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In a new interview with Metal Hammer magazine, Gary Holt once again reflected on EXODUS‘s legendary New Year’s Eve gig in San Francisco with METALLICA, as the two bands rang in the year 1986 along with MEGADETH and METAL CHURCH. “We stomped them into the dirt,” Holt said. “We were getting wasted after the show, and James [Hetfield, METALLICA frontman] was laughing and saying, ‘Haha, that’s the last time you guys’ll ever support us.’ And it was the last time we ever supported METALLICA.” When Metal Hammer writer Dave Everley asked “The $64,000 question: no EXODUS, no thrash scene. True?” Holt replied, “Absolutely. I’ll own that. We created the violent scene.” “The scene was rad,” Holt added...

MÖTLEY CRÜE may be responsible for blazing a path of hard rock and chaos for the past 40 years, netting seven platinum and multi-platinum albums alongside global album sales exceeding 100 million. But this spring, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars come in from the cold to reveal their greatest accomplishment of all: protecting the world at all costs as covert government agents. Uniting with Z2 Comics, the premier publisher of music-based graphic novels, “Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt: Declassified” unearths the classified exploits of these rock pioneers as they navigated an international web of moles, sleepers, spooks, and plants. Building from the New York Times bestselling book and subsequent Netflix movie “The Dirt”, Leah Moore (“Morrison Hotel...

ASHES OF ARES, the band featuring former ICED EARTH members Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales, will release its third studio album, “Emperors And Fools”, on January 21, 2022 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels. Nine years after forming ASHES OF ARES, Barlow and Vidales return with an LP that sees the duo take the darkness and aggression from their previous effort, “Well Of Souls”, to a higher echelon. The writing process began almost immediately after “Well Of Souls” was released. As usual, it was a true collaborative effort between the two, with ideas originating from one or the other, then evolving and being refined to what is presented on “Emperors And Fools”. The album flow is designed to keep the listeners on edge while bringing them from fast, heavy...

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach will both continue to take place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California until 2050. According to reports, festival organizers Goldenvoice signed a long-term lease with the owners of the Empire Polo Club, extending their original agreement by 20 years. The new lease will give the company control over “year-round operations at the festival site and polo fields estimated to be worth $80 million,” supervision of the Empire Grand Oasis property in Thermal, California and will allow Goldenvoice to host two more three-day festivals every year. “We are pleased to continue our long- term relationship with Paul Tollett and Goldenvoice,” Alexander Haagen III, owner of the Empire Polo Club, said in a statement. “The new long-term l...

Lil Bibby recently took to Twitter to announce the official release date of Juice WRLD‘s next single. His posthumous success has landed Juice WRLD on the list of highest streaming artists of the year. The artist continues to leave a mark across various albums including being a feature in Migos’ Culture III, Young Thug’s PUNK, and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy. In a now-deleted tweet from Lil Bibby, it seems that Juice WRLD’s team is preparing for the release of yet another posthumous album, this time preparing to announce the highly anticipated single, “Already Dead.” A small teaser of the song was released recently and fans have been demanding the full release since. In the next few months, fans can anticipate new Juice WRLD content as a documentary about the late rapper is expected to debu...