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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

I’m guessing Exhumed have finished recording their new album — ’cause the band just announced a fall headline tour of the U.S. Furthermore, they’ll be selling a vinyl EP exclusive to the tour, Worming, on the trek. They haven’t said what will be on that track but I’d imagine it will have at least one

Earlier today, Metallica announced their plans for celebrating this year’s thirtieth anniversary of The Black Album, including a super-duper-extra-special deluxe edition as well as a project dubbed The Metallica Blacklist, which features “50+ artists spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite Black Album cut.”  One of

Hot off their triumphant reopening of New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the Foo Fighters have announced that they’ll give the same treatment to Los Angeles’ The Forum on Saturday, July 17. Like the MSG show, the concert at The Forum will be 100% full capacity. What’s not presently clear is whether or not The

When Korn go on tour with Staind this August, it will be without one of their most prominent members. Bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu has announced he’s sitting out the summer’s biggest nu-metal trek because… well, here, read for yourself: “To all Korn fans worldwide. “The past 6 years I’ve been dealing with some personal issues

Howard Jones is back on the podcast! We discuss H.A.I.T.(How Awesome Is That), his movie watching podcast with Jamey Jasta and Charlie Bellmore; the imprint ’80s action movies left on us growing up’ the work environment that surrounded him during the making of the new Light the Torch album; his lyrical approach on the new

After years of waiting through legal battles between band members, Fear Factory fans finally got a new album from the band on Friday, June 18, titled Aggression Continuum. Longtime vocalist Burton Seabell’s voice appears on the album despite his exit from the band last year. The album arrives with a video for the opening track,

Download Pilot, the scaled-down version of the U.K.’s annual Download Festival, is taking place this weekend at the festival’s usual site in Donington Park. Although the full-scale annual Download Festival won’t be happening for the second year in a row as a result of the ongoing pandemic, Download Pilot, which will admit 10,000 fans instead of the

Official press release: Chicago’s Yakuza will begin recording their long-awaited, as-yet-untitled new studio album!   The band will enter Palisades Studio with engineer Sanford Parker (Yob, Voivod) later this month. The recording will be completed and mixed at Parker’s own Hypercube Studios. Set for worldwide release in the Spring of 2022, the record follows their critically lauded Beyul full-length (2012) and marks Yakuza’s

GWAR frontman Blöthar the Berserker appeared on Gutfeld! on Fox News yesterday, Friday, June 18. You can watch video of his appearance below. GWAR recently announced a tour with Napalm Death, Eyehategod, and Madball. Dates are as follows: $ – with Madball / Eyehategod supportingx – with Napalm Death / Eyehategod supporting# – Festival9/16/21 –

Back in January, we learned that Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would be collaborating on a new track via their respective highly-successful Twitch channels. The fruit of those labors is now ripe. “In Defiance” features vocals and guitars by Heafy and production and programming by Shinoda; the duo share songwriting credit. Heafy

At the Gates have released “The Fall Into Time,” the latest awesome new track from their awesome new album, The Nightmare of Being. Says frontman Tomas Lindberg about the single and its accompanying music video: “Hello everybody! As you might have already guessed, this album is our most ambitious effort yet, including a lot of different orchestrations