GUNS N' ROSES/PRIMUS drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia has joined forces with Audiowarrior producer Greg Giametta to create two world-class drum track building titles — "Brain Drum Track Builder Kreator-Plug-In" and and "Brain Drum Track Builder Reason Refill" — both of which work on any computer running Mac OS X or Windows XP. For more information, ...
Finnish melodic death/thrash metallers MORS PRINCIPIUM EST have set "Liberation = Termination" as the title of their third album, tentatively due in early 2007 via Listenable Records. "Here we are, in Astia Studio [in Finland]," stated vocalist Ville Viljanen. "We have been here for over a week now and we finished the vocal recordings yesterday. ...
Paul Edward Parker of The Providence Journal reports that the start of jury selection in the trial of Station nightclub co-owner Michael A. Derderian on Tuesday will mark the opening of what could be the most dramatic chapter of this tragedy since the night in 2003 when flames consumed the West Warwick nightclub ...
1010wins.com reports that a nine-year-old leukemia patient found her inspiration from the unlikeliest of places: a serenade from David Lee Roth. The former VAN HALEN frontman recorded a song especially for Ashley Abernathy, giving the little girl the rock-star treatment in the heart-rending tune. "Who deals the cards? Ashley Abernathy," Roth sang. "Who ...
ARTS Publications has announced that the previously published biography of late ALICE IN CHAINS frontman Layne Staley, "Layne Staley: Angry Chair" — now retitled "Layne Staley: Get Born Again" — was recently ordered by a big number of social workers and drug counselors from different group therapy programs in the United States. Many of these ...
According to a posting on the MEGADETH fan site Rattlehead HQ, Liam Robinson (MEGADETH forums username: "Jotun") was the first MEGADETH forums user to correctly guess all of the lyrics to the title track of the band's upcoming album, "United Abominations" as part of a contest which was launched in July. Liam wins ...
British black metal pioneers VENOM kicked off their North American tour, dubbed the "American 10 Commandments Tour", on August 24 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona. The group's current trek marks VENOM's first shows in the U.S. since 1997, when they made one-off appearance at the Milwaukee Metalfest. Check out pictures from some of ...
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", a brand-new documentary offering a guided tour through heavy metal's storied but largely ignored history, is one of eight new high-end feature-length programs that is included in VH1's documentary series "VH1 Rock Docs". Each of the documentaries will reveal an untold story in the history of rock and hip-hop music, combining ...
Fusion death metal project OPPOSITE SIDES, featuring Italian session drummer Diego "Grom" Meraviglia (ANCIENT, HORTUS ANIMAE, DOOMSWORD, HATE PROFILE), has finished recording the drums and guitars for its debut album, "Soul Mechanics" (formerly "Chaotic Order"), at Fear studios in Ravenna, Italy. "The result is brilliant: a really devastating wall of sound," the group writes on ...
CRADLE OF FILTH backing singer Sarah Jezebel Deva (also in ANGTORIA, ex-THERION, MORTIIS) has commented on DISSECTION frontman Jon Nödveidt's recent decision to take his own life less than three months after announcing his band's split. Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, the ...
