Vocalist Angela Gossow of Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY recently spoke to U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine about her first couple of years as frontwoman of the melodeath heavyweights, as well as offer her thoughts on the tag "female-fronted" and why metal's rebellious nature has always appealed to her. On the impact that bringing in ...
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal will be a special guest at SALEM's May 6, 2011 concert at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The event will commemorate the re-release of SALEM's cult 1994 album "Kaddish" (originally released by Germany's Morbid Records), an LP which represents the band's personal dirge for the victims of ...
Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER have recruited Mike Mangini — the 48-year-old session artist who has played for ANNIHILATOR, EXTREME, JAMES LABRIE and STEVE VAI — as the replacement for the recently departed Mike Portnoy. In a posting on his official forum, DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci writes, "Well, it's been a very exciting day ...
PitCam.tv conducted an interview with Knoxville, Tennessee death metallers WHITECHAPEL on April 19, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. You can now watch the chat below. "Breeding Violence", the new video from WHITECHAPEL, was filmed on January 8 at Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee with director Scott Hansen, who has previously worked on videos for ILL NIÑO, ANIMALS ...
"Superskum" (web site) conducted an interview with guitarist Ted Aguilar of San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL when the band played in Denver, Colorado on April 18, 2011. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is performance footage from the Denver concert. DEATH ANGEL will release a DVD entitled "A ...
Polish extreme metal veterans VADER entered Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland last month to begin recording their new album, "Welcome To The Morbid Reich". The band is laying down a total of 12 songs for the CD, which will be mixed and mastered in May for a tentative late 2011 release. Working songtitles set to ...
KILL DEVIL HILL — the new band featuring Vinny Appice (HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, DIO) on drums, Rex Brown (DOWN, PANTERA) on bass, Mark Zavon (RATT, W.A.S.P., 40 CYCLE HUM) on guitar and Jason "Dewey" Bragg (PISSING RAZORS) on vocals — made its live debut last night (Friday, April 29) at the Key Club ...
"Anthems For The Victorious", the new seven-inch single from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada metallers 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, is available for pre-order at CMDistro.com. The limited-edition orange vinyl features two new songs from the band and is available for the low price of $5. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of these and ...
American doom metal titans YOB have entered Dogwood Studios in Eugene, Oregon with producer Jeff Olsen to begin work on their sixth album. This marks the second time that the band has teamed with Profound Lore Records, the first being for 2009's highly regarded "The Great Cessation". Commented YOB vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt: "We will be ...
According to TMZ.com, Ozzy and his wife/manager Sharon Osbourne have been hit with a new tax lien — this time for more than $357,000. The lien, filed this week in Los Angeles, shows the couple still owes $357,070.62 in unpaid federal income taxes from 2007. It was reported earlier in the month that ...
