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KERRY KING Announces First-Ever Solo Headlining Tour With MUNICIPAL WASTE And ALIEN WEAPONRY Following his recent tour with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON and his first European headline tour earlier this year, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King and his new band will hit the road for the

NIGHTWISH's TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN Finds The Traditional Pop Song Structure 'Tedious And Boring' In a new interview with Benni of Thomann Music, NIGHTWISH keyboardist and main songwriter Tuomas Holopainen spoke about his knack for writing long songs that do not ...

APOCALYPTICA's PERTTU KIVILAAKSO Had 'Tears' In The Studio While Playing Along To CLIFF BURTON's 'The Call Of Ktulu' Tracks APOCALYPTICA’s lead cellist Perttu Kivilaakso spoke to Australia’s Metal-Roos about the band’s cover of

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM's ERIK 'A.K.' KNUTSON Still Dreams Big: 'We Want To Get To That Next Rung Of The Ladder' By David E. Gehlke The quality and even occasional brilliance of FLOTSAM AND JETSAM’s first two and now last three albums are not in ...

MARTY FRIEDMAN Says His Autobiography Addresses 'A Lot Of Unanswered MEGADETH Questions' On a recent episode of the “Talk Louder” podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist “Metal Dave” Glessner and lifelong hard rock/metal vocalist Jason ...

DISTURBED's DAN DONEGAN Mourns Death Of His Father DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan is mourning the death of his father. Earlier today (Monday, September 30), the 56-year-old musician, who formed DISTURBED 30 years ago under the band’s original name BRAWL, took to ...

Original ANVIL Guitarist DAVE ALLISON Dies At 68 Original ANVIL guitarist Dave Allison has passed away at the age of 68, reportedly after a battle with cancer. According to The Vinyl Frontier Canada, ANVIL said in a statement: “We’d like to send our deepest ...

SERJ TANKIAN: 'If You're Going To Be An Actual Artist, You Have To Have Honesty' In a new interview with Chasta and Baby Huey of San Francisco Bay Area’s 107.7 The Bone radio station, SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian, whose 2021 documentary ...

KREATOR's MILLE PETROZZA Doesn't Believe Grunge Was Responsible For Killing Metal In Early 1990s In a new interview with Kahler Guitar And Bass Bridges, guitarist/vocalist Miland “Mille” Petrozza of German thrash metal veterans KREATOR spoke about how ...

SKILLET's JOHN COOPER: 'I Always Thought Me And CHESTER BENNINGTON Were Gonna Eventually Be Good Friends' During an appearance on The Chuck Shute Podcast, SKILLET frontman John Cooper was asked for his opinion on LINKIN PARK’s decision to recruit DEAD ...