British heavy metal legends IRON MAIDEN, whose first major U.K. arena tour for six years will be announced on Friday, September 23, have gone to great lengths to ensure their fans are able to buy tickets at the intended price rather than at the...

The official lyric video for "The Wilde Flowers", a brand new song from Swedish progressive metallers OPETH, can be seen below. The track is featured on the band's highly anticipated twelfth studio album, "Sorceress", which is scheduled for release on September 30 via the band's imprint label Moderbolaget Records with Nuclear Blast. Speaking with Metal Hammer, OPETH vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt said about "The Wilde Flowers": "This was the first song I wrote for this album. It's kind of an OPETH standard, in a way, like from the last two...

GAMMA RAY drummer Michael Ehré (pictured) will replace Kosta Zafiriou at UNISONIC's last show this year, on September 23 at Bulgaria's Lovech Rock Fest. Says UNISONIC bassist Dennis Ward: "After Kosta announced his departure from the band and retirement from professional metal drumming early September, we thought Michael is the perfect choice for now: He's a great drummer, a very nice person and Kai's bandmate in GAMMA RAY. We toured together in the past and he is familiar with UNISONIC's live set. During the first rehearsals he...

In a brand new interview with Miami New Times, SLAYER guitarist Kerry King was asked if he thought, back when he co-founded the band in 1981, he would still be doing this 35 years later. He responded: "No, because back when we started in '81, '82, 'old' had a different meaning me to back then. Old was 55, and I'm past that and I don't feel old. Things hurt worse than when I was 25, but the SLAYER shows are still epic. So back then, absolutely not. If Jeff was alive, he'd say, we used to do it for chicks and beer, and I didn't drink beer, so...

Fan-filmed video footage of Chris Adler's (LAMB OF GOD, MEGADETH) September 10 drum clinic at Rock & Guitarras in Santiago, Chile can be seen below. Adler was asked by Muen Magazine in a 2011 interview to explain what a "clinic tour" is. He said: "In the standard sense of it, it is a musician heading to his or her specialty shops. It's a drum shop in my case. Normally the shop carries the brand of whatever that musician is using and they go in there, tell people why they use it, show off a little, impress everybody and make everybody...