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To Vote for Joan Jett or Another Nominee Go To RockinTown.com Hall of Fame. In every pre-fab Rock outfit there is usually some glimmer of talent. The Runaways, created by producer Kim Foley, to be the female version of the Ramones, featured both Lita Ford and Joan Jett. Despite being big in Japan and recording…
Breaking Benjamin rule Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated December 14th) with “Awaken.” It’s the band’s eighth #1 overall on the survey but their first chart-topper since 2020, when “Far Away,” featuring Scooter Ward (Cold), led for three weeks. “Working on this song has been something new and exciting for all of us, I believe,”offered guitarist Jasen…
Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain has announced his retirement from touring. The 72-year-old musician, a member of Maiden for more than four decades, concludes his run with a (12/7) concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “It is with both sorrow and joy, I announce my decision to take a step back from the grind of the extensive touring lifestyle,” stated…
All That Remains have set “Antifragile,” their tenth studio album, for release on January 31st. It’s the follow-up to 2018’s “Victim Of The New Disease” and will include the four singles that band has already released: “Divine,” “Let You Go,” “No Tomorrow” and “Forever Cold.” “It’s been six years for All That Remain to complete a new album. “It has been a long time coming…
Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal will release the 14-track instrumental album, “Bumblefoot …Returns!,” on January 24th, nearly thirty years after his debut solo instrumental album, “The Adventures Of Bumblefoot.” The lead single is “Simon In Space.” “From an early age, my passions were guitar and astrophysics, cosmology — the song ‘Simon In Space’ merges the two. Simon is my cat, haha;…
12/2 Slipknot Drummer Is #1 Modern Drummer magazine’s readers vote former Sepultura and current Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande as the #1 Metal drummer in the publication’s Readers’ Poll. 12/3 Falling In Reverse Cancel U.K. Tour Falling In Reverse are forced to cancel dates of their U.K. Tour after frontman Ronnie Radke (pictured) is denied entry into the country because the…
Sick Puppies: Creature “We are all familiar with what it means to ‘take the bull by the horns,’ but to ‘wave the bull’ is a different take on approaching life’s most difficult times,” wrote the band (pictured above). “To wave the bull is to provoke, embrace, and surrender to the battles that will inevitably scar…
Queensyche guitarist Michael Wilton has released his solo album, “Volume 1,“ via Rat Pak Records. “I’m always writing songs,” noted Wilton. “And some of the songs, just depending on my mood and whatever, they don’t fit Queensryche. And I just decided to kind of work on ’em and get ’em together. And I found some guys that fit with…
To Vote for Judas Priest or Another Nominee Go To RockinTown.com Hall of Fame. After Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and especially Alice Cooper, it seemed as though Rock had gone as far as it could. Wrong! Heavy Metal went further, faster and harder, often with violent or satanic imagery. Beginning in ’73 Judas Priest featured…
Breaking Benjamin has shared the official lyric video for its latest single, “Awaken.” “Working on this song has been something new and exciting for all of us, I believe,” offered guitarist Jasen Rauch. “We’ve been able to explore more of who we are traditionally while at the same time push boundaries and try things we haven’t done…