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During a recent interview with SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation Virtual Invasion”, Bruce Dickinson discussed IRON MAIDEN‘s penchant for writing long, progressive intricate songs, including on the band’s latest effort, “Senjutsu”, which features three tracks whose running time exceeds 10 minutes each. “Steve [Harris, MAIDEN bassist] and I are partially responsible [for that],” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I did the whole thing about the airship disaster, the R101, which was 18 minutes or something crazy,” he said, referring to the song “Empire Of The Clouds” which appeared on MAIDEN‘s “The Book Of Souls” album. “And that was basically arranged for an orchestra, which at the time w...

MASTODON will release its new album, “Hushed And Grim”, on October 29. The official Lorenzo Diego Carrera-directed music video for the disc’s first single, “Pushing The Tides”, can be seen below. The follow-up to 2017’s “Emperor Of Sand”, “Hushed And Grim” was recorded at West End Sound, which is located inside of Ember City, the rehearsal facility that members of MASTODON manage in Atlanta. Helming the effort was Grammy-winning producer/mixer/engineer David Bottrill, who has previously worked with MUSE, DREAM THEATER and TOOL, among many others. “Hushed And Grim” track listing: 01. Pain With An Anchor 02. The Crux 03. Sickle And Peace 04. More Than I Could Chew 05. The Beast 06. Skeleton Of Splendor 07. Teardrinker 08...

Corey Taylor‘s cover version of the METALLICA classic “Holier Than Thou” can be streamed below. The track is taken from “The Metallica Blacklist”, a four-hour, 53-song collection of the “Black Album” covers spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, with each artist contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite “Metallica” LP cut. Ahead of the release of his version of “Holier Than Thou”, the SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman sat down with Knotfest.com‘s Ryan J. Downey to discuss METALLICA, “Holier Than You” and more in a four-part series. Speaking about how METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX shaped his musical identity in the late 1980s and creat...

In a recent interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, P.O.D. vocalist Sonny Sandoval confirmed that the three-time Grammy Award-nominated rock quartet has spent some of the coronavirus downtime compiling ideas for its next album. “Yes, we’ve been working on a new record,” he said. “I think everybody has during the whole COVID time. But not being able to go jam — I mean, we’re a band that jams. A lot of these new bands all live in different states, and they just send files, and all of a sudden, they create music. Well, P.O.D. is not like that. We like to sit with each other and play music and figure stuff out. And so it’s kind of been a rough thing. So we’ve been trying to write as individuals, but it’s just a learning process. Not that...