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PANTERA has released a new teaser for the band's long-awaited fourth home video as "bonus 420" surprise on Sunday, April 21. Check it out below. An accompanying message reads: "Bonus 420! Preview clip of Pantera Home Video 4. Not sure when it... More

PANTERA has released a new teaser for the band's long-awaited fourth home video as "bonus 420" surprise on Sunday, April 21. Check it out below. An accompanying message reads: "Bonus 420! Preview clip of Pantera Home Video 4. Not sure when it will be released but definitely at some point in the future. #pantera #420 #panterahomevideo4" PANTERA's last home video, titled "3: Watch It Go", was released in 1997 on VHS format through Elektra Records. The set featured over two hours of music videos, concert footage and various backstage clips. "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's longtime girlfriend Rita Haney told the "Talk Toomey" podcast in a 2017 interview that the release of PANTERA's fourth home video will depend on the success of the "Dimevision Vol. 2: Roll With It Or Get Rolled Over" set, which contains video footage of the late PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist captured between the mid-'80s and his later years. She said: "There's not a market for DVDs anymore, and that's what the industry told us. They passed on [releasing 'Dimevision Vol. 2'], and I had to go to our really good friend Brian Slagel, just to get this going with Metal Blade. So this video is kind of, 'We're gonna prove you wrong. There's still this strong cult following for PANTERA home videos and 'Dimevision'.' So if the people get out and really support this package and go old school and not the digital format… 'cause it's so hard to get clearances for every little thing. That's exactly why the previous PANTERA videos are not out there on iTunes that you can get them, because trying to go back and get all those clearances, it would be so expensive today, there's no way. So we have to go with the old-school format. And if people will support it and show the love and it does well, then that gives us the green light for the next project. So it's really gonna depend on that." Haney added that she has "so much footage" for a possible new PANTERA home video. "'Cause you have to think, after [1994's] 'Far Beyond Driven', there was still, like, four huge two-year tours for the live [album, 1997's 'Official Live: 101 Proof'], [1996's] 'The Great Southern Trendkill', [2000's] 'Reinventing The Steel'… So there is more than enough for more than one volume than four, for sure." "Dimevision Vol. 2: Roll With It Or Get Rolled Over" was released in November 2017 via Metal Blade Records. The DVD/CD set — which includes more raw footage, true gems and classic Dimebag moments — also contains five previously unreleased demos, picked from a vast catalog Dimebag accrued since Haney gave him his first four-track in 1984. Dimebag was shot and killed by a crazed gunman while performing with DAMAGEPLAN at a Columbus, Ohio rock club in December 2004. Via Blabbermouth Dimebag's brother Vinnie Paul Abbott, who played drums in PANTERA, died last June. Bonus 420! Preview clip of Pantera Home Video 4. Not sure when it will be released but definitely at some point in the future. #pantera #420 #panterahomevideo4 pic.twitter.com/IEWTHIByol — Pantera (@Pantera) April 21, 2019 Less

Who will be the winning champion this week on MDR Battle Of The Bands? Last month "Killerweil" won the battle with a crushing 13,144 votes! Check em out HERE! I am proud to announce a new Championship addition to the already popular Band Of the... More

Who will be the winning champion this week on MDR Battle Of The Bands? Last month "Killerweil" won the battle with a crushing 13,144 votes! Check em out HERE! I am proud to announce a new Championship addition to the already popular Band Of the Month – Battle Of The Bands we host every month on MDR! We now have band of the week as well and how does this work you ask? Well what we will do is run a poll with ten bands each week on metaldevastationradio.com starting each week and ending each Friday! The winning band each week will be blog posted on site and played and announced on The Zach Moonshine Show each Friday night between 9pm est and 1am. At the end of the month we will tally the scores from all weeks polls for that month and the band with the highest score of votes will be the winning band for Band Of The Month which includes a feature on our Facebook page reaching thousands of fans, a feature on the front page of metaldevastationradio.com which gets around 100,000 views a month! Airplay every hour on our stream during general rotation and lots of shares on social media! If you want the world to know who your band is, this is the easiest way to make it happen! If you want to compete in this battle, comment below with the name of your band and we will add you to next weeks battle or sign up and check email every week for battle submissions! Any band can compete an unlimited amount of times in this competition! Click on the bands below you would like to vote for as many times as you like or add your own! Poll will be open till 4pm est 04/26/19 Image from Wallpaper Abyss Battle Of The Bands Championship For The Week Of 04/21/19 - 04/26/19 Less

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi says that he has "found" about 500 riffs while recently spending time with QUEEN's Brian May. Iommi made the revelation while captioning a new Instagram photo, in which he can be seen hanging out with the QUEEN... More

