Watch John 5 cover Mötley Crüe’s Too Fast For Love to celebrate the album’s 41st anniversary
The band’s new live guitarist – seen wielding a Floyd Rose-equipped Goldie Telecaster – continues to test out Mötley Crüe material ahead of their upcoming tour next year
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Full Album Premiere: Witchunter ‘Metal Dream’
Italian new wave heavy metallers Witchunter stream new album Metal Dream (Dying Victims) via Decibel. Power and the Glory!
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KURT COBAIN's 1989 Stage-Played, Smashed And Signed Guitar Used On NIRVANA's First U.S. Tour Sells For $486,400
Julien’s Auctions, the acclaimed auction house to the stars, held on Friday, November 11 through Sunday, November 13 their headline-making “Icons And Idols: Rock ‘N’ Roll” auction featuring an incredible line-up of over 1,500 lots featuring memorabilia, wardrobe, musical equipment, jewelry and more…
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EP REVIEW: Ritual Blood of the West – Nytt Land
For two genres that clearly have close roots, people can be surprised when country and folk music from different parts of the world are blended together. As country in itself…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Disenlightenment – Mourning
Come on, you know what this sounds like. The band are called MOURNING, the album’s called Disenlightenment and it has a central overarching theme of “distrust, exhaustion and contempt of…
Read more » The 17-string bass Elwood Francis played during a ZZ Top show was a cheap Chinese knockoff of Jared Dines' 18-string Ormsby
Dines called out the “ripoff” guitar on Instagram, to which Francis responded: “The joke’s on me ‘cause I have to play that bootleg POS!”
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EP REVIEW: Becoming – Hit Like A Girl
Embracing change is one thing, but going from melodic alt pop to metallic hardcore is quite another. However, Nicolle Maroulis and their bandmates in HIT LIKE A GIRL have done…
Read more » Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed 1973 Fender Mustang sells for nearly $500,000 at auction
The sunburst offset was smashed in 1989, and its remains were swapped for a Gibson SG after Cobain’s guitar-destroying performance left him without an instrument to play
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ALBUM REVIEW: Scar Echoes – Dysgnostic
To many checking out the first DYSGNOSTIC album, Scar Echoes, you’d be mistaken for assuming this is an especially impressive debut from a new act. In fact, the band that…
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MATS BJÖRKMAN On 'Sweet Evil Sun': 'If You Don't Like This Album, You Don't Like CANDLEMASS'
By David E. Gehlke
A Tony Iommi guest spot does not an album make, but it sure helps when getting some long-overdue recognition from the Recording Academy. Legendary Swedish doom metal pioneers CANDLEMASS earned a Grammy nomination for “Astorolus — The Great Octopus”, a cut from their 2019 “The Door…