VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan's side band, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, has issued the following update: "Rockfest 2009, Kansas City — 52,000 fucking crazy people, are you kidding me? Now that is how it's done! Sometimes these radio festivals are a bit weird. You play early, people are half asleep still (or maybe just ...
Doom metal legends TROUBLE and PENTAGRAM will team up for the "Doom Over Europe" tour starting in late September. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 30 - Knaack Club - Berlin, Germany Oct. 01 - The Rock - Copenhagen, Denmark Oct. 02 - Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany Oct. 03 - Turock - Essen, Germany Oct. ...
Long-running Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER will release a brand new DVD, entitled "Under Bloodred Skies", in June via Regain Records. The two-disc set will include footage of two separate concerts (one in the Netherlands and the other at last year's Party.San Open Air festival, which was held in Bad Berka, Germany) plus tons of backstage ...
METALLICA was honored with the "Ballsiest Band" award at the third annual Spike Guys' Choice Awards, which was taped last night (Saturday, May 30) in Culver City, California. METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Robert Trujillo were there to collect the award, which was presented to them by the members of the Canadian heavy metal ...
Guitarist/vocalist Heri Joensen of Faroese Viking metallers TÝR was interviewed for this week's edition of "The Governor's Ball". You can download the program at this location. TÝR recently posted another new song, "Northern Gate", on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new album, "By the Light of ...
Guitarist Doc Coyle of New Jersey metal titans GOD FORBID was interviewed by Nikki Blakk of San Francisco's 107.7 The Bone radio station on April 4, 2009 when the group played the Event Center in San Jose, California with LAMB OF GOD, CHILDREN OF BODOM, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and MUNICIPAL WASTE. Watch the chat below. Guitarist ...
Swedish black metallers VANDÖD will enter the studio in June to begin recording their second full-length album, "Dö". The follow-up to 2007's "As" is tentatively due in the fall. Commented drummer Daniel Wikforss: "Our last album was a very raw and unpolished effort, and almost all of it was recorded in one takes, since we ...
Greek metal webzine Metal Hunter conducted an interview with with Patrick Mameli (guitar, vocals) of the resurrected late '80s/early '90s death metal outfit PESTILENCE on April 28, 2009 in Athens, Greece. Watch the chat in two parts below. PESTILENCE was forced to cancel its appearance at last weekend's Maryland Deathfest due to the band's detainment ...
Fan-filmed video footage of OBSCURA performing the songs "Anticosmic Overload" and "Choir of Spirits" on May 29, 2009 at the Neurotic Deathfest in Tilburg, The Netherlands can be viewed below (courtesy of Natasja Kooiman). "Cosmogenesis", the second full-length album from OBSCURA, sold around 900 copies in the United States in its first week of release, ...
Fan-filmed video footage of HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) — performing the songs "The Mob Rules" and "I" on May 30, 2009 at B1 Maximum in Moscow, Russia can be viewed below. HEAVEN & HELL will ...
