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VIMIC Feat. Former SLIPKNOT Drummer JOEY JORDISON: Watch Two-Song Facebook Live Performance

VIMIC, the new band featuring former SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison, played two songs — "I Fear The Worst" and "Simple Skeletons" — during a Facebook Live session earlier today (Saturday, November 12). You can now watch the performance below. VIMIC consists of Jordison on drums, singer Kalen Chase M...

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Former SLIPKNOT Drummer JOEY JORDISON To Launch VIMIC World Tour In December

SLIPKNOT co-founding member and key songwriter Joey Jordison has unveiled plans for his long-awaited return in the form of a new musical venture, VIMIC. The band consists of Jordison on drums, singer Kalen Chase Musmecci, who has toured with KORN as a backing vocalist and percussionist, and Joey's f...

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Reissue Of Eighties Metal All-Star Project HEAR 'N AID Unlikely To Arrive Before 2018

"Stars", the 1985 charity single for famine relief released under the HEAR 'N AID banner, will be re-recorded with a new cast of musicians and included with the original version of the song on the upcoming reissue of the "Stars" single and video documentary on the making of the HEAR 'N AID record. O...

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DAVE MUSTAINE Says MEGADETH Beer Has Been 'A Huge Smash'

À Tout Le Monde, a new beer from Unibroue born of the friendship between its brewmaster Jerry Vietz and Dave Mustaine, legendary lead vocalist and founder of heavy metal group MEGADETH, officially launched last Friday (October 21) in the U.S. and Quebec, Canada. Named À Tout Le Monde as a nod to one...

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MEGADETH: Tonight's Beer-Launch Event To Be Livestreamed On Facebook

À Tout Le Monde, a new beer from Unibroue born of the friendship between its brewmaster Jerry Vietz and Dave Mustaine, legendary lead vocalist and founder of heavy metal group MEGADETH, is officially launching today in the U.S. and Quebec, Canada. Named À Tout Le Monde as a nod to one of the band's...

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'This Is Spinal Tap' Co-Creator Sues VIVENDI For $125 Million

Harry Shearer, who played bass guitarist Derek Smalls in the 1984 "mockumentary" "This is Spinal Tap", has filed a $125 million lawsuit against Vivendi, the French media group that holds the rights to the movie. Shearer alleges that Vivendi, which acquired the film in 1989, engaged in fraud to hide...

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Love Us Or Hate Us: The Very Best of the Noise Years 1985-1992

If you followed thrash from its infancy, the name Noise Records rolls through the mind as readily as Megaforce, Metal Blade and New Renaissance. The hallowed German imprint, founded by Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, exposed some of the most respected thrash, power, doom and experimental metal acts of the d...

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SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT Recovering From Disk Replacement Surgery

SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim Root underwent disk replacement surgery on Tuesday (October 4) — two days after the band's headlining performance at the Louder Than Life festival in Lousville, Kentucky. He wrote on his Instagram account: "[It] seems as if fractured vertebrae and hemorrhaged disks are an occu...

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GODSMACK Frontman SULLY ERNA: Sixth Webisode For 'Hometown Life' Solo Album

Sully Erna — founder, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the multi-platinum rock band GODSMACK — released a new solo album, "Hometown Life", on Friday, September 30 via BMG. Composed by Sully on piano and acoustic guitar and produced in his New Hampshire studio, "Hometown Life" offers a departur...

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New Song Premiere: ALTER BRIDGE's 'The Other Side'

"The Other Side", a brand new song from ALTER BRIDGE, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's fifth studio album, "The Last Hero", which will be released on October 7 by Caroline Records in the United States/Canada and Napalm Records throughout the rest of the globe. "The Last Hero...

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DEFTONES Partner With San Diego Brewery BELCHING BEAVER To Create New Beer

DEFTONES have announced that they have partnered with San Diego's Belching Beaver Brewery to create a new beer called Phantom Bride IPA — a hoppy West Coast style India Pale Ale loaded up with Mosaic, Amarillo, Simcoe, and Citra hops, all handpicked by DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno. "Really excited...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Is Not Afraid Of Pissing People Off

Shmonty of the KFMA Rock 102 radio station conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor before the band's September 27 concert at the Tucson Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about certain interviewers who take things that he says out of con...

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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Plays Intimate Houston Concert Following HOUSTON OPEN AIR Cancelation

Festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents were reluctantly forced to cancel the second day of the Houston Open Air festival at NRG Park in Houston on Sunday, September 25 due to dangerous storm systems in the area. On the advice of Weather Decision Technologies, some of the top meteorologists in the...

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SLIPKNOT: Drum-Cam Footage Of OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST Performance

SLIPKNOT performed its 2001 album "Iowa" in its entirety at the Ozzfest Meets Knotfest festival on Sunday, September 25 at San Manuel Amphitheater and Festival Grounds in San Bernardino, California. Drum-cam footage of SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg's "The Shape" performance from Ozzfest Meets Knotfe...

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GODSMACK Frontman SULLY ERNA: Fifth Webisode For 'Hometown Life' Solo Album

Sully Erna — founder, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the multi-platinum rock band GODSMACK — will release a new solo album, "Hometown Life", on Friday, September 30 via BMG. Composed by Sully on piano and acoustic guitar and produced in his New Hampshire studio, "Hometown Life" offers a depa...