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FINANCIAL REALITY OF CORONAVIRUS FOR TOURING BANDS HITS HOME FOR VISIONS OF ATLANTIS

With global Heavy Metal tours having to be scrapped due to the Coronavirus disaster, the financial burden for the music industry has never been so dire.This is especially true when gigs are...

KINGS OF DUST: GREG CHAISSON – IF RAY WAS STILl ALIVE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE MUSIC FROM BADLANDS.

Greg Chaisson was talking with Greg Marra for the Iconaclast Music Podcast recently and while discussing the excellent new Album from Kings Of Dust which is out today, the conversation naturally turned...

FISH: TOUR BEGINS TONIGHT AS NEW SONG RELEASED

Fish has shared his new single 'Weltschmerz' today, as he prepares to start his UK tour with tonights concert at The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen.The title track from his final album, the song...

FRIDAY ROUNDUP: MAGNUS KARLSSON, CALIGULA’S HORSE, SOILWORK, SMACKBOUND, JARED JAMES NICHOLS AND KING CREATURE

Primal Fear guitarist Magnus Karlsson has announced the release of ‘We Are The Night’, the third album from his solo project 'Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall'. As before, a glittering array of some of the...

NIGHTWISH ANNOUNCE ‘WORLD LAND TRUST’ PARTNERSHIP

Nightwish, who recently announced the release of their ninth album 'HUMAN. :II: NATURE.', have today announced a partnership with the international conservation charity organisation World Land Trust.The World Land Trust pioneered the 'Buy An Acre' land...

BIFF BYFORD CANCELS TOUR; MAGNUM SAY F&*k IT; CORONAVIRUS UPDATES

In an already tough market, the Heavy Metal music industry is continuing to see more setbacks as the effects of Coronavirus continues to make front page news.This morning Biff Byford announced his...

METALTALK GIG OF THE WEEK SPECIAL: TARJA HITS THE UK, IN THE RAW

The wonderful Tarja returns to British soil for dates in London, Manchester and Glasgow. These dates will celebrate her seventh studio album, 'In The Raw', which was released last August via EarMusic.Tarja's...

ON THIS DAY: DIAMOND HEAD RELEASE THE ALBUM ‘DIAMOND HEAD’

Diamond Head and I go back a long, long way. I saw them for the first time as support to April Wine at the Edinburgh Odeon in January 1981 and I was...

LED ZEPPELIN DID NOT STEAL ‘STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN’, SAYS APPEAL COURT RULING

It's official - Led Zeppelin did not rip-off their classic 'Stairway To Heaven' song from Randy California's Spirit, that's according to a US appeals court who reinstated a ruling to that effect...

SCORPIONS, WHITESNAKE AND OZZY OSBOURNE PRODUCER KEITH OLSEN HAS PASSED AWAY

American producer Keith Olsen, reknowned for his work with Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, amongst many others, and for launching the careers of Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, has passed away.Scorpions...

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