Dallas, Texas-based band JACKNIFE has entered Skyline Studios in the group's hometown to being recording its new full-length album for a 2008 release. The group is working alongside Sterling Winfield and Tim "Timmy Tooth" Kimsey, who have more than 20 years of recording, mixing, producing, and engineering experience. In addition to recently engineering Vinnie Paul ...
As the guitarist for LEAVES' EYES, ATROCITY and LIV KRISTINE, Thorsten "Tosso" Bauer has toured nearly all of the world's continents and recorded a number of acclaimed albums spanning the last two decades. Now for the first time the red-haired guitarist tries his hand at being a columnist, as the German axeman has found a ...
Jon Wilks of Japanzine recently conducted an interview with former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman. An excerpt from the article follows: As lead guitarist with MEGADETH, Friedman would record five platinum albums and tour the world many times over. It was during one of his many promotional stops in Japan that his musical allegiances ...
Colorado death metal band CRYPTICUS has uploaded a new track, "Sceptic Species", to its MySpace page. The song comes off the group's upcoming album, "They Called Me Mad!" due out in early 2008 on Razorback Records. The album's cover art will once again be provided by the horror artist Allen K. "They Called ...
According to the online edition of the Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisen, IRON MAIDEN will perform next summer at the Lerkendal Stadium in Trondheim, Norway as part of the band's "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour". An official announcement, including an exact date for the concert, is expected to be made in the next few ...
Norwegian black metallers have 1349 have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Inferno metal festival, set to take place March 19-22, 2008 at the Rockefeller and John Dee venues in Oslo, Noway. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows: BEHEMOTH KRUX SATYRICON DESTRUCTION SHINING TULUS 1349 The full lineup will be ...
According to a posting on KORPIKLAANI's web site, the band has cancelled its participation in the "Rock at Sea" cruise/festival, which is scheduled to depart from Stockholm, Sweden on November 23, 2007 . No reason was given for the cancellation. "Rock at Sea" is slated to include performances by KEN HENSLEY, GOTTHARD, EVERGREY and TOKYO ...
Stillborn Records, the label headed up by HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta, has announced the signing of up-and-coming Florida-based six-piece CATALEPSY. The band has just completed its full-length debut, "Iniquity", at Tampa's Mana Studios with producer Brian Elliott for a February 12, 2008 release. Commented Jasta: "It's great adding yet another young and hungry band to ...
According to the Sun Post, the Manteca, California police department has been sued by two men — including a singer with the Northern California hardcore band THE SLUMLORD CREW — who claim they were beaten up by police officers responding to a rowdy concert at a Manteca bar two years ago. THE SLUMLORD ...
