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Photo by Raphael Dias/Getty Images Mastodon Is Being Sued by the Estate of Their Late Bandmate Brent Hinds
The estate of the late Mastodon guitaist/vocalist Brent Hinds is suing his former bandmates over multiple legal claims.
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Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Legendary Rocker Recalls Ozzy Osbourne Pulling a Poolside Prank With Shattered Glass With Surprisingly Positive Results
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons says Ozzy got barefoot Sunset Marquis Hotel partygoers to smash their drink glasses on the ground at a pool party.
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Photo courtesy of Vertigo Records/Warner Bros. Records Famous Heavy Metal Album Cover Model Went From Being a Witch to Making an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Rock Opera
In the 1970s, Louisa Livingstone appeared as the witch on Black Sabbath’s iconic debut album cover, and now she makes AI-assisted music.
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Photo by Medios y Media/Getty Images Slipknot Drops Turntable-Heavy New Song, ‘Arsenal’, Weeks After Firing DJ Sid Wilson
Weeks after firing Sid Wilson, Slipknot has released their first new song in three years, and it utilizes a lot of DJ scratching effects.
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Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic ‘You’re the Label Now’: Iconic Metal Band Turns to Kickstarter to Fund First Album in 15 Years
Iconic death metal band All Shall Perish is back after 15 years and is crowdfunding their new album on Kickstarter.
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Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Conversation With Black Sabbath Bandmate Foreshadowed His Death the Next Day
More than a year after Ozzy Osbourne died, his Black Sabbath bandmate, Tony Iommi, has opened up about their final conversation.
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Photo by Per Ole Hagen/Redferns Extreme Metal Frontman Throws Down Guitar and Walks Off Stage Just 2 Minutes Into Show
Extreme heavy metal band ABBATH was forced to cut a festival performance short when their frontman quit after just one song.
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Photo by Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images Jay Weinberg Was a ‘Tangled Ball of Rusted, Barbed Wire’ After Being Fired From Slipknot, Until He Did One Thing
Jay Weinberg says that after his split from Slipknot, he began to seek mental health support through therapy more intentionally.
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Photo by Miikka Skaffari/FilmMagic Heavy Metal Frontman Hits Pause on Grammy-Winning Band He Founded After 20 Years: ‘I’m Exhausted’
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge has revealed that he is content with what the band has accomplished if his current hiatus is their ‘finale.’
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Photo by Medios y Media/Getty Images Sid Wilson Just Shared His First Post-Slipknot Social Media Posts, and I’m Pretty Sure I Hear a Subtle Dig at His Former Bandmates
Now-former Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson has shared a pair of posts on Instagram in the wake of his firing, and one of them sounds pretty targeted.
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Photo by Raphael Dias/Getty Images Mastodon Drummer Brann Dailor Opens up About the ‘Anguish’ of Losing Brent Hinds: ‘We Thought We Were Going To Bury the Hatchet’
Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor says that the band went through a very complicated emotional “anguish” after losing Brent Hinds.
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Photo by Chiaki Nozu/WireImage Born 75 Years Ago Today in England, the Grammy-Winning ‘Metal God’ Who Became One of Heavy Metal’s Most Iconic Frontmen
Best known as the frontman of Judas Priest, iconic heavy metal singer Rob Halford was born 75 years ago today.
By Dan Milam