT RANGER will release their new studio album, "High Road", on June 10 in North America via Frontiers Records. Produced by the bandmembers themselves, the effort will be available in two formats — a standard CD version and a deluxe version which includes two bonus tracks and a DVD...
April 10, 2014
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ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CEO Defends Decision To Only Induct KISS' Original Lineup

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation CEO Joel Peresman has once again defended the organization's decision to only induct KISS' original lineup, thereby angering the band's leader, Paul Stanley. "I don't need the Hall Of Fame," Stanley told Rolling Stone. "And if there's not reciprocity, I'm not in...
April 5, 2014
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Former RIOT Singer TONY MOORE Launches BIG MUFF PI

Tony Morabito, the artist formerly known as ex-RIOT frontman Tony Moore, has teamed up with double-kick monster Todd "Vinny"Vinciguerra (V.H.F., also featuring Tony Franklin and Joel Hoekstra) and WARRIOR guitar slinger Joe Floyd to form the heavyweight power trio BIG MUFF PI. BIG MUFF PI will featu...
March 22, 2014
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Video: AC/DC's BRIAN JOHNSON Performs 'You Shook Me All Night Long' With BILLY JOEL

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson joined Billy Joel on stage last night (Friday, March 21) at Madison Square Garden in New York City to perform the AC/DC classic "You Shook Me All Night Long". Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below AC/DC will enter a studio in Vancouver, British Colu...
March 22, 2014
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PAUL STANLEY's War With ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Rages On

According to The Pulse Of Radio, the battle rages on between Paul Stanley and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame who have finally decided to induct KISS' founding members and classic lineup, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in its 2014 class. Stanley posted an open message on Kis...
March 19, 2014
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ROCK HALL CEO Says KISS' THAYER And SINGER Took Persona Of Characters Created By FREHLEY And CRISS

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Foundation CEO Joel Peresman has defended the Hall's plans to induct only KISS' founding lineup, saying that the decision about whom to induct from any band is made by the Rock Hall's nominating committee as well as an adjunct group of "scholars and historians" familiar wi...
March 18, 2014
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MAX CAVALERA Talks Autobiography, KILLER BE KILLED And New CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Album (Video)

On March 3, Metal Wani writers Sairaj Kamath and Renu Rau conducted an interviw with Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, KILLER BE KILLED, SEPULTURA) before SOULFLY's concert in Southampton, U.K. You can now watch the chat below. The English-language edition of of Max's autobiography, "My Bl...
March 11, 2014
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MESHUGGAH's 'Bleed' Covered By Pennsylvania Singer SARAH KANE (Video)

Video footage of Pennsylvania-based singer/songwriter Sarah Kane (Facebook page) performing a piano-based cover version of MESHUGGAH's song "Bleed" can be seen below. The clip was directed by Brad Podray (web site) and was filmed on March 4 at mSOUNd Recording Studios in Philadelphia. Kane made head...
March 11, 2014
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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: 'Know Your Enemy' Unauthorized Biography Coming Soon

Omnibus Press has set a May 1 U.S. release date (March 17 in the U.K.) for the 256-page paperback "Know Your Enemy: The Story Of Rage Against The Machine" from Joel McIver, the British author whose other other works include biographies of BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER, ICE CUBE and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE....
March 7, 2014
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TWISTED SISTER: Can't Stop', 'Come Out' And 'Suckers' Albums To Be Released As 3CD Set

On March 18, Armoury Records will release a 3CD set of TWISTED SISTER's "You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll", "Come Out And Play" and "Love Is For Suckers" as part of the Armoury Classics series. This is the first time these albums will be available in a single set. All three of these original Atlantic .....
March 5, 2014
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MEGADETH's ELLEFSON, 'My Life With Deth' Co-Author Interviewed On 'Couch Of Metal' Podcast (Audio)

The latest episode of the "Couch Of Metal" podcast features an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson and Joel McIver, the co-author of Ellefson's memoir, "My Life With Deth". You can now listen to the chat, which was conducted in early December 2013, using the audio player below. "My Life W...
March 5, 2014
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THE DRIP Signs With RELAPSE RECORDS

Relapse Records has announced the signing of the blistering grindcore quartet THE DRIP. The band's new EP, "A Presentation Of Gruesome Poetics", will be released in North America on April 15 preceded by its April 11 release in Germany and Benelux and April 14 release in the rest of the world. The EP...
March 3, 2014
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Days of the Fallen Sun

The Junius Letters appearing in the "Public Advertiser" from 1769 through 1772 were libertine to the less reproachful connotation of the phrase, calling colonial English to rebuke conservative government and moreover, to be aware the monarch régime was infringing upon their human rights. Ironic, the...
March 3, 2014