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[tuggnu]

This year's Louder Than Life festival, which was scheduled to take place in September in Louisville, Kentucky, has been officially canceled due to the COVID-19 ...

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[okgoodrecords]

Weapons of Anew Featured on BLABBERMOUTH - http://www.okgoodrecords.com/blog/2017/08/24/16013/ - WEAPONS OF ANEW, the new band featuring Freddy Ordine, Ray West, Stefan “Reno” Cutrupi, Chris Manfre and Kris Norris, will release its debut album, “The Collision Of Love And Hate”, on September 15 via OK Good Records. The band has been featured on BLABBERMOUTH.NET for...

[childrenofghost]

Next GHOST Album To Arrive In Fall Of 2017

One of the Nameless Ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST was interviewed by the 93.3 WMMR radio station prior to the band's September 18 performance at the Rock Allegiance festival in Chester, ...

[the-rageaholic]

Hey Razorfist, I watched the Dokken South Dakota reunion concert online, and the comment online are not pretty. Almost every single person is taking a dig at Don and how he's "washed up." Some are even saying that the reunion should have been just Lynch, Brown, and Pilson, a reunion which already happened with less than outstanding results. I was wondering, as a fellow Dokken fan, what is your take on the rehearsal performance and the reaction online, assuming you saw it?

Well, for one: It’s a rehearsal gig. Don can hit those notes. Hell, he had a show with his lineup of the band just over a week ago in California, and he was prowling the stage, hitting high notes, and even climbing up into falsetto. But this is the rehearsal. That’s why this show takes place in Bumfuck, South Dakota, and not a major metropolitan area. He didn’t - and shouldn’t - push himself too hard vocally, particularly given his past of blowing out his voice on-stage (this entire saga began, you’ll recall, when Don hit a high note too hard at a festival in ‘07… and felt something ‘pop’. His voice was never the same). 

As for the negative coverage? It’s time to confront an immutable fact of the universe: The internet hates Don Dokken. 

Much of which owes to the unremittingly-negative press he’s accrued from the barrow-wights at Blathermouth.net. I don’t know why. I don’t know the feud’s impetus. But someone at Blabbermouth begrudges Don Dokken’s very existence. Every article about, say, George Lynch? Festooned with fawning praise bordering on idolatry. But the moment Don pokes his head into frame, the body text is inexplicably slathered in subgrammatic snark. Again, I have no idea what created this double-standard, maybe Don shit on the CEO of Roadrunner Records’ cat… but it’s there.

If there’s one consistent theme of my Downfall of Gaming Journalism series, it’s that media - ostensibly in the business of disseminating pertinent information to the public - is woefully inadequate at providing perhaps the most relevant information of all: Context. 

Within context? You understand that Don Dokken has come a very long way vocally, from his downtuned croaking during the 2010-2013 period… to hitting high notes, in their original key, just a few months ago at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. He’s visibly dropped weight (I noticed ‘fat’ was a recurrent theme among the Blathermouth brain trust), he’s clearly off the cigarettes and booze… if anything restrained his performance? It was probably one of two things: His understanding that he has a major Japanese tour ahead of him, replete with major festival dates, and thus must preserve his voice (again, this was a rehearsal gig) or the simple fact that Don was just not as into this whole ‘reunion’ idea as the other three guys were/are… right from the gambit’s beginning. He wants to put a capstone on the original lineup… and move on to touring with his current incarnation of the band. He’s been perfectly up-front about that. 

Godspeed!-RazörFist

[wyrdwaysrockshow]

Six Feet Under Announce New Graveyard Classics Set and Tour

Six Feet Under Announce New Graveyard Classics Set and Tour

On May 27th, Six Feet Under release the fourth installment of their Graveyard Classics series, this time paying tribute to two of Metal’s greatest legends: Iron Maiden and Judas Priest!  Entitled Graveyard Classics IV: The Number of the Priest and mixed by Jesse Kirkbride at his own studio in Florida, the album comprises five Judas Priest covers (side A), and six Iron Maiden covers (side B),…

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[unicosaurous-blog]

Metro-metal

For the record, I hate Trivium. I always have. They're what I refer to as "metro-metal".  I pull up my Blabbermouth.net feed, and it's Trivium. They're becoming more "melodic" as suggested by the headline, and to me this only spells "metro"  What I hate about these metal bands getting all metro as they age, is that they try and disguise their doing so by claiming it's still "heavy"  It's fucking heavy, and trivium has never been heavy. "Heaviness isn't defined by screaming!"  Yes. It. Is.  The world's heaviest bands, all scream. Nile, Cattle Decap, Origin, Fetus, CC - my all-star list - screaming, the entire time. Heavier than everything. Is Killswitch Engage as heavy as Corpse? Fuck no. Is Trivium? Fuck no. Then why is it these bands who slowly sell their souls, always claim that's not what they're doing?  Why can't they be more like Brent Hinds from Mastodon? "I fucking hate heavy metal, I wanna get the band away from metal. I play rock-a-billy and country. Fuck heavy metal"  So they're a prog rock band now, but are they like, "Look man, we're still gonna eat babies, fuck dogs, and shit.. we just wanna sing a little bit!" No, instead one of the two real talents in the band is like, "I went into a coma after the bassist of SOAD beat my ass at the VMA's, and it was a little too metal for me, so we went prog afterwards." Because that's what happened.

[childrenofghost]

One of the nameless ghouls from GHOST says that he was not offended by SLAYER guitarist Kerry King's recent comments about the Swedish occult rock outfit, explaining that GHOST "is not for everybod...

[metalwaresa]

OPETH's FREDRIK ÅKESSON Talks 'Pale Communion', State Of Music Industry (Audio)

OPETH’s FREDRIK ÅKESSON Talks ‘Pale Communion’, State Of Music Industry (Audio)

Radio Bocconi conducted an interview with guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH on November 3 in Milan, Italy. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.

OPETHwill celebrate its landmark 25th anniversary as a band next year with a very special event at the legendary London Palladium on October 18, 2015. After being the heaviest band to play the Royal…

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