Southern Germany-based melodic metallers FREEDOM CALL will release a digital single, "Power & Glory", containing their best-known "happy metal" tunes on November 2 via SPV/Steamhammer. The single release will coincide with the start of the band's European tour as the support act for LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY. "We can't wait to bring our 'happy metal' to ...
Austrian symphonic melodic metallers SERENITY have released the following statement: "With great mourning we have to tell you all that [Mario Hirzinger], our dear friend, keyboardist, song and lyrics writer as well as founder of SERENITY leaves the band as of now... "We already knew his decision for quite some time and fully understand Mario's ...
KING'S X drummer Jerry Gaskill and Nashville-based songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist D.A. Karkos will track drums for Gaskill's solo record in late November with legendary producer/engineer/mixer Michael Wagener at Wagener's WireWorld studio in Nashville. The rest of the record will be recorded at Karkos' Underdog Studio in Nashville. Jerry writes: "One month from today, I will ...
SOUNDGARDEN will add five bonus tracks to the Best Buy deluxe edition of its upcoming album, "King Animal". The cuts will be demo versions of the songs "Black Saturday", "Worse Dreams", "By Crooked Steps", "Bones Of Birds" and "A Thousand Days Before", all of which appear in finished form on the main 13-song album. "King ...
North American syndicated rock radio show "In The Studio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands" celebrates QUEEN's 1977 classic "News Of The World" featuring perhaps the two most recognized rock anthems in history. "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" are the opening songs to QUEEN's sixth studio album and instantly became ...
Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, the company which creates "beautiful lullaby versions of your favorite artists," has just released "Lullaby Versions Of Deftones" via Roma Music Group. "Lullaby Versions Of Deftones" track listing: 01. My Own Summer (Shove It) 02. Digital Bath 03. Hole In the Earth 04. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) 05. ...
"The Meaning Of I", the new video from Western Australia's masters of progressive metal experimentation VOYAGER, can be seen below. The song is the title track of the band's fourth full-length album, which came out in October 2011 via Sensory Records. VOYAGER will embark on a tour of the Australian east coast in November, venturing ...
Patrick Prince of Powerline recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Powerline: When ["Countdown To Extinction"] has its 50th anniversary, it can still be relevant. Mustaine: Yep. If there is a USA fifty years from now. Powerline: There will be, but who ...
All The Rage TV recently conducted an an interview with singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian. You can now watch the chat below. Tankian's new solo album, "Harakiri", sold nearly 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 29 on The Billboard 200 ...
Keyboardist Jordan Rudess of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER recently traveled to India to join the Swarnabhoomi Academy Of Music in Chennai as a guest faculty member. Prasanna, founder of Swarnabhoomi, commented: "Jordan and I are friends and he was quite excited when I first told him about Swarnabhoomi Academy Of Music a couple of ...
