Orange County, California, the breeding ground for such monumental acts as THE OFFSPRING, NO DOUBT, KORN, LIT, SOCIAL DISTORTION and AVENGED SEVENFOLD, has given birth to its newest spawn: LORDS OF RUIN.
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Long-running Danish rockers PRETTY MAIDS released their new album, Pandemonium, on May 14th in Europe. The album will be available June 8th in North America…
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ASKING ALEXANDRIA and BORN OF OSIRIS will co-headline this year’s edition of the Thrash And Burn tour, with support from KITTIE, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, IMPENDING DOOM, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD (first half), EVERGREEN TERRACE (second half), GREELEY ESTATES, PERIPHERY, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE and CHELSEA GRIN.
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Between extensive tours of Europe, Savannah, Georgia-based band KYLESA will enter the studio on May 31 to begin recording the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed album “Static Tensions”.
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Official Metallica.com footage of METALLICA’s May 16, 2010 concert at Hippodrome in Tel Zagreb, Croatia ? including clips of the pre-show meet-and-greet and tuning-room jam as well as the actual performance ? can be viewed below.
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British thrashers SABBAT have been dropped from their scheduled dates supporting ARCH ENEMY in the UK this November. Sabbat guitarist, producer Andy Sneap has posted…
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A short teaser for “Parallels”, the new video from San Diego, California metallers AS I LAY DYING, can be viewed below.
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In a May 27th interview on Pennsylvania radio station 94 WYSP’s The Danny Bonaduce Show, SAMMY HAGAR (CHICKENFOOT, ex-VAN HALEN) reveals that he will support…
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METALLICA’s official web site has been updated with the following message: “Jaco Pastorius has long been regarded as one of, if not the, most influential bass guitarist of all time and as some of you may know, is Robert’s [Trujillo, METALLICA bassist] personal hero.
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Sweden?s THE HAUNTED have just kicked off an intense string of touring this week as main support act for the almighty SLAYER and have now…
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Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with OVERKILL vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth, prior to the band’s headlining Killfest performance at the…
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Covering SEPULTURA’s ‘Slave New World’ off of Chaos A.D. live, TRIVIUM – with bassist/ videographer Paolo Gregoletto at the helm – have made an official…
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Hell bent on world domination, Midwest thrash maniacs VINDICATOR are preparing to hit the road in support of their upcoming sophomore album, The Antique Witcheries,…
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