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DISTURBED Singer DAVID DRAIMAN Says He's Written '95 Percent' Of Songs While High

According to The Pulse Of Radio, DISTURBED frontman David Draiman says that as much as 95 percent of the music he's written for the band has been created while he was high. Speaking with Revolver, Draiman revealed that the new song "Fire It Up", which opens with the sound of a bong hit, was inspired...

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SLIPKNOT Announces Fall North American Tour Dates With SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, BEARTOOTH

SLIPKNOT continues its scorched-earth campaign across North America, announcing details of a fall headline tour, which will see the Grammy Award-winning group joined by hardcore legends SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and up-and-comers BEARTOOTH. The newly announced dates will kick off on October 13 in Bismarck...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Guitarist Was 'Pissed Off' About Being Excluded From 'Temper Temper' Recording Sessions

Guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has revealed to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine that he was left out of the recording sessions for the band's 2013 album "Temper Temper". BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck and drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas flew to Thai...

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SEETHER Announces U.S. Tour With SAINT ASONIA

SEETHER has announced its final headlining tour of the year, a 19-city jaunt that keeps the hard rocking outfit on the road through October. Joining SEETHER will be special guests SAINT ASONIA, the new act featuring ex-THREE DAYS GRACE frontman Adam Gontier and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok. Tickets...

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In the six years since their last album, "Congregation of the Damned", metalcore favorites ATREYU took a sabbatical from each other to devote time to family and new projects such as I AM WAR, FAKE FIGURES and HELL OR HIGHWATER. Guitarist Travis Miguel did a stint with TRAPT a couple years ago until...

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FEAR FACTORY's BURTON C. BELL Explains Return To 'Real' Drums On 'Genexus'

FEAR FACTORY vocalist Burton C. Bell says that the band decided to move past the drum-machine technology it used its 2012 album, "The Industrialist", in order to capture the "feeling" that only a real drummer can create in the studio and in the live environment. Legendary extreme-metal drummer Gene...

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SLAYER's KERRY KING Slammed By JUNGLE ROT Frontman Over MAYHEM FESTIVAL Comments

Vocalist Dave Matrise of Wisconsin death metallers JUNGLE ROT has slammed Kerry King over the SLAYER guitarist's controversial comments about the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, saying that Kerry "could've waited until he was done after the tour to open his mouth." In a recent interview with...

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Video: LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Reads Outtake From 'Dark Days' Book At Richmond Signing

LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe took part in a signing and reading of his new memoir, "Dark Days", on July 17 at a Fountain bookstore-sponsored event at Urban Farmhouse in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. After Blythe's initial draft of "Dark Days" was submitted, his editor decided to remove a se...

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WHITESNAKE Bassist MICHAEL DEVIN Proposes To Actress DREA DE MATTEO On Stage In Atlantic City (Video)

WHITESNAKE bassist Michael Devin proposed to his girlfriend, actress Drea de Matteo ("The Sopranos", "Sons Of Anarchy"),during the band's July 25 concert at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Video footage of the proposal can be seen below. Devin recently told Heavy Metal Hill...

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KERRY KING On This Year's MAYHEM FESTIVAL: 'You Need Talent To Make People Feel Like Spending That Much Money'

SLAYER guitarist Kerry King says that the organizers of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival "tried to reinvent" the event this year and "didn't put enough thought into it," resulting in poor attendance figures. In a recent interview with Metal Insider, King criticized this year's editio...

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ACCEPT Members 'Stage Dive' - At A Museum!

Peter Baltes and Wolf Hoffmann, founding members of legendary German heavy metal band ACCEPT, had the very first stage diving and crowd surfing experience of their lives on July 18 at the most unlikely of places — at the "Holcim Werkforum Und Fossilienmuseum" ("Rock Fossils") event at the Werkforum...

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Video: SKID ROW Performs In Regina

Donz Digital has uploaded video footage of SKID ROW's July 16 performance at Casino Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Check it out below. The new SKID ROW lineup — featuring former TNT singer Tony Harnell — made its live debut on May 22 at Living Sky Casino in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Cana...

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FEAR FACTORY: New Song 'Dielectric' Available For Streaming

"Dielectric", a brand new song from Los Angeles cyber metallers FEAR FACTORY, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's new album "Genexus", which will be released on August 7 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The follow-up to 2012's "The Industrialist" was co-produced by longtime col...

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NILE: Lyric Video For New Song 'Call To Destruction'

The official lyric video for the song "Call To Destruction" from the reigning kings of technical, historically-themed brutality NILE can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's new album, "What Should Not Be Unearthed", which will be released on August 28 via Nuclear Blast. Produced by NIL...

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New Song Preview: FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's 'Hell To Pay'

The release date of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's sixth album, "Got Your Six", has been pushed back to September 4 from the previously announced August 28 through Prospect Park in North America and Eleven Seven Music outside North America. The "Got Your Six" pre-order, as well as several exclusive album...