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Silk Sonic, the super duo comprised of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, has announced the release of their brand new single, “Smokin’ Out The Window.” Set to drop on November 5, the upcoming track marks the third single off their debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, following “Skate” from July and “Leave the Door Open” from March. The pair teased the visual on social media but made sure to leave out the actual sound, making fans comment on how the two are always teasing them with releases. An Evening With Silk Sonic was initially scheduled to release in 2022 but was moved earlier to November 12, 2021. In a previous interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Mars and .Paak revealed that the Silk Sonic project began from a studio session in 2017. “It snowballed. And it was like, well, wa...

METALLICA‘s Lars Ulrich, BLACK SABBATH‘s Tony Iommi, IRON MAIDEN, SAXON, FEAR FACTORY‘s Dino Cazares and Doro Pesch are among the heavy metal musicians who have reacted on social media to the passing of longtime music journalist Malcolm Dome. The veteran U.K. writer died over the weekend at the age of 66. Dome has written about rock and heavy metal since 1979. In addition to publishing several books on such artists as AC/DC, METALLICA and LED ZEPPELIN he had contributed to a number of magazines, including Record Mirror, Metal Hammer, Kerrang! and Classic Rock. Dome is credited with inventing the term “thrash metal” while writing about the ANTHRAX song “Metal Thrashing Mad” in February 1984. Up until that point, bands like ANTHRAX and METALLICA had ...

The first episode of “Psycho Schizo Espresso”, a brand new podcast from IRON MAIDEN‘s Bruce Dickinson and Oxford University psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Kevin Dutton, officially launched across all podcast platforms on Sunday, October 31. New episodes will be made available every other Tuesday. Episode One features New Testament scholar Professor Steven J. Friesen from the University of Texas, author of “Imperial Cults And The Apocalypse Of John – Reading Revelation In The Ruins”, and expert on the Book Of Revelation. That episode will be the first of a two-parter exploring the devil’s role in heavy metal and decoding one of the Bible’s most impenetrable secrets — the hidden meaning behind 666, “The Number Of The Beast”...

PRETTY MAIDS singer Ronnie Atkins, who is battling stage four cancer, offered an update on his condition during a recent interview with France’s Duke TV. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I just decided to be open about it because my family had cancer. Back in the day when my mother had it — she died from it 33 years ago — it was something you didn’t talk about back then. “When I was diagnosed with stage four cancer, I just kind of refused to say that… I don’t want this to run my life,” he continued. “I still have things on my bucket list. I still wanna live. I still have a lot to give, a lot of music to sing. And I still wanna be around. And I’m in the same place now. I’m still here after a year and a half, and if you aske...

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has revealed that he planning to release a children’s book in 2022. “Me and my wife are working on a book about this little girl who goes to all of these countries in her imagination,” he told The Aquarian Weekly in a recent interview. “She goes to Africa and she has this little African boy or girl teaching her about that culture, or she goes to England, and then she goes to Wyoming and learns about horses, then goes to Japan and learns about the food and the culture and the language. That is a great idea, and that will come out next year.” Sixx offered a bit more information about the children’s book in a separate chat with Germany’s Radio Bob! He said the book was meant primarily “for parents to read to kids a...