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It really doesn’t matter how many mainstream chatterers want metal to “move forward”: subgenres as resilient as thrash will never disappear or lose their relevance, particularly when so many of its original progenitors are still releasing albums as monstrous as this. ONSLAUGHT have already amassed a near-immaculate catalogue. If you don’t regularly injure yourself to 1985’s “Power from Hell” or ’86’s “The Force”, then you’re simply not doing thrash (or indeed black) metal properly. Additionally, the band’s post-reformation releases (“Killing Peace”, “Sounds of Violence” and “VI”), have each been world-class demonstrations of timeless brutality. Even the oft-maligned “In S...

Paul Stanley says that voting for a third, no-hope candidate in the upcoming presidential election is akin to throwing your vote away. Earlier today, the KISS frontman shared a New York Daily News article from self-proclaimed “staunch conservative” S.E. Cupp in which she wrote she is “very seriously considering voting for Joe Biden,” rather than writing someone in, as she did in 2016, but that her choice hinges on whom the presumptive Democratic nominee picks as his running mate. Stanley wrote in a tweet: “There are TWO ‘viable’ candidates, one of which will be our president for the coming 4 years. Why would ANYONE waste a vote that so many have fought for only to throw it away making a ‘statement’ that no one will hear? Make a vote tha...

GUNS N’ ROSES‘ rendition of “Live And Let Die” was played on loudspeakers earlier today (Thursday, August 6) before President Donald Trump‘s scheduled speech at the Whirlpool Corp.’s washing machine manufacturing plant in Clyde, Ohio. A reporter covering the event tweeted video of the GUNS N’ ROSES version of the WINGS track blaring on the live feed. The Intercept writer Robert Mackey wrote in an accompanying message: “The White House is playing “Live And Let Die” before Trump‘s arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state’s governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19, the disease that killed over 1,400 Americans yesterday.” Earlier today, Ohio governor Mike DeWine tested...

In a new interview with FaceCulture, Tommy Karevik spoke about KAMELOT‘s upcoming DVD and Blu-ray, “I Am The Empire – Live From The 013”, as well as the band’s plans for the follow-up to 2018’s “The Shadow Theory” album. The singer said (see video below): “We are in a very fortunate position. We have a live DVD coming out in a time when people need live music. So the second-best thing, instead of going to a show, would be to have a live DVD of your favorite band. So we’re lucky that we planned it this way, so now when we release an album, we’ve got some momentum. “We’re working on the new album as we speak, and we have a ton of ideas [for the record], which I think is gonna be killer,” he revealed. “I...