QUIET RIOT's new lineup — featuring vocalist Jizzy Pearl (LOVE/HATE, L.A. GUNS, ADLER'S APPETITE, RATT) — made its live debut on New Year's Eve (December 31) at Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort in Flagstaff, Arizona. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali spoke to Chris Epting of ...
DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci sat down with his nephew, PERIPHERY guitarist Jake Bowen, in an exclusive Roadrunner Records interview about music, family, working together and more. Check it out below. DREAM THEATER's spirit of adventure and fearless musical virtuosity continues to reap dividends for the progressive metal titans who've just earned their second Grammy ...
Drummer Glen Sobel (IMPELLITTERI, ORIANTHI, SIXX: A.M., PAUL GILBERT) has posted footage of the MONTROSE classic "Rock Candy" from the annual Alice Cooper benefit for the Maui Food Bank which took place on New Year's Eve in Maui, Hawaii. Alice Cooper and band were joined on stage by actors and rock legends performing their biggest ...
German death metallers LAY DOWN ROTTEN will release their new album, "Deathspell Catharsis", on January 24, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; January 27 in the rest of Europe; and on February 11 in North America via Apostasy Records. The CD was once again produced by the band's collaborator Thilo Krieger in his Desert Inn ...
North American syndicated rock radio show and web site "In The Studio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands" rings in the New Year with a career-spanning look at the bad boys of rock, MÖTLEY CRÜE. The '80s would not have been, well, the '80s without the outlandish antics and brazen musical style of L.A. ...
Swedish metallers SABATON entered the studio earlier today (Thursday, January 2) to begin recording their new album. SABATON played its first show with new drummer Hannes Van Dahl on November 16 at the Metal Hammer Paradise festival in Germany. Regarding their decision to enlist Hannes Van Dahl, SABATON said in a statement: "For some time, ...
Black metal veterans GORGOROTH have finished recording their new album, "Instinctus Bestialis", for a mid-2014 release. The recording lineup for the eight-song CD consisted of Infernus (guitar), Tomas Asklund (drums; ex-DISSECTION, DARK FUNERAL), Bøddel (a.k.a. Frank Watkins, bass, ex-OBITUARY), and new vocalist Atterigner from the Serbian band TRIUMFALL. The mixing sessions for "Instinctus Bestialis" will ...
Legendary American rock band KISS will bring down the house at Dodger Stadium as part of the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series outdoor game between the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks on Saturday, January 25, the National Hockey League announced today. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer will perform during ...
According TMZ.com, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against MÖTLEY CRÜE by Howard Scott King, who claimed that he gave CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee the idea for the roller-coaster drum set which he has used on tour in recent years. On September 20, 2012, King filed a suit against MÖTLEY CRÜE, the ...
