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GUNS N’ ROSES has released a compilation of professionally filmed performance clips filmed during the band’s fall 2016 tour of South America and Mexico. The 47-minute video is part of the GN’R web series dubbed “Not In This Lifetime Selects” featuring highlights from the four-year “Not In This Lifetime” tour. Among the featured songs is “My Michelle”, recorded on November 5, 2016 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a guest appearance by the band’s classic-lineup drummer Steven Adler. The previous night (November 4, 2016), Adler played “Out Ta Get Me” with the group at the same venue, although that video is not included in this compilation. Featured songs: 00:01 Mr. Brownstone 04:07 You Could Be Mine...

Hamburg, Germany’s GAMMA RAY has delivered impressive statements of its own musical philosophy to the worldwide heavy metal community for more than 30 years now. Founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the famous German power metal band HELLOWEEN, GAMMA RAY recorded 11 studio albums between 1989 and 2015. Alongside Dirk Schlächter (bass), Henjo Richter (guitar), Michael Ehré (drums) and Frank Beck (vocals), Hansen is the band’s lead vocalist, guitarist and chief songwriter. The expressive power of the band’s music is reflected in their energetic live shows. There’s hardly a renowned metal festival where GAMMA RAY hasn’t rocked the crowds and hardly a European metal magazine which hasn’t featured at least one GAMMA RAY cover story. On G...

RATING: 8/10 After two widely praised albums established them as a vicious new force in German thrash, SPACE CHASER are audibly well-equipped for their first big label full-length. METAL BLADE clearly know their stuff, and “Give Us Life” delivers the kind of no-nonsense, undiluted thrash assault that, for those sworn to the steel, is entirely irresistible. And that’s before you notice frontman Siegfried Rudzynski world-class mullet. There are many ways to approach thrash metal, from the defiantly old school to the maxed-out and modern. SPACE CHASER take the sensible approach of nailing the ’80s-worshipping basics, but with a production that is all timely bite, pertinent punch and as timeless as the songs themselves. As an entry point, “Remnants of Technology&#...

In a brand new interview with “Lipps Service With Scott Lipps”, LIVING COLOUR guitarist Vernon Reid was asked if the band has commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2017’s “Shade” album. He responded: “Corey [Glover, LIVING COLOUR singer] and I started working on a song. We’ll see where that goes.” As for what possible lyrical themes the new LIVING COLOUR songs will cover, Vernon said: “We’re processing what exactly this period… ‘Cause a lot of folks, their immediate reaction, a lot of [musicians] are [writing songs about] George Floyd-type things,” referring to the unarmed Minnesota man who died last year at the hands of police. “We’re really looking at absorbing it, because I don’t w...

During an appearance on the “HardRockCore” podcast, ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello discussed his upcoming memoir, “Fathers, Brothers, And Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, And Anthrax”, which is due on October 12 via Rare Bird. The foreword was written by KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. “My co-writer, Joel McIver, you’ve probably heard of him,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “He’s done, I think, 32 books at this point. He’s an incredible writer. I’ve been a friend of his for a long time. We’ve been talking this for years — about doing this. And it just wasn’t the right time. It just happened when all this COVID started, Joel hit me up and he said, ‘This might be the right time.’ An...

SEPULTURA frontman Derrick Green spoke to The Metal Mixtape about the importance of making his health a priority while spending so much time on the road with his band. “I think it’s hand in hand, man,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I’ve noticed so many artists, as far as older artists that I admire, taking care of themselves, and it really was an inspiration to me. I mean, even artists who are in completely [different] genres of music, like Sting or Lionel Richie or Sammy Hagar, they all look fantastic for their age, and they’re still playing music and still able to do their thing. And I always idolized that. I never thought it was cool that people were dying young who were musicians… I always thought this was not cool at all — to go out...

In a new interview with Hard, Heavy & Hair With Pariah Burke, legendary drummer Vinny Appice once agin spoke about the importance of punctuality when it comes to being in a band, especially as it relates to performing live. Asked what advice he would give to younger musicians looking to make their mark on the music scene, Vinny said: “First of all, for a musician, you’ve gotta practice. Become good at what you do, whether you play drums or guitar or bass or sing. And you’ve gotta have songs that people wanna hear that maybe stand out or a sound that stands out. Songs are important. You can have a great band that doesn’t have good songs, and they’ll do okay, but if you have a shitty band that has great songs, they’ll probably be really big. People lov...