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Manilla Road – To Kill a King out June 30th

by Daniel Maarat on June 21, 2017

Heavy metal influenced sperg rock band Manilla Road have another record of what are sure to be repetitive bouncy singalongs sung by someone on beta blockers coming out on June 30th on Golden Core Records. The die hard edition of To Kill a King selling out is going to give every fat guy with a denim vest a heart attack if they cannot put it on a shelf with their sealed action figures.

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Tags: autism, glam rock, hard rock, Heavy Metal, manilla road, upcoming album, upcoming release, wimps

Sabaton Shills For World of Tanks

by Daniel Maarat on June 14, 2017

Military history obsessed Swedish power metal and glam rock band Sabaton is now advertising for and having their music featured in the Belarussian massively multiplayer tank shoot-out game World of Tanks according to Blabbermouth. World of Tanks is a Russian free-to-play, usually pay-to-win game that plays like a slightly more realistic, team based version of Battlezone. Players can choose to drive hundreds of tanks from the 20th century with the ones recently added to the game that players usually have to shell out to use being slightly more powerful before being nerfed into mediocrity. The game is most popular in Eastern Europe and East Asia among teenage boys.

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Tags: glam rock, Heavy Metal, mainstream metal, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, power metal, sabaton, sell-out, selling out, shills, video game, video game OST, world of tanks

Evil Invaders Announce Feed Me Violence

by Daniel Maarat on June 7, 2017

Recently and rightfully deported Z-list speed metal rehashers Evil Invaders announced on their Funbook page that they have a new album of trends mosh core fun coming out. Feed Me Violence comes out September 29th on Napalm Records. Evil Invaders promised to sell out and have lame glam metal choruses like Testament. You know this is going to stink like a bathroom stall at a truck stop with a few holes drilled into the dividers.

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Rainbow Releases Two New Songs

by George Psalmanazar on May 31, 2017

Rainbow has just released two new recording songs for the first time in over two decades. “Land of Hope and Glory” is Ritchie Blackmore reworking the traditional British song and the band also rerecorded their 1981 glam rock song “I Surrender” with their current vocalist, Ronnie Romero.

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Tags: cash grab, comeback, folk rock, glam rock, guitar rock, hard rock, progressive rock, rainbow, rerecording, ritchie blackmore

Diamond Head Release “Diamonds” Video

by Daniel Maarat on May 13, 2017

New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Diamond Head released a new music video for the hard rock “Diamonds” off their recent self-titled Diamond Head record to promote their upcoming US tour. Diamond Head infamously committed career suicide with the awful Canterbury just a few years after releasing the super influential to Metallica, Lightning to the Nations.

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Tags: comeback, diamond head, glam rock, hard rock, music video, sell-out, tour dates, upcoming tours, US tour

Lucky Charms Metal

by Daniel Maarat on March 14, 2017

Death Metal Underground has received criticism for our review of limp-wristed, warmed-over Swedish heavy metal act In Flames. Our staff called them the Swedish version of Christian glam rock band Stryper. However despite being hard rock, Stryper were actually heavier, more sincere in purpose, and more aggressive than the Comic Sans In Flames. Stryper and the speed metal influenced glam rock of Skid Row were at least far more musical than Fredrik Nordstrom produced melodeaf such as post-Alf Svensson At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, and Soilwork. Stryper and Skid Row were at least well-versed in 60s and 70s riff rock while directly influenced by Metallica and Slayer:

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