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THE OFFSPRING singer Bryan “Dexter” Holland and guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman spoke to the 100.3 The X Rocks radio station about the band’s upcoming tenth studio album, “Let The Bad Times Roll”, which will arrive on April 16 via Concord Records. The follow-up to 2012’s “Days Go By” was produced by Bob Rock, who also worked on the band’s last two LPs. Speaking about the long gap between “Let The Bad Times Roll” and the previous OFFSPRING album, Noodles said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’ve been working on it for a while. Really, about two or three years ago, everything started really kind of clicking, and we had a really creative period — then and since, actually. “We were hopin...

In a new interview with Brazil’s Kazagastão, CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist and founding member Alex Webster was asked if he thinks he and his bandmates will be able to hit the road in support of their upcoming 15th studio album, “Violence Unimagined”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think we will; it’s just a matter of when. And that’s so unclear right now. It could possible that bands are gonna be doing touring by the end of 2021. I think for us, we kind of just decided that 2021 is probably not going to work. Even if bands start touring in late 2021, there’s gonna be so many trying to at the exact same time. We’re hopeful that maybe in the first half of 2022, we could start to tour in support of this album. Of course, itR...

British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who fronted IRON MAIDEN more than 20 years ago, spoke to the Crowcast about how the rise of grunge in the early 1990s forced most hard rock bands off the radio and MTV, with album and tour sales plummeting. “When I was in MAIDEN, we were at war with grunge, man,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Grunge was trying to kill us. The U.K. press, they thought the sun shone out of various bands’ bottoms, and they wanted MAIDEN to die. We went into the heartland of death — we played Seattle at the height of grunge, man, and it was one of the most awful gigs I’ve ever done. There were these people looking at us like we were some kind of dinosaur, and they were going, ‘Why aren’t they dead yet?’ ...

On a recent episode of the “Loaded Radio” podcast, former DIO guitarist Doug Aldrich spoke to Scott Penfold about the two bands that were formed by other ex-DIO members in the years after singer Ronnie James Dio‘s death: LAST IN LINE and DIO DISCIPLES. Asked if he thinks both those acts are “cool,” Doug replied (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah. I think it was really cool when [LAST IN LINE] had [bassist] Jimmy Bain. Jimmy was one of those great players like Glenn [Hughes] in his own sense. Jimmy was a much simpler player — great songwriter, great guy. And him and Vivian [Campbell, guitar] together, with Vinny [Appice, drums], that was really cool. Especially when they played that [early DIO] stuff, it sounded really legit — as much as you can ...

On a recent episode of the “Loaded Radio” podcast, EPICA guitarist/vocalist Mark Jansen spoke to Scott Penfold about what it’s been like to work with singer Simone Simons for the past two decades after the breakup of their romantic relationship. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We are very close friends. I was just talking to her, like, one hour ago. We are very good friends. We understand each other. “I think it’s very unique to have a good relationship with your ex-girlfriend; not many people have the same way,” he continued. “And not many new partners would like that, but our partners have no problem with it whatsoever. So it’s a very unique situation, and I’m really happy that it worked out this way. Because for ...

During the latest episode of Elton John‘s Apple Music 1 show “Rocket Hour”, the legendary singer told guest SG Lewis that he recorded “something” with METALLICA. “I’ve just done something with METALLICA,” he revealed. “During this lockdown period, I’ve been working with [the virtual band] GORILLAZ and people like that. I haven’t been doing any Elton stuff, but I’ve been doing great stuff with other people.” It is not clear what project with METALLICA Elton was referring to, but earlier this year, Miley Cyrus said that he upcoming METALLICA covers album will feature John playing the piano on her version of “Nothing Else Matters”. In a January 2021 interview with U.K. radio station Capital FM, Cyrus sai...

Legendary Swedish deathsters HYPOCRISY have completed work on their long-awaited new studio album. The follow-up to 2013’s “End Of Disclosure” is tentatively due later in the year via Nuclear Blast Records. The news of the HYPOCRISY LP’s completion was broken by mainman Peter Tägtgren on Friday. He posted an Instagram picture of him raising a glass and he wrote in an accompanying caption: “HYPOCRISY ALBUM IS DONE!!! 11 songs, 52 minutes.. mastered and done! Let’s celebrate. Now it’s up to the record company to find a good release date.” In 2018, Tägtgren told Australia’s Sticks For Stones that the musical direction of HYPOCRISY‘s next album would be “a mix between old and new HYPOCRISY.” “End Of Disclosure”...