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Rolling Loud California has announced that it will implement an image limit for its 2021 festival. Taking to Twitter to break the news, organizers revealed that only ticket holders aged 18 and above will be allowed inside the upcoming event. “We welcome everyone to experience our festivals, however in light of recent events, we will be implementing an 18+ policy specific only to our upcoming 2021 California festival,” the statement read. “We will be giving all ticket purchasers who are under the age of 18 the option to either roll their tickets over to next year’s 2022 California festival or receive a refund.” The new policy was announced after the Astroworld Festival tragedy that has claimed 10 lives so far — the youngest one being nine-year-old Ezra Blount. Rolling Loud California i...

Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen‘s November 23 performance at the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania can be seen below. Yngwie has just kicked off a month-long fall 2021 U.S. tour — his first major run of shows in 20 months. Malmsteen‘s latest album, “Parabellum”, was released in July via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group. Only four of the songs on the LP feature vocals. The album title is Latin, translating as “Prepare For War”. After working with some of the top hard singers of the past four decades, Yngwie now handles much of the lead vocals himself in his own band, backed by a lineup that includes keyboardist Nick Marino, bassist Emilio Martinez and drummer Brian Wilson. During a recent YouTube livestrea...

CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth spoke to Finland’s Chaoszine about the band’s recently completed North American tour with 3TEETH and ONCE HUMAN. “We had to jump through so many hoops to actually make the tour work,” he said. “We had to get these special visas, where it’s like the top five percent of people can… So we had to provide all these magazine covers from all around the world. Then we had to go to Belfest in Northern Ireland to get our visas, which is unusual, ’cause we normally go to the London one. So that was an event in itself. Eventually, we got there, and everything was cool. But then you have all these COVID protocols in place — no people backstage, everybody in masks, a lot of the venues were PCR testing people going in. So it wa...

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman says that he is “still devastated” by the recent Astroworld concert tragedy. Ten people, including a 9-year-old and two teenagers, died while many more were injured after a crowd surge during Travis Scott‘s performance at the Houston music festival. Since then, dozens of lawsuits have been filed and a slew of questions remain unanswered about what went wrong. Draiman addressed the deadly event in a recent interview with Chad “Chumley” Kerch of Jacksonville, Florida’s WPLA radio station. He said: “I think that we’ve spent too much time over the course of the past number of years being separated from one another and being divided and being so concerned about ourselves as individuals that we’ve forgotten ho...

If there’s one thing to know about Wale right now, it’s that he’s spiritually and creatively energized. Hot off the release of his album Folarin II — which serves as a sequel to his Folarin mixtape that dropped back in 2012 — the D.C.-born rapper is ready to ride a newfound wave of inspiration. “My creative momentum right now is top notch, and when you hit that stride, you just don’t want to stop,” he told HYPEBEAST. His recent works encapsulate his current energy and emotions as an artist, while also paying homage to his biggest industry influences. The 15-track record is replete with notable features from artists like J. Cole, Jamie Foxx and Rick Ross — a mentor of his — alongside nostalgic samples from Faith Evans’ “Caramel Kisses” and Q-Tip’s “Vivrant Thing.” The album seamlessly blend...

In a new interview with Marci Wiser of the 95.5 KLOS radio station, Nita Strauss, the guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, was asked if she is okay with using sexuality to promote her music. She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think it’s important to embrace who you are as a woman, especially in this industry, but in any industry. And I spent a long time trying to figure out where my role was in all that. And I’ve gone down both sides of the spectrum. I’ve done stuff that I was, like, ‘You know what? I feel like I don’t need to put myself out there that much.’ And then I’ve gone the opposite direction and, like, ‘I need to be more covered up and be taken more seriously and not wear makeup and not feel pretty and...

Adele‘s 30 has captured the biggest album debut of 2021 in a span of only three days, breaking records set by Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy and Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version). Early reports from MRC Data state that 30 earned over 660,000 equivalent album units in the United States between its release on November 19 and November 22 — with 560,000 of that total credited to traditional album sales. The report confirms that Adele’s record surpassed the number of Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which garnered 613,000 units in its first week, and Taylor Swift’s new version of Red, which sold 369,000 albums in the week of November 18. If forecasts are correct, 30 will open at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 and will mark her third chart-topper following 25 in 2015 and 21 in 2011. Elsewhere i...