On August 18, 2016, the band announced via their website that their tenth studio album, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct , would be released worldwide on November 18, 2016, via their independent label, Blackened Recordings. They also unveiled the track listing, album artwork, and released a music video for the album’s first…
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On 10 August 2016, Iommi revealed that his cancer was in remission.
Pata announced he was discharged on August 10.
In August and September of 2016 Killswitch Engage toured North America alongside Volbeat .
In an interview that August, Martin added “[Iommi] still has his cancer issues of course and that may well stop it all from happening but if he wants to do something I am ready.”
In August 2016, King was asked if Slayer would release a follow-up to Repentless . He replied, “We’ve got lots of leftover material from the last album, ’cause we wrote so much stuff, and we recorded a bunch of it too. If the lyrics don’t change the song musically, those…
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On July 27, Metal Hammer readers voted Babymetal’s debut album as the best album of the 21st century.
On July 19, Manson announced that the band’s tenth studio album had the working title SAY10 , and predicted a release date of Valentine’s Day 2017.
On July 18, the band made a special appearance at the Alternative Press Music Awards where they performed “Karate” before being joined onstage by Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford . Halford, along with Nakamoto and the Kami Band, performed an abridged version of ” Painkiller “, followed by a performance…
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On July 16, 2016, Korn premiered a new song, “Rotting in Vain”, at Chicago Open Air Festival.