Japanese pop metal act BABYMETAL has just released a new single, "Pa Pa Ya!!". The track, which features Thai musician F. Hero, will appear on BABYMETAL's next album, due later this year. BABYMETAL's upcoming disc will be the follow-up to 2016's "Metal Resistance"....

Marko Syrjala of Metal Rules recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD and LAST IN LINE guitarist Vivian Campbell. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Metal Rules: There's been a lot of badmouthing and press between LAST IN LINE and DIO DISCIPLES members...

In a brand new interview with Austria's Mulatschag TV, GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna was asked when the last time was that he spoke with RUSH drummer Neil Peart. Erna responded (see video below): "He actually did an interview for the [GODSMACK] documentary that's gonna...

Geezer Butler has told Classic Rock magazine that he is he isn't ruling out a one-off BLACK SABBATH reunion. "If it came up, I wouldn't say never," the bassist said. "I can't imagine it ever happening, but then I said that about the SABBATH tour, and it happened, so...

SILVERSTEIN has signed with UNFD. The band will enter the studio later this year to record its ninth studio album for a 2020 release. With the signing announcement comes a brand-new song from SILVERSTEIN, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2020. Fans can now...

LiveXLive Media, Inc., a global digital media company focused on live entertainment, has announced that Perry Farrell will join the company as a global brand ambassador. In addition to evangelizing the LiveXLive platform and service, Farrell will expand upon his...

Swedish melodic black/death metal act NETHERBIRD has signed a worldwide deal with Eisenwald. The band's new album, "Into The Vast Uncharted", will be released this fall. The Stockholm-based band, which features ex-AMON AMARTH drummer Fredrik Andersson, is currently in...

Professionally filmed video footage of LAMB OF GOD's entire June 23 performance at Hellfest in Clisson, France can be seen below (courtesy of ARTE Concert). LAMB OF GOD guitarist Mark Morton recently confirmed that the band has commenced work on the material for the...

RATT singer Stephen Pearcy and bassist Juan Croucier have confirmed that the band is planning to release new music in 2020. "It's natural for us to, obviously, record," Croucier said during an appearance on yesterday's (Tuesday, June 25) edition of "Trunk Nation LA...

San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans HEATHEN are in the studio working on a new album. A one-minute video in which vocalist David White and guitarist Kragen Lum reveal that they are in pre-production for the follow-up to "The Evolution Of Chaos" LP can be seen below....

KING DIAMOND played a brand new song, "Masquerade Of Madness", live for the second time during its June 22 concert at Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. This past March, King Diamond told Full Metal...

JOURNEY keyboardist Jonathan Cain, a devout born-again Christian whose minister wife Paula White-Cain delivered the invocation at Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, spoke to FOX 17's "Rock & Review" about the role his faith plays in the songwriting process....

Former OZZY OSBOURNE and current LAST IN LINE bassist Phil Soussan has slammed the "Medicare For All" proposal, arguing that moving to a single-payer system run by the government would result in people having "to wait weeks to get even basic appointments." Unlike the...

METALLICA recently welcomed Rob Dietrich as the new master distiller of the band's recently launched brand of whiskey. A veteran in the spirits and music industry, Rob will oversee the sourcing, blending, and cask finishing of barrels for each batch of Blackened...

Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD have been invited to perform at the world-famous Montreal International Jazz Festival (Festival International de Jazz de Montréal) on June 30 at Club Soda. For the occasion, guitarist Dan "Chewy" Mongrain, who has been in VOIVOD for...

Fan-filmed video footage of OPERATION: MINDCRIME, the band led by former QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate, performing on June 25 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania can be seen below. Geoff has spent the last year and a half celebrating the 30th anniversary of QUEENSRŸCHE's...