In September 2018, Julien-K performed the One More Light 2 memorial in Milan, Italy to honor Chester Bennington with a massive number of Italian fans. They performed as Julien-K and ended the set as Dead By Sunrise along with Italian guest singers.
In a September 2018 interview with The Foundry, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann confirmed that Accept had begun the songwriting process for the follow-up to The Rise of Chaos . He stated, “We started putting down some riffs here and there, but the majority of the stuff will happen after we stop…
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In September 2018, Orphaned Land won the Video Of The Year award at the Progressive Music Awards 2018 in London, for their video, Like Orpheus . The music video is based on a true story about a Muslim girl who used to attend metal shows in Israel . A photo…
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Sources initially said that the cause of his death was a massive heart attack in his sleep; however, on August 27, 2018, the official cause of death was revealed to be dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease .
On 21 August 2018, the band announced that, at the request of their label Nuclear Blast , the Pumpkins United line-up would perdure after 2018, and that a live CD and DVD for the Pumpkins United World Tour would be released in early 2019, followed by a new studio album…
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In August 2018, Cirith Ungol released the single “Witch’s Game”.
In an August 2018 interview at Wacken Open Air , Kisser confirmed that Sepultura had begun the songwriting process of their fifteenth studio album, and stated later that month that it would not be released before 2020.
In August 2018, Luzier reported via Instagram that Korn has begun the process of tracking drums for the upcoming thirteenth album.
In August 2018, Seppälä stated in an interview with TotalRock Radio that the album would be released in early 2019.
On July 27, 2018, a week before the band was booked to perform at Wacken 2018, band founder Mark Shelton died in a German hospital the day after the band played in the Headbangers Open Air festival the previous night.