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On Saturday, December 4, IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain performed a set of MAIDEN classics — including the song “The Writing On The Wall” from this year’s “Senjutsu” album — with TITANIUM TART at the 12th-anniversary celebration for Rock N Roll Ribs, the barbecue restaurant owned by McBrain and close friend Mitch Tanne, in Coral Springs, Florida. Fan-filmed video footage of the entire show is available below. Also appearing at the event were MADE OF METAL, KINLIN, ANGELS OF WAR, CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE and SCHOOL OF ROCK. A barbecue joint with a musical bent, Rock N Roll Ribs showcases its love for smokey Southern cooking with food like barbecued pork and chicken and clever takes on MAIDEN songs, like “Final Frontier” dog, “Moonchild Mahi...

In a new interview with “The Scotty Mars Show”, THREE DAYS GRACE singer Matt Walst weighed in on the online feud between fellow Canadian rockers Danko Jones and MONSTER TRUCK frontman Jon Harvey. Danko has been very critical of Jon‘s contribution to Kid Rock‘s new single, “Don’t Tell Me How To Live”, in which Kid — whose real name is Robert “Bob” Ritchie — rants against “woke” culture and the mainstream media at a time when “every opinion has a millennial offended.” Speaking about whether he and his bandmates ever voice their political views publicly in order to sway their fans one way or the other. Matt said: “I feel like that has become a thing now, where either you’re left or right. We tend to just...

During a recent appearance on Mitch Joel‘s “Groove – The No Treble Podcast”, ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello was asked if he and his bandmates knew they had something special when they were working on the music for their classic 1987 album “Among The Living”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “At that time, this music was on the rise. We just had come out with ‘Spreading The Disease’. [Singer] Joey Belladonna is in the band. We had a great singer, we had great music — things were working. We knew while writing those songs and knowing the singer we had and knowing what we can do, the next step, I think it all came to play. So as we were writing those songs, we knew it was special. I do think we knew it. But you know what? Yo...

Spider One, founder and frontman for the veteran industrial rock group POWERMAN 5000, was the featured guest on a recent episode of “Podsauce”, a new podcast discovery show that covers the world of podcasting to help consumers find new series. The musician, whose given name is Michael David Cummings, spoke about diving into the podcasting world by writing, narrating, and producing the immersive scary story podcast “Bleeders DIEgest”. He also talked about growing up with his brother, actor-singer-songwriter Rob Zombie, in a small town where television and music were the gateways to the world. “[There’s] only a couple of years difference in age [between us], so we grew up loving all the same stuff,” he told “Podsauce” hosts Alesha Reneé a...

Brent Smith says that SHINEDOWN‘s recently completed seventh studio album is a “controversial” and “provocative” effort which delves into “different subject matters” that the band has never addressed in the past. The SHINEDOWN singer discussed the new LP in a recent interview with 95.9 The Rat‘s Carl Craft. Speaking about the album’s more “stripped-down” approach, he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We wanted to push everything to the front. And what I mean by that is we’ve proven that we can make these records that there’s a lot of musicianship involved in it, and we have layered our records over the years because we love music and we love sound and we try to make really cinematic records. So wi...