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Skillet Frontman Is 'Sick' of the 'Negative' Influence Hollywood Has on Children + More (INTERVIEW)

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 4:00PM by Chris Epting Comments

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Two-time Grammy nominated Skillet are set to release their new album, Rise, on June 25. The lead single, "Sick of It," was released on iTunes and radio on April 9 and in the meantime, the band has released a short teaser video of the track (seen below).

Noisecreep spoke with Skillet frontman John Cooper about the anthemic new single and the rest of the album, too!

John, how do you feel just before new work is released? Do you get nervous?

I do. But I also get very excited. With 'Sick of It' in particular, I feel great about the song and I feel very happy with the sound of it, the mix - everything. I know what it's like to be a fan of something and everyone has their expectations and so as an artist, I absolutely get a few butterflies about how people will react.

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Black Sabbath North American Tour Dates

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 3:17PM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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Black Sabbath have just announced the dates for a North American tour. The 20-city trek will launch on July 25 in Houston, Texas and will include stops in cities like Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco and other major markets, along with the previously announced stops in Holmdel, N.J., Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto, ON.

Tickets for the newly announced dates will go on sale starting Friday, May 3 at LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com. Beginning today, fans can click here or visit here to RSVP for early access to presale tickets available Thursday, May 2. VIP Packages are also available at VIPNation.com.

Check out all of the Black Sabbath tour dates below.

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10 Best Heavy Metal Compilations

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 2:30PM by Jeff Wagner Comments

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Metal compilations have been pumped out in extraordinary numbers since around 1980, but few are worth paying for and listening to regularly. K-Tel put out a comp of mainstream metal called Masters of Metal, a pointless collection of stuff you could find at any Kmart store: KISS, Scorpions, Y&T. This comp was absolutely everywhere, and similar cash-grabs followed: among the slew were New Metal Monsters (Mr. Big, Enuff Z'nuff) and Metal Masters (Pat Travers is a metal master?).

Independents like Metal Blade did something similar, with more useful results: the three-part Best of Metal Blade series was a necessary buying guide, helpful in sorting through the masses of releases coming out at the time (and it helped you stay away from junk like Krank). The release of compilation series' continued into the '90s and 2000s, some worthwhile, others not at all. And then there's Nuclear Blast's all-ballads Metal Dreams series. Don't get me started on that one.

Due to the amount of junky comps, "compilation" became another word for "crap" to a lot of collectors. A few of them, however, are mandatory.

The compilations featured below belong in the library of every serious metal aficionado. Some contain material that was exclusive at the time, others provided definitive overviews of a particular movement that landed at the right time. Earache's Grindcrusher, for instance, came in 1990, right in the middle of the first death metal boom, and for a lot of people it acted as a soundtrack for the era. All of these did that in their own way, or turned people onto a movement from earlier years.

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Fight or Flight: Disturbed Guitarist, Drummer Hook Up With Evans Blue Singer for New Project (LISTEN)

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 1:50PM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan has just unveiled his new project, Fight or Flight. Also featuring his Disturbed bandmate, drummer Mike Wengren, and Evans Blue singer Dan Chandler, Fight or Flight will release their debut album, A Life by Design? on July 23r via Warner Bros. Records.

The first single, "First of the Last" will impact radio on May 21. You can preview the track below.

"During our hiatus from Disturbed, the separation anxiety from the fans came rather quickly," explains Donegan. The guitarist began writing songs on his own, and last year connected with Chandler about a possible collaboration. The two emailed each other songs back and forth and met in person whenever Chandler was in Donegan's hometown of Chicago. When they had enough material to record, Donegan turned Wengren and the three entered the studio. Rounding out the lineup is Ra's Sean Corcoran on bass and backing vocals, and Jeremy Jayson on guitar and backing vocals.

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Corey Taylor on His Love/Hate Relationship With Los Angeles, Why He Thinks the Grammys Are a Joke

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 12:30PM by Carlos Ramirez Comments

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"I think the Grammys have spent so much time ignoring heavy metal that we all said, 'screw it,' and started our own awards show," Corey Taylor tells Noisecreep.

The Slipknot and Stone Sour singer is referring to the Golden Gods Awards which will go down on May 2nd at Los Angeles' Club Nokia, an anti-Grammy Awards, if you will. Besides performing at the event, Stone Sour is also up for three awards including Album of the Year for House of Gold & Bones – Part 1, Best Vocalist for Taylor and Best Drummer for Roy Mayorga.

"Golden Gods truly pays honor to our music. The Grammy people will have all of these different categories within different genres, but heavy metal and hard rock have to share one. It's ridiculous. Half the time, the bands nominated in the metal category are brand new or bands that have been around a long time, but for a song that is off some live record. Or they'll nominate someone doing a cover song. It's fucking pathetic. I almost wish our genre didn't even have a category on the Grammys," Taylor complains.

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Rapper Scarface Dreams of Starting a Band With Gene Simmons (VIDEO)

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 12:00PM by Amy Sciarretto Comments

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Rapper Scarface has a dream collaborator and it's none other than KISS bassist Gene Simmons. Because, well, who wouldn't want to work with the God of Thunder? Scarface even has designs on an all-star rock band.

"I don't even know when my next album is going to come out, but I am going to make a rock 'n' roll album, though," the Houston-born hip-hopper said. "Me on guitar and vocals, and like Kiss, like Gene Simmons. Like [Smashing Pumpkins] Billy Corgan. Seriously. When I call 'em, it's on."

He also dreams of recruiting Linda Perry, who has crafted pop hits for Pink and Christina Aguilera, to produce this masterwork.

As for this rock supergroup's name?

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KISS, 'Beth': Short Film Offers New Perspective on Classic Ballad + More News

Posted on Apr 25th 2013 11:00AM by Amy Sciarretto Comments

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"Beth" is one of the most famous fictional "chicks" in rock music, as the subject of the famed, Peter Criss-sung KISS ballad that is named after her.

Originally called "Beck," the 1976 single was co-written by Criss, producer Bob Ezrin and frequent KISS collaborator Stan Penridge. "Beth" is KISS' highest-charting single in the U.S., reaching #7 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

A short film offers a fan fiction-like perspective of KISS and the fact that they "just can't find the sound" from Beth's perspective. It might not be factual, but it sure is fun. This clip features Beth as a meatloaf-making housewife who responds to each line from the lyrics and is frustrated by the circular conversation. To call this brilliant would be an understatement.

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