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Body Count have released a second entry from their recent contest to create a music video for “The Hate is Real.”  Whereas the original winner of the contest, 25-year-old Brooklynite Seby Martinez, made a sock puppet video that (as you can likely guess, given the phrase “made a sock puppet video”) leaned into the silly, this

David Lee Roth is a showman, a character, a one-of-a-kind entertainer. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagrees. And that includes his Van Halen successor, Sammy Hagar, who respects DLR’s legacy in the band. But, according to Hagar in a new chat with Brazil’s Inside With Paulo Baron, what you see with DLR is not

CHALLAHHHHH!!! Tonight, I, Axl Rosenberg, the single most important person in metal, return to the Metal Injection Livecast! You should listen — it’s as close to the voice of God as you’re ever gonna hear. Tune in tonight starting at 6:00pm Eastern (3:00PM Pacific Time, 11:00pm in London, 8:00am Wed in Sydney) and going until

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

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

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

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

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. The duo’s latest video finds them covering Aerosmith’s “Love in an Elevator,” along with the masked guitarist, Sidney Jake,

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

I’m way late to board the Employed to Serve train, but I feel as if it hasn’t fully left the station; I can still jump on the back and hitch a ride, right? I got hip to the band’s last album, Eternal Forward Motion (2019) towards the end of its cycle, but I’m right here

Marilyn Manson (né Brian Warner) has agreed to turn himself into authorities to face two misdemeanor assault charges, CNN reports. The charges stem not from the deluge of recent allegations that the shock rocker abused multiple women, but from an August 2019 show at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH, during which Manson allegedly spit on

Stöner are now streaming their debut album, Stoners Rule, in its entirety. The album will be released tomorrow (June 25) via via Heavy Psych Sounds. The band reunites former Kyuss members Brant Bjork (also ex-Fu Manchu) and Nick Oliveri (also ex-Queens of the Stone Age). Rounding out the line-up is the drummer Ryan Güt. In tomorrow’s

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

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 Rammstein, Danzig, Slipknot, Clutch, Tool and plenty of others — are back with a rousing rendition of the Sepultura classic “Roots Bloody Roots,” the de facto title track from 1996’s acclaimed

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

In the latest episode of their ongoing Anthrax 40 for 40 anniversary retrospective video series, Anthrax take a look back at their first album with John Bush, Sound of White Noise. There are plenty of interesting stories from the band members themselves — including Bush, Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frankie Bello, and Dan Spitz —

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

Metallica have announced their plans for celebrating this year’s thirtieth anniversary of The Black Album, and fortunately, they’re way bigger than just a batch of “sonically enhanced” whiskey. First up: as they’ve done for the anniversaries of all their previous classics, the band will reissue Metallica in a super-duper-extra-special deluxe edition. Consisting of fourteen CDs,

The Shadows Fall reunion show the band has been teasing for over a year is finally happening. The pioneering OG metalcore band, who last performed in 2015, will take the stage at their de facto hometown venue, The Palladium in Worcester, MA, on December 18. As of this wasn’t enough, the Shads will have an

After years of waiting through legal battles between band members, Fear Factory fans finally got a new album from the band on Friday, June 18, titled Aggression Continuum. Longtime vocalist Burton Seabell’s voice appears on the album despite his exit from the band last year. The album arrives with a video for the opening track,