Cleveland doom rockers VENOMIN JAMES will take part in a meet-and-greet on August 6 at the sold-out Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany. The signing session, sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink, will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at the W:O:A Fanclub Stand on the festival grounds. The band is scheduled to ...
According to The Pulse Of Radio, SOUNDGARDEN was joined by PEARL JAM guitarist Mike McCready onstage during the band's concert at the Los Angeles Forum on Friday night (July 22). McCready came onstage to perform the title track from SOUNDGARDEN's 1994 "Superunknown" album (see video below). Meanwhile, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl was also at ...
According to BostonHerald.com, COHEED AND CAMBRIA bassist Michael Todd was released from jail earlier today (Monday, July 25) after posting $25,000 bail. Todd was arrested for armed robbery on July 10 shortly before the band's performance at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts as the support act for SOUNDGARDEN. Todd allegedly walked into ...
Robert Gray of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andreas Kisser of Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Ultimate-Guitar.com: How did SEPULTURA come to sign with Nuclear Blast? Kisser: For our last album we were working with SPV, but they had many different problems financial problems ...
Not simply for the sake of the body art alone, "Musical Ink" is a new portrait project from Toronto, Ontario, Canada photographer Jon Blacker. Spotlighting musicians and their tattoos, "Musical Ink" goes more than skin deep to focus on the personal meanings of the artist's body art. Be it a deep personal reflection or simply ...
Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON will release their new album, "The Hunter", on September 27. The follow-up to 2009's "Crack The Skye" will be MASTODON's third studio CD to be made available on Reprise Records in the U.S. and Canada and the band's first to be issued through Roadrunner Records outside of North America. Beginning today, ...
Drummer Mike Portnoy (DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB) has joined forces with guitarist/vocalist John Sykes (WHITESNAKE, BLUE MURDER, THIN LIZZY) and an as-yet-undisclosed bassist in a brand new power trio. The project is currently recording material at a Los Angeles studio, with Portnoy describing one song as "copping the [LED] ZEPPELIN/[BLACK] SABBATH vibe" and ...
MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson spoke to the "On The Road. Where Music Lives" project (web site) about his favorite record stores from backstage at the seventh show of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on July 17 in Englewood, Colorado. You can now watch the chat below. MEGADETH's new album, "TH1RT3EN", is tentatively ...
On June 15, Jason Saulnier of the MusicLegends.ca web site conducted an interview with former ACCEPT and current U.D.O. lead singer Udo Dirkschneider. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. "Rev-Raptor", the new album from U.D.O., was released on May 20 via AFM Records. The effort was made ...
