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In a new interview with Rod Ryan of the Houston, Texas radio station 94.5 The Buzz, Wolfgang Van Halen discussed his recent revelation that his father, legendary VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen, had contemplated a “kitchen-sink tour” that would have included bassist Michael Anthony, as well as vocal turns from both Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth. There was even talk about bringing back Gary Cherone, who sang with the band on one poorly received album, 1998’s “Van Halen III”. “It was my idea,” Wolfgang said (see video below). “Over the years, I’d been talking to Dad and introducing the idea of, like, ‘Hey, hear me out. But this would be really cool. What if we had Mike come back and I could open?’ And over the next year o...

Many fans of heavy shit use the slowest, most miserable music as a straightforward form of catharsis. This has been a unique year, as some of you may have noticed, and so for once it feels perfectly appropriate to succumb entirely to the viscous tsunami of woe that SUBTERRAEN have conjured on their full-length debut. This shadowy French collective channel bitterness and dismay in a way that few can match with any conviction, and while “Rotten Human Kingdom” sticks rigidly to its prescribed sonic path, it is just so overwhelmingly disgusting and grim that anything other than total surrender seems like a missed opportunity. A crippling, lava-flow of bilious sludge, “Blood for the Blood Gods” is not so much an opening track as a portal into hell. SUBTERRAEN are clearly...

In a new interview with Forbes, HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta was asked what he thinks turnouts at shows, specifically for hardcore and metal concerts, two genres that heavily rely on live performances and crowd interaction, will look like post-pandemic. He responded: “I’m hopeful, and I think it’s going to be great. I have a half-glass full mindset, and it does remind me of the early days. Like back in the day, if you look at this SLIPKNOT tour that all the hardcore bands had kind of turned their nose up at, well, we did that tour, and every night, literally every night, we’d go to the crowd and we’d go to the fence where all the kids were lined up and every single kid was, like, ‘This is my first concert.’ Every single kid. And you could see the...

URIAH HEEP guitarist Mick Box has blasted Sharon Osbourne for removing the original drum and bass tracks from Ozzy Osbourne‘s first two albums, saying it is about “as low as you can get.” The 2002 re-releases of “Blizzard Of Ozz” and “Diary Of A Madman” featured FAITH NO MORE drummer Mike Bordin and METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo — both then members of Ozzy‘s solo band — in place of Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley. The controversial move was spearheaded by Sharon after Kerslake and Daisley sued Ozzy over royalties and songwriting credits. Daisley and Kerslake‘s original performances were restored in the 2011 reissues of the albums. Box, who had played with Kerslake in URIAH HEEP for three and a half decades between 1971 and 2007, was as...