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Aging Suffocation vocalist Frank Muller has officially announced his retirementtarget=”_blank” rel=”nofollow external” from music as the extreme metal retirement wave continues. Spanning an almost 3 decade career exclusively with the same band, Frank had one of the deepest gutteral vocal tones of the early 90s and enjoyed an unusual amount of success in his later years when Suffocation’s technical death metal style became interchangeable with the deathcore fad of last decade. Frank now plans on attempting an acting career but will probably end up giving up on it soon and opening up a pizza restaurant in Staten Island instead.

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Tags: death, death metal, frank mullen, metal, retirement, RETIREMENT WAVE, suffocation, Technical Death Metal

Retirement Tours are Now a Trend

by Brock Dorsey on February 8, 2018

With Ozzy Osbourne announcing his second retirement tour (the first being with Black Sabbath) in 2 years, Slayer retiring, Satyricon retiring (from touring the US, the only country that matters), etc we can safely conclude that retirement tours have quickly become a trend. This beckons an interesting question- are record execs pushing these as an attempt to cash-in on aging metal bands?

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Tags: aging, black sabbath, death, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, ozzy osbourne, retirement, touring, venom

THE END OF SLAYER

by Brock Dorsey on January 22, 2018

Death looms over thrash metal’s most sinister (and probably most influential) band: Slayer. After 35 years of touring and recording, the demise of the band’s most valuable member Jeff Hanneman, and age coupled with 25 years of creative rut, Slayer is about to expire. The band announced via a short video that it’s time for one last ride before a long overdue end.

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Tags: death, demise, End, jeff hanneman, kerry king, metal, retirement, slayer, thrash metal

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