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi says that he has "found" about 500 riffs while recently spending time with QUEEN's Brian May. Iommi made the revelation while captioning a new Instagram photo, in which he can be seen hanging out with the QUEEN guitarist, who is holding a small boombox. "Hard at work! In search of riffs — and finding about 500," Tony wrote. Back in 2013, Iommi told the Birmingham Mail that he was discussing a possible collaboration with May. The idea of working together came about when Iommi and May met up shortly after the BLACK SABBATH guitarist was diagnosed with cancer. "When I was first ill, Brian May came to visit me at my house in Lapworth," Iommi said. "I played him some of my stuff, rock riffs that I'd never quite got round to developing, or decided not to use. He said I ought to do something with them. "It's early days yet, and all my attention in on SABBATH for the foreseeable future, but we may well find some way of working together on them, and making them available in some shape or form. "One of the ideas we had is that we could make the riffs available, get fans to use them in songs of their own, and see what they come up with. That way they'd effectively be recording with Brian and myself." May elaborated on the idea: "I heard some of the hours of unreleased guitar jams Tony has on tapes and hard drives. I thought it would be great to make a compilation out of them. "The idea was to put all these riffs out in some form so that people could build their own songs from them. You could make your own music with Tony Iommi on guitar. How great is that?" SABBATH completed its last major tour in February 2017 with two shows in Birmingham, closing out the quartet's groundbreaking 49-year career. The trek was the band's last because Iommi, who was diagnosed with cancer in late 2011 and is currently in remission, can no longer travel for extended amounts of time. But he has said he would not rule out special events or one-off shows. Last year, Iommi spent time in the studio remixing BLACK SABBATH's 1995 album "Forbidden" for a 2019 release. The LP, which features singer Tony Martin, drummer Cozy Powell and bassist Neil Murray, is often regarded as the band's worst studio recording. Via Blabbermouth Less

As part of this week's Top 10 "Rules Of Rock" from Topgolf, TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider was asked what it takes to be a great frontman. He responded (see video below): "On the list of job requirements for a frontman are three essentials.... More

As part of this week's Top 10 "Rules Of Rock" from Topgolf, TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider was asked what it takes to be a great frontman. He responded (see video below): "On the list of job requirements for a frontman are three essentials. It says 'narcissist,' 'self-absorbed' and 'egomaniac.' If you've got those three things, and a voice — you're in." In a 2016 interview with The Village Voice, Snider admitted that his combustible personality destroyed TWISTED SISTER at the end of the 1980s, just a few years after the band landed a record deal with Atlantic and released its multi-platinum 1984 album "Stay Hungry". "I [was] absolutely a narcissistic megalomaniac," Dee said. "And once I broke through, after all these years of struggle and people telling me no, now I was going to tell everybody: I was right, you were wrong. Fuck you. Shut your mouth, I don't want to hear from you. Nobody talk to me. You just will listen. Because the Dee is talking. The Dee is speaking. The Dee knows." By late 1987, Snider had quit TWISTED SISTER, Atlantic had dropped the group a mere five years after it was signed, and the quintet had disbanded. "When the band fell apart and my career completely dissolved, it humbled me and made me a better person," Snider said. "To get knocked down is a healthy thing." Snider is among the celebrity judges on the second season of "Who Will Rock You?" The show spotlights unsigned bands in a weekly, elimination-style program. The winning group will be selected by the celebrity judges and an audience of Topgolf guests. The show's second season premiered on March 28 on Topgolf's digital channel (available on streaming platforms like Amazon Fire and Roku) and features 12 bands vying for a $50,000 prize. The winner will also have a chance to be featured on a concert tour of Topgolf's 57 venues across the country and sign a label development deal with BMG. Topgolf produced "Who Will Rock You?" in partnership with Matador Content (Paramount Network's "Lip Sync Battle", ABC's "Boy Band"). The deal for "Who Will Rock You?" was brokered by Creative Artists Agency (CAA). [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="TEWpnDDzYQM"] Via Blabbermouth Less

Kerrang! recently caught up with the reunited Static-X and their live fill-in for departed frontman/guitarist Wayne Static. They are now identifying that mystery musician—reportedly Edsel Dope of Dope—as ‘Xer0‘. Bassist Tony Campos commented a... More

