NITA STRAUSS Opens Up About 'Restrictions' With Writing Music For Lead Singers

ALICE COOPER guitarist Nita Strauss will release her sophomore solo album, “The Call Of The Void”, on July 7 via Sumerian Records. The LP is a star-studded affair featuring guest vocals from DISTURBED’s David Draiman, ARCH ENEMY’s Alissa White-Gluz, HALESTORM’s Lzzy Hale, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE’s Chris…

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EP Premiere: To Descend – ‘Mindless Birth’

The ever-prolific Rogga Johansson returns with — wait for it — more death metal, this time in the form of a new EP from To Descend. Hear it here.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Concrete Cowboys – Buggin

People talk about new waves of this, that and the other all the time, but it really is hard not to feel some sense of excitement about all that’s happening…

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Legendary Italian Composer Fabio Frizzi Revisits Cult Horror Classic with ‘Zombie: Composer’s Cut’

Decibel caught up with the Italian maestro for a deep dive into his career and relationship with the prolific Fulci, a deep analysis into building a creepy score and a re-examination on all things Zombie.
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Fender Custom Shop Fat ’60s Strat Pickup Set | Fender

Fender Custom Shop Fat ’60s Strat pickups deliver sweet 1960s single-coil Stratocaster sound with plenty of crisp articulation. The overwound design gives these pickups added low-end punch for an extra…

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Blossom

PUPIL SLICER’s debut album was incredibly easy to love. Brittle, unpredictable and extreme, “Mirrors” satisfied many requirements: from blistering, angular grindcore, to artful, ornate sludge, via various eruptions of a disruptive, electronic disposition. Difficult to pin down, and as likely to tour…

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AC/DC's BRIAN JOHNSON Is Looking Forward To Playing POWER TRIP Festival: 'The Juices Are Running Again'

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson can’t wait to party alongside his old pals as rock and roll royalty get pumped up about this year’s Power Trip festival.
AC/DC is among the headliners on a bill of veteran rockers who will take to the stage in California October 6-8. It will be the iconic Australian band’s…

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The Hellfreaks: Journey To The Next Chapter

Pitch Black Sunset. What words are conjured up when spoken? Perhaps imagery of a dark beach with black sand adorning dark waves. Maybe dark shores on a bay where the…

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Nuno Bettencourt once played through Eddie Van Halen’s rig, but said it was “a horrible nightmare”

“That was the biggest bitch slap of all time, when you realize, ‘Holy shit, it’s all about you. It’s all about your fingers,’” the Extreme virtuoso told Rick Beato

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How Gibson developed the mini-humbucker, its underrated ‘other’ pickup

Small size, big tone, and maybe just the sound you were looking for all along. After all these years in the shadow of the PAF, we trace the history of the unsung hero of pickups

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