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Following on from Steve Vai's admission that he was “a bit of a prima donna” during his stint in Whitesnake in a story that made the news last week, Adrian Vandenberg has revealed that his one time six-string partner apologized to him for his behaviour during their tenure in David Coverdale's rock behemoths.
Vandenberg made the revelation during a chat with eonmusic about Vandenberg's new album, Sin.
BMG and Niji Entertainment Group Inc. have partnered to issue Limited Edition Deluxe CD & LP box sets of Ronnie James Dio’s final four studio albums on September 22.
Titled The Studio Albums: 1996-2004, the set will include Angry Machines (1996), Magica (2000), Killing The Dragon (2002), and Master Of The Moon (2004). The LP set is housed in a sideloading box with newly created art on five 180g...
Nuclear Blast Records is reissuing Slayer’s final album, 2015’s Repentless on Transparent Red with Solid Orange and Black Splatter vinyl and orange cassette on October 13.
Repentless was BraveWords #1 album of 2015. The album peaked at #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and acheived Gold certification in Poland (10,000 units sold).
Former Accept and current U.D.O. / Dirkschneider vocalist, Udo Dirkschneider, was interviewed by Chaoszine before the band's headline show at Lisää Löylyä festival in Laihia, Finland on June 10.
U.D.O. - singer Udo Dirkschneider and his son Sven (drums), a guitar duo consisting of Andrey Smirnov and Fabian Dee Dammers plus bass player Peter Baltes - will release their new studio album, Touchdown, on August 25 via Atomic Fire Records.
Just days after their outstanding appearance at Alcatraz Festival – Belgian metallers Hunter have released a lyric video for the title track of their new album Rebel Angels Rise.
Earlier this month, the band released a single for the song "Wicked". The new album will be out on September 2, and is already available for preorder on Bandcamp
Canada's The Metal Voice spoke to Grim Reaper guitarist and co-founder Nick Bowcott last year about the passing of his bandmate and friend Steve Grimmett in August 2022
In the chat, Bowcott told The Metal Voice how he planned to assist the Grimmett family with the funeral and aftermath expenses. The tribute cover / video for "See You In Hell" has now been released along with the following message and can be viewed below.
On August 4, Marty Friedman joined his former band, Megadeth, onstage during their performance at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival. Friedman took part in four songs – “Trust”, “Tornado Of Souls”, “Symphony Of Destruction”, and “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due”.
Megadeth's guitarist, Kiko Loureiro, has shared the recap video below, featuring behind the scenes footage from the day.
Following an ambitious multi-year tour that saw the band bring their heavy metal power to Europe, Canada and the US, the Australian heavy metal band, Elm Street, finally returns with their third studio album, The Great Tribulation.
The album will be released as CD Digipak, Ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats on October 27 via Massacre Records,
Royal Hunt have released a video for "Thorn In My Heart", a track from their new studio album, Dystopia - Part II, out now via King Records (Japan/SE Asia) and NorthPoint Productions (EU/N & S America).
André Andersen: “The working title for this track was 'Betrayal' and if you're familiar with the book Fahrenheit 451, then you probably know the part in which the main character got home and discovers that he's been betrayed by the very person he considered to be his only family.
US power metal band Vainglory, featuring vocalist Kate French (Chastain) and shred guitarist Corbin King recently signed to Animated Insanity Records (USA) and No Dust Records (Netherlands). Both labels are responsible for the joint re-issue of Vainglory's long out of print albums, their 2008 debut album Vainglory and their 2019 second album Manifesting Destiny as a 2-in-1 re-mastered CD package. The official release was on July 28th, 2023.