Revolver magazine is hosting the first part of an in-depth interview with guitarist/vocalist Adam "Negal "Darski of Polish extreme metal veterans BEHEMOTH. In it, he talks about his battle with leukemia, his current health status, and everything he went through. A couple of excerpts follow below. Revolver: When did you know you had ...
British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) has released the following statement: "First of all, thanks again for all the wonderful messages of support I have received in the last few days. "The mental, financial and emotional strain of keeping the BLAZE BAYLEY band together has proven to be too much for me ...
New Orleans sludge metal legends CROWBAR have canceled their appearance at this year's installment of the Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 18-20, 2011 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. According to the festival organizers, "There has been a death in the band's closer circle which has forced them to change their plans for July/August. A ...
ONE-WAY MIRROR — the French band featuring Guillaume Bideau (MNEMIC), David and Franck Potvin (LYZANXIA, PHAZE I), Dirk Verbeuren (SOILWORK) and Loic Colin (SCARVE, WATCHA) — has issued the following update: "ONE-WAY MIRROR entered the studio to record their [sophomore] album in an unequivocally incendiary atmosphere. With the creative juices flowing, their arses on fire, ...
German thrash metal veterans SODOM have been forced to cancel their April 2, 2011 appearance at the Silesian Massacre Festival Vol. 2 in Katowice, Poland after the band's guitarist, Bernd "Bernemann" Kost, was rushed to the hospital. SODOM's booking agent, Fleisch, writes on the group's MySpace page, "We do not know what exactly has happened ...
Cory Graves of the Dallas Observer recently conducted an interview with SOUNDGARDEN/ex-AUDIOSLAVE singer Chris Cornell. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Dallas Observer: One of your most recent tweets mentioned the fact that you and the other SOUNDGARDEN members have been jamming on a new album. What have these sessions ...
"The Magnetic Sky", the new video from Atlanta, Georgia-based metallers BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE, can be viewed below. The clip is described in a press release as "an 8-bit fantasy adventure that finds the members of BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE wandering through a sci-fi landscape in the format of an old Nintendo game, fighting their way through ...
A four-minute video clip of WHITESNAKE mainman David Coverdale talking to the Artisan News Service about the band's new album, "Forevermore", can be viewed below. The effort, which came out in North America on Tuesday (March 29) via Frontiers Records, was made available in four different configurations. "Forevermore" is available as: * a single CD ...
Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) will release "Deconstruction" and "Ghost" — the third and fourth in a series of albums to be made available under THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT moniker — in Europe on June 20 via InsideOut Music. "Deconstruction" and "Ghost" will complete his ...
Legendary rocker Sammy Hagar was interviewed on last night's (Wednesday, March 30) edition of NBC-TV's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno". You can now watch video footage of his appearance in two parts below. Hagar's autobiography, "Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock", debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction hardcover best sellers ...
