Warwick recently conducted an interview with MUDVAYNE bassist Ryan Martinie. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Warwick: Can you name some of your bass influences as well as some bass players you admire for their playing and/or contribution to bass playing? Ryan: It's always hard to name influences, I grab ...
The initial dates for UFO's 2011 North American tour have just been revealed. The band will be touring in support of its upcoming studio album, which is slated to be released in June 2011 via SPV/Steamhammer. The East Coast leg of the tour will kick off May 11, 2011 at Bourbon Street in Baltimore, Maryland. ...
Simon "Astrocreep" Crampton of Sonic Shocks conducted an interview with bassist Doris Yeh of Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC on November 27, 2010 at the HMV Forum in London, England during the band's U.K. tour with ARCH ENEMY. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. Yeh was recently voted "Goremate Of The ...
AMARANTHE (formerly AVALANCHE) — the new project featuring Olof Mörck (NIGHTRAGE, DRAGONLAND), Jake E (ex-DREAM EVIL, DREAMLAND), Andy Solveström (WITHIN Y, EVILDOER, CIPHER SYSTEM), Morten Lowe Sorensen (THE ARCANE ORDER, SUBMISSION) and Johan Andreassen (ex-ENGEL) — has been confirmed for next year's edition of the Metal Female Voices Fest, set to take place October 21-23 ...
AVANTASIA — the project led by EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet — kicked off its "The Metal Opera Comes To Town" world tour 2010 last night (Tuesday, November 30) at Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland. Joining Sammet in AVANTASIA's touring lineup are a number of special guests, including GAMMA RAY/ex-HELLOWEEN guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen, Bob Catley (MAGNUM), Jorn ...
"Relentless", the new album from the legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, sold around 1,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release. Yngwie's previous CD, "Perpetual Flame", opened with around 2,000 units back in October 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Released on November 22 via Malmsteen's own Rising Force Records, "Relentless" contains ...
Country music comes naturally for Aaron Lewis. It's something the STAIND frontman grew up with. It's something that he comes back to. It's something that inspires him. It's something that's in his blood. Hints of that are present in the stripped honesty and acoustic melodies of STAIND hits such as "Outside", "It's Been Awhile" and ...
KAMELOT bassist Sean Tibbetts has joined THE EVIL AMIDST, the South Florida-based "all-star" death metal band featuring members of MALEVOLENT CREATION, HATE PLOW and KULT OV AZAZEL. But fear not, KAMELOT fans — Tibbetts will remain in KAMELOT, pulling "double duty." Commented THE EVIL AMIDST guitarist Gio Geraca: "Sean has been a longtime friend and ...
U.K. thrash metal veterans ONSLAUGHT will release their fifth album, "Sounds Of Violence", via AFM Records on the following dates: Japan: January 12 Europe: January 28 USA: February 8 The track listing for the effort is as follows: 01. Into The Abyss (intro) 02. Born For War 03. The Sound Of Violence 04. Code Black ...
Swedish doom/death metal act THE GARDNERZ has inked a deal with Abyss Records. The band's debut album, "The System Of Nature", is due in early 2011. 01. The Art Of Suffering 02. Lady In The Grave 03. Your Final Solution 04. Born To Consume 05. Incident 06. Shift In Thought 07. Flaw In The Axiom ...
