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Vocalist Dani “Filth” Davey of veteran British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH says that he and his bandmates have “many exciting things planned for 2022.” The 48-year-old musician looked ahead to the upcoming year while sharing a year-end message via Instagram. He wrote: “Firstly, in this festive address, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. May it be a productive and fruitfully delicious one for each & every one of you! “Despite 2021 being another year of the plague & not seeing much action in the live department, it did bare witness to the release of our new album ‘Existence Is Futile’. It also enabled us to partially tour the album in the States, where we played the two video tracks alongside fan-faves, as we brough...

SHINEDOWN has released a short teaser video for the band’s upcoming seventh studio album. The 42-second clip, which can be seen below, was accompanied by the message: “So it begins… #nowiknowmyabcs… Do you? #SD7”. Last month, SHINEDOWN singer Brent Smith 95.9 The Rat‘s Carl Craft about the new LP’s more “stripped-down” approach: “We wanted to push everything to the front. And what I mean by that is we’ve proven that we can make these records that there’s a lot of musicianship involved in it, and we have layered our records over the years because we love music and we love sound and we try to make really cinematic records. So with that, you have a lot of instrumentation that is not just drums, bass, guitar and vocals — we use ...

A Ludwig 12-piece drum set made for and owned by late KISS drummer Eric Carr is being sold via Reverb. The set comes with a certificate of authenticity from the Eric Carr estate. In the Reverb listing, the seller of the Carr kit writes: “While I was playing in a KISS tribute band in 2005, my dream came true when I bought this kit from Paul Orofino, one of Eric‘s closest friends and the one who recorded Eric‘s audition demo tape for KISS. Paul told me Eric gifted him this drum set, Simmons pads and, I believe, his chrome Chikara set, and Eric had it sent freight right after his video shoot for ‘God Gave Rock ‘N’ Roll To You II’ song by KISS, from Los Angeles to Paul‘s recording studio in Milbrook, NY. Paul said he recorded albums by BLUE ÖYSTE...

KISS drummer Eric Singer joined his former bandmate, ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick, during Bruce‘s concert last night (Thursday, December 30) at Count’s Vamp’d in Las Vegas, Nevada. Singer was filling in for Kulick‘s regular drummer Brent Fitz who was apparently unable to make the gig because he contracted COVID-19. Kulick‘s group, which also features singer and guitarist Todd Kerns and bassist and singer Zach Throne, performed mostly songs from Kulick‘s 1980s and 1990s KISS era. The setlist was as follows: 01. Creatures Of The Night 02. Unholy 03. Uh! All Night 04. Domino 05. Heaven’s On Fire 06. Watchin’ You 07. Tears Are Falling 08. I Love It Loud 09. Detroit Rock City 10. King Of The Night Time World 11. God Gave Rock And Roll To You 12....

Jack Osbourne, the 36-year-old son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, is engaged to his girlfriend of over two years, Aree Gearhart. Osbourne broke the news of the engagement in an Instagram post on Thursday (December 30). “Today I asked the most beautiful and loving woman I’ve ever met to marry me. She said yes!!” he captioned a selfie of himself and his fiancée. “Life is a series of doors and I’m so excited to walk through this one with her. She’s truly a magical being with a heart bigger than anything I could have imagined,” Osbourne continued, adding, “Her step-mom skills make my heart so full. I couldn’t be happier than I am right now.” Gearhart, who is an interior designer, shared the same photo on her Instagram and wrote: “...

DISTURBED singer David Draiman has taken up a social media challenge dubbed the IDF Shirt Challenge which encourages people to post photos of themselves wearing Israel Defense Forces shirts in solidarity with two men who were allegedly victims of an antisemitic attack in Brooklyn, New York. Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich were allegedly called “dirty Jews” on Sunday (December 26) before one of them was punched in the face for sporting an IDF sweatshirt. “Jews are being attacked on the streets of the major cities of the United States on a regular basis right now, but it almost seems like a near-daily occurrence in New York,” Draiman told The Jerusalem Post. “I was born in Brooklyn where those two young gentlemen were attacked, in Maimonides hospital in Flatb...

Legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has shared a year-end video message in which he outlined some of the projects that kept him busy during the last 12 months. The 73-year-old musician, who was diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma a decade ago, stated in the three-minute clip (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Hello. Well, it’s that time of year again. Another year — 2022. Can you believe it? Time just flies by so quick nowadays. It’s been a real busy year for me, though. I’ve been doing a lot for the SABBATH box sets that we’ve had the last year, which has been interesting. I’ve been doing a lot of interviews, as the rest of the band have done interviews as well. So it’s been good, and they’ve been received really well. “A ...

In a new interview with Metal Global, Gary Holt discussed the fact that EXODUS is composed of members with different political ideologies. “We’re in one of the last of a dying breed — opposite ends of the political spectrum that still love each other and get along,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “If the whole world could be more like EXODUS, we’d be a lot better off. [Laughs] “Three-fifths of EXODUS are conservatives and two-fifths are liberal, with one of them — me — being kind of a centrist; I’m kind of in the middle,” he continued. “And we’re still just brothers for life. “You don’t argue politics and religion with people you disagree with; that’s what they always say. So, as a band, we donR...

In a recent interview with Chicago’s WXAV 88.3 FM radio station, former SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera reflected on the group’s groundbreaking 1996 album “Roots”, on which he and his bandmates collaborated with the Brazilian Xavante tribe. “The ‘Roots’ record, which was heavily influenced [by] tribal music — the mix of tribal music and metal was a brand new thing, and we kind of went into a complete unknown territory when we did that, and the results were amazing,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “And we ended up getting praised by people like Dave Grohl [NIRVANA, FOO FIGHTERS] and Lemmy from MOTÖRHEAD, which was unreal to me to hear — my idols praising some of my stuff. It was pretty cool. “If you do it with passio...