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Ozzy Osbourne has once again postponed his upcoming farewell tour dates in Europe and the UK. The trek will now take place in 2023. Judas Priest will still provide support. Says Ozzy in a statement: “Due to the ongoing uncertainty with full capacity events and travel logistics in much of Europe, we have come to

Ghost have announced plans to tour Europe and the UK in 2022. Support will come from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Twin Temple. Dates are below (via The PRP). Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 26 at 09:00am CET. Ghost recently released a new song, “Hunter’s Moon,” as part of the soundtrack for

Red Fang have released a cover of AC/DC’s 1980 classic, “Hells Bells.” The track will appear on the forthcoming Magnetic Eye Records Redux Series installment Back in Black [Redux]. Red Fang guitarist/vocalist Bryan Giles comments: “I saw AC/DC in 1988 at the TCC in Tucson, Arizona. It was the second arena rock show of my young life.  What

Megadeth’s highly-anticipated new album, The Sick, the Dying, and the Dead, will finally be released in the spring of 2022. This according to Megamastermind Dave Mustaine himself, who tells American Songwriter magazine that the record’s title refers not to the pandemic or his recent battle with cancer, but, rather, to the 14th century bubonic plague

Staind frontman Dr. Aaron Lewis, M.D. is the latest medical professional to allegedly have beaten COVID-19 using ivermectin, a drug used to prevent parasites in horses and other animals. The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals. According to FDA.gov, “Currently available data do

Rage Against the Machine have posted a statement condemning the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white teenager who murdered two men at a protest for racial justice last summer in Kenosha, WI. Accompanying an infamous photo of Rittenhouse crying in the court room during his testimony, the notoriously liberal band, speaking through their own social

Kid Rock has released “Don’t Tell Me How to Live,” his first new song since 2017. Unsurprisingly given his support for former president Donald Trump, his aversion to wearing masks and his casual use of homophobic slurs as insults, the lyrics of the song, which harks back to his early rap metal sound, serve as

Marilyn Mansons’ attorney believes that a “global mediation” with the plethora of women who have accused the shock rocker of assault is “in the cards,” Rolling Stone reports: “At a court hearing in Los Angeles, defense lawyer Stephen D. Rothschild started by saying Warner’s side was open to settlement discussions with the Jane Doe ex-girlfriend

The kids of The O’Keefe Music Foundation, which has become known over the years for its endearing videos of young music students covering hard rock and metal tunes — including Sepultura, Rammstein, Danzig, Clutch, Tool, Korn, and plenty of others — are back with a rousing rendition of the Slipknot anthem “Wait and Bleed,” from their eponymous 1999 debut. The video

On February 4th, Cannibal Corpse vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher will release a solo album, titled Corpsegrinder. The 10-song effort is co-produced by Nick Bellmore (Dee Snider/Kingdom of Sorrow) and Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed). The album features a guest appearance from Erik Rutan (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal) on the track “Acid Vat” and will be released through Jasta’s new label, Perseverance

Because these days Christmas marketing begins the moment Halloween ends, At the Movies, the Scandavian supergroup dedicated to covering songs from ’80s and ’90s film soundtracks, have released a cover of WHAM!’s holiday classic “Last Christmas.” Which is not in and of itself best known as a soundtrack song… but, well, ya know. Guitarist Chris

Just in time for the impending holiday season, Swedish heavy metal icons In Flames will reissue their classic albums from 1994-2008 that were previously unavailable and out-of-print. The CD collection comes out on November 26 via Nuclear Blast. The catalog reissues on CD include: Lunar Strain + Subterranean EP The Jester Race + Black-Ash Inheritance EP Whoracle Colony Clayman Reroute to Remain Soundtrack

Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis has a major hit on his hands with Ted Lasso, a show about a soccer coach. But in the new Foo Fighters music video, for the song “Love Dies Young,” he plays a completely different kind of coach… specifically, he plays what is clearly intended to be a(n admittedly

Your winter just got a healthy infusion of live death metal: Obscura, Abysmal Dawn, Vale of Pnath and Interloper have announced an extensive North American tour in February and March of 2022! The nearly seven-week run goes ALL over the U.S. (even Florida! but still no Montana, sorry) and eight cities in Canada, ensuring heshers

Nightwish paid tribute to late Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho during their performance in Oslo, Norway this past Sunday, November 14. On-stage monitors showed a photo of Laiho while the band performed their song “The Greatest Show on Earth.” You can watch fan-filmed footage of the tribute below. Nightwish keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen detailed his

Dream Theater have announce rescheduled dates for the tour they postponed this year. The new dates are below (via The PRP). Guitarist John Petrucci has said “wasn’t a unanimous decision.” Dream Theater released a new album,  A View From the Top of the World, on October 22. 02/02 Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center [tickets]02/04

Subtly. Elegance. Grace. Finesse. These are the kinds of adjectives often used to describe the music of the post-life metal band Genocide Pact… …and never have they been more appropriate than on the band’s latest single, “Deprive/Degrade.” Like the gentle, soothing plink-plink-plink sounds of rain hitting your windowsill in the night, “Deprive/Degrade” is a massage

Jinjer have released a new music video for “Disclosure!,” a track from their most recent album, Wallflowers. Bassist Eugene Abdukhanov explains: “The track ‘Disclosure!’ and the video itself is a very important video for Jinjer. Not only is it one of our favorite tracks on the new album as well as live, our ex-guitarist Dmitriy

When Megadeth let go of bassist David Ellefson earlier this year following a sex scandal, the band (mainman Dave Mustaine, really) commented that they had an “already strained relationship” with Ellefson, implying the scandal was just the final straw. Ellefson has now fired back at that assertion, indicating their working relationship was just fine but

New York brass collective Brass Against have apologized for the incident that saw frontwoman Sophia Urista pee on a fan’s face on stage during the band’s Welcome to Rockville performance on Thursday, November 11. Posting on Twitter, the band said: “We had a great time last night at Welcome to Rockville. Sophia got carried away.