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Judas Priest’s rescheduled North American 50th Anniversary tour currently kicks off with the Warlando festival….

Megadeth bassist and co-founder David Ellefson has launched the “School’s Out” initiative, to provide music lessons and mentoring via Skype from rock and metal musicians to kids who can’t participate in school activities because of coronavirus restrictions.

Plus: Psycho Las Vegas, Krokus, Midnight, Mayhem, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Sanction/SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Swallow the Sun, and more metal tour news.

Plus: tour news on Blood Incantation, Cirith Ungol, Maryland Doom Fest, Quebec Deathfest, Northwest Terror Fest, Decibel Fest, Red Death/Enforced, and more.

The audiences are also doing a great job singing along.

Built to Spill, Preoccupations, Jeff Rosenstock, Joey Bada$$/Boogie, Life of Agony, Pharoah Sanders, Baths/No Joy, Nap Eyes, Ministry/Chelsea Wolfe, and more Thursday show options.

Two East Coast hardcore festivals were recently announced for this April.

Igor’s list includes Integrity (whose Dwid Hellion included the new Cavalera Conspiracy album on his list), Godflesh (whose Justin Broadrick sings on the new Cavalera Conspiracy album), Converge, and more.

Max Cavalera (of Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy, and more) is on tour now with his band Soulfly performing the sole album by his Nailbomb project, 1994’s Point Blank, in its entirety…

To celebrate (or mourn) the end of summer, Ticketmaster and Live Nation are selling discounted tickets to select shows.