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King Diamond has revealed that he is working on lyrics for the long-awaited new album from his namesake band. Titled “The Institute”, the group’s first studio LP in 15 years is tentatively before the end of the year via Metal Blade Records. On Tuesday (February 1), King took to his Instagram to share a photo of several stacks of handwritten lyric sheets, and he included the following message: “In my lair working on lyrics for the new album. The words may be blurred for now but in due time the madness will unfold, you have been warned..” Back in November 2019, KING DIAMOND released its first new song in 12 years, “Masquerade Of Madness”. A month later, guitarist Andy La Rocque told The Metal Voice that he came up with the music for the track first b...

Unleash the beer-thirsty! On June 10-11, 2022, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly — the world’s loudest, two-day craft beer event — comes back to the Fillmore Philly for its latest and greatest sud-soaked execution! Death metal kings CANNIBAL CORPSE triumphantly return to Philadelphia, leading an unforgettable weekend that includes a Friday night headlining set from Swedish doom legends CANDLEMASS. The epic-doom originators will perform their landmark debut “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” for the first time ever in its entirety in America, with “Epicus” vocalist Johan Längquist. That’s just one of four exclusive Metal & Beer Fest full-album sets! For the first time WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will perform all of their U.S. black metal masterpi...

W.A.S.P. and ARMORED SAINT, Hollywood’s prodigal sons, are coming home to end their U.S. tour at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. After selling out the first California show of the U.S. tour in Anaheim, W.A.S.P. has announced a concert at The Wiltern on December 11. In addition, new shows in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charlotte and Fresno have been added. General on sale for the new shows will be Friday, February 4 at 10 a.m. EST. New shows added to the “40 Years Live” U.S. tour: Oct. 28 – Las Vegas, NV – House Of Blues Nov. 08 – St Louis, MO – The Factory Nov. 15 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live Nov. 21 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva Nov. 27 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Dec. 10 – Fresno, CA ...

RATING: 9/10 Sweden’s MASS WORSHIP released one of the finest metal debuts of the last decade. The opening track on that self-titled record began with a riff so monumentally heavy that some of us are still picking bits of skull out of the furniture. The rest of the album was just as good. As a result, “Portal Tombs” has a lot to live up to. There was something instantly magical about this band’s sound: a brutal, white-knuckle midpoint between the blistered left-field hardcore of BREACH, and the buzz-saw bellicosity of Stockholm’s seminal death metal scene — it nimbly defies categorization. Second time out, MASS WORSHIP have no real reason to veer off track, and “Portal Tombs” does exactly what it needs to: reinforce how exciting this band are, via ...

Former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin, who sang on six of the band’s albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was asked in a new interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece if he had an inkling he would be fired after the release of 1995’s “Forbidden” in order to allow guitarist Tony Iommi to reunite with SABBATH‘s fellow original members. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I asked Tony directly. I said, ‘Are you guys planning to do something with Ozzy [Osbourne] again?’ I said, ‘Just tell me so then I can plan what I’m gonna do.’ He said, ‘No, no, no, no. It’s all just rumors.’ Yeah, right. Everybody’s talking in the business about it. My manager had told me. So I kind of knew...

Late PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott‘s home in Arlington, Texas has just been listed for $750,000. The secluded hilltop 3,784-square-foot house, which was completed in 1995, sits on 1.5 acres and features 40-plus-foot ceilings, four bedrooms, four and a half baths, two game rooms and a secret/safe room. The home has four newer, over-sized Lennox Elite AC units and a gas-operated Generac generator. The backyard features a large pool with waterfall and a spa that spills into the pool. Two fire pits are on each end of the waterfall. Vinnie passed away on June 22, 2018 at his other home in Las Vegas at the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. His death was the result of chronic weakening of the heart muscle — basic...

KORN‘s new single, “Lost In The Grandeur”, can be streamed below via a video animated and edited by EFFIXX. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, album, “Requiem”, which will arrive on February 4 via Loma Vista Recordings. Due to the effects of COVID-19 and the inability to play live shows for the first time in KORN‘s illustrious career, “Requiem” was conceived out of very different circumstances than the majority of the band’s catalogue. It is an album born of time and the ability to create without pressure. Energized by a new creative process free of time constraints, KORN was able to do things with “Requiem” that the past two decades haven’t always afforded them, such as taking additional time to ...