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The members have L7 have shared the news that bassist Jennifer Finch has died at the age of 59. In an Instagram post, the group shared, "With a very heavy heart we announce that our beloved bandmate, friend, and fellow troublemaker Jennifer Finch has passed away today. She had a long courageous fight with brain cancer and was loved by many wonderful friends, musical peers and fans worldwide.

You can never mention the name "Eddie Guerrero" without mentioning his love for wrestling & his home of El Paso. He was & will always be remembered for his unbelievable talent in the ring and his passion for the squared circle. Just watch any of his promos and you can see the energy he carried with him every time. Eddie will also be remembered fondly as...well being one of the funniest wrestlers to ever appear on television.

At the Upheaval Festival in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Poppy's band took the stage and performed a nearly hour-long set without her. In the video below, Poppy's backing band can be seen wearing respirator masks beneath their theatrical stage mask, which is commonly used to filter particulate matter in the air. The respirator mask bears a "3M" mark across the mouth, similar to the product readily listed at several hardware stores.

Did grunge really kill hair metal? The answer isn't as cut-and-dry as you've been led to believe, according to veteran rock producer Howard Benson. In an exclusive interview with Loudwire, Benson details some of the vast changes the music industry has undergone since the big-money days of the '80s and '90s — some for better, some for worse.

Metallica are looking ahead to their Las Vegas Sphere residency after an exhausting three years of the M72 world tour and Evanescence's Amy Lee looks back on opening for the metal legends in late 2025. That November, Evanescence and Suicidal Tendencies were tabbed as the special guests on a brief run of five dates in Australia and one in New Zealand. Although the trek was short, the memories will last a lifetime.

System of a Down apparently changed the title of a song on their beloved 2001 album Toxicity, but why? A fan shared a screenshot on the System of a Down Reddit page earlier this week pointing out that the final track on the album on Spotify, which has always been known as "Arto," now shows the name "Der Voghormia," which translates from Armenian to "Lord Have Mercy." "I don't remember it being called this," the person who shared the post wrote in the description.

We're back after a little bit of a lull with 18 new rock and metal tours announced this past week. If you love your heavy music, you'll be thrilled to know that Cradle of Filth are heading back out this fall on a run that will include support from Moonspell, Worm and Black Satellite. Slaughter to Prevail are also back out for an extensive fall tour with support from DJ Paul and Rev3rent. Meanwhile, Soulfly are making it a family affair taking with Nailbomb and Incite joining for a fall run.

On Thursday (July 16), guitarist Duane Denison joined Loudwire Nights as he preps for Tomahawk's first tour in 13 years. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article. "I've been doing this a long time, but it's been awhile since we've done Tomahawk," Denison shared with Loudwire Nights' Chuck Armstrong. "About a year ago, I was still doing Jesus Lizard stuff and I've been playing locally with a local group I have, but no, this is a thing.

Riot Fest has released a wild list of supposed "demands" from actor and sometimes musician William Shatner ahead of his metal band's debut at the event in September. The first-ever public performance of Shatner's metal outfit, The *uckers, was recently announced for the festival, set for Sept. 18-20 in Chicago's Douglass Park.

The El Paso District Attorney's office lost out on a grant that would have offered free Uber rides to inebriated drivers because they didn't apply for it. The "Pick Your Ride" program was funded by grants from the Texas Department of Transportation. Last year, El Paso got $75K to use to pay part, if not all, of the Uber fee for taking an impaired driver home safely instead of they themselves getting behind the wheel.