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BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd spoke to Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio about how he and his bandmates have spent their downtime during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said (hear audio below): “We had to shift gears. We had a whole year booked with touring, and then COVID happened. Every month, there was a new set of circumstances, shows falling off for everybody, not just us. And so we were, like, ‘Well, we might as well go into songwriting mode and get a really great record together for next year.’ And so we shifted gears and just started writing a lot. And, man, this record is good. We spent a lot of time on it, and it’s very exciting.” Asked about the musical direction of the new BUCKCHERRY material, Josh said: “Well, it’s not gonna change from a BUCKC...

METALLICA‘s Lars Ulrich says that it could be a year “at the earliest” before rock bands are allowed to play arena concerts in front of tens of thousands of fans. Speaking Tuesday (November 10) at CNBC’s Evolve Summit, the drummer said: “As we unfortunately have to come to grips with, the last thing that will happen are big concerts, you know 20,000 people in an arena, 50,000 people in a stadium.” He went on to say that liive sporting events are much easier to bring back than concerts, given they are “slightly more orderly” than a sold-out rock show tends to be. “The good news on the live concert front, when METALLICA and other bands like METALLICA play big arena or stadium concerts again, then you can pretty much count on the fact that...

SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green spoke to Self Umpunishment about the rise of Trumpism in the U.S. and why the perceived bigotry and aggressive chauvinism of America’s 45th president has found such a large audience in this country. “The public at large, especially in the U.S., because of so many years of a horrible education system failing, going down, and no money put into that,” Derrick said (see video below). “And for teachers — proper payment for teachers and everything — I’ve just watched it sink dramatically. And that, I believe, has a lot to do with where we’re at now — lack of education, and many other things that go along with that. “I wasn’t that surprised when Trump won [in 2016]. I was really, like, ‘Oh, yeah. It seems like ...

YouTube user Lars Von Retriever, who splices together excerpts from President Donald Trump‘s speeches to popular rock and metal songs as part of two separate series he calls “Trump Rocks” and “Metal Trump”, has uploaded his latest concoction, Metal Rocks‘s take on the AC/DC‘s 1976 classic “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. The clip, which contains several of Trump‘s favorite accusations against Democrats, including baseless election fraud claims, can be seen below. Lars Von Retriever‘s previously crafted Trump Rocks and Metal Trump videos include songs from METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, MARILYN MANSON, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and DISTURBED. “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” was reportedly written about ...