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AREJAY HALE Hopes To Release Next HALESTORM Album In 2025 During an appearance on the latest episode of The VORTX Podcast with host Ethan Jackson, HALESTORM drummer Arejay Hale was asked when fans can expect to hear new music from the band. Arejay responded (as transcribed ...

LOLLAPALOOZA To Make History As First Major U.S. Festival To Power Main Stage Solely On Hybrid Battery System Lollapalooza is excited to announce that this year’s Main Stage, sponsored by T-Mobile, will be powered solely and completely on a hybrid battery system, ...

NIGHTWISH Releases Tenth 'Yesterwynde' Making-Of Episode Symphonic metal veterans NIGHTWISH have released the tenth part of a documentary about the making of the band’s upcoming album, “Yesterwynde”, due on September 20, 2024 via Nuclear Blast. It

THE EXPLOITED Frontman WATTIE BUCHAN: 'I Wanna Do An Album Before I Die' In a new interview with Serbia’s Agoraphobic News, THE EXPLOITED frontman Walter David “Wattie” Buchan was asked about the possibility of a new studio album from him and his ...

VOIVOD's Official Documentary To Receive World Premiere At Montreal's FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL VOIVOD’s long-awaited official documentary, “We Are Connected”, will receive its world premiere tonight (Monday, July 29) at the Fantasia ...

MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT On OPETH's Next Studio Album: 'We've Been Working On Stuff' In a new interview with Greece’s metal TV show “TV War”, OPETH leader Mikael Åkerfeldt was asked if he is “allowed” to speak about the band’s ...

Watch: TED NUGENT Performs At 2024 York State Fair Fan-filmed video of Ted Nugent’s July 28 performance at the York State Fair on the Bobcat Of York Grandstand Stage in York, Pennsylvania can be seen below. In 2023, the now-75-year-old outspoken conservative rocker ...

AVANTASIA Announces 'Here Be Dragons' Album, Spring 2025 European Tour EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet’s long-running AVANTASIA project will embark on a European tour in the spring of 2025. AVANTASIA has come to be known as the trailblazing genre flagship around

ANVIL's LIPS: 'We Were One Of The Very First Metal Bands To Play In America' In a new interview with Victor Ruiz of Signals From Mars, frontman Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL addressed the fact that his band never quite hit it ...

New AMORPHIS Album Could Arrive In Fall Of 2025 In a recent interview with Loud TV, AMORPHIS keyboardist Santeri Kallio spoke about the progress of the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2022’s “Halo” album. He said (as transcribed by ...