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Slash is #1 on the Blues Album charts in the U.S. and the U.K. with “Orgy Of The Damned,” which also debuted at #2 on the U.S. Rock Albums Chart. For the album, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist collaborated numerous singers including AC/DC’s Brian Johnson for a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor,” featuring Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on the…
Mayhem festival will return as a single-destination event at Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino, CA on October 12th. It’s where Mayhem first began in ’08. Twenty-three bands will be performing including Bad Omens, Jinger, Poppy, Kittie and August Burns Red. Ticket Information The festival went on hiatus after low attendance in ’15. A planned ’20 revival was…
Category 7: Exhausted The band’s second single from their upcoming self-titled debut (scheduled to drop July 26th) features twin lead guitars and thrash beats. The lead single was “In Stitches.” Hammerfall: The End Justifies The track is from the band’s upcoming album, “Avenge The Fallen,” due on August 9th. “A strong album comes from an album…
On this day, Judas Priest played New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Rowdy concert goers trashed the venue doing over $250,000 in damage. As a result, Priest was banned for life. Here’s what happened… Before the show even began, the crowd was hurling beer bottles, lighting firecrackers and tossing lit M-80s onto the stage. Several…
The surviving members of the Sex Pistols, sans John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), are getting back together for a pair of benefit gigs August 13th and 14th at London’s Bush Hall. Guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Glen Matlock and drummer Paul Cook will play the band’s debut album “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols” with vocalist/tattoo…
Disturbed’s frontman David Draiman has received the joint Jerusalem Post and World Zionist Organization award for outstanding contributions in the fight against antisemitism. Draiman noted that he lost many of his colleagues and friends over his defense of the Jewish people. “The world can seem like a very, very dark place these days,” added Draiman in his acceptance speech on 6/3 in…
Queens Of The Stone Age will be spending the summer touring Europe. But in late September the band will return to the U.S. for a limited number of shows as part of their “The End Is Nero” tour. Founded in ’96 by Josh Homme, the only remaining original member, Queens Of The Stone Age have released…
Battle Beast’s Noora Louhimo took to Instagram in support of June: Pride Month. “WONDERFUL PRIDE month for LBTGQ+ communities and everyone who agrees for equal love, self and sexuality,” posted Louhimo. “I hope that one day we could live in a world where equality would be the norm in all communities.” Louhimo joined Battle Beast in ’12…
Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name“ has joined Spotify’s Billions Club. It’s the band’s second song to have a billion streams on the platform. “Livin’ On A Prayer” reached that milestone last year. “You Give Love A Bad Name,” written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, was the first single from the ’86 album “Slippery When Wet.” The song…
Godsmack’s “Truth” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart (dated June 1st). It’s the band’s 13th song to top the chart. The power ballad came about after frontman Sully Erna (pictured above) suffered a relationship betrayal that took a lot of processing to get through. The track is from “Lighting Up The Sky,” Godsmack’s eighth album…