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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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