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Eloy Casagrande On Leaving Sepultura For Slipknot

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Slipknot’s new drummer Eloy Casagrande has admitted his Sepultura departure was “complicated”.

Tagged as: 90s, Brazil, Eloy Casagrande, Jay Weinberg, metal, Sepultura, Slipknot, USA

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Slash Honoured To Have Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler On His Record

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Slash says it was a “huge honour” having AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler play on his record.

Tagged as: 80s, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Brian Johnson, Guns n Roses, metal, rock, Slash, Steve Tyler, USA

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Status Quo To Release 2008 Concert As Live Album

by Paul Cashmere

Status Quo will release ‘Vol. 3 – Live At Westonbirt Arboretum’ recorded in Tetbury, UK on 22 June 2008.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, metal, rock, Status Quo, UK, Vol. 3 – Live At Westonbirt Arboretum

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Story of the Year Are Coming Back To Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Story of the Year of the year will be back in Australia in August 2024, a year and a half after they were last here for Knotfest. It will be their ninth Australian tour.

Tagged as: 00s, Behind Crimson Eyes, Destroy All Lines, metal, rock, Senses Fail, Story Of The Year, USA

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Slipknot Announce New Member Eloy Casagrande

by Paul Cashmere

Brazilian drummer Eloy Casagrande has been officially announced as the new member of Slipknot replacing Jay Weinberg.

Tagged as: 20s, Eloy Casagrande, Infectious Grooves, Jay Weinberg, metal, rock, Sepultura, Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies, USA

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New Deep Purple Channel Old ‘Pictures of Home’ Vibe For New Song ‘Portable Door’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple are sounding like classic Deep Purple on the new song ‘Portable Door’. In fact, it feels a lot like ‘Pictures of Home’ from the ‘Machine Head’ album of 1972.

Tagged as: 1, 60s, 70s, 80s, Deep Purple, Machine Head, metal, Portable Door, rock, UK

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Tommy Henriksen’s Crossbone Skully Premieres ‘I Am The Wolf’

by Paul Cashmere

Tommy Henriksen, the guitarist for Alice Cooper and Hollywood Vampires, has premiered the video for his band Crossband Skully. Check out ‘I Am The Wolf’.

Tagged as: 20s, Alice Cooper, Crossbone Skully, Hollywood Vampires, metal, rock, Tommy Henriksen, USA

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Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens Helps Michael J Miller Band ‘Live It Up’

by Paul Cashmere

‘Live It Up’, the new song by MJM aka Michael J Miller Band features lead vocals from Judas Priest, KK’s Priest member Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens.

Tagged as: 20s, Canada, Judas Priest, KKs Priest, metal, Michael J Miller, MJM, Tim Ripper Owens

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Deep Purple To Release ‘=1’ Album

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple have been quietly working on another album titled ‘=1’.

Tagged as: 1, 60s, 70s, 80s, Deep Purple, metal, rock

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Kiki Wong Joins The Smashing Pumpkins After Global Casting Call

by Paul Cashmere

When Billy Corgan put the call out for a new guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins in January he was overwhelmed with applicants.

Tagged as: 90s, Billy Morgan, grunge, Kiki Wong, metal, rock, Smashing Pumpkins, USA

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Motley Crue Release ‘Dogs of War’ Single and Video

by Paul Cashmere

Motley Crue have a new song ‘Dogs of War’ and a video to go with it. The video was directed by Nick DenBoer based on a concept by Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee.

Tagged as: 80s, Dogs of War, metal, Motley Crue, Nick DenBoer, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, USA

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Alice Cooper Plays First Show Of 2024 For Pandemonium In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Alice Cooper is back touring with his first shows for 2024 now underway in Australia headlining the Pandemonium Rocks music festival.

Tagged as: 70s, Alice Cooper, metal, Pandemonium, rock, USA

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Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia To Miss Australian Tour

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Bring Me The Horizon’s guitarist Lee Malia is skipping the band’s Australian leg of their ‘NeX GEn Tour’ to spend time with his newborn.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Bring Me The Horizon, metal, rock, USA

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Living Colour Have No Plans To Record ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

by Paul Cashmere

On their most recent tour (and in Australia) Living Colour occasionally performed the Prince song made famous by Sinead O’Connor ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Living Colour and Sonic Universe singer Corey Glover says Living Colour have no plans to record the song.

