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Country singer Mickey Guyton joined METALLICA on stage on September 24 at the Global Citizen Festival in New York City’s Central Park to perform the band’s classic power ballad “Nothing Else Matters”. On Sunday (October 2), Guyton took to her Twitter to share a video of her rehearsing with METALLICA…

L.A. GUNS, featuring singer Phil Lewis and guitarist Tracii Guns, has set “Black Diamonds” as the title of its new studio album. This will be the fourth studio album since the much welcome reunion of the band’s core foundation of Lewis and Guns. It will follow the well-received studio albums “The Mi…

Sahg madmen Mads Lilletvedt and Olav Iversen riff mightily with an exclusive track-by-track of new album, Born Demon, for Decibel.
The post Mads Lilletvedt & Olav Iversen (Sahg) Detail New Album Born Demon Track By Track appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

This past Thursday (September 29), SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor answered questions posed by schoolchildren for an appearance on BBC Sounds with host Craig Charles.
When one child asked whether SLIPKNOT has songs that change time signatures, Taylor replied: “‘Vermillion’ [2004] is actually a song t…

Sebastian Bach and Ronnie Radke have engaged in a war of words on Twitter over FALLING IN REVERSE’s decision to cancel a festival appearance due to “missing” laptops.
Just hours before FALLING IN REVERSE was supposed to appear at the WIIL Rock festival on Saturday, September 24 at Lake County Fairgr…

In a new interview with Las Vegas’s KOMP 92.3 radio station, Sully Erna was asked what happened to GODSMACK’s previously announced plan to release “a full-length rock record” as well as “a really cool vibey acoustic album or EP.” Erna responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, a couple o…

Legendary drummer Carmine Appice will stage a new show, “Carmine Appice Diaries”, on December 1 at The Box 2.0 (right next door to Boca Black Box) in Boca Raton, Florida. The event is being billed as “a true rock history and entertaining experience — stories you need to hear as a rock fan….with a li…

Neo-classical guitarist Chris Impellitteri has once again dismissed suggestions that he is an “Yngwie Malmsteen clone,” saying that he views himself as much more of a child of players like Al Di Meola blended with a Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.
Impellitteri first made his mark in 1987 with the…

While a solid majority of up ‘n’ coming UK death metal bands seem to be firmly devoted to the old-school way, there are still plenty of state-of-the-art brutes available too. Scotland’s GODEATER may not have registered too strongly on the mainstream metal radar, but despite their lowly DIY status, t…