According to a posting at Scythes-Of-Bodom.com, KYLÄHULLUT, the Finnish project featuring Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM), Vesku Jokinen (KLAMYDIA) and Tonmi Lillman (ex-TO/DIE/FOR, SINERGY), have completed work on their full-length album, "Turpa Täynnä" (Hammered), tentatively due in January 2005. The band, whose name is roughly translated to "Village Fools", spent a week in ...
DEICIDE touring guitarist Jack Owen (ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE) has sent the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "Jack Owen checking in from Eindhoven Holland with an update on the DEICIDE European tour. Things are clicking now. Picking up steam as we head to the U.K. for a week's worth of shows. People were waiting to see if the ...
MEGADETH's concert in Mexico City, originally scheduled to take place Dec. 1 at Palacio de los Deportes, was cancelled due to logistical complications and not as a result of slow ticket sales, the group's Mexican concert promoter, Ocesa Entretenimiento, said in a press release. A date for the rescheduled concert has yet to be announced. ...
GUNS N' ROSES's "Greatest Hits" was one of the top-selling albums of 2004 in the U.K., according to the Sun Online newspaper. The list of the top 20 albums of the year were determined based on sales figures obtained for the 12-month period ending September 2004. "Greatest Hits" inclusion on the list of the top-selling ...
Ozzy Osbourne's elder sister has told a British newspaper that he deserved to be robbed as payback for the similar crimes he committed in his youth. Gillian Hemming, 59, says Ozzy's teenage past came back to haunt him when his Buckinghamshire mansion was hit by a $3.6 million (£2 million) raid last week (Nov. 22). ...
Former MEGADETH and current F5 bassist David Ellefson recently spoke to KNAC.com about the formation of his new project and the differences between his previous group and F5. Several excerpts from the interview follow: KNAC.com: How would you say this relates, musically, to MEGADETH? David Ellefson: "Musically, everyone in F5 is spot-on and ...
A brand new BC Rich Beast guitar purportedly made for former DEICIDE guitarist Brian Hoffman is currently being auctioned off via eBay at this location. According to a posting on the auction page, "this guitar has a solid mahogany neck thru body and wings with an ebony fretboard. It has very colorful abalone ...
MASTODON are the latest act added to the Extreme The Dojo Vol. 11 Japanese mini-tour featuring CONVERGE and ISIS. According to the official Extreme The Dojo web site, MASTODON confirmed their participation in the festival this past week. The dates are as follows: Feb. 02 – Osaka, JPN @ Club Quattro Feb. 03 - Nagoya, ...
HORTUS ANIMAE, the extreme metal project of ANCIENT drummer Diego "GroM" Meraviglia, have finished mixing their new album, "The Blow of Furious Winds", at Italy's Alpha-Omega Studios with producer Alex Azzali (ANCIENT). The CD will be released on February 5, 2005 via Black Lotus Records in a limited-edition leather bookshape format containing an extra track ...
During last night's (Nov. 27) MOTÖRHEAD show at the legendary Hammersmith Apollo in London, ex-guitarist Wurzel joined the band for a live rendition of the set closer "Overkill". Wurzel was a member of MOTÖRHEAD from 1984's "No Remorse" LP to 1995's "Sacrifice". MOTÖRHEAD are in the middle of a European tour with Brazilian thrashers SEPULTURA. ...
