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According to Columbus Business First, the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, where PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was murdered more than 16 years ago has finally gotten the green light to be turned into affordable apartments. Plans are afoot to build three four-story buildings providing one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments on the site where Dimebag and three other people were killed by a 25-year-old ex-Marine named Nathan Gale. Columbus City Council passed legislation on Monday night (July 19) to allow the site at 5055 Sinclair Road on the city’s north side to be rezoned. Prior to the legislation being passed, the area plan for that location was an “employment center” use. Because no one was currently looking to dev...

Canadian innovative metallers VOIVOD will enter RadicArt studios at the end of the month with producer Francis Perron to begin recording their new album, expected for release in 2022 via Century Media Records. VOIVOD drummer Michel “Away” Langevin stated: “Presently, we are fine-tuning the music for the next album, which we will start recording next week. I must say it’s a real thrill to write new material with Chewy, Rocky and Snake.” Two months ago, VOIVOD guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain of told The Metal Voice that he and his bandmates were “still in the writing process” for follow-up to 2018’s “The Wake”. He said: “We’re still sharing files and trying to catch up and put more time into it. I think the...

QUEEN, METALLICA, AC/DC, TOOL, KISS and AEROSMITH are among the hard rock and heavy metal artists who have made Billboard‘s list of highest-paid musicians of 2020. For QUEEN‘s No. 7 place at the summit, Billboard estimates the legendary band made $13.2 million, including $5.5 million from streaming, $5.3 million from sales and $2.4 million from publishing. AC/DC is in the 13th place with $10.1 million after streaming, sales and publishing earned them $4.3 million, $4 million and $1.8 million respectively. METALLICA raked in $9 million in 2020, $3.9 million of which came from streaming, $3.7 million from sales and $1.4 million from publishing, to come in at No. 18. TOOL ranked No. 32, and $4.2 million of the band’s total $6.17 million income came from touring — an unusuall...

Ted Nugent has declared Joe Biden a “dumbass” and railed against Democrats for never telling the “truth.” The outspoken conservative rocker, who is an avid supporter of former U.S. president Donald Trump, discussed Biden‘s performance during a July 19 YouTube livestream. He said in part: “Every word out of this freako president’s mouth and his freako treasonous vice president and pretty much every Democrat, most of the media — almost all the media, except for Fox News, One America News and most of Newsmax… Take whatever the leftists, whatever the liberals and the Democrats say, I mean, the evidence is irrefutable. This is not a Ted Nugent opinion. Every word out of their mouth is the exact opposite of the truth.” He later went on to praise Tr...