GREY DAZE, Chester Bennington’s pre-LINKIN PARK band, will release a new album, “The Phoenix”, on June 17 via Loma Vista Recordings. It is the follow-up to 2020’s “Amends”, which featured newly recorded music with remastered vocals from the group’s long out-of-print and largely undiscovered catalog….

On July 29, extreme metal masters ARCH ENEMY will unleash their 11th studio album, “Deceivers”, via Century Media Records. For fans who can’t wait for the record’s release, the band is now offering a new seven-inch single, “Sunset Over The Empire”, with the title track also appearing on “Deceivers”….

Ronnie James Dio would have turned 80 years old on July 10. Among the greatest heavy metal singers of all time, Dio’s career spanned five decades, touched millions of fans and pioneered his signature “devil’s horns,” one of the most popular hand gestures in the world. Dio also provided vocals and ly…

Fan-filmed video of BASTARDANE, the new band featuring drummer Castor Hetfield, son of METALLICA frontman James Hetfield, performing on May 13 at Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta, Georgia can be seen below.
The second leg of BASTARDANE’s “White Knuckle” U.S. tour will kick off on June 11 in Costa Mesa, C…

Professionally filmed video of METALLICA performing the song “Sad But True” on May 7 at Estádio Couto Pereira in Curitiba, Brazil can be seen below.
Curitiba was the fourth stop on METALLICA’s South American tour, which kicked off on April 27 in Santiago, Chile.
METALLICA played its first concert of…

A short video of SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera discussing “Superstition”, the first single from the band’s upcoming twelfth album, “Totem”, can be seen below. Due on August 5 via Nuclear Blast, the follow-up to 2018’s “Ritual” was recorded at Platinum Underground in Mesa, Arizona by John Aquilino an…

GHOST’s official tour photographer has shared an “unmasked” picture of all of the band’s Nameless Ghouls and their female keyboardists, The Ghoulettes.
Following the final arena date of GHOST’s European “Imperatour” Wednesday night (May 18) at Papp László Sportaréna in Budapest, Hungary, Ryan Chang,…

METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo is the featured guest on the latest episode of “The Ex-Man With Doc Coyle”, the podcast where BAD WOLVES and GOD FORBID guitar player Doc Coyle talks to professionals in the music world and other creative industries about the challenges and transitions of leaving mo…