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EICCA TOPPINEN: No New APOCALYPTICA Album Until End Of 2018 At The Earliest

Fans of APOCALYPTICA will have to wait until at least the end of 2018 before they hear the follow-up to the band's 2015 album, "Shadowmaker". The Finnish cello rockers have spent the last few months touring in support of the twentieth-anniversary re-release of the band's epic debut, "Plays Metallica...

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UNISONIC Feat. HELLOWEEN Members: 'Live In Wacken' CD + DVD Due In July

earMUSIC will release UNISONIC's 2016 Wacken Open Air show on July 21 on CD and DVD. With its 2012 self-titled debut album, UNISONIC unleashed a storm of enthusiasm. For the first time in 23 years, two former members of Hamburg's metal institution HELLOWEEN — Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen — reunited...

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VENOM INC. Announces North American Tour With GOATWHORE, TOXIC HOLOCAUST

VENOM INC., the new band featuring original VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Anthony "Abaddon" Bray (drums) alongside ex-VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan, has announced the "Blood Stained Earth Tour", featuring support from GOATWHORE, TOXIC HOLOCAUST and THE CONVALESCE...

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EDGUY: Lyric Video For New Song 'Ravenblack'

In February 1992, a bunch of German kids set out from the middle of nowhere and founded a band that would conquer the hearts of a whole new generation of fans around the globe. Today, 25 years later, EDGUY's founding members Tobias Sammet and the two guitarists Jens Ludwig and Dirk Sauer, as well as...

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Brazilian Vocalist EDU FALASCHI To Perform ANGRA Catalog On Upcoming Tour

Five years after leaving ANGRA in 2012, internationally renowned Brazilian singer Edu Falaschi has announced he will perform songs from the band's catalog as part of his newly launched solo career with plans to tour various countries. Falaschi released his solo album "Moonlight" last year via Test Y...

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DAVE MUSTAINE And VIC RATTLEHEAD 'Peace Sells' MEGADETH Rock Iconz Statues Coming In The Fall

KnuckleBonz, the creator of the Rock Iconz music collectible series, is now rolling out two MEGADETH statues. The Dave Mustaine Rock Iconz statue is created with his "Angel Of Deth" guitar. It's a timeless image of Dave in a signature military top and the black and yellow radiation logo. The second...

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CARNIVORE Guitarist To Perform '30 Years Of Retaliation' Set at BLACK N' BLUE BOWL Pre-Party Show

When Brooklyn, New York thrash metal crossover band CARNIVORE was first formed in 1982 by groundbreaking vocalist Peter Steele, no one could have predicted the influence they would inject into underground heavy metal culture, or the legacy Steele would carry on into TYPE O NEGATIVE. The raw energy o...

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ARJEN LUCASSEN's AYREON Releases 'Run! Apocalypse! Run!' Lyric Video

AYREON, the highly acclaimed project from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Arjen Lucassen, has released the official lyric video for the song " Run! Apocalypse! Run!", taken from the recently released album "The Source". Check it out below. "The Source" is an exciting ne...

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METALLICA's KIRK HAMMETT Says It's 'Highly Unlikely' DONALD TRUMP Will Be A Two-Term President

Kirk Hammett says that it's "highly unlikely" that Donald Trump will be a two-term president. Asked by the Brazilian radio station 89FM A Rádio Rock at last month's Lollapalooza Brasil festival if he thinks the United States Of America will change now that Donald Trump is in the White House, the MET...

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ARJEN LUCASSEN's AYREON Releases 'Star Of Sirrah' Lyric Video Feat. DREAM THEATER, NIGHTWISH, BLIND GUARDIAN Members

AYREON, the highly acclaimed project from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Arjen Lucassen, has released the official lyric video for the song "Star Of Sirrah", taken from the upcoming album "The Source". Check it out below. "The Source" is an exciting new chapter in the...

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Members Of DREAM THEATER, WHITESNAKE, LIVING COLOUR, JOURNEY, ARCH ENEMY, Others React To Passing Of ALLAN HOLDSWORTH

Members of DREAM THEATER, WHITESNAKE, LIVING COLOUR, JOURNEY and ARCH ENEMY are among the rock musicians and scores of other artists who reacted on social media to the passing of the groundbreaking British guitarist Allan Holdsworth. The news of Holdsworth's death was broken by his daughter's Louise...

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ANTHRAX Guitarist: 'Saying That TRUMP Is Gonna Be The End Of The World Was Giving That Guy Way Too Much Credit'

Bonfire conducted an interview with ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante prior to the band's April 5 concert at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can now watch the chat below. Asked how he feels about the deeply entrenched political divisions in America follo...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH Is 'Stunned' And 'Overwhelmed' By Positive Response To 'Hardwired… To Self-Destruct'

Earlier this week, Jeremy Baker of the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada radio station CFOX conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Asked if he would agree that METALLICA's new album, "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct"...

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PAULO JR.: 'Machine Messiah' Is SEPULTURA's 'Best Record So Far' With DERRICK GREEN

Metal Assault recently conducted an interview with SEPULTURA bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. You can listen to the full chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On SEPULTURA's new "Machine Messiah" album: Paulo: "I think it's a very unique record. Everybody is really happy...

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METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD On DONALD TRUMP: 'My Opinion Stays With Me'

METALLICA frontman James Hetfield says he will keep his opinion about President Donald Trump to himself, explaining that politics "polarizes people." Hetfield made his comments during an interview with journalist Claudio Vergara of the Chilean newspaper La Tercera, conducted before METALLICA's April...