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Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …
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Metallica won’t let a pandemic make it fade to black. The heavy metal band announced Monday that it will be hitting the stage for the first time this year in a one-night performance airing exclusively at drive-in theaters Aug. 29. The rock legends will perform a full set to an empty theater, but the performance …
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Marilyn Manson has announced his 11th studio album, “We Are Chaos,” out September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. The 10-track LP was produced by Manson and Grammy Award winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker) and one of Manson’s self-portraits is featured on its cover. To accompany the sinister-sounding album, Manson released the lead single …
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Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, “Ace of Spades,” will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track recorded at Belfast’s Whitla Hall …
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Sammy Hagar would rather “get sick and even die” if it meant playing in front of an audience during the coronavirus crisis, the rocker said in a new interview. The former Van Halen frontman, 72, shared his thoughts on the effects of the pandemic that’s sickened more than 9.2 million people and killed more than …
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Guitarist Tom Morello joined the rest of Twitter in piling on a fan who claimed he no longer liked Rage Against the Machine since they’ve become political. The fan, Scott Casteneda, seemingly just realized he had been listening to one of the most popular political rock groups all along when he tweeted at Morello Tuesday …
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They do know something about “Toxicity,” after all. Half of beloved alt-rockers System of a Down — singer Serj Tankian, 52, and drummer John Dolmayan, 46 — are embroiled in an internecine squabble over President Donald Trump’s handling of the fallout from George Floyd’s death in police custody — which they’re hashing out over Instagram. …
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A thrash metal drummer says he visited hell during a coronavirus-induced coma — and Satan wasn’t as cool as he thought. Will Carroll, of the band Death Angel, was comatose at the California Pacific Medical Center for two weeks in March after catching the virus on a European tour earlier that month, according to the …
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The lead singer of Scorpions has dismissed rumors that the band’s 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” was written by the CIA as a piece of Cold War propaganda. Klaus Meine appeared on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation” where he explained that a reporter contacted him for a podcast investigating the mystery surrounding the epic anthem. The …
Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …
