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Today, Finnish black metalers Morgal reveal the new track “Stormchaser.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, The Seventh Circle, which will be released imminently by Werewolf Records. Hear Morgal‘s “Stormchaser” in its entirety HERE at Werewolf‘s official YouTube channel. It was but five, seemingly-long years ago when Finland’s Morgal finally released their debut album, Nightmare Lord. That full-length had high expectations […]

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He intends to begin recording this spring.

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Along with Simple Plan, Start Today and more.

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Nonpoint are heading out on the road this spring for “The Outta Control Tour,” bringing Soil and Sumo Cyco along for the ride. The U.S. run kicks off 04/25 in Tampa, Florida, and wraps 05/14 in Chicago, Illinois.

The tour gives fans an early look at new Nonpoint material, with the band set to perform tracks from their forthcoming album alongside the catalog that’s defined their career.

For Soil, this marks their first U.S. tour in two years — a return that’s been a long time coming for the Chicago-based metal outfit, who also have new material slated for later this year. The run also reunites Nonpoint with Sumo Cyco following frontman Elias Soriano‘s recent collaboration with the band.

Soriano laid out what to expect on the road: “We’re gonna be playing some new tracks on this tour that are some of my favorites on the new record. One being our lead track, ‘Is It’. It’s about that internal conflict where you question getting too involved. Did I push too hard? Did I ask too much?”

He went further into the track’s meaning: “It’s that feeling of wondering if doing what you thought was right actually meant being okay with hurting the people around you.”

And there’s more to look forward to beyond the new solo material: “We’re also performing our collab with Skye from Sumo Cyco, ‘Red Yeti’. That one is gonna blow people away. Add the return of Soil to the stage after some time off in the U.S., new production, and you’ve got a night people are going to talk about.”

Soil‘s Tim King is equally fired up about the pairing: “During all the years Soil and Nonpoint have been friends, we’ve never done an actual tour in the States together. I’m excited to see our two bands finally being brought together here. This will be a great tour for the fans.”

Check out the full itinerary below, and grab your tickets here.

• 04/25 – Tampa, FL @ Ritz Ybor
• 04/26 – Destin, FL @ Club LA
• 04/28 – Greenville, SC @ Radio Room
• 04/29 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
• 05/01 – Hartford, CT @ The Webster
• 05/02 – Warrendale, PA @ Jergels
• 05/03 – Harrisburg, PA @ XL Live
• 05/05 – Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents
• 05/06 – Leesburg, VA @ Tally Ho Theater
• 05/08 – Daytona, FL @ Daytona Intl Speedway (Nonpoint only)
• 05/09 – Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum (Nonpoint only)
• 05/10 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
• 05/12 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
• 05/13 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theater
• 05/14 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge

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Olympic Gala music revealed: Here’s what Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin from Team USA will skate to during the event.

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Swedish power metal force FINAL STRIKE are back with their brand-new single “Beowulf”, marking the band’s first standalone release since their highly acclaimed debut album Finding Pieces. Following their celebrated contribution to the A Tribute To The Reaper sampler . “Beowulf” delivers a triumphant next chapter in the band’s rapidly rising legacy. Fronted by Christian Eriksson (ex-Twilight Force), FINAL STRIKE once again showcase their unmistakable […]

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Dave Mustaine has been talking about the guitar work on Megadeth, the band’s final self-titled album and their first record to top the Billboard 200 Chart — and he’s got a clear idea of where complexity becomes a problem.

In a recent interview with Loudwire, Mustaine reflected on what strikes him most about the new record when stacking it up against the band’s earliest material: “Well, there’s a lot of things that run through my head, but I think, as far as the music and everything is concerned, listening to what we just did and comparing it against the very earliest stages of Megadeth, there’s so much, I think, life, in the tracks.”

The album has already drawn praise for its guitar work, with The Guardian noting that the parts are “performed with the kind of technical precision for which Megadeth have long been famed,” while NME points to a collection of “shreddy-guitar solos to make your head spin.” But Mustaine is quick to draw a line between technical and needlessly complicated.

“As far as the guitar is concerned, playing Megadeth music, it’s kind of like a Chinese finger puzzle,” he explained. “Some of the riffs are a little difficult. Sometimes, they border on being difficult to the point where it’s not worth the complexity for the music,” he explained.

He was equally direct about where his own taste sits: “But, you know, there’s a lot of bands that have music that’s like that, and that’s not really one of my particular tastes. When it gets too complicated, I can’t figure it out.”

That nitpicky approach to how riffs are played is something Marty Friedman ran into firsthand when he auditioned for the band, as he recalled in a recently surfaced interview from the early ’90s (via Ultimate Guitar).

Far from feeling confident coming out of the audition, Friedman was convinced he’d blown it entirely: “I thought, ‘Well, if they really are that nitpicky, I must have just really, completely fucked up this audition.’ I played everything in weird positions, but apparently, they thought it was cool, and I quickly learned the way everything really goes. It worked out really good.”

You can watch the full Mustaine interview below.

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Ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth’s second solo album is crying out for reappraisal

Toying around on British TV.

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