Guitarist Parker Lundgren has announced his departure from Queensrÿche after a dozen years with the band. Explains Lundgren in a statement: “For several years, I have been deeply immersed in collecting and selling guitars, as well as rare and fascinating musical instruments. This passion led to the opening of my guitar store Diablo Guitars in 2019. Since
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Mayhem have released “Everlasting Dying Flame,” a new single from their forthcoming EP, Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando. You can check out the song via the below visualizer. “Everlasting Dying Flame” is the second single from Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando to be released, following “Voces Ab Alta” last month. Mayhem’s Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando is out
If you’ve ever seen Sabaton live then you know well that all of their shows are essentially “the show to end all shows.” The world’s foremost historical metal buffs give it their ALL every single night with bombastic production and a full-hearted performance. If you haven’t seen Sabaton live yet… what the hell is stopping
Seemingly inspired by the highly scientific, irrefutable study published in June which analyzed Metallica’s entire body of work and produced a chart of James Hetfield’s most commonly uttered lyrics, some Reddit whippersnapper (who else would you expect?) has done the same for Iron Maiden’s 16 studio albums. And the results are also not quite what
For most of the metal world, our introduction to Carcosa came in the form of the hilarious video guitarist (and YouTuber) Andrew Baena and his bandmate, Angelmaker guitarist Johnny Ciardullo, published last month consisting of compliments delivered in a metal scream (sample: “You’re a true giiiift! To the people in your liiiiiife!” Tell me more,
Body Count have released a second entry from their recent contest to create a music video for “The Hate is Real.” Whereas the original winner of the contest, 25-year-old Brooklynite Seby Martinez, made a sock puppet video that (as you can likely guess, given the phrase “made a sock puppet video”) leaned into the silly, this
It would appear (however unsurprisingly) that Ozzy Osbourne Funko Pop!s are pop!ular — ’cause they keep makin’ ’em. There’s already last year’s Ordinary Man figurine, as well as a discontinued one from 2011 that now sells for a ridiculous amount of money on the Internet; now Kerrang! reports that Funko will release a Diary of
CHALLAHHHHH!!! Tonight, I, Axl Rosenberg, the single most important person in metal, return to the Metal Injection Livecast! You should listen — it’s as close to the voice of God as you’re ever gonna hear. Tune in tonight starting at 6:00pm Eastern (3:00PM Pacific Time, 11:00pm in London, 8:00am Wed in Sydney) and going until
Over the past 10 years, a new breed of brutal-minded musicians have been coming out of China. The small but rabid community features artists like Rectal Wench, Globularcyst, Sexy Oldguys and Abnormal Infected. In Zibo, Shandong province, talented grinder Gore Geng created Impure Injection in 2013, influenced by bands ranging from Repulsion to Exhumed and as relentless as an acid splash
Rock Hard Greece has published a new video interview with K.K. Downing, and assuming you take Downing at his word at least, it’s a doozy. For one thing, Downing says the remaining members of Judas Priest threatened him with legal action over the name of his new project, K.K.’s Priest: “Their lawyers sent a letter
Official press release: The Bronx have released the first video in support of their upcoming album, Bronx VI (Aug. 27, Cooking Vinyl), sharing the gritty, garage-based, Estevan Oriol directed clip for “Curb Feelers.” Watch it below. “Every Bronx record has a backbone track, a sonic anchor that sets the tone for the entire album,” explains vocalist Matt Caughthran, “’Curb
Official press release: “Solar Fire” is the fourth single from Smith/Kotzen, the critically acclaimed debut project from Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) and Richie Kotzen (ex-Poison, Winery Dogs). The album was released globally through BMG on March 26 and immediately became a Top 20 album chart success in the U.K. and reached No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart in
Johnny Solinger, singer for Skid Row from 1999 until 2015, has died. He was 55-years-old. The cause of death was liver failure. Solinger appears on the band’s full-length albums Thickskin (2003) and Revolutions per Minute (2006), as well as the EPs United World Rebellion: Chapter One and United World Rebellion: Chapter Two. Skid Row say
Limp Bizkit have not yet completed their long-teased new album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants, because the music doesn’t hold up to frontman Fred Durst’s lofty standards. This according to the band’s guitarist, Wes Borland, in a new interview with Drinks with Johnny, the YouTube show hosted by Avenged Sevenfold bassist Johnny Christ (via The PRP): “We’ve
Seminal post-hardcore band These Arms Are Snakes have announced a second reunion show. The first show is set for August 28 at Neumos in Seattle, WA; the second date will take place the following night, August 29, at the same venue. Filth is Eternal and Dust Moth will provide support on the first night. Helms
Marilyn Manson (né Brian Warner) has agreed to turn himself into authorities to face two misdemeanor assault charges, CNN reports. The charges stem not from the deluge of recent allegations that the shock rocker abused multiple women, but from an August 2019 show at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH, during which Manson allegedly spit on
Periphery guitarist and mastermind Misha “Bulb” Mansoor has released a new solo single called “Upload Apathy.” You can listen below. The track will appear on Bulb’s first proper solo release, Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious, arrives on July 16 via Periphery’s own 3DOT Recordings label; pre-order it here. In related news, Mansoor recently shared that both Periphery and another
I’ve been really enjoying the recent Anthrax 40 for 40 retrospective fortieth anniversary video series the band has been releasing for the past month or so. Naturally, I’ve been revisiting all of Anthrax’s albums as they tick them off the list… and now that they’ve reached the John Bush era of the band — which
When we made our list of potential bassists to replace David Ellefson in Megadeth, we did not include Billy Sheehan from Mr. Big and The Winery Dogs (among others). And the reason we did not include Billy Sheehan is because Billy Sheehan joining Megadeth is a bonkers idea that will never come to pass. You
Tantric — now consisting of award-winning yarler Hugo Ferreira and some other guys who joined the band much more recently — have announced that they’ll release “an impressively heavy and deeply emotional album,” The Sum of All Things, on July 23 via Cleopatra Records. The record was produced by Chuck Alkazian (Chris Cornell, Sponge). Pre-order