Cameron Edney of Australia's Inside_Out666 recently conducted an interview with current ARMORED SAINT/FATES WARNING and former ANTHRAX bassist Joey Vera. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Inside_Out666: I'd like to start by talking about some of the latest projects in your life. First off, I believe you are in the studio ...
Season of Mist has announced the signing of veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN. As many fans will recall, HEATHEN were one of the most unique bands to rise from the Bay Area thrash explosion of the '80s/'90s, having released a groundbreaking debut album, "Breaking the Silence", in 1987 went on to sell close ...
No Fear clothing has launched No Fear Bands, a web site dedicated to "some of today's best metal bands" who are being clothed by No Fear, including BLOODSIMPLE, GODSMACK, SEVENDUST, HATEBREED, MASTODON and DISTURBED. For more information, visit www.nofearbands.com. ...
Antidote Records, the label responsible for spawning a horror-rock avalanche in 2003 which continues to devastate the underground music scene today, have announced the upcoming release of a new compilation CD. Entitled "Under the Radar: Volume I", this disc marks a brave step forward for the label, which seems to have expanded its musical scope ...
Brazilian metallers THRAM will enter Creative Studios (SHAAMAN, KRISIUN, ANGRA) in Sao Paulo, Brazil in April to begin recording their sophomore album, "Pictures of Reality", tentatively due later in the year. The follow-up to "Lost Mind" will be produced by Ricardo Nagata and will reportedly be "heavier and more aggressive than the [group's] previous work." ...
New Jersey hardcore band FACTION ZERO have reunited with their original lineup to "set the record straight in 2006," according to a press release. Formed in 1993 from a spawn of many different hardcore acts such as SUBZERO, 25 TA LIFE, SON OF SKAM, PUNKINUCLE and DERANGED, FACTION ZERO have played all over New York ...
Reuters is reporting that five Satanic cult members received heavy prison sentences on Tuesday for killing the singer of their amateur heavy metal band and two other women in brutal ritual murders that shocked Italy. Nicola Sapone, one of the leaders of the Beasts of Satan heavy metal cult, was sentenced ...
Danish power metallers MANTICORA will enter Jailhouse studios in Horsens, Denmark on April 7 to begin recording two new full-length albums with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, TNT, PRETTY MAIDS, FATE). More information about the month-long session will be made available soon. In other news, MANTICORA have announced that they have parted ways with guitarist Stefan ...
Chicago's YAKUZA have lined up a record-release hometown show on Mar. 25 at the Beat Kitchen in anticipation of the band's Prosthetic Records debut, "Samsara". The album, already named as one of Decibel magazine's most anticipated albums of 2006, will see a Stateside release on Mar. 21. In the meantime, folks intrigued by YAKUZA's mind-boggling ...
The complete schedule has been announced for this year's edition of the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place March 10-11 at Nave Medina Elvira in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Friday, March 10: BRAINSTORM 17:00 VIRGIN STEELE 18:20 IMPALED NAZARENE 19:40 VICIOUS RUMORS 21:00 HYPOCRISY 22:20 W.A.S.P. ...