Tagged as: 20s, Corey Glover, It Is What It Is, Living Colour, metal, Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Sonic Universe, USA

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Glenn Hughes To Perform 50th Anniversary Burn Tour For Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Glenn Hughes will return to Australia for the Burn tour in October to mark the 50th anniversary of his classic album induction into Deep Purple.

Tagged as: 70s, Burn, Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes, metal, rock, UK

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New Kurt Cobain Documentary Marks 30th Anniversary of His Death

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A new BBC documentary aims to “demystify” the tragic death of Kurt Cobain – 30 years after his death rocked the world.

Tagged as: 90s, Courtney Love, grunge, Kurt Cobain, metal, Nirvana, rock, USA

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David Draiman Disturbed at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday 12 November 2016 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Lzzy Hale Joins Disturbed As The Ann Wilson Fill-in At Knotfest

by Paul Cashmere

Disturbed are touring Australia on Knotfest and while the Ann Wilson duet ‘Don’t Tell Me’ is in the setlist, Ann Wilson is not. In her place, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm stepped in at Knotfest Melbourne.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Ann Wilson, Disturbed, Hailstorm, Heart, Knotfest, Lzzy Hale, metal, rock, USA

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Deep Purple Reveal UK Dates For End of 2024

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Deep Purple are hitting the road this November.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Deep Purple, metal, Pandemonium, Reef, UK tour

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Josh Homme Suggest Them Crooked Vultures Could Reform

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Josh Homme wants Them Crooked Vultures to reunite.

Tagged as: 10s, Dave Growl, Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones, Josh Homme, Led Zeppelin, metal, Queens Of The Stone Age, rock, Them Crooked Vultures, UK, USA

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Ian Paice of Deep Purple Reveals The Two Bands He Would Never Follow

by Paul Cashmere

When Deep Purple tour Australia for the Pandemonium Festival in April, there will go on before Alice Cooper and they are fine with that.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Deep Purple, Ian Paice, metal, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, UK

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Slipknot Will Headline Knotfest In Australia In 2025

by Paul Cashmere

Slipknot will return to Australia in 2025 for Knotfest.

Tagged as: 2025, 90s, Knotfest, metal, Slipknot, USA

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Bruce Dickinson Solo Album ‘The Mandrake Project’ Debut Top 10 Physical In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Dickinson fans in Australia have chosen the physical disc over streaming with Bruce’s ‘The Mandrake Project’ debuting at no 6 on the Physical album chart and at no 17 on the Vinyl chart.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, The Mandrake Project, UK

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Infectious Grooves To Release First New Music Since 2000

by Paul Cashmere

Infectious Grooves will have a new album soon, their first since ‘Mas Borracho’ in 2000.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Infectious Grooves, Jay Weinberg, metal, punk, Suicidal Tendencies, USA

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Slash To Release Blues Album

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Slash is seemingly set to release his blues rock solo album imminently.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, blues, Guns n Roses, metal, rock, Slash, USA

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Deep Purple’s Ian Paice Is The Only Member To Play On Every Album

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Paice of Deep Purple was right there at the very start of the band, from the first album ‘Shades of Deep Purple’ (1968) to the most recent ‘Turning To Crime’ (2021). He formed the band with Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Rod Evans and Nick Simper in 1969.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Deep Purple, Ian Paice, metal, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, UK

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Knotfest Playing Times Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The playing times for artists on. Knotfest Australia 2024 have been revealed for the three shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Tagged as: Australia, Brisbane, Disturbed, Knottiest, Melbourne, metal, music festival, Pantera, rock, Sydney

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Bring Me The Horizon Album Nears Completion

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Bring Me The Horizon’s delayed album, ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’, is “nearly finished”.

Tagged as: 00s, Bring Me The Horizon, metal, Post Human Next Gen, UK

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Mick Mars Open To Writing for Motley Crue

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Mick Mars would be willing to write new music for Mötley Crüe – despite his ousting and legal wrangle with his former bandmates.

Tagged as: 80s, glam, metal, Mick Mars, Motley Crue, rock, USA

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Ozzy Osbourne On His Kanye West Remarks

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Ozzy Osbourne has reflected on standing up to Kanye West. Earlier this month, Ozzy slammed West for using a sample of the Black Sabbath hit Iron Man without permission.

Tagged as: 00s, 70s, Black Sabbath, Kanye West, metal, Ozzy Osbourne, rock, UK, USA

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Slayer To Reunite

by Paul Cashmere

Slayer will reunite five years after the end of their farewell tour for two festivals in the USA.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Kerry King, metal, Slayer, USA

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