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Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell has announced his retirement from the band after a “chaotic” performance at a wine and beer festival in Upstate New York. One fan uploaded footage of the performance to TikTok where it has since gone viral, showing an inebriated Harwell that was threatening fans, forgetting the lyrics to songs, and stumbling on stage. According to Variety, the 54-year-old singer has been battling with substance abuse and health issues including cardiomyopathy and Wernicke’s encephalopathy — a disorder that affects speech, memory, and motor functions. The singer also spoke to TMZ with the official statement on his retiring from the band with: Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of being a Rockstar performing in front of sold-out arenas and have been so fortunate to live o...

To celebrate MACHINE HEAD‘s 30th anniversary, fan Anas Al-Ethawi teamed up with some of his fellow fans from around the world to put together a video of what the San Francisco Bay Area metal band means to them. The resulting 19-minute video has been uploaded to MACHINE HEAD‘s official YouTube channel and can be seen below. Says MACHINE HEAD: “We are blown away by the sentiment, love and time taken by everyone involved to create this video and it was, quite frankly, a little overwhelming to watch. We feel so honored to have the Head Cases in this video, and hundreds of thousands more like them around the globe, in our corner. Thank you all for your support over these last 30 years and beers up for many more to come!” On October 12, 1991 at the Oakland, California ...

Mitch Malloy, who auditioned to replace Sammy Hagar in VAN HALEN in the summer of 1996, celebrated Eddie Van Halen‘s musical legacy with MITCH MALLOY’S VH EXPERIENCE on October 9 at Mattie Kelly Arts Village in Destin, Florida. Mitch was backed by a band featuring Pete Thorn (Chris Cornell, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge) on guitar, Daniel Spriewald (Phil X of BON JOVI) on bass, and Wayne Killius (Keith Urban, BIG & RICH, Luke Bryan) on drums. More fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. Malloy told the story of his day at Eddie Van Halen‘s 5150 studios to Melodic Rock: “A guy who worked for their management at the time used to be my road manager and he kept calling me and telling me they were going to fire Sammy and that I was going to be the ...

Gary Holt says that he “highly doubts” there will ever be a SLAYER reunion. The EXODUS leader, who spent almost nine years touring with SLAYER, discussed the possibility of the latter band coming back while being interviewed by Australia’s “Scars And Guitars” podcast. Asked what the most enjoyable part was of being part of SLAYER‘s final tour, Holt said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Just the amount of people that came out to see it, especially the amount of people who flew in for the final two shows was epic. And it was emotional. Tears were shed while playing ‘Angel Of Death’, and who would have ever thought that would happen? Who plays ‘Angel Of Death’ [while] trying to keep the tears at bay for the last fucking t...

Andréa Meyer, the German recording artist, writer, actress and model who released several albums under the Nebelhexë moniker, is one of five people who were killed in a bow-and-arrow attack in a quiet Norwegian town earlier this week. She was 52 years old. Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, was arrested Wednesday night (October 13), after he began his deadly rampage targeting random people at a supermarket and other locations in Kongsberg, where he lived. Brathen, a Muslim convert, has been detained in a medical facility pending psychiatric evaluation. Police inspector Per Thomas Omholt described Brathen as “‘not very social” and told the media that “all the indications are that he chose his victims at random” and acted alone. Although Brat...