CHUCK BILLY, WITH NEW BOOK OUT, TALKS BEATING CANCER, HIS NATIVE AMERICAN ROOTS AND WHAT’S NEXT FOR TESTAMENT
Even if Chuck Billy wasn’t the frontman of Testament, one of the most successful and influential bands in thrash metal, his life story would be worth telling in a book. His father was a full-blooded ...
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GREEK SYMPHONIC DEATH METAL BAND SEPTICFLESH LANDS STATESIDE
Greek masters Septicflesh have brought their symphonic death metal assault across the Atlantic Ocean, performing as special guests of Arch Enemy and The Black Dahlia Murder for the Wrath Across North...
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ANGELS ON THE BATTLEFIELD SHED LIGHT ON THE STRUGGLE WITHIN
Conjuring dragons and sorcerers, the Los Angels symphonic and progressive instrumental metal band Angels On The Battlefield treads common metal ground. But below the medieval imagery, a more personal...
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METAL SINGERS PUT NEW TWIST ON ‘TRANSFORMERS’ SOUNDTRACK
Six years after the country was consumed with the death of JR Ewing on the TV drama “Dallas” in 1980, another character’s demise was rattling a different fanbase: Optimus Prime, the altruistic leader ...
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VENOM CELEBRATES ‘DANGEROUS’ NEW ALBUM; LISTENING PARTY SET FOR BROOKLYN
Venom, heralded as the founders of black metal and a crucial influence on countless other sub-genres, are pushing the edges of their own rather extreme parameters on their 16th album, "Into Oblivion,"...
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DEICIDE’S DECADES OF BLASPHEMY SHOCK THE BAND ITSELF
With song titles like "Death to Jesus" and a frontman with a penchant for burning an inverted cross on his forehead, the most shocking thing that death metal pioneers Deicide have done, according to d...
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BARONESS ON AVOIDING REPETITION, AIRBNB RECORDING AND ACCESSIBLE PROG
Whether sequestering themselves in an Airbnb to make an album or dropping down to smaller venues to play shows with the setlists curated by the audience, Baroness, six albums into its career, is not g...
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ULI JON ROTH ON THREE-HOUR, MULTIMEDIA LIVE SHOW, HIS LOVE OF TEACHING AND A GIFT FROM KIRK HAMMETT
Uli Jon Roth, the German-born guitarist noted for inventing his own guitar, an early-career run with the Scorpions and a style that has influenced the likes of Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Yngwie Mal...
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ANTHRAX AND BLACK LABEL SOCIETY BRING METAL MAYHEM TO BETHLEHEM
Photos by Keith Perks Anthrax, one of the Big Four bands of thrash metal, and co-headliner Black Label Society, the band fronted by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, reprised their summer ...
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WILKES-BARRE IS HELL-BENT FOR HALFORD AS JUDAS PRIEST CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF METAL
Review and photos by Keith Perks Judas Priest embarked on its North American 50 Heavy Metal Years tour earlier this month and made a stop at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Oct. 19. ...
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