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IMMORTAL Announces Release Date For 'War Against All' Album, Shares Title Track
Norwegian black metal band IMMORTAL will release a new album, "War Against All", on May 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. The group's tenth studio LP will feature eight new songs in classic IMMORTAL style. The "War Against All" title track can be streamed below. The band's founder Harald "Demonaz" Nævda...March 21, 2023
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Watch DROWNING POOL Perform With Singer RYAN MCCOMBS At Florida's THROWDOWN AT THE CAMPGROUND Festival
Singer Ryan McCombs played his first shows back with DROWNING POOL on Friday, March 17 (at Club L.A. in Destin, Florida, with ADELITA'S WAY and OTHERWISE),and Saturday, March 18, headlining the inaugural Throwdown At The Campground festival in Fruitland Park, Florida. Fan-filmed video of the Throwd...March 19, 2023
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PETER BALTES Reveals He Was 'Extremely Unhappy' In ACCEPT, Says He Found Out He Was Just 'A Hired Gun' In The Band
Former ACCEPT bassist Peter Baltes says that he was "extremely unhappy" toward the end of his four-decade tenure with the band. The 64-year-old German-born musician discussed his decision to leave ACCEPT in a new interview with Scott Itter of Dr. Music. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):...March 17, 2023
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ATREYU Announces 'The Hope Of A Spark' EP, Shares 'Watch Me Burn' Music Video
ATREYU will release a new EP, "The Hope Of A Spark", on April 14 via Spinefarm. The official music video for the EP's latest single, "Watch Me Burn", can be seen below. "Watch Me Burn" is the EP's phoenix rising from life's trial-by-fire, a call to arms to let renewed hope emerge from smoldering emb...March 17, 2023
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Untopia
Measuring and comparing levels of heaviness in music is a largely pointless and entirely subjective activity. But sometimes the truth is plain for all to see. The visceral and indecently exciting sound of a giant, concrete block being dropped onto humanity's twitching skull, over and over again for...March 16, 2023
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ANVIL's LIPS On Bands Using Backing Tracks During Live Shows: 'I Completely Disagree With That Concept'
ANVIL frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow says that he "completely disagrees" with artists enhancing their show by using backing tracks during their concerts. In recent years, more and more artists have been given a pass for relying on pre-recorded tracks, drum triggers and other assorted technology that m...March 16, 2023
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DROWNING POOL Rejoined By Singer RYAN MCCOMBS
According to Metal Edge, singer Ryan McCombs has rejoined DROWNING POOL. The longtime SOIL frontman, who has lived in Swindon, England since 2018, will play his first shows back with DROWNING POOL on Friday, March 17 (at Club L.A. in Destin, Florida, with ADELITA'S WAY and OTHERWISE),and Saturday,...March 16, 2023
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The Awakening
The role of vocals in KAMELOT — whether handled by Roy Khan and now Tommy Karevik — hasn't required the heavy lifting associated with melodic metal bands of a similar thread, i.e., early HELLOWEEN, RHAPSODY OF FIRE and STRATOVARIUS. The heavily orchestrated quality of KAMELOT's music meant Khan and...March 13, 2023
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METAL CHURCH Shares First Teaser For Upcoming Album Featuring New Vocalist MARC LOPES
Veteran metallers METAL CHURCH have shared the first teaser for their upcoming album featuring the band's new vocalist Marc Lopes. The ROSS THE BOSS and LET US PREY singer joined METAL CHURCH a few months ago following the passing of Mike Howe less than two years ago. When Lopes's addition to METAL...March 10, 2023
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IRON MAIDEN's STEVE HARRIS On Once Being Compared To HITLER By PAUL DI'ANNO: 'I Thought It Was Funny'
Last May, former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno came face to face with MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris for the first time in three decades before the band's concert in Croatia. Harris, whose group kicked off the 2022 leg of its "Legacy Of The Beast" world tour at the 22,000-capacity Arena Zagreb, came...March 7, 2023
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Gawdzillionaire
Las Vegas hard rockers OTHERWISE have been on quite a journey since their 2006 self-titled debut. In 2011, the guys found themselves in the spotlight when their song "Soldiers" debuted on Sirius XM Octane soaring to No. 1, and making OTHERWISE the first unsigned artist to achieve such a feat. Now o...March 6, 2023
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ARCH ENEMY's ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ Becomes Trapped Mermaid In PETA Ad To Save Fish During Lent
Ensnared in a fishing net and swishing a mermaid tail that matches her signature sea-blue hair, ARCH ENEMY vocalist Alissa White-Gluz is putting herself in the place of aquatic animals in a new PETA ad launching in time for Lent. It's a reminder that fish are not swimming potatoes — they're sensitiv...February 22, 2023
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The Good Ship Lollipop
VENOMOUS CONCEPT were always a band designed to start riots, or a fistfight at the very least. The fiendish brainchild of multi-project polymath bassist Shane Embury (NAPALM DEATH) and former BRUTAL TRUTH frontman Kevin Sharp, it began as a chaotic and deranged to balls-out hardcore punk band and co...February 22, 2023
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DAVID ELLEFSON: Bands Like LAMB OF GOD 'Really Helped Reset Thrash Metal'
In a new interview with Tony Webster of Metal Command, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was asked about the fact that a lot of the classic thrash metal bands — particularly those from the San Francisco Bay Area — are putting out great new studio albums decades into their careers. He said (as t...February 20, 2023
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PHIL SOUSSAN On LAST IN LINE Live Shows: 'We Do More Original Material Than We Do Any DIO Material'
Phil Soussan says that LAST IN LINE doesn't feel any pressure to perform a DIO-centric set during its live shows. When LAST IN LINE formed, the intent was to celebrate Ronnie James Dio's early work by reuniting the members of the original DIO lineup. After playing shows that featured a setlist compo...February 10, 2023
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