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KORN announce ‘Monumental’ Livestream event

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ANNOUNCE GLOBAL STREAMING EVENT KORN: MONUMENTAL GROUNDBREAKING IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE TO BROADCAST WORLDWIDE FROM STRANGER THINGS: THE DRIVE-INTO EXPERIENCEON APRIL 24th AT 1:00PM PDT / 4:00PM EDT / 9:00PM BST / 10:00PM CEST TICKETS & LIMITED-EDITION PACKAGES INCLUDING VIRTUAL MEET & GREETS ON SALE TODAY AT WWW.KORNLIVE.COM Continuing a legacy of groundbreaking achievements and radical innovation, …

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Download 2018 – Friday

After some overnight rain, the forecast for the day (and indeed the entire weekend) was for dry weather. Knowing I’d be at Download festival though I had my waterproofs with me – after all, a dry Download seems too good to hope for, but that’s exactly what we got – …

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KORN announce Brixton Academy show

KORN have announced a one-off headline date at London’s Brixton Academy on Wednesday 23rd August.  The show lands in addition to their main stage slots at the Reading & Leeds Festivals. The band are currently touring their critically lauded twelfth studio album, ‘The Serenity of Suffering’ and recently played a string …

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Korn Unveil Fascinating New Video ‘Insane’

Korn Unveil ‘Insane’ Video KORN have today unveiled a strange, fascinating video for new song, ‘Insane’.  Directed by Ryan Valdez, it’s a ghastly take on post-mortem photography or ‘momento mori,’ the practice of preserving loved ones after death with images. Watch the video on YouTube: ‘Insane’ is available at all …

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Korn Reveal New Album Details & New Video

Korn Reveal New Album Details & New Video for ‘Rotting In Vain’ Hot on the heels of their festival-stealing set at this year’s Download, KORN have announced that their 12th studio album, ‘The Serenity Of Suffering’ will be released on 21st October.  The collection marks the band’s welcome return to Roadrunner …

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Download Festival 2016 – Friday 10th June

Royal Republic (7) are the perfect Lemmy stage opening band for the weekend – fun, energetic and with a Volbeat-esque vibe to boot, they’re able to get things going in the best way possible. Finishing song Full Steam Space Machine is a particular highlight and the band look certain to …

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Slipknot – NIA, Birmingham – 27th January 2015

Tonight’s gig was my first time since the work to upgrade the NIA had been completed.  Now named the Barclaycard arena – which is bound to cause confusion with the Genting Arena (the NEC), it’s looking a lot better and the facilities are certainly improved.  That’s lucky really as tonight …

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Emigrate – Silent So Long

Solo projects are something of a lottery – whilst allowing an artist the freedom to express their own musical direction in a way they can’t with their main band, the natural comparison to the works of their main project will be inevitable. Spare a thought, therefore, for Richard Z. Kruspe. …

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Slipknot announce UK tour

The multi-platinum, Grammy-Award-winning, masked beast that is SLIPKNOT is set to make a long awaited return to UK arenas in January 2015 with their ‘Prepare For Hell’ tour. SLIPKNOT‘s frontman Corey Taylor muses; “The UK has always been very special for us.  In a lot of ways, it’s where this insanity began.  …

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KXM – ‘KXM’

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Supergroups?  Don’t you just love them?  Or hate them?  Ever since the dawn of the modern music business, the very mention of the the word ‘supergroup’ has sent many fans and critics – including yours truly – scurrying for cover.  A rock group is either a rock group or its …

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KaiDekA – ‘A Blissful Image Of A Dystopian Vision’

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Having earned 8/10 from PM with their debut ‘False Idols and Pyrite Thrones’ album at the beginning of 2012, Falmouth nu-thrash crossover mob KaiDekA return with this impressive sophomore, which cements their Slipknot-meets-MachineHead style with aplomb and panache. Right from the opening bars of ‘Pre-Requisite’, the south coasters hit the …

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Korn press conference, Hellfest 2013

I attended Korn’s press conference at this year Hellfest. Brian “Head” Welch, James “Munky” Shaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu and Ray Luzier where there to answer our questions. As an added bonus at the end of the conference we got told to put off all our equipment and hand over the …

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Hellfest 2013 Review Blog – Saturday

Saturday was an early start so we could see the superb Skindred delivering a awake up call to Clisson! As we walked towards Main Stage 2 the field looked pretty empty. As the guys soundcheck people started arriving in droves ready to rock out with the guys. By the time …

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