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British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who fronted IRON MAIDEN more than 20 years ago, was asked in a new interview with Rolling Stone if he was always thinking in the back of his head during his tenure with MAIDEN that at some point they would bring back Bruce Dickinson and that would be the en…

ALICE IN CHAINS’ classic sophomore album, “Dirt”, will be reissued for its 30th anniversary.
The LP, which was recently certified five times platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), will be made available as a deluxe box set limited to 3000 units, exclusive to the official a…

MACHINE HEAD played a surprise set at this year’s Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom.
Earlier today (Friday, August 12), three members of MACHINE HEAD — frontman Robb Flynn, bassist Jared MacEachern and drummer Matt Alston — who are in the U.K. reh…

In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, KING’S X frontman Doug “Dug” Pinnick spoke about the influence his band had on the grunge scene in the early 1990s. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “There was thing called drop-D tuning we did in ’88 when our first recor…

Excellent artwork inspired by an excellent album all dedicated to an excellent cause, Third World Posse is back!
The post Third World Posse Is Back With “Master of Puppets”-Inspired Artwork appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

DIO’s classic debut album, 1983’s “Holy Diver”, was reissued last month as “Holy Diver: Super Deluxe Edition” via Rhino. The four-CD boxed set comes with two versions of “Holy Diver”. The first is a new mix of the album made by Joe Barresi (TOOL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, SLIPKNOT). He used the origi…

A group of British politicians are calling for the members of BLACK SABBATH to be honored for their services to music.
A cross-bench selection of MPs (members of Parliament) have joined forces with the leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward, and the deputy leader, Councillor Brigid Jones and ha…

Legendary German hard rockers SCORPIONS have just released a new single, “Hammersmith”, through Universal Vertigo.
Hammersmith is an event venue located in the London district with the same name. Some artists who performed there were THE WHO, QUEEN, AC/DC, MOTÖRHEAD, METALLICA and SCORPIONS.
“Hammer…

German thrash metal veterans SODOM have released a new single, “1982”. The track is taken from the bonus CD of the box set version of the band’s upcoming 40th-anniversary album, “40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell Of Sodom”, which will arrive on October 28 through Steamhammer/SPV.
“1982” is a brand…