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Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore and Napalm Death are reportedly teaming up for a Ramones cover – find out more below.The collaboration – which has reportedly already been recorded – will be part of Magnetic Eye Records’ upcoming ‘Ramones Redux’ and ‘Best Of Ramones Redux’ compilation tribute albums that are due for release sometime in “early June”.The ‘Ramones Redux’ will see select acts cover the entirely of the band’s iconic 1976 self-titled album, while ‘Best Of Ramones Redux’ will be a tribute compilation of the band’s best career-spanning hits.While exact release dates and tracklists for the tribute albums have yet to be revealed, pre-orders are now available via a Magnetic Eye Records kickstarter campaign – check it out here.One song will see Moore and American grindcore legends Napalm Death unite to cover a Ramones classic, while other acts named to be involved in the albums include Bauhaus‘ David J, Swans‘ Paul Wallfisch, ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Venamoris, Kayo Dot and Emperor’s Ihsahn, GWAR‘s Blöthar The Berserker and Arthur Brown and more.A post shared by MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS (@magneticeyerecords)The two tribute albums are being produced by Grammy-winning producer Marc Urselli, who said of the project: “The Ramones weren’t just a band, they were a sonic revolution that challenged the established norms of popular music. Decades after their inception, the effect of their work echoes through the chords of new generations.

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan revealed their favourite rockstar masks and opened up about their various music feuds while going head-to-head on Hot Ones Versus.The metal musicians appeared on the viral online show, which sees celebrities take on “hot questions and even hotter wings”. During the Q&A segment, Clown asked Taylor to rank three of his most notorious rockstar feuds with Limp Bizkit, Machine Gun Kelly and Nickelback.“I love that this is coming up as I’m doing all this work on myself,” the frontman laughed before revealing his ranking.The singer prefaced his answer by admitting that “a lot of the things that I said were based off of my own ego, my own insecurities, my own arrogance”.Answering with that “ugly ego”, however, Limp Bizkit came out on top.

Los Angeles Times].Briese went on to say that the frontman stripped to his underwear and attempted to kidnap a store manager by stealing his car before ramming it into another vehicle.He was then taken into custody just outside the town of Oakhurst before he allegedly assaulted a number of officers at a local hospital.“This man drove all around our county terrorising our visitors and community members,” Briese added in a statement. “I am extremely happy that no one was seriously injured.

GWAR have shared an intergalactic metal cover of ‘I’m Just Ken’ from the Barbie movie.Singer Blöthar the Berserker explained the cover was inspired by his “prurient interest” in Ryan Gosling, who performed the track in the Greta Gerwig movie and earlier this year brought the song to the 2024 Oscars.He said: “I had my eye on him since the Mickey Mouse Club, I can’t go close to Ryan, I feel close to Ryan.”During the cover, he sang: “We’re just GWAR,” while holding up a decapitated Barbie head before adding: “Yes we are clowns and we exist / To take a piss on a sacrosanctity.”The band were performing the cover as part of The A.V. Club Undercover series which returned for season nine after a seven year hiatus.During his own performance of the track at the Oscars earlier this year, Gosling took to the stage clad in an all-pink Barbie-inspired outfit.He performed against pink hues with an ensemble of backup dancers as Mark Ronson played the guitar.

Slipknot have announced the line-up of homecoming Knotfest Iowa 2024 with Rammstein‘s Till Lindemann, Knocked Loose and more.The band’s annual homecoming music festival is set to take place on September 21 for one night only as a special 25th Anniversary Event at Water Works Park in Des Moines, IA. Along with Slipknot, Till Lindemann and Knocked Loose, the likes of Hatebreed, Poison The Well, GWAR, Vended, Dying Wish, Zulu, Twin Temple, Holy Wars, Swollen Teeth, Spine, and Dose are also set to perform.A ticket pre-sale for Knotfest will commence on Tuesday April 30 at 10am CT (4pm BST).

GWAR have shared a video for their stripped-back version of ‘Fuck This Place’ – watch it below.Taken from the band’s upcoming unplugged EP, ‘The Disc With No Name’, the track – which hears the band express their contempt for the human race – originally appeared on the GWAR’s most recent studio album, ‘The Blood Of Gods’.“Today, your Lords and Masters are as thrilled as David Crosby scoring an eight-ball to unveil a new epic video for the acoustic version of ‘Fuck This Place’,” the band said in a press release.You can watch the new video below:‘The Disc With No Name’ EP is set to arrive on May 28 via select independent record stores or digitally via Amazon.Speaking on the EP, singer Blóthar The Berserker admitted he wasn’t sure what he was