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On August 19th, German thrash legends, Tankard, performed at the 2023 edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival. You can now watch professionally-filmed footage of the band's full set, courtesy of ARTE Concert.
Setlist:
Rectifier
The Morning After
Speaking with Metal Hammer, former Judas Priest guitarist and founder of KK's Priest, K.K. Downing, spoke bluntly about the fact he will never perform with Judas Priest again even though he did so during the band's induction to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2022.
Downing: "No. Before I started KK’s Priest, I asked if they’d consider me stepping back into my rightful place, because at one point they announced they were going out as a four-piece.
Metallica have shared more video from their concert at Stade Olympique in Montréal, QC, Canada, on August 11. "Leper Messiah" joins the previously released "Hardwired", and you can watch both clips below...
You can pre-order the full audio recording of the above-mentioned show on CD and/or digital...
Megadeth returned to Germany's Wacken Open Air 2023 and welcomed their former guitarist, Marty Friedman, on stage as a guest musician to play a great set at sundown.
Professionally-filmed video of the band performing "A Tout Le Monde", "Symphony Of Destruction", and "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
Edmonton’s Fall Of Earth will be hitting the road for their first coast-to-coast Canada Tour of 2023 and the fourth of the year since touring across Eastern Canada earlier this year. Venturing across the country in support of their sophomore album From The Ashes, released this past April, this forthcoming tour also welcomes rhythm guitarist Matthew Lindholm to enhance the band's live sound and new bassist Myles Packer to replace Aaron Winklmeier who is on the band's latest album.
Following their recent signing with AFM Records and a first single, "I Witness", taken off their upcoming new album, today, Bavarian modern metal act Dust Bolt has unleashed a music video for the thunderous album anthem "Sound And Fury"! The band will release their much-awaited, fifth studio album, titled Sound & Fury, on February 23, 2024.
February 2024 will see the Germans release their fifth album, Sound & Fury, via AFM Records, an album that refines and noisily redefines the Dust Bolt sound for a new era.
Redemption have released a video for “Seven Minutes From Sunset”, featured on their new album, I Am The Storm, out now via AFM Records.
Tracklisting:
I Am The Storm
Seven Minutes From Sunset
Remember The Dawn...
W.A.S.P. announce The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 deluxe 8LP boxset from their 'Capitol Years', with studio album half-speed mastering, LP of bonus tracks, 60 page book, posters and numbered certificate. The 7 Savage: 1984-1992 will be released on October 27 via Madfish, and is strictly limited to 2,000 copies worldwide.
Compiled with the full cooperation of Blackie Lawless, the box set also includes a 60-page book with exclusive and rare pictures from legendary metal photographers...
Fans of German metal commandos Primal Fear, listen up. Code Red is almost here. In advance of the record’s official unveiling tomorrow, Friday, September 1 via Atomic Fire, the band offers up a final appetizer with “Cancel Culture”. Accompanied by a captivating lyric video created by Ingo Spörl of Hard Media, the track is themed around a topic that has been heavily discussed in recent years.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s long-running traditional metal veterans, Icarus Witch, have released their new single, “Rise Of The Witches”.
When a band’s been featured on outlets like The Occult Unveiled podcast and Witches & Pagans Magazine in addition to the world’s biggest hard rock magazines, you can bet a new single called “Rise Of The Witches” isn’t going to follow the cliche Hollywood trope of Witches as evil monsters.