Nuclear Blast Records has signed HOKKA, a new Finnish rock supergroup featuring former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka, The Rasmus founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, and rising drummer Jimi Aslak. The band makes their official musical debut with a video for their...
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Remember St. Anger? It’s ok if you’d rather not. Metallica does though, and they even have a video document of the trying times when they were making it. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster was a pretty ground-breaking documentary, in that it showed the band...Full list of metal Record Store Day releases include BTBAM, Dream Theater, Machine Head
Record Store Day is like Christmas for not only independent record stores, but vinyl collectors and music fans in general. With less and less places selling physical music, it’s almost a sacred experience to set foot into a record store, and the amount of cool,...Follow Us
Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA
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