TESTAMENT and TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA guitarist Alex Skolnick has issued the following: “This past weekend, we lost RONNIE JAMES DIO, not only one of the best singers…
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Former SCARLET SINS drummer Elie Bertrand, who recently resurfaced with her new band HARBINGER alongside Scarlet Sins bandmate Cristina Bishop, is featured in a new…
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On Saturday April 3rd 2010 I Scream Records recorded and filmed LIFE OF AGONY’s performance at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, this was the…
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Drummer Matt Sorum (THE CULT, GUNS N’ ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER), guitarist Tracii Guns (L.A. GUNS, BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION), bassist Phil Soussan (OZZY OSBORNE, BILLY IDOL,…
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The Black Diamond Skye North American tour, featuring ALICE IN CHAINS, DEFTONES and MASTODON has announced a new Virginia date on the campus of George…
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In a media filled with grandstanding egomaniacs, only looking out for themselves, promotionally and/or financially (each town seems to have an FM affiliate populated by…
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TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick has posted the following message onhis official blog: “This past weekend, we lost Ronnie James Dio, not only one of the best singers in hard rock and heavy metal, but someone who was polite, well spoken and gentlemanly, something of an anomaly in a genre where ‘bad-boy’ behavior is embraced and expected of its frontmen.
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Headliners UNLEASHED, along with GWYDION, BORN FROM PAIN, GAMA BOMB and FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE are among the acts confirmed for Portugal’s Festival Metal Grandola being held…
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Video footage of NON-FICTION performing the BLACK SABBATH classic ‘Voodoo’ can now be seen below. Non-Fiction’s reunion show was filmed by Jay Bones from Viking…
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In what appears to be RONNIE JAMES DIO’s (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL, RAINBOW, ELF) final interview, Steve Simon from Texas’ 39 News spoke…
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Long-running Brazilian thrashers KORZUS have posted a video teaser for their new CD called Discipline Of Hate – check it out below:

Tonight’s edition of The Classic Metal Show welcomes PRETTY MAIDS vocalist Ronnie Atkins and author Joel Gausten to the show. A show update reads: “Atkins and…
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NWOBHM act TYGERS OF PAN TANG have issued the following update: “We are pleased to announced that we will again be playing with our old friends…
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