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According to TMZ, former THE BLACK CROWES drummer Steve Gorman has filed a lawsuit against the paid over unpaid royalties. In his complaint, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against singer Chris Robinson and guitarist Rich Robinson and The Black Crowes Partnership, Gorman claims faulty accounting has resulted in him missing out on royalties from THE BLACK CROWES‘ albums. Gorman says he doesn’t know exactly how much he is owed. “For more than five years, my attorneys and I have made repeated requests to review the Partnership’s books to confirm the accuracy of royalty payments and my share, but Chris and Rich have consistently ignored my rights under the Partnership Agreement,” Gorman said in a statement. “I regret that it has come to this...

ASKING ALEXANDRIA guitarist and co-founder Ben Bruce recently appeared on “Side Jams With Bryan Reesman” to discuss his newfound love for cooking and embracing fatherhood. Beyond enjoying cooking all kinds of meat, he revealed that he had a dream of having a food truck, but that it probably wouldn’t go the way he’d like. “I’ve always wanted a food truck,” Ben said. “I feel like I’ve just had this idea in my head forever, which, once I tell you the name of it, you’ll realize very quickly why it can’t happen. Because I’ll be getting all kinds of the wrong people queuing up for it. But I would love to have a food truck just with a British flag painted on the side. [We have] something in England — a fast food, quick snack ...

KnuckleBonz, Inc., along with Great South Bay Brewery and Bravado, have teamed up with PANTERA to bring a new beer, Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Lager”, to the KnuckleBonz limited-edition beverage series. The Pantera “Vulgar Display Of Lager” (5.9%) is brewed in accordance with the oldest regulation related to food or drink in the world, The German Purity Law of 1516: in order to call your product beer, its production must be limited to only four simple ingredients hops, barley, water, and yeast. By selecting nothing but the finest of these ingredients coupled with traditional methods, the result is quite a “Vulgar Display Of Lager” with a complex flavor profile that is cold fermented for the crisp and refreshing experience you’d expect from a world-...

Dave Mustaine has confirmed that TESTAMENT bassist Steve DiGiorgio laid down the bass tracks on the new MEGADETH album, “The Sick, The Dying, And The Dead”. Due on July 8, the follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” features a cover of DEAD KENNEDYS‘ “Police Truck” and Sammy Hagar‘s “This Planet’s On Fire”, the latter of which includes vocals from Hagar himself. The MEGADETH leader shared the news of DiGiorgio‘s involvement in the LP in an interview with Jose Mangin of SiriusXM Liquid Metal. He said: “We obviously had that weird little…well, it wasn’t little, but we had something happen that we needed to make a decision on, and it set us back a little bit timing-wise, because we needed to recalibrate and find someon...