Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will embark on a tour of South America and Mexico in September. Support on the trek will come from AMORPHIS. Commented CHILDREN OF BODOM: "It's been five long years since the last time CHILDREN OF BODOM made it all the way down there to play for some of their most ...
PONAMERO SUNDOWN, DAWN OF SILENCE, VEMOTH, GARM, INFUNERAL, WITHERSHIN and DIE HARD have been confirmed for this year's installment of the KRIS! open-air festival, set to take place August 7-8, 2009 at Loppholmarna in Lindesberg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: MIMIKRY LIPTONES THE PRICKS THE DETECTORS SISTA SEKUNDEN THE SPOOKSHOW GRETA ...
Guitarist Oz Fox of reactivated Christian hard rockers STRYPER will marry Annie Lobért, a 41-year-old former call girl who founded the international Christian ministry Hookers for Jesus, on June 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lobért (pictured below) worked for 11 years as a prostitute and escort in Las Vegas, which included catering to celebrities and ...
German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION are currently putting together a double live album, to be released sometime this summer. More information will be made available soon. In other news, DESTRUCTION vocalist/bassist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer has issued the following recap of the band's recent trip to Japan and China: "Worldwide economic crisis there or here — ...
The Pulse of Radio reports: PAPA ROACH will follow up its chart-topping single "Lifeline" with another song from its recent "Metamorphosis" album called "I Almost Told You That I Loved You". The group just finished shooting a music video for the track and singer Jacoby Shaddix told The Pulse of Radio the story behind the ...
A new interview with QUEENSRŸCHE vocalist Geoff Tate to will air on tonight's (Tuesday, June 2) edition of the "Black Night Meditations" radio show between 10:00 p.m. EST and 2:00 a.m. EST. To submit questions or request QUEENSRŸCHE songs, e-mail [email protected] You can listen to the program live via the Internet at this ...
Video footage of VITAL REMAINS' May 8, 2009 concert at Blue Box Club in Sofia, Bulgaria can be viewed below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Where Is Your God Now 02. Icons of Evil 03. Scorned 04. Born to Rape the World 05. Let the Killing Begin 06. Dechristianize 07. Saviour to None... ...
CIRCLE II CIRCLE — the band led by ex-SAVATAGE singer Zak Stevens — has posted a lengthy recap of its recently completed European headlining tour. Check it out at the group's MySpace blog. Kostas Kyriakakis, Helena Mihailidou and Jim Hatzimoisis of Metalzone.gr conducted an interview with Zak Stevens last month when ...
Italian melodic heavy metal band BROKEN MELODY has completed work on its new album at Real Sound Studios in Parma for a late 2009 release via Copro Records. The new CD, which will follow two self-released efforts, the "If You Want to Fly" EP and the "Face the World" full-length — will feature artwork by ...
California rockers JETBOY debuted three new songs during their performance at the at the M3 Rock Festival, which was held this past Saturday (May 30) at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. All three tracks — "Perfectly Wrong", "Dog's Gotta Roam" and "Goin' Down From Above the Clouds" — will appear on the band's ...
