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Iced Earth will be touring North America starting next week, hitting the road with Volbeat, Hellyeah, and The Sixxis for an extensive 5-week trek. In regards to this upcoming tour, Jon Schaffer (rhythm, lead and acoustic guitars/backing vocals) comments: “I’m completely stoked, Volbeat is one of my all-time favorite bands, and Michael and the boys …
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Brendon Small’s Galaktikon is available now for purchase at www.brendonsmall.com! In celebration of the release, Revolver Magazine is pleased to give an exclusive prize pack of Brendon Small’s Galaktikon merch to a lucky winner. The prize pack features vinyl signed personally by Brendon Small himself, and a Brendon Small’s Galaktikon hoodie and t-shirt. Check out …
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CraveOnline.com and Brendon Small have unleashed a brand new track from the METALOCALYPSE co-creator’s new side project, Brendon Small’s GALAKTIKON. The new track, ‘On My Way’, is the closing track on the upcoming concept album. GALAKTIKON hits stores in late April 2012. Brendon Small’s GALAKTIKON: “A High Stakes Intergalactic Extreme Rock album”, will coincide with …
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It’s been a good 20+ years since the heyday of ” hair metal “, a genre which nearly disappeared when Nirvana’s Nevermind pulled the rug out from underneath everyone and drew the music industry’s attention off the Sunset Strip. I say hair metal “nearly disappeared” because it never really dropped off the face of the Earth. …
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FnA Records has uncovered another hidden gem and piece of music history. After turning down numerous recording contracts back in 1991, Royal Blood and their lost recordings finally get their due release. Royal Blood consists of world renowned guitarist and two time Grammy nominee Alex Masi, Billboard chart-topping songwriter and bassist Rocky Newton (MSG, Lionheart) …
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Swedish heavy metallers HAMMERFALL have reached another important milestone in their career! Clinching the highest first-week sales of their career in excess of 1,700 units, their new album, Infected, has debuted on the following three American Billboard charts: #16 Heatseekers chart; #33 Current Hard Music albums; #51 Top Hard Music albums. HAMMERFALL guitarist and founding …
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Now, thanks to a partnership between Gibson Guitar and Adult Swim, Metalocalypse fans can pick up their very own Dethklok “Thunderhorse” Explorer, the band’s new signature guitar from Gibson USA. That’s right: a real guitar. Gibson craftsmen collaborated with series co-creator – not to mention Berklee College of Music grad and Billboard chart-topping musician – …
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SLIPKNOT’s (sic)nesses DVD, which captures the band’s June 2009 performance in front of 80,000 maniacal fans at the storied Download Festival in the UK, debuted at #1 on the Billboard DVD chart. Slipknot’s M. Shawn Crahan (Clown), who is the architect of (sic)nesses, said. “(sic)nesses was one of the single hardest pieces of art for …
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna’s solo debut, “Avalon”, sold around 14,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 24 on The Billboard 200 chart. Erna told The Pulse of Radio in a recent interview that he considers“Avalon” a high point of his musical career to this point. “That has been …
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“Blood Of The Nations”, the new album from reformed heavy metal legends ACCEPT, sold around 2,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 187 on The Billboard 200 chart. The October 19 concert by ACCEPT at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California will be streamed live around …
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