MEGADETH have just announced that joining them on the road for the upcoming ‘Metal Tour of the Year’ on bass player duties will be none other than former MEGADETH member James LoMenzo. MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine commented: “I’m happy to announce that former bassist and MEGADETH alumni James LoMenzo has graciously stepped in on ‘The...
LIMP BIZKIT singer Fred Durst has commented on the why the band cancelled their remaining August dates of their current U.S. tour. Last Saturday (August 7), LIMP BIZKIT announced that they were cancelling more than half a dozen shows, explaining in a statement that it was “out of an abundance of caution and concern for...
QUEENSRŸCHE have confirmed that guitarist Mike Stone will continue playing with them for at least the remainder of the year. Stone has been the second guitarist in QUEENSRŸCHE since May, after longtime guitarist Parker Lundgren announced his departure from the group to focus on “other business ventures.” When asked by a fan on Instagram under...
BMG will release IRON MAIDEN’s 17th studio album, “Senjutsu”, the band’s first in six years, on September 3. It was recorded in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by Steve Harris. It was preceded on July 15 by an already highly acclaimed animated video for the first single “The Writing On The Wall”...
This edition of The Loaded Radio Podcast features SALIVA drummer Paul Crosby talking with Loaded Radio about what’s currently happening with the band. The discussion includes that apparent reunion with former SALIVA frontman Josey Scott (which Paul says is currently “off the table”), why the band chose re-record some of their classic songs and lots...
RAMMSTEIN frontman Till Lindemann has partnered up with digital brokers ‘twelve x twelve’ to offer a limited series of NFTs, which include works of art as well as the chance to have dinner with the singer in Russia’s capital city of Moscow. If you are actually considering this opportunity, and you have that kind of...
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons recently spoke with Ultimate Classic Rock and spoke about his feelings toward the current COVID-19 pandemic. “My druthers would be that everybody is mandated to get vaccines,” he said. “I hope everybody is going to be wearing their masks. But we can only control what we can control and different states...
SLIPKNOT’s M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan has said that he plans to continue wearing a mask in public after the pandemic passes. Crahan recently spoke to Forbes about the the progress of SLIPKNOT’s follow up to 2014’s ‘.5: The Gray Chapter’ where he explained the current atmosphere in the studio. He said: “The general atmosphere has...
The GUNS N’ ROSES hit “Sweet Child O’ Mine” has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. This milestone comes less than two years after the song became the first music video from the 1980s to hit one billion views on YouTube. The year prior, the 1992 video for GUNS N’ ROSES’ “November Rain” broke records...
ANIMALS AS LEADERS have completed the recording process for their long-awaited fifth studio album, their first since 2016’s “The Madness Of Many”. Guitarist Tosin Abasi recently shared a brief clip of one of it’s tracks. You can check it out below. Having originally signed ANIMALS AS LEADERS in 2014, Sumerian founder and CEO Ash Avildsen...