Polish death metal veterans VADER recently entered Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland to begin recording their new album for an early 2014 release. The band is laying down a total of 14 songs, including four bonus tracks, for the new CD, which is tentatively titled "Tibi Et Igni", a Latin phrase which translates to "For ...
December 2013 - Blabbermouth Archive
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN's 'Relentless: A Memoir' Available As Eight-Hour Audiobook
"Relentless: A Memoir", the autobiography from legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, is available as a seven-hour-and-45-minute audiobook from Audible.com. In "Relentless" — which was released in May via Wiley — Malmsteen relives the greatest and worst moments of his storied career as one of the most admired, talked about, and emulated guitarists in ...
Video: CHILDREN OF BODOM, THE 69 EYES, RECKLESS LOVE Members Perform Metal And Hard Rock Covers
THE LOCAL BAND, the Finnish covers act featuring Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM), Jussi69 (THE 69 EYES), Olli Herman (RECKLESS LOVE) and Archie Kuosmanen (SANTA CRUZ), played a one-off show this past Friday, December 27 at Tavastia in Helsinki, Finland. The group's setlist consisted of 1980s "hair metal" classics, around 30 songs for which have ...
Author D.X. FERRIS Discusses His SLAYER '66 & 2/3' Biography On 'Radioactive Metal' (Audio)
The latest episode of "Radioactive Metal" features an interview with metalhead and award-winning journalist D.X. Ferris, who spoke about his new SLAYER biography, "Slayer 66 2/3: The Jeff And Dave Years…". You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. "Slayer 66 2/3: The Jeff And Dave Years…" is now available in ...
Preteen Heavy Metal Band UNLOCKING THE TRUTH Profiled In CNN Report (Video)
Victor Blackwell of CNN recently sat down with UNLOCKING THE TRUTH — a heavy metal band from Flatbush, Brooklyn made up of African American pre-teen boys — to talk about their mission to rock your socks off. Check out his report below. "Heavy metal is in our blood because this is what we like to ...
BLACK VEIL BRIDES' ANDY BIERSACK Talks To HeartSupport About Bullying (Video)
Singer Andy Biersack of Los Angeles theatrical rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES recently stopped by HeartSupport to encourage the community and to talk about bullying. Check out the clip below. In a recent interview with Artisan News, Biersack stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for BLACK VEIL BRIDES' follow-up to this year's "Wretched And ...
Original AC/DC Singer DAVE EVANS Talks 40th Anniversary Of The Band's First-Ever Concert (Video)
On New Year's Eve in 1973, AC/DC played its first-ever concert at Chequers nightclub in Sydney, Australia. On the 40th anniversary of this historic gig, AC/DC's original lead singer, Dave Evans, tells The Age (see video below): "People were pretty excited about us. The drummer was Colin Burgess from the famous MASTERS APPRENTICES, ...
HIM's VILLE VALO Speaks To Italy's YouRock.TV (Video)
On October 15, YouRock.TV conducted an interview with vocalist Ville Valo of Finnish "love" metallers HIM in Milan, Italy. You can now watch the chat below. HIM's latest album, "Tears On Tape", sold 20,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 15 on The Billboard 200 ...
CINDERELLA's TOM KEIFER Talks To ROCK SCENE About His Early Musical Influences
On May 31 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Tom Keifer, best known as the singer/songwriter/guitarist of the Philadelphia-based blues-rock band CINDERELLA, spoke to Rock Scene magazine about being first exposed to rock music by seeing THE BEATLES on TV when he was about seven or eight years old, and his other ...