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Previously unreleased drum-cam footage of late MEGADETH drummer Nick Menza playing along to the band’s classic song “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due” can be seen below. The HD video, shot in a two-camera-angle mix, was filmed in March 2014 at Uberbeatz Studios in Seattle, Washington and is believed to be some of the final studio drum recordings of Menza before he passed away more than two years later. The footage was supposed to be used for the late drummer’s first-ever instructional DVD, “Intense Mega Drumming”, that was to feature 10 re-recorded classic MEGADETH drum tracks with tons of tips and tricks from Menza‘s arsenal to help teach anybody out there become a better player. The DVD, which was produced and directed by Kari Pearson and Menz...

Dutch death doom elite ASPHYX will release its 10th studio album, “Necroceros”, on January 22, 2021 via Century Media Records. The LP was recorded at Tom Meier‘s Tom Meier Studio and at Paul Baayens‘s The Mörserstudio, and mixed and mastered by Sebastian “Seeb” Levermann at Greenman Studios. It once again features front cover artwork by Axel Hermann. The official music video for the latest single from the album, “The Nameless Elite”, can be seen below. The clip was created by Maurice Swinkels of Younique Film (EXODUS, KATAKLYSM). ASPHYX frontman Martin Van Drunen commented: “This third single of our forthcoming ‘Necroceros’ album is entitled ‘The Nameless Elite’ and is about modern-day warfare, especially about t...

Rick Rozz, a founding member of DEATH and MASSACRE, recently recorded a guest solo on the new FEED THE CORPSES TO THE PIGS EP, “This Insidious Horror”. The effort also features an appearance by guest drummer — and Miasma Records recording artist — Daniel Torgal (ANALEPSY, ENBLOOD). “This Insidious Horror” is a grind/thrash/black EP with tales of tyrannical governments, plagues, and otherworldly terrors. FEED THE CORPSES TO THE PIGS pummels and brutalizes its listeners with its mix of old-school and new-school metal styles, with all the tracks clocking in at three minutes or under. “This Insidious Horror” captures the chaotic nature of the world today in song form, and the outlook is bleak. Decades after forming the St. Louis thrash titan CICATRIX, guitar...

Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes, who has lived in Cannes, France with his wife since 2014, spoke to Duke TV about when fans in the U.S. can expect to see him perform again in his former home country. He said (see video below): “I see a lot of comments, ‘Come back to L.A.,’ or, ‘Come back to North Hollywood.’ I’ll go back there to live. I don’t know if I’ll go back to play music, ’cause look at the Grammys — there’s no rock in ’em. There’s no rock in any of the shows. And I’m not knocking hip-hop; I’m not knocking rap. That’s what people like in America. That’s the kind of music it is. That’s what the younger crowd likes. “It’d be stupid for me to go play there if nobody ...

BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T, has launched a video contest for the song “The Hate Is Real”. Fans can create and submit their own videos for the track and the group’s favorite will be released as the next official BODY COUNT music video. More details about the contest can be found here. Ice-T told Metal Hammer about “The Hate Is Real”: “One day, I heard Jim Jones from [American hip-hop group] DIPSET say, ‘Love is fake, but the hate is real.’ I said, ‘That’s a song, because I believe when people say they love you, that could be a figure of speech.’ It’s, like, ‘Yo, man, I love this dude.’ But when someone hates you, they really hate you. Hate is fuckin’ ...

“Shake Your Money Maker”, the multi-platinum debut by the seminal rock ‘n’ roll band THE BLACK CROWES, is being re-released in multi-formats sets on February 26 through UMe/American Recordings. Band founders brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, with original producer George Drakoulias, oversaw the creation of the re-release. Most exciting are the 4LP and 3CD Super Deluxe versions, which includes the original album, remastered; three never-before-heard studio recordings; two previously unreleased demos from the band’s early incarnation as MR. CROWE’S GARDEN; B-sides; a spectacular, high-energy 14-song unreleased concert recorded in their hometown of Atlanta, Georgia in December 1990; reproductions of an early MR. CROWE’S GARDEN show flyer, setlist and ...