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Bon Jovi’s sixteenth studio album, “Forever,” featuring the lead track “Legendary” and “Living Proof,” has arrived. “The new record, it exudes joy,” enthused Jon Bon Jovi. “From the writing, through the recording process, this is turn-up-the-volume, feel-good Bon Jovi. And more importantly, I found joy again — just a simple pleasure of writing a song.” After…

“All My Life,” a Country-Rock collaboration between Falling In Reverse and Jelly Roll, has arrived. The accompanying video leans on Western motifs – bar fight, gun fight and a bank robbery. Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke (pictured above) rides into town on a white, winged horse and gets Jelly Roll out of jail. The…

Bring Me The Horizon have garnered 70-million streams on Spotify since the release last week of their seventh album, “Post Human: Nex Gen.” It’s a real concept album,” explained frontman Oli Sykes (pictured above). “For some people it could be like a self-help book. There’s a lot of things in there, some of it’s quite…

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…

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…