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Living Colour And Stone Broken Show Their Class In Bilston

Stone Broken have had a very busy year so far riding on their self-financed first album, 'All In Time', with huge gigs falling out the sky for them.Words and Pictures: John InglisThis...

Volbeat’s Kaspar Boye Larsen On Writing, Recording, Touring And More

Danish Metal Rock 'n' Rollers Volbeat released their new album, 'Rewind Replay Rebound', in August and after a successful stint in the US with Slipknot and are now out on a headlining...

Interview With Deimos: A Metal Band Surviving Within A Taliban Insurgency

Sometimes, we here in the west take making and playing music for granted, Indeed, the bands I have covered from Pakistan all have the advantage of living in the main cities, where...

Cliff Williams Plays His Final Gig With AC/DC

AC/DC bass player Cliff Williams played his final gig with the rock'n'roll legends last night, 20th September 2016, at Philadelphia's PA Wells Fargo Center after thirty-nine years exemplary service.On a glorious night...

Control The Storm/Metaprism – Bannerman’s, Edinburgh

It's a rainy Monday night in Edinburgh and the atmosphere in The Underworld, the cave-like venue part of Bannerman's Bar isn't exactly jumping when Bournemouth rockers Metaprism hit the stage. Sometimes when...

UPDATED: Slipknot / “This Man Will Pay For What He Has Done!”

Physician Daniel Baldi was charged on Wednesday (5 September 2012), in Des Moines, Iowa with involuntary manslaughter. It is alleged he over-prescribed narcotic painkillers to his patients, with one of the eight...

PHILM: Camden Underworld

My focus in music has always been drums and great drummers. Tonight therefore was unmissable because the legendary Dave Lombardo is in town with his current band PHILM to support the release...

Gillan, Paice And Glover Scotch Blackmore Reunion Suggestions

The chances of Deep Purple reuniting with Ritchie Blackmore look as far away as they ever were after three members of the current and mark II line-ups scotched the suggestion.Deep Purple 2016During...

Guns ‘n’ Roses Have Plug Pulled On Them At Leeds

Guns N Roses were kicked off the stage on Friday night at the Reading festival, after they continued to play after their curfew, even though they had negotiated an extra thirty minutes...

Remembering Sophie Lancaster

On Saturday 11th August 2007 a young girl was walking through a park with her boyfriend, on her way to a destination she would never make.Instead she ended up in a...

Scream For Me Sarajevo Featuring Bruce Dickinson Scoops Sarajevo Film Festival Awards

Scream For Me Sarajevo, the documentary film about when Bruce Dickinson and his Skunkworks band played in war-torn Sarajevo, last night scooped the Special Jury Prize for Documentary Films, the Human Rights...

Archive / In This Moment: Rochester Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, MN

In This Moment are in full swing. They have been on the road since April headlining the 'Half God, Half Devil' tour and recently dropped album number six, titled 'Ritual'. Forming in...

Archive / Vintage Trouble: ‘1 Hopeful Rd’ Album Launch, ReNY, Tokyo, Japan

When it comes to giving out awards to the most hardest working band then that accolade must certainly fall to Vintage Trouble who for the past year have been touring endlessly.Vintage Trouble...

Archive / Interview With Tim King Of Soil

Chicago heavy rockers Soil were formed in 1997 but didn't find mainstream success until the release of their second album 'Scars' in 2001 which featured the hit single 'Halo'. Original vocalist Ryan...

Iron Maiden: Thirty Years On The Edge, And It’s Far From Over Yet

Join Pippa Lang for a wild weekend with Iron Maiden at London's 02 Arena! Get the inside scoop on 30 years with the band and a hilarious first interview.

MT Archive / Guns ‘n’ Roses Gigs Still To Go Ahead: Axl’s Twitter Account Hacked

The story started when Axl Rose allegedly posted on his Twitter account, claiming the band were cancelling all shows. A hacker is said to have broken into the account of Axl Rose and...

MetalTalk Archive / Diamond Head Bring Lightning To Bilston

Formed in 1976, deep inside The Black Country in the town of Stourbridge, Diamond Head were a major part of the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) movement and fresh from...

Archive / Pete Way, John Conteh and Ozzy – Drinking and antics

I first became aware of UFO early in their career at a youth club in Harlow in Essex where I grew up. We had a great rock room known as 'the blues...
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