KING DIAMOND Kicks Off European Tour At Germany’s ROCK HARD FESTIVAL (Video)

KING DIAMOND Kicks Off European Tour At Germany’s ROCK HARD FESTIVAL (Video)

KING DIAMOND kicked off its European tour this past Sunday, May 19 at the Rock Hard Festival at Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. KING DIAMOND‘s setlist was as follows: 01. The

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JASON NEWSTED: ‘I’m In Much Better Shape Than I Was At 37′

Pop-Break‘s Bill Bodkin recently conducted an interview with former METALLICA, VOIVOD and FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist and current NEWSTED frontman Jason Newsted. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Pop-Break: What is different about Jason Newsted — the

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RUSH Frontman Says SWEDEN ROCK Is ‘Test Case’ For Band Playing European Festivals

This week, Canadian rock legends RUSH will kick off the European leg of their 2013 “Clockwork Angels” tour. In June, the trek brings them to Sweden for the Sweden Rock Festival, marking the trio’s first appearance at a European festival

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WHITE WIZZARD: New Song Available For Streaming

“Strike The Iron”, a brand new song from Los Angeles metallers WHITE WIZZARD, can be streamed below. The track comes off the band’s third full-length album, “The Devils Cut”, which will be released on June 3 in Europe via Earache

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URIAH HEEP Bassist TREVOR BOLDER Dies At 62

Longtime URIAH HEEP bassist Trevor Bolder has died of cancer at the age of 62. Bolder joined HEEP in 1976 as the replacement for John Wetton and made his recording debut with the band on 1977′s “Firefly” LP. He played

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KORN Talks To FUSE About Return Of Original Guitarist HEAD

Fuse conducted an interview with KORN vocalist Jonathan Davis and guitarist Brian “Head” Welch at this year’s Rock On The Range festival, which took place May 17-19 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat

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ANTHRAX’s FRANK BELLO: Video Footage Of Buenos Aires Bass Clinic

ANTHRAX’s FRANK BELLO: Video Footage Of Buenos Aires Bass Clinic

ANTHRAX‘s Frank Bello took part in a bass clinic on May 13 in San Isidro, a residential suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. More video footage of his appearance can be seen below. Asked about his increased number of clinic tour

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METALLICA’s HETFIELD, TRUJILLO Talk Baseball On ‘SFG Live’

METALLICA’s HETFIELD, TRUJILLO Talk Baseball On ‘SFG Live’

METALLICA‘s James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo joined “SFG Live” on May 3 at ATT Park in San Francisco, home of baseball’s San Francisco Giants, to discuss Giants starting pitcher Barry Zito jamming with them at the band’s headquarters in San

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SISTER SIN: Debut Album To Be Reissued As CD+DVD Package With Bonus Material

SISTER SIN: Debut Album To Be Reissued As CD+DVD Package With Bonus Material

Swedish female-fronted heavy rockers SISTER SIN will have a newly remastered version of their first studio album, “Dance Of The Wicked”, released as a CD+DVD package on June 25 via Victory Records. The CD includes: * All eight tracks from

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RED FANG To Release New Album In The Fall

RED FANG return this fall with their as-yet-untitled third studio album on Relapse Records. The Portland-based group is currently in the studio finishing the disc with the producer Chris Funk (DECEMBERISTS) and mixer Vance Powell (THE WHITE STRIPES, RACONTEURS, KINGS

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