HardTimes.ca conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT DJ Sid Wilson prior to the band's April 29, 2009 concert in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Watch the 12-minute chat below. SLIPKNOT's video for the song "Sulfur" was shot on March 9 in the Los Angeles area and was directed by band percussionist Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) and ...
Lone Star Metal magazine, a Texas-based webzine, will host a showcase event in Houston, Texas on June 27 at one of the city's longest-standing venues, Fitzgerald's. Texas metal veterans ASKA will headline the event, which will mark the band's return to Houston after almost a year. Direct support will come from Brazilian power metal act ...
U.K.'s Diss Express reports: A teenager's dreams have come true after he met global rock giants METALLICA. Attleborough High School pupil Andrew Ladell benefitted from children's charity Dreams Come True, which organized the meeting at the band's London O2 arena concert. He said: "It was a dream — they are my favorite band ...
Pioneering classical pianist Christopher O'Riley is taking the innovative step of releasing a digital single of his interpretation of "Heart Shaped Box", a song composed by the late Kurt Cobain for his group NIRVANA, available exclusively at iTunes on April 28. Look for it featured on iTunes' "Rock" page! On May 5, the digital single ...
Revolver TV has uploaded a short interview with MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo conducted by Full Metal Jackie at the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which was held on April 7 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. Watch the one-minute chat below. MEGADETH and SLAYER will perform together for the first time in ...
NOVEMBRE (Italy), SATURNUS (Denmark), ATARAXIE (France), HELEVORN (Spain) and AATHMA (Spain) have been confirmed for the first edition of the Madrid Is The Dark Fest, set to take place September 11-12 at Ritmo y Compas in Madrid, Spain. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: So the line up reads as it follows September ...
Nina Rung of Domination TV conducted an interview with the Swedish metal/rock band SPARZANZA before their April 17, 2009 show at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland. SPARZANZA released its fourth CD, "In Voodoo Veritas", in Finland on April 8 via Black Cult/Kabuki Records. SPARZANZA recently announced the addition of guitarist Magnus Eronen (MOANING WIND, SPACE PROBE ...
DAATH guitarist Emil Werstler will lay down a guest guitar solo on the upcoming debut album from ASYLUM, the Chicago-based band featuring Markus Johansson (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Johnny Rox (bass guitar). Johansson and Rox are joined on the CD album by drummer Kevin Talley (DAATH, CHIMAIRA, DEVILDRIVER) and second lead guitarist Larry Tarnowski ...
Norway's THEATRE OF TRAGEDY has entered Room 13 studios in Oslo to resume recording its seventh album for a tentative September release via AFM Records. Video footage of the CD's drum-recording sessions, which were completed late last year, can be viewed below. THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's new album is being produced by Erik Ljunggren, who has ...
