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Marilyn Manson spoke to Consequence Of Sound about the influence that Ozzy Osbourne has had on his career, and he reminisced about his early exposure to the legendary BLACK SABBATH singer’s music. “I remember getting [Ozzy‘s solo debut] ‘Blizzard Of Ozz’ when I was in Christian school,” Manson recalled. “My mother took me to get it at the record store when it was highly frowned upon and forbidden in Christian school. But I just remember that he had this strange mystique that he’s never really escaped from, despite the fact that he even had a reality TV show. Somehow his music outlived that [show]. That’s something I would not have done, ’cause I would never want to share my personal life on reality TV. But his music completely exc...

On October 23, ARMORED SAINT will release its eighth full-length album, “Punching The Sky”, via Metal Blade Records. The official music video for the disc’s second single “Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants”, directed and produced by Costin Chioreanu, can be seen below. Additional drone footage was shot by Miluta Flueras, with band performance footage by Vince Edwards. Leaders and stalwarts of the American heavy metal scene since the early 1980s, ARMORED SAINT‘s “Punching The Sky” sees them returning hard. A diverse, attitude-drenched collection, it’s everything the band’s faithful have come to expect from them while pushing their signature sound forward. “The goal is to write really good music. I know I’m stating the...

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine, who went public with his throat cancer diagnosis in June 2019, spoke to Colleen Carew of the 100.7 The Bay radio station about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” album. He said (hear audio below): “I think we would have been done a long time ago if I hadn’t discovered the cancer. I didn’t know I had it, and I was just trying to get from point A to point B and didn’t really know why my voice was hurting. And then I found out. And now I’m super stoked. I’m actually excited to see how the new record turns out with singing, since they’ve got that weird antibody, whatever it is, that had invaded my vocal box.” Mustaine was told he was cancer-f...

SiriusXM‘s Ozzy’s Boneyard will air a special, “40 Years Of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Blizzard Of Ozz'”, to honor the special anniversary of Ozzy‘s classic debut solo album. “40 Years Of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Blizzard Of Ozz” will premiere on Friday, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. ET and 11:00 p.m. ET and will be rebroadcast throughout the weekend. Ozzy and Billy Morrison take SiriusXM subscribers through a track-by-track rundown of “Blizzard Of Ozz”, including the song “Suicide Solution”, which was the subject of controversy in 1986 when the parents of a teenager who shot himself to death filed suit against the singer, contending their son was influenced by the track’s lyrics. Speaking about the allegations in th...