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TESLA bassist Brian Wheat, who is promoting his just-released autobiography, “Son Of A Milkman: My Crazy Life With Tesla”, spoke to Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station 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. “We never really listened too much to what anyone else was doing; we only kind of did what we did,” Brian said. “Where it caught us off guard was that the year before, we were the record company’s champions — they loved us, and they had been loving on us for the last four or five years. And when the grunge thing came out, they were, like, ‘Well, we might drop you.’ And we were, like, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ B...

Television icon and singer David Hasselhoff appeared on the “Side Jams With Bryan Reesman” podcast to talk about his first heavy metal song, “Through The Night”, which was recorded with Martin Kames and Bernth Brodträger of Austrian duo CUESTACK. The Hoff also spoke about motivational speaking, scuba diving, and skydiving. In Europe, Hasselhoff often plays small to large arenas in Austria and Germany. He recalled how he was asked to go on after IRON MAIDEN (and ANTHRAX and TRIVIUM) at the Nova Rock festival in Austria in 2014. (He also headlined over SABATON and HATEBREED at the same festival in 2017.) “We do these massive concerts anywhere from 65,000 people — I’m doing one on my birthday which is an ’80s concert — to Nova Rock festival where I co...

During an appearance on the latest episode of the “In The Trenches With Ryan Roxie” podcast, former HANOI ROCKS singer Michael Monroe discussed the status of the long-in-the-works documentary about his life. He said (see video below): “There was somebody who started making it some years ago, but it wasn’t working out with the person, so I’m now making it — someone else started making it, and they really know their business. So we started on it at the end of the summer, and it’s gonna be a really good movie. But we’re gonna take our time with it. We’re aiming at releasing it in a couple of years when I turn 60 — in 2022. “It’s not gonna be a list of things I’ve done,” Michael clarified. “It’s gonna be more l...

In a new interview with Metal Jacket Magazine, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann spoke about what he thinks life will be like post-pandemic. He said (hear audio below): “I don’t know what metal is gonna be like, but I think life in general is gonna be different. Maybe it’s gonna be like it was pre-9/11, when you could go at an airport and go to the gate without security and all that kind of stuff. And after 9/11, when everything changed, and once it changes, it never goes back to normal. So it might be that we, from now on, have different measures in place, and they’re gonna be here to stay. I don’t think that we’re all gonna have to wear face masks forever, but certain elements of all this kind of behavior, I’m sure, is gonna stay. I cannot imagine o...

LOVEBITES, the all-female heavy metal band from Tokyo, Japan, will release a new EP, “Glory, Glory, To The World”, on March 10, 2021 via JPU Records. The effort was recorded under the darkness of the coronavirus pandemic and will contain four songs exclusive to the EP. The tracks will not feature on or be re-recorded for future albums, like the 2018 EP “Battle Against Damnation”. On creating the EP, the band comments: “On one hand, working on this album during the spread of coronavirus has been mentally draining. On the other, the music created in such darkness has managed to become full of feelings of salvation and light. This body of work is full of a positive power unlike anything else in the history of LOVEBITES.” “Glory, Glory, To The World...

Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp has uploaded a video interview with Leslie West, the legendary guitarist, vocalist and original founding member of MOUNTAIN, which was recorded less than four months ago — on September 3, 2020 — as part of the Camp‘s “Labor Day Open House Party.” The chat, which was conducted by Brittany Denaro, better known as Britt Lightning, the host and co-producer of the Rock’ N’ Roll Fantasy Camp Masterclasses, and the current lead guitarist in VIXEN, can be seen below. West died Wednesday (December 23) at the age of 75. The iconic guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and storyteller suffered cardiac arrest at his home near Daytona, Florida on Monday (December 21) and was rushed to a hospital, where he never regained consciousness. Weins...

Global music streaming and entertainment platform Tidal announced the entire catalog from the legendary metal band METALLICA is now streaming for Tidal members in the U.S. METALLICA‘s catalog is now available in the highest-quality sound for the first time ever on Tidal. HiFi members have the added benefit of listening to iconic albums like “Master Of Puppets” and “Ride The Lightning” in Tidal Masters — as flawless as they sounded in the mastering suite and exactly as the artists intended. To celebrate the legacy of these thrash-metal titans, Tidal‘s editorial team has curated the band’s classic tracks into playlists including Essentials, Live Essentials, the decade-by-decade Evolution (’80s, ’90s and 21st Century) and more. At Tidal Ma...