Niclas Mller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine recently conducted an interview with guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet of Christian hard rockers STRYPER. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Metalshrine: Do you have any idea how many bibles you've thrown out to the crowds over the years? Michael: Definitely thousands! Back in the day when ...
During a recent MTLEY CRE tour stop in Atlanta, Georgia, the band's bassist, Nikki Sixx, presented his 100,000th Twitter follower with a signed Epiphone Nikki Sixx Blackbird bass guitar. Longtime fan and certified Turbo Kick instructor Angie Elliott, along with her husband, got a chance to meet Sixx in their hometown before MTLEY CRE hit ...
Tim Shaw of the "Severe Auditory Trauma" metal show, which airs on Bridgewater State University's student-run radio station, 91.5 WBIM, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson at the tenth show of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on July 22 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. You can now listen to the chat ...
Fan-filmed video footage of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER performing on July 24, 2011 at the High Voltage festival in Victoria Park, London, England can be seen below. "A Dramatic Turn Of Events", the much-anticipated new album from DREAM THEATER, which marks new drummer Mike Mangini's recorded debut, will be released on September 13 via ...
Nuclear Blast Records has set a March 9, 2012 European release date for the next studio album from Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA. The band has just entered Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany under the watchful eye of Sascha Paeth to begin pre-production for the CD. The second in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage ...
Australian online music magazine The AU recently conducted an interview with bassist Martin Mendez of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The AU: I listened to [the new OPETH album] "Heritage" today and there's a lot of '60s and '70s sounds on it a bit of ...
Video footage of NONPOINT guitarist Zach Broderick playing the national anthem on July 8 at the Florida Marlins game at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida can be seen below. Commented Broderick: "I've been a HUGE baseball fan since I was a kid. When I was asked if I would be interested in playing the ...
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's new single, "Under It And Over It", will debut tomorrow (Wednesday, July 27) on radio stations nationwide as well as online at RevolverMag.com. The single art can be seen below. "Under And Over It" is the debut single from FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's third album, "American Capitalist", which hits stores on ...
Professionally filmed video footage of DOWN performing the songs "Stone The Crow" and "Bury Me In Smoke" at this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival, which was held June 10-12, 2011 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, can be seen below. (Note: The footage originally aired on WDR's [German public TV] series "Rockpalast".) DOWN ...
