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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 ...

ICED EARTH leader Jon Schaffer is among dozens of people wanted by the FBI for storming Capitol Hill earlier this week. The FBI‘s Washington Field Office early Friday morning released 40 photos of people who are suspected of unlawful entry during a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol carried out on Wednesday (January 6) during the final Congressional vote recording for the 2020 general election. Among them is a picture of Schaffer taken by Roberto Schmidt of AFP. In the photo (photograph #25 below), Schaffer can be seen at the front of a mob, sporting a hat from Oath Keepers, an anti-government militia group, and pointing his finger while yelling at someone out of the frame. On Thursday, acting United States attorney Daniel P. Bubar and FBI special agent in charge David W. Arche...

THE PRETTY RECKLESS has shared its new single “And So It Went”. The track, which features a guest appearance by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello, is taken from THE PRETTY RECKLESS‘s upcoming album, “Death By Rock And Roll”, which will be released on February 12 via Fearless Records in the U.S. and Century Media Records in the rest of the world. “The world has been in such a state of civil unrest,” says THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen. “‘And So It Went’ basically comes from that vision. As a songwriter, I feel like I’m not here to preach. I use music to observe and communicate what I see around me. This song felt like the perfect storm for Tom Morello to join in and rip the sound waves apart with his gu...