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Former MACHINE HEAD and current VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel played his first show with TESTAMENT last night (Saturday, May 27) at the Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Demmel is filling in for TESTAMENT’s regular lead guitarist Alex Skolnick, who is sitting out some of the band’s spr…

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn joined ANTHRAX on stage Saturday night (May 27) at the Milwaukee Metal Fest at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to perform the classic ANTHRAX song “I Am The Law”. Video of his appearance can be seen below.
Flynn previously played “I Am The Law” with…

Keanu Reeves’s 1990s and early 2000s grunge band DOGSTAR played its first concert following a two-decade-long hiatus on Saturday (May 27) at the BottleRock music festival in Napa Valley, California. Reeves and his bandmates — singer-guitarist Bret Domrose and drummer Rob Mailhouse — debuted new musi…

MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEF LEPPARD played the second show of the European leg of their “The World Tour” this past Thursday night (May 25) at SparkassenPark in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Fan-filmed video of MÖTLEY CRÜE’s performance can be seen below.
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s setlist was as follows:
01. Wild Side
02. S…

British extreme metal titans CRADLE OF FILTH have entered Grindstone Studio in Suffolk, U.K. to begin recording their new album.
On Thursday (May 25), the band shared a few photos from the studio on social media and wrote in an accompanying message: “We’re on our way Filthlings! From [CRADLE drummer…

Fan-filmed video of the fifth show of METALLICA’s “M72” world tour, which took place Friday night (May 26) at Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, Germany can be seen below.
The trek, which launched in late April in Amsterdam, sees the band playing two nights in every city it visits — with each “No Repeat…

At this year’s Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio, AVENGED SEVENFOLD bassist Johnny Christ spoke to Bodhi of the 99.7 The Blitz radio station about the band’s upcoming album “Life Is But A Dream…”, which is set to arrive on June 2 via Warner. Regarding whether the LP was easy to put together, c…

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE performed live for the first time in more than three years last night (Friday, May 26) at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to the Columbus gig, Josh Homme and his bandmates played one gig in early 2020, their first since 2018.
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE’s 11-so…

SKID ROW singer Erik Grönwall has shared a new video blog in which he discusses the band’s decision to cancel the remaining dates on its Australian tour, as well as a Japanese tour, because of his flu-like symptoms.
SKID ROW initially scrapped its May 17 concert in Brisbane due to Erik’s illness but…