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RIOT V: 'Unleash The Fire' Trailer

The remaining members of legendary metal pioneers RIOT are back and are ready to unleash the follow-up to 2011's reunion record "Immortal Soul". Due on October 22 in Scandinavia, October 24 release in Germany, October 27 release in the rest of Europe and October 28 in the U.S. and Canada via SPV/Ste...

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SLIPKNOT 'Made' New Drummer Visit PAUL GRAY's Grave Before Beginning Work On New Album

SLIPKNOT percussionist Shawn Crahan has revealed to Rolling Stone magazine that one of the first things he did with the band's new drummer — rumored to be Jay Weinberg, the son of Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg — was take him to the Des Moines, Iowa cemetery where late SLIPKNOT bassist Paul...

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SLIPKNOT's MICK THOMSON Says New Drummer 'Had Grown Up' With Band's Music

SLIPKNOT guitarist Mick Thomson says that the drummer who replaced founding member Joey Jordison "grew up with" the band's music and "knew all the material" before stepping in and joining the group during the songwriting sessions for its upcoming album, ".5: The Gray Chapter". SLIPKNOT's new drummer...

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VIRGIN STEELE To Release New Studio Album Early Next Year

Veteran New York metallers VIRGIN STEELE will release a new studio album in February/March 2015 via SPV/Steamhammer. According to the band's lead vocalist and main songwriter David DeFeis, the follow-up to 2010's "The Black Light Bacchanalia" "is a very heavy non-concept type album in the vein of so...

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SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR Says New Drummer And Bassist 'Aren't Just Session Players'

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor insists that the drummer and bassist who replaced founding members Joey Jordison and Paul Gray are not just "session players coming in for a paycheck," and explains that their identities have not been revealed because they are "not full members yet." SLIPKNOT's new drumm...

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MICHAEL ANTHONY, DON DOKKEN, STEPHEN PEARCY To Be Honored At VEGAS ROCKS! MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS

Vegas Rocks! Magazine is proud to announce the fifth annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2014. This event celebrates Vegas Rocks! Magazine's 10th anniversary as the first-ever all-rock publication produced in Las Vegas. The 2014 awards show will be held Sunday, November 23 at 8 p.m. at The Pea...

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QUEEN's 'Queen Forever' Album Trailer

Three previously unreleased QUEEN songs featuring late singer Freddie Mercury spearhead an exciting new QUEEN album, "Queen Forever", due November 10 on the Virgin Records label. A trailer for "Queen Forever" is available below. The tracks include a long-anticipated track from QUEEN and Michael Jack...

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SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT: 'I Think We're Always Going To Deny Who' New Drummer Is

SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim Root says that the band will probably never officially confirm their new drummer's identity because there is no guarantee that the band's latest addition will ever become a full-fledged member of the Iowa-based outfit. "We're not saying who the new drummer is," Root told Guita...

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KAUZE Singer Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Meet Young Girl For Sex

According to DailyBreeze.com, the lead singer of the Los Angeles-based "groove metal" band KAUZE was arrested on Monday, October 6 on suspicion of meeting a minor for lewd purposes. 29-year-old Lane Steele Kozloff allegedly placed an ad on Craigslist on September 24 in which he said that he was "see...

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ULI JON ROTH Joined By 12-Year-Old Swedish Female Drummer For Performance Of SCORPIONS Classic

12-year-old drummer Nea Forslund from Sweden joined legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth (SCORPIONS) on stage on October 2 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark to perform the SCORPIONS classic "Hell Cat", originally from the 1976 album "Virgin Killer". Check out fan-filmed footage below. "I think it's v...

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SLIPKNOT's JIM ROOT: We Put The New Drummer 'Through The Wringer'

SLIPKNOT's fifth album, ".5: The Gray Chapter", will be released on October 21 via Roadrunner. It's the band's first CD without founding drummer Joey Jordison, who was fired in 2013, and late bassist Paul Gray. The identities of the band's new bassist and drummer have not yet been revealed, but both...

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Pale Communion

"Heritage" turned more than few heads in the metal world as OPETH all but declared themselves liberated from the genre. Death metal is now practically exorcised from the songwriting process of these virtuosos, who turn in a prog-chopped masterpiece bearing the influences of GENTLE GIANT, KING CRIMSO...

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FREDDIE MERCURY's Duet With MICHAEL JACKSON Featured On 'Queen Forever' Album

Three previously unreleased QUEEN songs featuring late singer Freddie Mercury spearhead an exciting new QUEEN album, "Queen Forever", due November 10 on the Virgin Records label. The tracks include a long-anticipated track from QUEEN and Michael Jackson, "There Must Be More to Life Than This", a pre...

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COREY TAYLOR: SLIPKNOT 'Couldn't Find A Direction' Following PAUL GRAY's Death

SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor says that the band had a hard time finding a "direction" in the four years since the passing of the group's bassist Paul Gray and credits the SLIPKNOT fans for helping the band get through the pain of losing one of its key members. "There were a handful of moments wher...

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QUEEN: 'Killer Queen' Performance Clip From 'Live At The Rainbow '74'

Sunday March 31, 1974 is a landmark date in the history of rock music. It is now celebrated in the multi-format release of a rare recording made at legendary London venue The Rainbow, of a concert by a then-up-and-coming band called QUEEN. Few who turned up for that iconic performance could have pre...