Monthly Archives: November 2015

Listen to Sunn O)))’s ‘Kannon’ now

Posted by on November 30, 2015

It’s been six years since drone collective Sunn O)))  released an album, 2009’s Monoliths and Dimensions. The wait ends this Friday, as Kannon is released, but by then, you’ll have had two chances to have heard it in advance. A limited edition white vinyl version of the album was released last Friday (27) for Record Store Day, but […]

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Metallica learned a $30 million dollar lesson

Posted by on November 30, 2015

The feature length film by Metallica, Through The Never, wasn’t a rousing success. After spending over $30 million of their money to make the film, the 2012 flick only made a little over $3 million in four weeks at the box office. Hetfield quipped in their Metallica club magazine about losing their own money in the deal, rather […]

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Eagles of Death Metal’s “I Love You All the Time” covered by My Morning Jacket

Posted by on November 30, 2015

[youtube]https://youtu.be/0LT0tT8wTjg[/youtube] The Eagles of Death Metal interview with Vice finally went live this past Wednesday (25), and it’s a must-watch. The interview ends by the band asking artists to cover “I Love You All The Time” from their latest album, saying they’d donate all proceeds from publishing to victims and families of the Bataclan concert […]

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Judas Priest heading back into studio next year

Posted by on November 30, 2015

Last year’s Judas Priest album, Redeemer of Souls, was arguably the best Priest album since 1990’s Painkiller. And even though the band suggested that 2011’s Epitaph World Tour would be their last, they followed up that album with a tour that went on for the last year or so, playing to near-capacity or capacity crowds. With […]

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Watch a five year-old nail System of a Down on drums

Posted by on November 30, 2015

[youtube]https://youtu.be/J3cg4oZs2CY[/youtube] If there’s one thing it’s not easy to do when you’re a kid, it’s a lot of things. Among them, nailing the drums to System of a Down’s “Chop Suey” while singing a song that came out nine years before Eduarda Henklein was born in 2010. However, the girl, from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil kills […]

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Kerry King surprised it took this long for terrorists to attack rock concert

Posted by on November 28, 2015

First of all, if you haven’t gotten to see Eagles of Death Metal’s wrenching interview with Vice, you should do that right now. It’s hard to watch, yet strangely positive despite that. In the wake of the attacks, some musicians are being asked their thoughts on the Paris attacks, the most serious of which took […]

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Dissident Aggression: The Body & Krieg

Posted by on November 27, 2015

Collaborations, especially in the metal world, can really be a hit or miss proposition. But every now and then two artists come together to create something wholly unique and worthy of the legacy that both acts have established on their own. Such is the case with the new collaboration between The Body and Krieg. You […]

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Motorhead cancel Berlin show after illness

Posted by on November 27, 2015

It’s been a pretty rough year for Motorhead. After the band’s successful Bad Magic album was released and they hit the road in support of it, a handful of shows had to be cancelled after Lemmy took ill. This time, however, it’s not the frontman that’s fallen ill, but guitarist Phil Campbell, and the band’s been […]

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Slayer to tour with Testament, Carcass this Spring

Posted by on November 27, 2015

Slayer have been pretty great at picking out bands to tour with lately. A few years ago, it was Gojira, which probably turned the French band on to a lot of aging Slayer fans and perhaps also got some younger people primarily going for Gojira to check out the headliner for the first time. They […]

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New & Noteworthy, November 27th – Black Candy

Posted by on November 27, 2015

It’s the first Black Friday edition of New & Noteworthy since our move away from Tuesdays. I personally will not be taking part in any shopping today, but I urge those of you that are to be safe and sensible. There’s plenty of new music to enjoy, so please make sure you are able to […]

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