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AMBERIAN DAWN Releases Music Video For 'Looking For You' Title Track

Finnish melodic metallers AMBERIAN DAWN have released the official music video for their latest single, the title track of their upcoming album, "Looking For You". In a nutshell, this high voltage fusion perfectly represents the upcoming album and its poetic sound. The "Looking For You" clip aesthet...

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SONS OF APOLLO 'Didn't Want To Mess' With Its 'Good Chemistry' On New Album 'MMXX'

SONS OF APOLLO drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-DREAM THEATER) recently spoke with Rodrigo Altaf of Sonic Perspectives. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): On how making SONS OF APOLLO's new album, "MMXX", compared to the band's 2017 debut...

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MYRKUR To Release 'Folkesange' Album In March

Danish composer, vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist Myrkur (a.k.a. Amalie Bruun) has always paved her own path and challenged underground preconceptions of heavy genres. Just after newfound motherhood, Bruun set out on a journey into the very heart of the Scandinavian culture tha...

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QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Is Ditching Meat From His Diet And Going Vegan For 'Veganuary'

QUEEN guitarist Brian May is taking part in this year's Veganuary, a campaign that aims to encourage people to go vegan at the beginning of the year. May is one of hundreds of thousands of people who are giving up meat to become vegan for January. In a recent Instagram post, the musician explained h...

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Japan's All-Female Metal Band LOVEBITES Returns With New Single, 'When Destinies Align'

Japan's iron maidens LOVEBITES show their samurai spirit in latest music video, "When Destinies Align", out today. The thrilling heavy metal romp is available to download now and is the lead track from the band's third album, "Electric Pentagram", out on CD in the U.K. via JPU Records from January 3...

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SLIPKNOT's JAY WEINBERG Gets Engaged

SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg appears to have gotten engaged to his girlfriend Chloe Howcroft. Earlier today, the 29-year-old shared a photo of him getting down on bended knee and apparently proposing to Howcroft on a dirt road overlooking the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru. Weinberg dis...

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Mongolian Rock Band THE HU To Receive Highest State Award

According to Xinhua, Mongolian rock sensation THE HU, who released their debut album, "The Gereg", via Better Noise Music in September, will be granted with the Order of Genghis Khan, the country's highest state award. Mongolian president Khaltmaa Battulga personally decided to confer the order on T...

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PHILIP ANSELMO On Hypothetical PANTERA Tribute Tour With REX BROWN And ZAKK WYLDE: 'If Everything Was Lined Up, I Would Do It'

During a recent interview with Chile's Humo Negro, Philip Anselmo was once again asked about his decision to play a number of PANTERA songs during the recent tour with his solo band, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS. "I couldn't do it with DOWN. I wouldn't do it with DOWN. I wouldn't do it with...

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AC/DC: 'For Those About To Rock' And 'The Razors Edge' Commemorative Coins Available

The Cook Islands, a nation in the South Pacific with political links to New Zealand, has released new silver coins honoring two classic AC/DC albums: a two-dollar coin commemorating AC/DC's landmark 1981 album "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" and a ten-dollar coin celebrating AC/DC's 1990 a...

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Watch SONS OF APOLLO Cover AEROSMITH's 'Dream On' With Full Orchestra

SONS OF APOLLO — the progressive metal supergroup featuring former DREAM THEATER bandmates Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, as well as guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-GUNS N' ROSES),bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, THE WINERY DOGS) and vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (W.E.T., TALISMAN) — released "Liv...

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MICHAEL SCHENKER Says GRAHAM BONNET Was 'Offended' By 'Revelation' Album Cover

Michael Schenker spoke to Metal-Rules.com about the provocative cover artwork for the first two albums from his MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST project. While the artwork for 2018's "Resurrection" recreated "The Last Supper", the late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, 2019's "Re...

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Dawn of the Dragonstar

You know what you're getting from a new TWILIGHT FORCE album. Ever since the Swedish crew emerged with 2014's "Tales of Ancient Prophecies", the ante for overblown, fantasy-based power metal has been robustly upped. They pulled off the same trick, albeit with even more bombast and pomp, on 2016's bi...

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Watch SONS OF APOLLO Perform 'Labyrinth' From 'Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony'

SONS OF APOLLO — the progressive metal supergroup featuring former DREAM THEATER bandmates Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, as well as guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-GUNS N' ROSES),bassist Billy Sheehan (MR. BIG, THE WINERY DOGS) and vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (W.E.T., TALISMAN) — will release...

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Video Premiere: ZINNGESCHREI's 'Amok'

"Amok", the new video from the Los Angeles instrumental power trio ZINNGESCHREI, can be seen below. The song is taken from "Metal Assault Mixtape - Vol. 1", Metal Assault Records' very own and very first summer compilation release, featuring nine of the finest purveyors of underground heavy music. N...

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At this stage in the progressive metal game, virtually no one would willingly saddle themselves with the "djent" tag. This is the way of subgenres, and particularly those that dare to forge a genuinely new path. Arguably the last truly unprecedented development in mainstream metal (and no, none of i...