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IRON MAIDEN Announces Tour Dates In New Zealand, Australia, South Africa

Rock legends IRON MAIDEN, whose new studio double album, "The Book Of Souls", just debuted at No 2 in Australia and New Zealand, will make a massively anticipated return to Australasia at the end of April on their enormous Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet Ed Force One, piloted by vocalist Bruce Dickinson an...

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One New CHICKENFOOT Song 'In The Works,' With More Possibly On The Way, Says JOE SATRIANI

Joe Satriani, the legendary guitar shredder who recorded such platinum sellers as "Surfing With The Alien" and "Flying In A Blue Dream", took time out of his schedule to join Shawn and Corbs of "The GuitCast" podcast to talk about his early music education, his amplifier prototype for Marshall Ampli...

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IRON MAIDEN And ONKYO Unveil ED-PH0N3S Headphones

IRON MAIDEN and the award-winning Japanese electronics company Onkyo Corporation have revealed the name of their new on-ear headphone collaboration, Ed-Ph0n3s. Earlier this year, a visual mock-up of the headphones was displayed on MAIDEN's iconic mascot Eddie at C.E.S. in Las Vegas, sparking huge in...

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IRON MAIDEN And 'The Book Of Souls' Go Jumbo On Massive 2016 World Tour

British heavy metal lagends IRON MAIDEN, whose new studio album, "The Book Of Souls", their first for 5 years, will be released worldwide next week on September 4, are taking touring to a new level using a Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet (a.k.a. Queen of the Skies) for their world tour next year. Vocalist...

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VINNIE PAUL Recalls Meeting EDDIE VAN HALEN For First Time

On August 2, former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN and current HELLYEAH drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott took part in a question-and-answer session at the DFW Acura Performance Showroom in Dallas, Texas. You can now watch video footage of the chat below. Speaking about the bands that inspired him to become a drummer,...

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SLAYER's TOM ARAYA Says MAYHEM FESTIVAL Attendance Was 'About What We Would Draw If We Were Doing Our Own Tour'

SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya has dismissed the suggestion that the band was playing to a smaller audience than usual as the headliner of this year's edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. "We have a fanbase of about five or six thousand at every place we play, so the crowd that w...

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EDDIE VAN HALEN Slams MICHAEL ANTHONY: 'I Have More Soul As A Singer Than He Does'

In a brand new interview with Billboard.com, VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen revealed that he would love to record the follow-up album to 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth", but that not everyone is on the same page about which musical direction the next effort should take. "It's hard, because t...

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Documentary About TWISTED SISTER's Early Days Acquired By MUSIC BOX FILMS

Music Box Films has acquired "We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!", the long-awaited movie about TWISTED SISTER's club days by German filmmaker Andrew Horn. Due in August, the film premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam last November and screened at Goteborg Film Festival earlier this year. "Andrew Horn has deli...

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Pop Music Troubadour ED SHEERAN Covers IRON MAIDEN, LIMP BIZKIT On 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'

Ed Sheeran, the popular English singer-songwriter who specializes in acoustic love songs with sensitive, sweet lyrics, performed acoustic versions of IRON MAIDEN and LIMP BIZKIT tracks during a fake informercial about his "new" heavy metal covers album on last night's (Monday June 1) edition of "The...

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STUCK MOJO Frontman BONZ Was 'Shocked, Hurt And Angered' By Bandmate RICH WARD's Recent Comments

STUCK MOJO and BONZ vocalist Bonz has released a statement regarding comments recently made by his STUCK MOJO bandmate Rich Ward about the group's formative years. As has been well documented, Ward and Bonz have had strained and often turbulent relationship, resulting in Bonz being dismissed from th...

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Reunited STUCK MOJO Is 'Moving Forward' With New Album Plans, Says Guitarist RICH WARD

FOZZY and STUCK MOJO guitarist Rich Ward was interviewed on a recent edition of the "Talking Metal" podcast. You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below. STUCK MOJO is working on material for a new album — its first to feature the lineup of Rich "The Duke" Ward on guitar, Bonz ...

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DUFF MCKAGAN Remembers Seeing PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Night Actor Died

While he doesn't mention him by name, GUNS N' ROSES member Duff McKagan writes of seeing Philip Seymour Hoffman the night he died of a drug overdose. In his latest book "How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions)", excerpted in this week's Village Voice, McKagan recalls he and friend Jerry Cantrell (of ....

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VAN HALEN To Perform At BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS

Billboard and Dick Clark Productions have announced that one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time, VAN HALEN, will perform on the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, marking the band's first-ever performance on an awards show with Eddie, Alex, Wolfgang Van Halen and David Lee Roth. VAN HALEN joi...

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TOURNIQUET Drummer's 'The Slave Ring' Track Featuring Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist CHRIS POLAND

TOURNIQUET is widely known for its outspoken voice against animal abuse and has previously released songs that focused on that subject matter. This time, however, drummer and songwriter Ted Kirkpatrick devotes an entire album, "Onward To Freedom", to the struggles and abuses animals face. The CD fea...

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THE DARKNESS: 'Open Fire' Video Premiere

"Open Fire", the video from British rockers THE DARKNESS, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's fourth album, "Last Of Our Kind", which will be released on June 1 in partnership with Kobalt Label Services. The CD was penned in Ireland and was produced by THE DARKNESS guitarist Dan Haw...