Former X JAPAN / former LOUDNESS bassist Taiji Sawada’s new project, dubbed TAIJI WITH HEAVEN’S, played their first ever live show in Tokyo, Japan at…
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New York veterans MERAUDER have announced tour dates for the US and Mexico, which will include a headlining appearance at 5/9 Fest in Las Vegas…
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French metallers DAGOBA have signed with the French label XIII Bis Records for the release of the band’s fourth album, “Poseidon”.
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Ben Weinman and Liam Wilson of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN were interviewed for this week’s edition of “Ryan’s Rock Show”.
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Founding bassist Mike Giordano and lead guitarist Anthony Wayne McGinnis recently left the San Diego metal band CAGE after many years of true metal madness, with Mike departing due to medical reasons and Anthony for family reasons.
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“Simplify”, the brand new video from Swedish thrashers THE LAW, can be viewed below.
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According to The Baltic Course, 12,000 fans turned out for Saturday’s (April 17) METALLICA concert at Riga Arena in Riga, Latvia, LETA was informed by a spokesman for the concert agency FBI.
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A two-minute sample of the DVD portion of “Cold Day Memory”, the new album from Atlanta, Georgia’s SEVENDUST, can be viewed below.
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Norwegian black metallers 1349 will be unable to make the first few shows on CANNIBAL CORPSE’s “Evisceration Plague Tour” that is scheduled to kick off today (April 20) in Orlando, Florida.
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According to HardDrive Radio, KORN’s new album, “Korn III – Remember Who You Are”, will be released on July 13.
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“Fever”, the third album from Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, is available for streaming in its entirety on the band’s MySpace page.
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Former AFTER FOREVER vocalist Floor Jansen’s new project called REVAMP will release its self-titled debut album on June 4 via Nuclear Blast Records.
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Chris Epting of the weekly radio show “The Pop Culture Road Trip” recently conducted an interview with drummer Mike Portnoy of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER about Mike’s upcoming tour with his side project TRANSATLANTIC, opening for IRON MAIDEN this summer on “The Final Frontier” tour and working with AVENGED SEVENFOLD on the band’s forthcoming studio album.
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