“Dio: Dreamers Never Die”, the first-ever career-spanning documentary on the life and times of legendary metal icon Ronnie James Dio, will have its television premiere on Showtime on December 1. It will also be available to stream via the Showtime app.
Executive-produced by Dio’s widow and longtime…

In a new interview with Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3, DISTURBED frontman David Draiman was asked if he and his bandmates are planning to hit the road “pretty hard” in support of their upcoming album, “Divisive”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Not a…

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In a new interview with the “Behind The Vinyl” podcast, former TYPE O NEGATIVE guitarist Kenny Hickey remembered TYPE O’s late frontman frontman Peter Steele who passed away in April 2010 from heart failure at the age of 48.
“For a long time, I was the one most likely to die, and then it switched ov…

All things considered, there aren’t too many things that are more metal than Udo Dirkschneider. Never mind that the German legend sang his guts out on those ageless and seminal ACCEPT classics back in the early ’80s, for the U.D.O. catalogue alone, he deserves some kind of award for consistency and…

MEGADETH’s cover version of JUDAS PRIEST’s “Delivering The Goods” is now available exclusively on Amazon Music.
Earlier today, MEGADETH shared a snippet of its rendition of the track on social media and it included the following message: “We’ve recorded our own rendition of @JudasPriest’s ‘Deliverin…

Best known as a reliable source of AOR and hard rock, FRONTIERS MUSIC have cautiously assembled a genuinely credible roster of heavy metal bands in recent times. Interestingly, the label seems to have a penchant for red-blooded, balls-to-the-wall heavy metal, rather than the shiny, upbeat power meta…