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Joey Vera and Mercyful Fate Part Ways
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Joey Vera and Mercyful Fate Part Ways

Mercyful Fate has announced that bassist Joey Vera is no longer in the band. Frontman King Diamond announced in a short post that the split was amicable.

Fates Warning Releases First Studio Album in Three Years
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Fates Warning Releases First Studio Album in Three Years

Fates Warning has released its twelfth studio album, Theories of Flight, the band’s followup to 2013’s Darkness in a Different Light. The progressive metal band features Joey Vera, also of Armored Saint, on bass. In an interview with MetalHeadRadio.com, Vera said for the album, each band member recorded their parts separately, often near or at their homes, based on demos...

Armored Saint Returns with Seventh Studio Album
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Armored Saint Returns with Seventh Studio Album

Veteran metal band Armored Saint describes their new studio album, Win Hands Down, as “a vintage crush of classic power propelled by a cathartic blast of life.” Bassist Joey Vera holds down the low end with a gritty tone, but he also co-wrote the majority of the music with singer John Bush. “John and I wrote the majority of the...