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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2016 19:43:15 GMT
Fan-filmed video footage of NIGHTWISH's October 9 performance at the Loud Park festival in Tokyo, Japan can be seen below. NIGHTWISH frontwoman Floor Jansen recently shot down rumors that she will leave the band after welcoming her first child in early 2017 during the group's previously announced year-long break. She told Mariskal Rock TV: "No, I won't [quit NIGHTWISH]. I love this way too much; don't worry. You don't even have negative speculations one way or another. Things are great, and let's keep on doing this forever." Jansen revealed in September that she was four months pregnant. The singer's partner is SABATON drummer Hannes Van Dahl.
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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2016 19:44:38 GMT
Little Mix have beaten Metallica to this week’s Number One spot in the UK album chart. The group’s fourth collection ‘Glory Days’ shifted just over 96,000 combined sales to bag the top spot – the highest first week sales for a UK girl group Number One since Spice Girls’ ‘Spiceworld’ opened with 192,000 in 1997. It is also the fastest-selling chart topping album by any girl group in the past 15 years, since Destiny’s Child’s ‘Survivor’ in 2001. The album is the second fastest-selling LP of 2016, after David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ in January, which clocked up 146,000 sales. Metallica’s ‘Hardwired… To Self-Destruct’ came in at Number Two while Bruno Mars’ ’24k Magic’ was in at Three.
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2016 19:17:13 GMT
METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett has once again weighed in on underdog Donald Trump's stunning upset of Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, saying that there is "very little" honesty and integrity in American politics right now.
Trump shocked the political establishment and the world by becoming the 45th president in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. political history. He won with 306 electoral votes compared to 232 for Hillary Clinton. 270 were needed to win. Clinton, however, handily won the popular vote, despite losing the overall election.
Speaking to Canada's CBC Music, Hammett said about the election outcome (see video below): "People are really going to an absolute negative with this, and I think that's a big mistake. And I laugh at people who say, 'I'm gonna leave the United States 'cause Trump's president.' What good does that do?
"For me, one of the most important things in politics is honesty and integrity, and we have very little of that in the United States nowadays.
"With the current situation, a lot of things are being shaken up. I think that we probably have to go through a little bit of hell to get to heaven in this sort of situation right now.
"As long as human beings are still standing, I think there's still hope."
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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2017 19:27:21 GMT
Last week, as Donald Trump was being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Slayer responded to the occasion by posting an image to Instagram featuring the band posing with Trump inserted with Photoshop in front of them, making the sign of the horns. The image was subsequently deleted, according to the band’s bassist/singer Tom Araya, who reposted it on Tuesday with an explanation.
“I thought it was funny,” Araya said in the post’s caption. “But I never would have guessed that there where [sic] so many snowflakes commenting their distaste for the new president. Like him or not he is the president.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2017 19:19:50 GMT
Geoff Nicholls, Black Sabbath's longtime keyboardist who performed with the heavy metal legends for 25 years, died Saturday following a battle with lung cancer. He was 68. "I'm so saddened to hear the loss of one of my dearest and closest friends Geoff Nicholls," Tony Iommi wrote on Facebook Saturday. "Geoff and I have always been very close and he has been a real true friend to me and supported me all the way for nearly 40 years. I will miss him dearly and he will live in my heart until we meet again. Rest in peace my dear friend."
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