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Long-running hard rockers L.A. GUNS will release their new studio album, "Checkered Past", on November 12 via Frontiers Music Srl. Fans can get their first preview of the album with the release of the single "Knock Me Down". Written and recorded during late 2020 and early 2021, "Checkered Past" sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis and company continuing with the darker lyrical tone of the preceding studio albums, "The Devil You Know" and "The Missing Peace", while incorporating their classic rock influences into the […]

KISS will kick off its long-rumored second Las Vegas residency at the end of the year. The legendary rockers' engagement at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood will launch the last week of December. The 12 shows are as follows: December 2021: 29, 31 January 2022: 1, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29 February 2022: 2, 4, 5 Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning August 20 at 10 a.m. […]

BLACK VEIL BRIDES have released the official music video for another new song, "Torch". The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, "The Phantom Tomorrow", which will be released on October 29 via Sumerian Records. The "Torch" clip is the final installment in the initial "Blackbird"/9 story arc. "Torch" also marks the second time BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack got behind the camera to direct a video for the band alongside longtime visual collaborator Patrick Fogarty. Biersack states: "We wanted to create something […]

Wendy Dio, widow and longtime manager of Ronnie James Dio, spoke to SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" about the upcoming career-spanning documentary on the life and times of the legendary rock icon. It is the first documentary about Dio to be fully authorized by the artist's estate. BMG is both financier and executive producer of the film. "I'm going to see the first cut of it next week," Wendy said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "They're coming out, and I'm […]

FIREHOUSE singer CJ Snare will undergo an unspecified surgical procedure on September 1. While he is recovering, the band will continue to perform select shows with good friend Andrew Freeman of LAST IN LINE filling in for CJ on lead vocals. Andrew performed two shows with FIREHOUSE in July after CJ came down with an undisclosed illness, and will play again with the band in Aurora, Illinois on September 10. CJ will perform all FIREHOUSE shows in August. In addition to playing with LAST IN LINE, Freeman has performed with three […]

Leading U.S. independent festival promoter and producer Danny Wimmer Presents has announced that several of its festivals this fall — including Louder Than Life, Aftershock and Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival — will require full vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test to attend the events. Danny Wimmer Presents founder Danny Wimmer shared the news in a social media post on Wednesday (August 11). He wrote: "We are at an unprecedented crossroads with uncertainty about whether or not our […]

British rockers THE DARKNESS have unleashed the first taste and title track of their forthcoming opus "Motorheart", out November 19 via Cooking Vinyl. Paying homage to a devoted sex robot, "Motorheart" growls, pounds and stomps with Rufus Taylor's drums, Frankie Poullain's bass and Justin and Dan Hawkins's guitars all turned up to 11, while Justin's trademark vocals soar to ever more earthquaking levels. Regarding the single, Justin says: "'Motorheart' rocks harder than anything we've done before. It makes me happy and proud to crank it […]

Eric Martin says that he "might have put the kibosh on" MR. BIG doing something again in the foreseeable future. The singer made the comment while discussing MR. BIG's decision to go on hiatus following the passing of Pat Torpey. The drummer died in February 2018 at the age of 64 from complications of Parkinson's disease. Speaking to Metal Edge magazine's "Another FN Podcast With Izzy Presley", Eric said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "When Pat passed, I was pissed, sad that this happened […]