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Former DEATH members James Murphy (guitar) and Terry Butler (bass) will perform the band’s classic third album, “Spiritual Healing”, in its entirety at two shows in Florida. The December 11 and December 12 concerts at the Brass Mug in Tampa — where Murphy and Butler will be joined by drummer Gus Rios (ex-MALEVOLENT CREATION, DIVINE EMPIRE) and guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey (EXHUMED, GRUESOME) — will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the passing of DEATH mastermind Chuck Schuldiner. Originally released in 1990, “Spiritual Healing” marked a new turn in the DEATH discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band. “Spiritual Healin...

Jeff Scott Soto says that his project with David Ellefson is “on hold” while the former MEGADETH bassist is working through the fallout from his sex video scandal. This past March, Soto and Ellefson announced that they had been collaborating on some new material under the moniker ELLEFSON-SOTO. The ELLEFSON-SOTO version of the RIOT classic “Swords & Tequila” was simultaneously released across all digital streaming outlets via Ellefson‘s Combat Records. Asked in a new interview with Dr. Music if the rest of the material he recorded with Ellefson will eventually see the light of day, Soto said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’m hoping it will at some point. I’ve given David, as many people have, the space and the time to kind of dea...

KISS‘s Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have defended actress Gina Carano after she was ousted from “The Mandalorian” over controversial social media posts. Carano — a former MMA fighter who played Cara Dune in the hit Disney+ show — was dropped in February over a post that likened being a conservative in modern America to being a Jew in Nazi Germany. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a spokesperson for Lucasfilm, which is owned by Disney, said in a statement at the time. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” Simmons and Stanley, who are both Jewish, addressed Carano‘s exit fr...

Former GUNS N’ ROSES and current SIXX:A.M. guitarist DJ Ashba will release a new single, “Bella Ciao”, on Friday, October 29. Produced by Ashba, the reimagined track gives a modern day EDM-driven makeover to the Italian folk classic, complemented by DJ‘s signature guitar work, creating a dance/rock hybrid called GDM (Guitar Dance Music). The new single marks Ashba‘s first release of 2021 and follows a series of tracks that released in late 2020 through Edgeout Records/UMG/UMe, including “Hypnotic”, “Let’s Dance” and “A Christmas Storm”. “After becoming completely obsessed with ‘Money Heist’, I became so inspired by ‘Bella Ciao’ and the history of the song,” stated Ashba. “I cou...

Red Hot Chili Peppers have shared more details about its upcoming global tour. The band first announced the summer 2022 tour last month with a satirical news broadcast. For the recent update on the tour, RHCP members returned to its faux news show KHOT to deliver more breaking news. The tour will kick off in Seville, Spain on June 4 and span over three months, wrapping up at the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas on September 18. The first month of the tour will see the band making stops throughout major cities in Europe, with shows for the following two months taking place across the United States. Each show will offer two opening acts. Though combinations of the acts will vary, the lineup includes A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak, Thundercat, HAIM, Beck, The Strokes, King Princess and St. Vi...