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Jay Jay French on Replacing Dee Snider: 'Nobody Is Irreplaceable Anywhere'
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Sebastian Bach is fronting Twisted Sister this autumn after Snider resigned over health, and the guitarist has an answer ready for everyone who says it cannot be done.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
M72 Reaches Its Hundredth Show and Keeps Going: Twelve More American Stadiums in 2027
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Vancouver on 8 May to Salt Lake City on 19 June, with Limp Bizkit and Avatar back on the bill. Tickets 25 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
The Last BLACK SABBATH Show Reaches Cinemas on 28 October, Filmed Seventeen Days Before OZZY OSBOURNE Died
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Villa Park, 5 July last year: a solo set, then the four original members on a stage together for the first time in more than twenty years. Tickets go on sale 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
TRIVIUM Open Album Eleven With a Riff Paolo Gregoletto Sat On for Six Years
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'Dead Inside of Me' is the first thing anyone has heard from the follow-up to 'In the Court of the Dragon'. The album has no title and no date yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
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Reaper Entertainment has it. Chris Boltendahl calls it the next furious chapter, which after forty six years is a claim the band have earned the right to keep making.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
W.A.S.P. Open Their North American Tour With Songs They Have Never Played Live
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'1984 To Headless' began in Austin with 'Easy Living', 'Mephisto Waltz' and a song from Sister, the band before the band, none of which had been performed before this year.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 16, 2026
ION VEIN Re-Record Three Songs Whose Master Tapes Vanished, and Reissue 'Beyond Tomorrow'
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Three missing masters brought the Chicago band back together. The anniversary edition lands on 20 November through Majesphere, in 250 copies on vinyl, with unreleased live material from 1999.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026
CANDLEMASS Played London Without Johan Längqvist, Who Was Taken to Hospital Before the Show
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Felipe Plaza Kutzbach sang most of it at short notice, with Aaron Stainthorpe and Tony Dolan taking parts. The band say they still do not know much about their singer's condition.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 15, 2026
ADRIAN BENEGAS Puts Out 'Growing Hearts' With Herbie Langhans Singing and Sascha Paeth Mixing
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The Paraguayan composer's new single came out on 11 September with a hand drawn animated video he says was made without any AI.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
BULLETBELT Write the Theme for 'Deathgasm 2', Ten Years After the First One
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The New Zealand band return to the horror comedy franchise they scored in 2015, in a video directed by Alex Hargreaves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
ABSOLUTE POWER Share the Title Track of Their Second Album, With Tim 'Ripper' Owens
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Shane Embury and Simon Efemey's heavy metal project returns fifteen years after its debut. The album is out on 6 November via Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
Dave Mustaine Writes That Ellefson's Time in MEGADETH 'Was Likely Near' Before the 2021 Scandal
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An excerpt from the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', published by Rolling Stone, goes back over a partnership of nearly forty years.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 11, 2026
TYGERS OF PAN TANG Go Heavier on New Album 'Electrifyed'
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More than forty years after they helped shape the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the band went back to the raw energy of their early records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
TEMPERANCE Give Every Song on 'Arcani' a Card From the Tarot's Major Arcana
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The Italian band's eighth album is out on 16 October via Napalm Records. 'The Tower: Lean Into Fear' is out now with a video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
NOAPOLOGY Made the Video Themselves and Took a Hundred Thousand Views in a Day
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The Ukrainian-born, Europe-based band shot, edited, graded and finished 'Test Me Now' in-house. It is the second single from their forthcoming album.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 10, 2026
BEAST IN BLACK's New Single Is About the Nightmares Anton Kabanen Had as a Teenager
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'Fear The Beast' is the title track of the band's fourth album, written about Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and the art of H. R. Giger. Asian dates follow this month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
FIREWIND Spent Two Years on a Greek Mythology Concept Album, Out in February
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'Gods, Myths & Titans' arrives 19 February, the band's first for BLKIIBLK, with separate artwork for every song. First single 'The Legend Of Achilles' is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
BRUCE DICKINSON Has Remixed 'Accident Of Birth' Twenty-Nine Years On
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The 1997 solo album returns on 17 October for National Album Day in the UK and worldwide on 23 October, remixed by Brendan Duffey. 'Omega' is out now.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026