Kerrang! recently caught up with the reunited Static-X and their live fill-in for departed frontman/guitarist Wayne Static. They are now identifying that mystery musician—reportedly Edsel Dope of Dope—as ‘Xer0‘. Bassist Tony Campos commented a bit of that: “The first time being in the same room together, it all kind of clicked again. It felt really good, right from the get-go. The initial demos that we found, only one of them had Wayne’s vocals. That’s why we brought on Xer0, who’s going to be performing the vocals live on tour.” It had previously been revealed that the band consulted the family of Wayne Static for approval before commissioning the Static-like mask that Xer0 has been seen wearing in promotional materials for the band’s return. Xer0 himself has now commented to Kerrang! on his new role: “Wayne was a very unique singer. I can’t just be myself with this. That wouldn’t be doing the material justice. Therefore, I really have to be prepared. I have to learn lots of parts…find the right places in my own voice to deliver my best version of these songs…I’m never gonna sound as good as Wayne did, doing Wayne’s thing. That’s just common sense. But I feel really good about it,. I believe that I will represent the vibe of the band very well and that we will give the fans a really fun ‘Wisconsin Death Trip‘ experience each night.” Xer0 also commented of the divisive mask: “I’ve spent the last 20 years building my own identity and touring the world with my own band. It didn’t feel right for my image or identity to be placed in the center of something that I wasn’t part of creating…It just felt like a perfect way to keep the focus on the four guys that made this great album and started this really cool band. After a few days of living with it, I decided to spike my hair up, just to see what it would look like with the mask on, and I was like, Oh, FUCK. Let’s be honest: Waynes hair kind of became the visual identity of Static-X.” He later added: “We didn’t set out to create a ‘character,’ it just evolved naturally. We went to our friend Laney, who also makes the masks for many of the Slipknot guys, as well as Manson’s band, and Rob Zombie’s band, et cetera. Wayne liked heavy metal, monster movies, and monster trucks. He would be honored by the celebration and he would dig the shit out of this!” As for those who feel the necrotic appearance of the mask is in poor taste, drummer Ken Jay offered: “Let’s put it out there again: we do understand people being somewhat resistant to it. But I can assure you, having known Wayne as long as I did, he had a sometimes wonderfully morbid sense of humor, sometimes horrifically morbid. I honestly believe—and what sold me on it, finally—is that the more I see it, the more I believe that Wayne would think this is really funny.” For more from the group on the matter head over to Kerrang!. The band’s current plans include touring on the 20th anniversary of their platinum selling debut album “Wisconsin Death Trip” throughout the year. They have also been working on a new album titled “Project Regeneration” which they’ve been piercing together with previously unreleased recordings from Static due to appear. According to the band, Static‘s vocals will appear on six of the twelve planned tracks scheduled to surface on the record. The vocals on the other songs will be handled by some special guests, with the following musicians having been approached: David Draiman (Disturbed)Ivan Moody (Five Finger Death Punch)Al Jourgensen (Ministry)Dez Fafara (DevilDriver/Coal Chamber)Edsel Dope (Dope)Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory) Static-X‘s current touring plans run as follows: With DevilDriver and Dope: 06/18 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater06/19 Albuquerque, NM – El Rey Theater06/21 Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Live06/22 Houston, TX – The Warehouse06/23 San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theater06/25 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade06/26 Greenville, SC – The Firmament06/28 Baltimore, MD – Soundstage06/29 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom06/30 Scranton, PA – Levels07/02 Toronto, ON – Opera House07/03 London, ON – London Music Hall07/04 Ottawa, ON – Brass Monkey07/05 Hampton Beach, NH – Wally’s07/06 Worcester, MA – The Palladium07/07 Reading, PA – Reverb07/09 Pittsburgh, PA – Jergel’s07/10 Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater07/11 Indianapolis, IN – The Citadel07/12 Ft. Wayne, IN – Clyde Theatre07/13 Detroit, MI – Harpo’s07/14 Lexington, KY – Manchester Music Hall07/16 Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection07/18 Cadott, WI – Cadott Rockfest07/19 Sioux City, IA – Anthem – Hard Rock Casino07/20 Joliet, IL – The Forge07/21 Belvidere, IL – Apollo Theater07/23 Denver, CO – Oriental Theater07/25 Santa Ana, CA – Observatory07/26 Los Angeles, CA – Catch One07/27 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues With Wednesday 13 & Dope: 08/22 Brisbane, AUS – Eaton Hill08/23 Melbourne, AUS – Croxton08/24 Sydney, AUS – Metro08/26 Adelaide, AUS – The Gov08/27 Perth, AUS – Rock Rover Static-X: 09/20 St Petersburg, RUS – Cosmonavt Club09/21 Moscow, RUS – Giavclub With Soil, Wednesday 13 and Dope: 09/24 Bristol, UK – SWX09/25 Cardiff, UK – Tramshed09/26 London, UK – Electric Ballroom09/27 Nottingham, UK – Rock City09/28 Leeds, UK – Stylus09/29 Southampton, UK – Engine Room10/01 Newcastle, UK – Northumbria Institute10/02 Glasgow, UK – The Garage10/03 Manchester, UK – The Ritz10/04 Birmingham, UK – 02 Institute With Wednesday 13, SOiL and Dope: 10/05 Paris, FRA – File 710/06 Antwerp, BEL – Trix Club10/07 Hamburg, GER – Markthalle10/09 Cologne, GER – Essigfabrik10/10 Mannheim, GER – MS Connex10/11 Zurich, SWI – Dynamo10/12 Pinarella di Cervia, ITA – Rock Planet10/13 Munich, GER – Backstage10/14 Prague, CZE – Meet Factory Static-X: 12/10 Salt Lake City, UT – The Royal Bar12/11 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory12/12 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory12/13 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater12/14 Seattle, WA – El Corazon12/15 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater Via ThePRP [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="_340zcRUO5g"] Less