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Tag: Modern Metal

Entombed To Unleash Live Album

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Entombed has a new live album on the way, revisiting one of the Swedish Music Hall of Famers’ classic records, 1991’s Clandestine, on its 25th Anniversary. Featuring the band’s original members Nicke Andersson, Uffe Cederlund and Alex Hellid, the live album includes two acts, the first of which is an orchestral arrangement of Clandestine, before part two sees the band performing the album in its original style in full for the first time ever. Entombed has just revealed the first taste of this live album in the form of the single, “Sinners Bleed”, which you can check out right here. For […]

Conan Announce Second North American Tour for 2019

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It seems the U.S. can’t get enough of U.K. Doomers Conan, as they’ve just announced an additional North American run to supplement their current tour. Conan has been on the road for several weeks, and while they do plan to wrap things up on March 15th at SXSW, after a brief break, then a run in support of Black Label Society and Atomic Bitchwax, the band will be back in headlining action alongside Witchkiss, starting on June 23rd at Maryland Doom Fest, running through July 6th and wrapping up in North Dakota. To keep up with all the latest, check […]

Doro Unleashes Brand New EP To Kick Off World Tour

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Doro has just released a brand-new EP, following up on 2018’s double release of Forever Warriors, Forever United. Now, 2019 brings Backstage to Heaven, a half-studio/half-live four-track vinyl featuring special guests Doug Aldrich, Johan Hegg and Helge Schneider alongside the Metal Queen. The record has just been released this week, on the same day Doro kicked off the second leg of her European run. Next month, Doro will be hitting the States on the U.S. run alongside Metal Church, with support from Images of Eden – April 17th marks the start of the run in Las Vegas, NV, spanning through […]

Knotfest Roadshow Set For North American Tour

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Slipknot has a lengthy 28-date tour lined up for this summer, but they won’t go it alone – Volbeat, Gojira, and Behemoth are all along for the ride, forming the new Knotfest Roadshow, taking a portable version of Slipknot’s usual Knotfest festival on the road. Knotfest Roadshow may be on the move, but it’s by no means pocket-sized – the massive lineup of Rock and Metal giants is sure to hit hard from east to west and everywhere in between. The tour runs July 26th, kicking off in Mountain View, CA, and wraps up September 8th in The Woodlands, TX. For more […]

Fifth Annual “Ride For Ronnie” Charity Event Announced

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The Fifth Annual Ride for Ronnie has just been announced, and the motorcycle ride/concert for charity will take place on Sunday, May 5th, 2019 at the usual starting location of Harley-Davidson of Glendale. Los Encinos Park in Encino will be the destination for the concert portion of the event, hosted by Eddie Trunk and featuring a new group of rock musicians personally curated by the personality and known as Eddie Trunk’s All Star Band, in addition to Budderside, Petty Cash, DC4, and Dio cover band Dia. 2018’s Ride for Ronnie brought in over $50,000 for the Ronnie James Dio Stand […]

Of Mice & Men Kicks Off Spring Tour

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Of Mice & Men has just kicked off the start of a long run of tour dates, as the band headed out on the road for the first in a series of shows alongside Nothing More last night. These dates will run through March 23rd, then OM&M will have a brief break before heading right back out, this time alongside Beartooth and Hands Like Houses for a run April-May followed by several summer festivals. The summer will be jam packed for the band as well, with UK/European touring lined up to follow the two North American runs. Amidst all the […]

Chevalier’s “Destiny Calls”

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Chevalier is a group of metallers out of Finland who dub their own sound “Medieval Speed Metal” as they prepare to make their full-length debut on Gates of Hell Records next month. Destiny Calls will mark the third release from Chevalier, following up on their EPs, Call To Arms and Chapitre II. The band recently unveiled the first single off Destiny Calls, entitled “In The Grip Of The Night”, and you can check it out right here. For more on Chevalier and their upcoming April 26th release, head to: https://www.facebook.com/Chevaliermetal/.

