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K.K. DOWNING Looks Back On JUDAS PRIEST's 'Painkiller' Album

In a new interview with "The Jeremy White Show", founding JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Kenneth "K.K." Downing spoke about the 33rd anniversary of the band's classic "Painkiller" album. Addressing how the addition of then-new drummer Scott Travis affected PRIEST's sound and songwriting, Downing said (as tr...

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JOEY BELLADONNA On Recording Vocals For ANTHRAX's Next Studio Album: 'In Due Time, I'll Get There'

In a new interview with the Tulsa Music Stream, ANTHRAX singer Joey Belladonna spoke about the progress of the recording sessions for the band's follow-up to 2016's "For All Kings" album. Asked if it's true that he is supposed to enter the studio within the next month or so to begin laying down his...

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Electric Sounds

DANKO JONES have been serving up hard rock since the mid-'90s, and it's fantastic to see them still forging ahead. The band got their start in the Canadian hard rock scene and released their debut album, "My Love is Bold", in 1999, followed by 2002's "Born a Lion". From there, DANKO JONES really cau...

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As Gomorrah Burns

35 years is a long time, even in death metal, and CRYPTOPSY have lived a few lives during that time. At first, with drummer Flo Mounier as their not-so-secret weapon, they appeared to be the last word in brutality. 1996's "None So Vile" is still a benchmark for nauseating heaviness, regardless of ho...

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Watch Pro-Shot Video Of MARTY FRIEDMAN's Appearance With MEGADETH At Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR

Wacken TV has uploaded professionally filmed video of MEGADETH's August 4 performance at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. Check it out below. Featured songs: 00:00 À Tout Le Monde 04:46 Symphony Of Destruction 09:18 Holy Wars... The Punishment Due Marty Friedman rejoined MEGADETH on...

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Memento Mori

Five years is the longest pause between albums that MARDUK have ever taken. Admittedly, the world has had other things to be concerned with during that time, but even taking global pandemics into account, the Swedes' prolonged silence had a certain eeriness to it, as if they were quietly building to...

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W.A.S.P. Announces 'The 7 Savage' Deluxe 8-LP Box Set

W.A.S.P. has announced "The 7 Savage: 1984-1992" deluxe 8LP box set from its "Capitol Years", with studio album half-speed mastering, LP of bonus tracks, 60-page book, posters and numbered certificate. "The 7 Savage: 1984-1992" will be released Friday, October 27 on Madfish and is strictly limited t...

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ATHEIST's KELLY SHAEFER Goes Beyond Technical Death Metal In New Band TILL THE DIRT: 'It's A Totally Different Animal'

By David E. Gehlke ATHEIST frontman Kelly Shaefer was productive during the throes of Covid. Armed with only a guitar, basic home recording software and speakers atop a child's desk, Shaefer burned the midnight oil throughout lockdown and came away with over a dozen new compositions. While ATHIEST i...

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IN FLAMES Releases 'The Journey Home' Documentary About Last European Tour And Making Of 'Foregone' Album

Swedish/American metallers IN FLAMES have released "The Journey Home", a 34-minute documentary chronicling the band's last European tour and the making of their fourteenth studio album, "Foregone", which arrived in February via Nuclear Blast. Check it out below. When "Foregone" was first announced l...

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FASTER PUSSYCAT's TAIME DOWNE Is Working On His Autobiography

On a recent episode of the "Talk Louder" podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist "Metal Dave" Glessner and lifelong hard rock/metal vocalist Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS), FASTER PUSSYCAT singer Taime Downe confirmed that he is working on a book with Rare Bird, the Los Angeles–based publi...

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Seeing Through Fire

When RINGWORM released their debut album "The Promise" some 30 years ago, they already sounded considerably more ferocious than any other metallic hardcore band one might mention. A few years of inactivity aside, the Cleveland quintet have been hammering grimly away ever since, while somehow becomin...

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JOEY BELLADONNA Says He Has Yet To Record Any Vocals On New ANTHRAX Music

In a new interview with Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program "Wired In The Empire", ANTHRAX singer Joey Belladonna was asked if he has had an chance to begin laying down any vocals on the band's long-awaited follow-up to 2016's "For All Kings" album. He responded (as transcribed by BL...

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Watch MARTY FRIEDMAN Rehearse With MEGADETH For WACKEN OPEN AIR Performance

Marty Friedman rejoined MEGADETH on stage for the second time in six months on August 4 at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. The guitarist performed four songs with his former band: "Trust", "Tornado Of Souls", "Symphony Of Destruction" and "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due". Earlier t...

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JANI LANE's Brother And Daughter Featured On 'Song & Dance Man: A Tribute To Warrant & Jani Lane'

FnA Records has released a tribute album, "Song & Dance Man: A Tribute To Warrant & Jani Lane". This project was seven months in the making and the listener will be delighted to hear the results: renditions of WARRANT and Jani Lane songs by those bands and artists that loved the Lane era of...

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Watch: MARTY FRIEDMAN Performs With MEGADETH At 2023 Edition Of Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Marty Friedman rejoined MEGADETH on stage for the second time in six months earlier today (Friday, August 4) at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. The guitarist performed four songs with his former band: "Trust", "Tornado Of Souls", "Symphony Of Destruction" and "Holy Wars... The Punis...