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Corey Taylor, vocalist in both Stone Sour and Slipknot, is rather bold when it comes to his mixed feelings about returning to action with Slipknot. The band will be touring with a series of shows this summer which will be the first gigs since bassist Paul Gray’s death in May 2010. Donnie Steele will be …
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When it was announced late last month that Between the Buried and Me vocalist Tommy Rogers would be releasing his debut solo album under the name Thomas Giles, my expectations for it weren’t exactly lofty. After all, these kinds of things usually fall into the “vanity project” category, and I’ve been let down by them …
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DEAD NEON is the primitive nuclear doom metal project of Las Vegas poet Jarret Keene. Inspired by a morbid tour of the Nevada Test Site with only GOATLORD’s Distorted Birth and LEONARD COHEN’s The Future loaded on a half broken iPod, the music of DEAD NEON conjures a dreadful world ravaged by atomic conflict where …
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When Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979, metal fans were concerned about the future direction of their favorite gloomy Englishmen. When ex-Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio took the reins of Sabbath, there was slight trepidation, to say the least. It turned out that the Dio-era led to arguably the creative highpoint of Sabbath, with …
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