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JEFF KEITH Defends TESLA's Collaboration With DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN: 'We Were Trying Something Different'

In a new interview with "The Classic Metal Show", TESLA singer Jeff Keith was asked about the criticism that has been leveled at the band for adopting a 1980s-style polished production for its latest album, "Shock". The follow-up to June 2014's "Simplicity" was helmed by DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil C...

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Don't Hold Your Breath For Reconciliation Between VIVIAN CAMPBELL And WENDY DIO, Says VINNY APPICE

Vinny Appice says that he doesn't think there will ever be a reconciliation between Vivian Campbell and Wendy Dio. Campbell, Appice, singer Ronnie James Dio and bassist Jimmy Bain collaborated on the first three DIO albums — 1983's "Holy Diver", 1984's "The Last In Line" and 1985's "Sacred Heart" —...

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ALTER BRIDGE Releases 'You Will Be Remembered' Video As Tribute To Frontline Workers Fighting Coronavirus Pandemic

ALTER BRIDGE has released a new music video for the song "You Will Be Remembered" from the band's 2016 album "The Last Hero". The clip is a poignant tribute to the first responders and frontline workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti stated about the clip: "W...

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ROSS THE BOSS: 'Born Of Fire' Music Video

"Born Of Fire", the new music video from ROSS THE BOSS, can be seen below. The track is the title cut of the group's latest album, which was released on March 6 via AFM Records. One can't talk about genre-defining acts in the metal scene without mentioning one man: Ross "The Boss" Friedman has writt...

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Photographer JEREMY SAFFER To Release 'Daughters Of Darkness' Coffee Table Photo Book

Noted celebrity and music photographer Jeremy Saffer has joined forces with Rare Bird Books for the release of the coffee table book "Daughters Of Darkness", a photographic love letter to the iconography of black metal and doom. "'Daughters Of Darkness' has been a project that's been in the works fo...

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ALTER BRIDGE Postpones Spring 2020 Tour With BLACK STONE CHERRY And SAINT ASONIA

ALTER BRIDGE has postponed its previously announced U.S. headlining tour with special guests BLACK STONE CHERRY and SAINT ASONIA due to the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the globe. ALTER BRIDGE said in a statement: "We hoped that it wouldn't come to this, but, as some of you have already hea...

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DAVID ELLEFSON On New MEGADETH Album: This Is Next Level, Beyond 'Dystopia'

Earlier this week, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson talked Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to 2016's "Dystopia" album. He said: "We were going to start recording the new record here at the end of March. Of course,...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING: Limited-Edition Guitar Introduced By DEAN GUITARS Assembly Shop Manager (Video)

Last November, Dean Guitars released a limited run of 50 handcrafted USA guitars designed in collaboration with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. Each USA Kerry King V Limited Edition 50 Pc guitar is priced at $8,666 and can be ordered from the Dean Guitars web site. In the four-minute video below, Pat B...

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SINISTHRA Feat. AMORPHIS Frontman TOMI JOUTSEN: Listen To New Song 'Closely Guarded Distance'

"Closely Guarded Distance", a new song from Finland's SINISTHRA, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, "The Broad And Beaten Way", which will be released on May 15 via Rockshots Records. The band comments on the song: "'Closely Guarded Distance' is the centrepiece...

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LAMB OF GOD's MARK MORTON: CHRIS ADLER 'Was Unable To Keep Up With What We Were Doing Tour-Wise'

Richmond, Virginia-based metallers LAMB OF GOD will release their new, self-titled album, on May 8 via Epic Records in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast Records in Europe. The follow-up to 2015's "VII: Sturm Und Drang" marks LAMB OF GOD's first recordings with Art Cruz, who joined the band last year as the...

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Acclaimed French Heavy Metal Cover Artist Accused Of Disemboweling His 80-Year-Old Father

According to the French newspapers Le Parisien and Le Dauphiné Libéré, acclaimed heavy metal cover artist Jean-Pascal "JP" Fournier was arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing his 80-year-old father, Jean-Paul Fournier, by disemboweling him and shooting an arrow in his head. The police apparently...

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Video Premiere: SKILLET's 'Save Me'

SKILLET's official music video for the song "Save Me" can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's tenth full-length album, "Victorious", which was released last August via Atlantic. SKILLET frontman John Cooper told Cryptic Rock: "'Save Me' was a song where I had written the chorus melody…...

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JEFF SCOTT SOTO Would 'Love' To Work With YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Again

Jeff Scott Soto says that he would "love" to collaborate with Yngwie Malmsteen again. Three years ago, Soto, who sang on Yngwie's first two albums, 1984's "Rising Force" and 1985's "Marching Out", engaged in a war of words with the Swedish guitarist over the fact that Malmsteen claimed in an intervi...

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RED To Release 'Declaration' Album This Week

Grammy-nominated band RED will release its seventh studio album, "Declaration", on April 3 via Red Entertainment / The Fuel Music. "Declaration" features lead singer Michael Barnes crisscrossing the anthemic breadth of RED's unique balance of raw refinement and poised aggression, blending nu metal a...

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DARK SARAH Feat. Former AMBERIAN DAWN Singer HEIDI PARVIAINEN: 'Grim' Album Due In July

Finnish cinematic metal band DARK SARAH has signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records. The group's fourth studio album, "Grim", will be released on July 17. Over the course of eight years and three epically conceptualized albums, DARK SARAH has proven its standing in the scene. As a classically ed...