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During an appearance on the latest episode of AXS TV‘s “At Home And Social With”, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was asked by Katie Daryl if he he likes to use bar soap or liquid soap when he is showering. He responded: “I just take whatever is available. I actually have a huge collection of soaps from hotels from all over the world, and I’ve never had to buy shower gel or soap for the last 10 years. “My girlfriend, she’s absolutely mad. She goes and buys all this stuff,” he continued. “I’m, like, ‘Okay, well, that’s for you. We’ve got a year’s supply there. But me, I’ll take [whatever is available].’ ‘Hmm, I wonder what this one does.’ … And then you get the funny-shaped ones as...

Slash has confirmed to Classic Rock magazine in a new interview that a new album from GUNS N’ ROSES is definitely coming. “There’s new GUNS material coming out as we speak, and we’ll probably keep putting it out until the entire record’s worth of stuff is done and then put it out solid,” the guitarist said. “It’s cool. I’m enjoying working on the stuff and having a good time doing it.” Last October, Slash told Audacy Check In host Remy Maxwell that GUNS N’ ROSES had yet to begin writing new material after recently releasing two reworked songs from the “Chinese Democracy”-era sessions. In September, the guitarist and his bandmates dropped “Hard Skool”, which came more than a month after their performan...

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has dropped the official music video for the song “The Tragic Truth” to coincide with singer Ivan Moody‘s 42nd birthday. Originally released in 2011, “The Tragic Truth” appeared as a bonus track exclusive to the iTunes edition of FIVE FINGER‘s third album, “American Capitalist”, and was also included on the second instalment of the group’s greatest-hits collection, “A Decade Of Destruction – Volume 2”, which came out on digital and CD formats in October 2020. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH said in a statement: “We wrote ‘The Tragic Truth’ in 2011 for the ‘American Capitalist’ album, but it simply wasn’t finished by the manufacturing deadline. Since the song was very ...

According to New Orleans TV station FOX 8 WVUE-TV, New Orleans police confirmed that former COAL CHAMBER bassist Rayna Foss has been found safe after being supposedly missing for months. Four months ago, the 51-year-old Foss was reported missing by her group home manager after last being seen on September 7, 2021. WVUE issued a notice via its official Facebook page describing her at the time as being 5-foot-3 and 200 pounds. The police also urged anyone with additional information on Foss‘s whereabouts to contact them. Earlier this week, the news of Rayna‘s apparent disappearance was reported by the rock music media, including BLABBERMOUTH.NET. A day later, Rayna‘s 22-year-old daughter Kayla — whose father is Foss‘s former husband, SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose — re...

For the first time ever on vinyl, TWISTED SISTER and Friday Music have teamed up to create the ultimate heavy metal hits collection with TWISTED SISTER‘s “Greatest Hits – Tear It Loose (Studio & Live)”. Compiled from the original Atlantic Records tape vaults by TWISTED SISTER‘s co-founder Jay Jay French and Joe Reagoso (TWISTED SISTER, ALICE COOPER, THIN LIZZY), this long-overdue release contains a stellar overview of the band’s remarkable gold-and-platinum career. Due on January 14, the five-star deluxe two-LP set includes classic Atlantic Records studio tracks like “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, “Under The Blade”, “I Wanna Rock”, “Leader Of The Pack”, “Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant”, ̶...

CARCASS frontman Jeff Walker has told Finland’s Chaoszine that the postponement of the band’s fall 2021 “The European Siege” tour with ARCH ENEMY and BEHEMOTH didn’t come as much of a shock to him. “It was not a setback at all,” he said. “When we agreed to do the tour [in 2020], I saw this happening; it was no big surprise to me. It’s a relief in a way because they left it so late to announce that the tour wasn’t gonna happen. There were so many hurdles and obstacles I could see that was gonna be thrown up. Between COVID and Brexit, it was gonna be very difficult to tour this [last] year in September. I think it was a good thing to postpone it, to give more time. Not [just] because of the whole shit, but the impact that Brexit is ...

TRIXTER drummer Mark “Gus” Scott says that no progress has been made in his desire to get the band back together. Both TRIXTER guitarist Steve Brown and bassist P.J. Farley have been critical of Scott in recent interviews, with Steve saying that the drummer is on “the shit list beyond belief” with the rest of the group, while P.J. compared being in a band with Mark to owning a disobedient dog. “Sometimes you let the dog off a leash and he just goes running to the middle of the street — no good,” he said. Asked in a new interview with “The Bay Ragni Show” to give an update on his apparent feud with his bandmates, Scott said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I hate to say it, there really has been no change since the last time we spo...