Sweden's Metalshrine conducted an interview with ICED EARTH/ex-JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim "Ripper" Owens on October 25, 2007 in Stockholm. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metalshrine: Do you see any fear of not being able to make a living out of releasing records and playing live, since people are just downloading ...
Up-and-coming UK thrashers EVILE have been confirmed for next year's Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 15-17 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: AT THE GATES COMMUNIC DIMMU BORGIR EVILE MOONSORROW PRIMAL FEAR SWALLOW THE SUN EVILE entered the U.K. Rock Albums chart ...
Scott Colothan of Gigwise.com reports: In an interview with the Scotsman, LED ZEPPELIN frontman Robert Plant has revealed his admiration for Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun — in whose memory of course the band are performing a tribute concert for this December. Before LED ZEP were even signed to the imprint, Plant says ...
Rocklahoma, which purports to be the largest '80s rock festival of its kind ever to be organized, has announced more details about next year's event, which will be held July 11-13, 2008 at the Catch The Fever Festival Grounds, four miles north of Pryor, Oklahoma. "With tickets having been sold in all fifty states, every ...
ILIUM's video for the song "All Control Lost" can be viewed below. The track comes off the Australian power metal band's 2005 album "Permian Dusk". ILIUM's third album, "Vespertilion", was completed several months ago but has yet to see the light of day. In an August 30 posting on its MySpace page, the group wrote, ...
OVERKILL vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth and CRASHDIET drummer Eric Young will be the featured guests on next weekend's (November 10) edition of "The Classic Metal Show". The program airs live Saturdays between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. EST at www.theclassicmetalshow.com. OVERKILL recently completed a short tour in support of its new release, "Immortalis". ...
While in Tokyo, members of MEGADETH and crew spent some of their off time at a local rock bar called Rock Inn Current. Shown here is a photo of MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo being DJ at the rock bar. Assistant tour manager Tracey Wiedeman commented that the Current has been so very nice ...
Drummer Tomas Haake of the Swedish experimental metallers MESHUGGAH has issued the following statement regarding the regarding the passing of DECAPITATED drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, who died at the age of 23 in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision: "The metal community has lost one of the most talented and ...
COLDWORKER/ex-NASUM drummer Anders Jakobson has issued the following statement regarding the passing of DECAPITATED drummer Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, who died at the age of 23 in a Russian hospital from injuries sustained in a recent road collision: "If you follow the metal news you have learned that Vitek, the 23-year-old drummer of Poland's DECAPITATED passed ...
