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MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio has told Sergi Ramos of Spain’s The Metal Circus that the band is using the coronavirus downtime to work on several projects. “We are currently completing a DVD and Blu-ray of our first-ever show in Mexico with an amazing 8K video production,” he said. “We’re in the studio recording songs for the next EP, ‘The Final Battle II’, and we are already preparing the massive production for our 40th-anniversary tour that will kick off in spring 2021.” Four years after announcing its “farewell” tour, only to later clarify that MANOWAR has no plans of calling it quits, DeMaio is not ruling out a 50th-anniversary celebration in 2030. “No one can say what the future will bring, nor can we relive the past,R...

Former THE BLACK CROWES drummer Steve Gorman says that he understands why guitarist Rich Robinson would want to deny that he turned down an offer to write music with Jimmy Page. In his book “Hard To Handle: The Life And Death Of The Black Crowes”, Gorman said that he learned from Page that the legendary LED ZEPPELIN guitarist wanted to write songs with the Robinson brothers for what at the time was supposed to be THE BLACK CROWES‘ next record, but that Rich blew him off with a “No thanks! … We don’t need more songs.” “I was insulted,” Page allegedly said to the drummer, who furiously called THE CROWES‘ manager and told him, “I’m driving to Connecticut, and I’m going to kill Rich in his home.” In a brand new inter...

PSYCHOSEXUAL, the new rock band fronted by former FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH drummer Jeremy Spencer, will take part in a very special concert event tonight (Friday, July 31) at 8:00 p.m. PDT/11:00 p.m. EDT, to be livestreamed via the group’s Facebook page and YouTube channel from Structure’s Virtual Venue. PSYCHOSEXUAL is promoting its debut album, “Torch The Faith”, which was released today through Spencer‘s own independent label 6ex Records. The effort was co-produced by Spencer with DROWNING POOL producer Shawn McGhee. “This year has been uniquely challenging, to say the least — for all of us — but releasing ‘Torch The Faith’ is an actual dream come true,” said Spencer, who sports a Mephistophelian mask as singer/frontman Devil Daddy al...

FROM ASHES TO NEW has debuted a new version of “Scars That I’m Hiding” that was created for the soundtrack for the Better Noise Films release “The Retaliators” (out on demand in late October 2020). With guest vocals from Anders Fridén of IN FLAMES, this version of “Scars That I’m Hiding” is the newest focus track from “The Retaliators Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”. A version without Fridén‘s vocals will be included on the band’s upcoming release titled “Panic”, due out August 28. Of the track and film, frontman Matt Brandyberry says: “There is nothing more badass than being able to act alongside so many talented artists, and ‘The Retaliators’ gave us that opportunity. “As kids,...