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Swedish metallers HAMMERFALL will release their twelfth studio album, “Hammer Of Dawn”, on February 25, 2022 via Napalm Records. The official music video for the LP’s first single and title track, “Hammer Of Dawn”, filmed at Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg with director Patric Ullaeus, can be seen below. HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak comments: “The song itself was initially conceived in Germany during the ‘World Dominion’ tour, with the rest of the work being done at home. I immediately knew this had the potential to be something important, and when Joacim [Cans] added his vocal melodies, we both felt it would be the perfect single. One with substance and power but also one you can’t stop singing when the music fades out.R...

Since April 2020, VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth has spent much of his time creating COVID-themed drawings — he calls them comics — and then sharing the finished works on his social media channels. His latest 10 pieces of artwork can be found below. According to a New York Times profile from the summer of 2020, Roth picked up the pen and ink during his coronavirus lockdown, but he had long been interested in art. “My approach is the best of both worlds: vintage and hyper-atomic digital,” he said. “Sort of like watching ‘Dragnet’ on your iPad. “You know, I moved to Japan for two-plus years to study Sumi-e and calligraphy, and four nights a week I trained and then I did homework. Jesus, I’ve spent thousands of hours learning to operate a horsehair b...

BIOHAZARD‘s Billy Graziadei will release a new album from his BILLYBIO project, “Leaders And Liars”, in 2022 via AFM Records. The official music video for the LP’s first single, “One Life To Live”, can be seen below. The fast-paced clip, featuring a slew of up-and-coming talent, including Los Angeles tattoo artist Julia Azevedo, was directed by Antoine Combelles. Combelles states: “We wanted to explore [Billy‘s] message of ‘unapologetically being who you want to be’ with a flowing sequence seamlessly linking people together in one place, one energy and suspended in moments no one can take from them.” Co-director Vincent Jacob adds: “Billy‘s music is a reminder that all we have is now. We wanted to capture the urg...

Tony Iommi says that he still wants to remix BLACK SABBATH‘s “Born Again” album for future release. Issued in August 1983, “Born Again” was the only album SABBATH recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan, best known for his work with DEEP PURPLE. It was was also the last of SABBATH‘s studio albums to feature drummer Bill Ward. In a new interview with SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Iommi confirmed that the “Born Again” master tapes have been found and that he is planning to get the album “sounding right” before making it available to the public. “Apparently, [my manager] found a connection there, where [the master tapes] were,” Tony said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I haven&#...