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Metal Edge Magazine Returns as Website, Archive of Classic Interviews

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Metallic Edge, the colourful rock journal whose month-to-month cowl was collaged with pictures of Bon Jovi, KISS, Skid Row, White Zombie and Dokken all through the mid-’80s and ‘90s, is again. Initially printed by Sterling, it shut in 2009 because of the waning recognition of each print and the principally hair steel style Metallic Edge targeted on.

Metallic Edge is now owned by Challenge M, the corporate behind different music and tradition shops together with Revolver, Brooklyn Vegan, Goldmine, Inked and the Exhausting Occasions.

At current, Metallic Edge might be on-line solely, they usually’re kicking off with an unique function on bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue (pictured). The 2019 Netflix biopic “The Filth” helped re-ignite curiosity within the band and their ‘80s rock style.

“Again within the day, Metallic Edge’s mixture of unique artist interviews, onstage, backstage, in-the-studio and behind-the-scenes reporting, up-to-the-minute information and high-quality images helped to outline the look, sound and really feel of heavy music,” new Editor-in-Chief Richard Bienstock says in his debut editor’s letter. “Now, that particular voice and perspective is again.”

Bienstock, co-author of “Nöthin’ However a Good Time: The Uncensored Historical past of the ’80s Exhausting Rock Explosion,” is a long-time journalist for Guitar World and different publications. He was a fan of Metallic Edge’s unique incarnation, noting, “as exhausting rock and steel cycled by means of modifications and traits within the ’90s and 2000s, so did Metallic Edge, maintaining with the instances (hey Pantera…and Korn…and Slipknot…) … I can say that the journal performed a not-insignificant function in my very own music schooling and fandom, in addition to my ensuing profession as a music journalist and musician.”

Metallic Edge was first printed by Sterling Publishing in 1985, underneath the auspices of founding editor was Gerri Miller. Miller, a passionate and decided journalist all the time armed with a digital camera, was the center and really public face of the journal, which ran for twenty-four years earlier than shuttering. Miller handed away in March, 2021, sparking social media tributes and condolences from KISS, Warrant, Nikki Sixx, Slaughter, Skid Row and plenty of different bands she championed over her years on the helm of Metallic Edge.

After Miller’s reign, former editor-in-chief Paul Gargano took over Metallic Edge within the ’90s and 2000s and continues to be concerned within the publication’s branding/advertising and marketing, retailer curation, merchandise and extra.

In his editor’s letter, Bienstock teases the potential for “specials and collector’s editions, print and in any other case,” whereas “Metallic Edge will proceed to maintain it exhausting ‘n’ heavy with in-depth reporting on rock legends, modern icons and tomorrow’s stars, right this moment.”

Classic content material will even be accessible on the location. “Since so lots of you’ve got been asking in regards to the articles you grew up studying, we’ve created a particular Archive part to reintroduce a number of the finest interviews, reported options, artist roundups and extra from the title’s virtually 40-year historical past,” Bienstock says.

Archive interviews presently accessible embrace conversations with Poison’s Bret Michaels, Alice Cooper, Metallica’s James Hetfield, Cinderella and Hanoi Rocks’ entrance man Michael Monroe and extra.

New options will embrace interviews with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Dee Snider, Mark Tremonti, Sebastian Bach, Kim Thayil, Ministry’s Al Jourgensen and extra.

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