General Music News

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A thread dedicated to all the news from the music world, instead of creating multiples thread about specific bands or technical novelties.

Longtime HELIX Drummer GREG 'FRITZ' HINZ Dead At 68

Longtime HELIX drummer Greg "Fritz" Hinz has died after a nearly year-long battle with cancer. He was 68 years old. Hinz joined HELIX in 1982 and stayed in the band until 1996, before returning to the group 13 years later. Earlier today (Friday, February 16),HELIX frontman Brian Vollmer posted...

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JETHRO TULL's IAN ANDERSON To Guest On OPETH's Next Album

JETHRO TULL founder Ian Anderson will make a guest appearance on the next album from the Swedish progressive metal band OPETH. The veteran flutist, singer, songwriter and guitarist, who will turn 77 in August, revealed his contribution to the OPETH LP while talking to Italy's "Mystery Tour"...

blabbermouth.net

GUS G. On Being Approached To Audition For MEGADETH: 'That Was A Discussion That Basically Didn't Go Anywhere'

In a new interview with The Logan Show, Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G., who spent eight years as a hired gun in Ozzy Osbourne's solo band, confirmed that he was approached about auditioning for MEGADETH in late 2014. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "What happened was [then-MEGADETH...

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SIX BY SIX Feat. SAXON, SAGA Members: 'Beyond Shadowland' Album Due In April

SIX BY SIX, the progressive power trio comprising Ian Crichton (SAGA),Nigel Glockler (SAXON) and Robert Berry (3.2),will release its sophomore album, "Beyond Shadowland", on April 26 via InsideOut Music. The band reconvened in Berry's own Soundtek Studios in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2023 to...

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INFINITY'S ASHES Feat. QUEENSRŸCHE's CASEY GRILLO And Guitar Virtuoso ANGEL VIVALDI: 'To Live In What Exists' Single Released

INFINITY'S ASHES, the new project featuring QUEENSRŸCHE/ex-KAMELOT drummer Casey Grillo, guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi and singer Roman Grey, has released the official music video for its second single, "To Live In What Exists". The track comes seven months after the arrival of INFINITY'S ASHES'...

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The 11 most WTF collaborations in rock history

Bruce Dickinson and Mr Bean? Ozzy and Miss Piggy? Metallica and Ja Rule? Prepare to cringe at these heroically wrong-headed collaborations

www.loudersound.com

 

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Just for laughs

'I Really Have No Desire to Do Anything Different': Kerry King Explains Why His New Band Will Be an 'Extension' of Slayer'

'If I wasn't in Slayer, I would be a Slayer fan.'

www.ultimate-guitar.com

 

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to guest on upcoming Opeth album

Swedish prog rockers Opeth are believed to have been working on a new studio album for the past year

www.loudersound.com

 

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ACOD - Announce And Detail Sixth Full Length Effort

International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives.

metalstorm.net

All For Metal - Premiere Scorpions Cover For 'Rock You Like A Hurricane'

International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives.

metalstorm.net

Freedom Call - New Tour Dates Confirmed

International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives.

metalstorm.net

Kamelot - To Headline European Tour In Fall

International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives.

metalstorm.net

Helloween - Ink Deal With Reigning Phoenix Music

International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives.

metalstorm.net

 

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JETHRO TULL Parts Ways With Guitarist JOE PARRISH-JAMES

JETHRO TULL has announced the departure of guitarist Joe Parrish-James. Parrish-James will officially exit the band at the end of February to concentrate on his own band ALBION, which recently released a new album, "Lakesongs Of Elbid". He will be replaced by Jack Clark, who previously played...

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JETHRO TULL Parts Ways With Guitarist JOE PARRISH-JAMES

JETHRO TULL has announced the departure of guitarist Joe Parrish-James. Parrish-James will officially exit the band at the end of February to concentrate on his own band ALBION, which recently released a new album, "Lakesongs Of Elbid". He will be replaced by Jack Clark, who previously played...

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The album is really good but I guess you recorded it just before sign with Tull. Once the album has good reviews and attention everywhere you decide to left? come on… you can do both, record, touring with your band and touring with Tull, anyway…

 

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TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Keyboard Maestro VITALIJ KUPRIJ Dead At 49

Ukrainian-American maestro Vitalij Kuprij, a classically trained virtuoso who has played with progressive metal bands ARTENSION and RING OF FIRE and toured with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, has died at the age of 49. No cause of death has yet been revealed. Kuprij's passing was confirmed by his...

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Slayer reunites

 

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"What I love about the metal community is that you get to rage safely." Jada Pinkett Smith explains the unique challenges - and joy - she got from fronting her own metal band, Wicked Wisdom

At a time where there were virtually no prominent Black women fronting bands in the scene, Jada took a risk and started her own metal band

www.loudersound.com

 

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AL JOURGENSEN Is 'Completely Horrified' And 'Disgusted' By DONALD TRUMP And His MAGA Followers

In a new interview with Heavy Consequence, MINISTRY leader Al Jourgensen, whose 2018 album "AmeriKKKant" was a scathing assault on then-U.S. president Donald Trump and, by extension, the country and political system that put him in office, was asked how he feels about Trump's November rematch of...

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"Since black metal, what’s the next dangerous thing?": Ihsahn reflects on black metal's place in rock'n'roll history

Former Emperor frontman Ihsahn discusses how black metal maintains a rock tradition and why social media is hurting how we interact with some musicians

www.loudersound.com

 

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7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024

From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024

www.loudersound.com

 

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The 10 best heavy metal songs about Godzilla (and other Toho monsters, too)

Godzilla (plus Mothra, Rodan, Gamera and more) have long been beloved in the heavy metal scene. These 10 monstrous tracks prove it.

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7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024

From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024

www.loudersound.com

If this is the future of metal…God kill me now

 

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Interview of Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil for 'Karmacode' (2006).

“10 years ago no one in the US would bought an album by an Italian metal band. The idea doesn’t seem so strange now”: how Lacuna Coil served up a 2000s classic with Karmacode and went global in the process

In this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archive, Lacunca Coil look back on how they became Italy’s biggest ever metal band

www.loudersound.com

 

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Cobra Spell will be on tour this year. The dates are :

23/03 - DE, Siegen - Kulturhaus Lÿz
23/04 - ES, Barcelona - Sala Upload
24/04 - ES, Zaragoza - Sala Utopía
25/04 - ES, Valencia - Sala Peter Rock
26/04 - ES, Madrid - Sala Rockville
27/04 - ES, Valladolid - Sala Porta Caeli
28/04 - ES, Oviedo - Sala Gong
29/04 - ES, Santander - Sala Rock Beer the New
30/04 - ES, Bilbao - Sala Rocket
05/05 - BE, Diest - Hell
11/05 - DE, Heidering-Wittstock - Metal-Power Festival-Openair
22/06 - ES, Cartagena - Rock Imperium Festival III
03/07 - BR, Brasília, DF
04/07 - BR, Goiânia, GO
05/07 - BR, São Paulo, SP
06/07 - BR, Cuiabá, MT
07/07 - BR, Joinville, SC
12/07 - PY, Asunción, Paraguay
24/08 - DK, Kolding - Rock på Havnen
31/08 - ES, Jaén - Rock en Femenino
16/11 - FR, Marseille - South Troopers Festival