Nile Prepare for “A Vile Caustic Attack” Alongside Terrorizer

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Nile has just declared their plans to “attack” the U.S. later this year, as they announce their 2019 A Vile Caustic Attack tour alongside special guest Terrorizer. While Terrorizer will tour in support of their recent release, Caustic Attack, Nile will be on the road during this fall run to support their record, What Should Not Be Unearthed, out on August 28th via Nuclear Blast. Nile recently revealed a lyric video for the first single, “Call To Destruction”, available via the Nuclear Blast Official YouTube Channel right here. A Vile Caustic Attack will hit the road on November 1st and run […]

Moon Tooth Unleash New Single Before Upcoming Tour

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Long Island’s Moon Tooth have just released the second single off their upcoming record, Crux, which is set to be out March 29thvia Modern Static Records. The band has teamed up with Metal Injection to premiere “Omega Days”, available in album art visualizer form right here. Moon Tooth are just about to embark on a U.S. tour in support of Mark Morton (who worked together with producer Machine on the pre-production of Crux) and Light The Torch next week. All the info on Crux and Moon Tooth’s upcoming show dates can be found via: https://moontoothny.bandcamp.com/album/crux.

Mark Morton Releases New Video for Track Feat. Chester Bennington

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Mark Morton just released his highly anticipated solo record Anesthetic last week on WPP Records/Spinefarm. With a wide array of guest artists permeating each track, the Josh Wilbur and Jake Oni produced full-length features one song with vocals by the late Chester Bennington – Morton has just revealed a music video for the track, entitled “Cross Off”, which you can check out right here. Mark Morton is just about to head out on a co-headline spring tour next week alongside Light The Torch, with Moon Tooth coming along for the ride. https://www.facebook.com/markmortonmusic/ has all the details.

Interview: Alex Skolnick

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Between Testament, Metal Allegiance, an improvisational jazz trio, and other collaborations, Alex Skolnick is one busy guitarist. Shortly after the simultaneous release of the latest Metal Allegiance record, Power Drunk Majesty, and the Alex Skolnick Trio record, Conundrum, I had the chance to do a phoner with Alex, where we discussed all of his various musical projects and how he finds the balance between it all, his involvement with Shredders of Metal, the Slayer tour, and his appreciation for New York. Check out the interview below: The new record Power Drunk Majesty from Metal Allegiance is officially out, you just […]

Wolfheart Releases New Live Video

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Wolfheart has just released a new live video featuring an epic showcase of their 2018 tour set to the opening track off the band’s latest release, Constellation of the Black Light, “Everlasting Fall”. You can check out the nine minute long clip via Napalm Records’ Official YouTube Channel right here: https://youtu.be/vYXruTRzyQM. In the meantime, Wolfheart is also preparing to kick off their world tour in 2019, as they bring the Constellation Of The Black Light Over The World run to Japan and Russia, before joining Children of Bodom and Swallow The Sun along the Hexed tour in North America for […]

Avantasia to Release “Moonglow”

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Avantasia is preparing to unleash their highly-anticipated eighth studio album in just two weeks, as Moonglow is set for a February 15th release on Nuclear Blast Records. The Tobias Sammet-fronted five-piece has plenty of guests in store for Moonglow, including some returning from previous records, such as Geoff Tate (who informed Metal Magnitude of his involvement with the band during an interview last year), Ronnie Atkins (Pretty Maids), Michael Kiske (Helloween), Jørn Lande (ex-Masterplan), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), and Bob Catley (Magnum). Moonglow will also feature a few new collaborations, including with members of Blind Guardian, Kreator, and Blackmore’s Night. […]

Brick By Brick Tease Album Release Show for “Hive Mentality”

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Brick By Brick is getting ready to release the next chapter of their heavy New York Hardcore with the seventh studio record, Hive Mentality, set for a February 22nd release on Upstate Records, with a Clifton Park, NY album release show party set for the same night. This week, the band has released a brief teaser clip to promote the show, which you can check out right here: https://youtu.be/xszTwNSu3eg, and in case you missed the recent title track music video release, featuring Alekhine’s Gun vocalist Jessica Pimentel, you can check that one out here: https://youtu.be/7URYB3kb6Mo. Brick By Brick will be […]

Frenzy To Make Their Debut with “Blind Justice”

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Frenzy, an up-and-coming quartet of Heavy Metallers out of Spain, are just about to make their debut with Blind Justice, the band’s full-length record out February 4th on Underground Power Records. With the graphic artistry of Mike Mora (Heavy Metal Magazine) and Javier Pastor (Evil Rite) combined with comic book-themed lyrics, Blind Justice is set to create a Heavy Metal/Graphic Novel experience as part of the band’s world debut. You can check out the first music video off the record in the form of the track, “Save Me”, right here: https://youtu.be/tIz1ieO5SCc. For more on the band, visit: https://www.facebook.com/frenzymetal/.