FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares celebrated his 50th birthday by playing two shows with his long-running ASESINO project earlier this month. Multi-camera footage of ASESINO's entire September 10 concert at Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California can be seen below. ASESINO is the death metal/grindcore project featuring Cazares and FEAR FACTORY/ex-STATIC-X bassist Tony ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of KORN performing two new songs — "Insane" and "Rotting In Vain" — on September 2 at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey during the "Return Of The Dreads" tour with ROB ZOMBIE can be seen below. "Insane" and "Rotting In Vain" are taken from KORN's new album, "The Serenity Of ...
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KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch was interviewed on a recent edition of "The 700 Club", Christian Broadcasting Network's flagship program. You can now watch the segment below. Asked what he thought needed to happen before he could return to KORN eight years after first leaving the band, Welch said: "God was forming Christ in me. ...
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Jake Serd of Centrill 74 Entertainment and 94.9 K-Rock (WRHK) recently conducted an interview with KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what he would attribute KORN's longevity to: Munky: "I think [it's] just the chemistry and the creative stream that we have together. ...
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KORN played a brand new song called "Rotting In Vain" live for the first time during their concert on July 16 at the Chicago Open Air festival at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. Professionally filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. KORN frontman Jonathan Davis told Rolling Stone about the ...
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According to The Pulse Of Radio, KORN guitarists Brian "Head" Welch and James "Munky" Shaffer told Alternative Press in a new interview that they're interested in touring with some of the younger, up-and-coming bands on the heavy rock scene. Welch said: "I would love like to do something next year… in the next couple years, ...
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In a brand new interview with Fangoria, ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante spoke about how the importance of making music videos has changed in the three decades since the band's inception. He said: "I don't think there is that real urgency to do a video in the way it once was. I mean, when ...
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FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares will celebrate his 50th birthday by playing two shows with his long-running ASESINO project in early September. The dates are as follows: Sep. 09 - Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA Sep. 10 - Whisky A Go Go - West Hollywood, CA Says Dino: "I can't believe I'm turning ...
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KORN's Ryan Valdez-directed video for the song "Insane" can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, "The Serenity Of Suffering", which will be released on October 21. The follow-up to 2013's "The Paradigm Shift" was helmed by Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, ...
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KORN's new song "Insane" can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, "The Serenity Of Suffering", which will be released on October 21. The follow-up to 2013's "The Paradigm Shift" was helmed by Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, MASTODON and RUSH, among ...
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A 15-second preview of the new KORN song "Insane" is available below. The full track will be premiered this Sunday, August 21 on the BBC Radio 1 "Rock Show" with Daniel P. Carter. "Insane" is taken from KORN's new album, "The Serenity Of Suffering", which will be released on October 21. The follow-up to 2013's ...
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"Caught Up In The Gears Of Application", the new album from former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo's SUPERJOINT RITUAL project — now known simply as SUPERJOINT for legal reasons — will be released on November 11 via Anselmo's Housecore record label. The disc was recorded at Philip's New Orleans-area studio, Nodferatu's Lair. Philip ...
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KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer spoke to The Telegraph about the band's new album, "The Serenity Of Suffering", set for release in October. "It's more about the songs and kind of stripped down," he said. "I think it definitely had us thinking more about keeping some of these elements that we used to ...
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In a brand new interview with The Arizona Republic, KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch — a former drug addict and reformed Christian — spoke about what it was like rejoining the band in early 2013, eight years after first leaving the group. "If it was a crazy party still, I would not have ...
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Demon Records will release a new must-have GILLAN vinyl boxset on September 23. "The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982" will feature five albums — seven LPs in total — including "Mr. Universe" (1979), "Glory Road" (1980; 2 LPs, with bonus disc "For Gillan Fans Only"), "Future Shock" (1981), "Double Trouble" (1981; 2 LPs) and "Magic" (1982). A ...
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Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release the ultimate collectors' piece, the "25 Years Of Musical Deviance" box set, on July 29 via Nuclear Blast. The set is limited to 1,000 units worldwide; only 585 will be available in the U.S. exclusively via the Nuclear Blast webshop. An "unboxing" video for "25 Years ...
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Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of KORN's video for the song "Rotting In Vain", starring Tommy Flanagan (of "Sons Of Anarchy" and "Gladiator" fame) can be seen below. Of the track, frontman Jonathan Davis told Rolling Stone: "'Rotting In Vain' was written about being in that black place, being in situations that I ...
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KORN drummer Ray Luzier married his longtime girlfriend, model Aspen Brandy Lea, on June 29. The nuptials took place at the Keys Creek Lavender Farm in Valley Center, California in a "totally private" ceremony attended only by the couple's two sons, five-year-old Hudson Ray and sixteen-month-old Beck Jagger. Luzier, who was raised just outside Pittsburgh, ...
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PIERCE THE VEIL's music video for the song "Circles" can be seen below. The clip was directed by Drew Russ who helmed the band's 2012 "King For A Day" video that has accumulated more than 70 million YouTube views. The video's concept is loosely based on the 1991 feature film "Nothing But Trouble" that was ...
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KORN will release its new album, "The Serenity Of Suffering", on October 21 via Roadrunner. The follow-up to 2013's "The Paradigm Shift" was helmed by Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, MASTODON and RUSH, among others. The CD features a guest appearance by SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor on ...
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A teaser for "Rotting In Vain", the brand new video from KORN, is available below. The full clip will make its online debut on Friday, July 22. KORN fans got an unexpected surprise on Saturday night (July 16) during the band's set at the Chicago Open Air festival in Bridgeview, Illinois. The group debuted "Rotting ...
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A 29-year-old man died of injuries he sustained in a fall during the Chicago Open Air festival. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the man, identified as Robert Smucz, was watching the concert on the mezzanine level of Toyota Park in Bridgeview just after 10 p.m. on Friday, July 15 when he fell. He ...
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KORN played a brand new song called "Rotting In Vain" live for the first time during their concert Saturday (July 16) at the Chicago Open Air festival at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below. An official stream of the studio version of "Rotting In Vain" will ...
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Demon Records has announced the release of a new must-have GILLAN vinyl boxset on September 23. "The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982" will feature five albums — seven LPs in total — including "Mr. Universe" (1979), "Glory Road" (1980; 2 LPs, with bonus disc "For Gillan Fans Only"), "Future Shock" (1981), "Double Trouble" (1981; 2 LPs) and ...
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Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will embark on a North American headlining tour in October. Support on the trek will come from U.S. metallers HIGH ON FIRE. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale for select dates (denoted by *) will begin on Wednesday, July 20 at 10:00 a.m. and end on Thursday, July 21 at 10:00 p.m. ...
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ALICE IN CHAINS vocalist William DuVall has offered an update on the two separate documentaries that he has been producing and directing for the last few years. Regarding the first one, called "All Alone Together: Neon Christ And Atlanta Hardcore", about Atlanta's hardcore punk scene, which DuVall was a part of back when it first ...
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Former PANTERA and current DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo's SUPERJOINT RITUAL project — now known simply as SUPERJOINT for legal reasons — has set "Caught Up In The Gears Of Application" as the title of its new album, due later in the year through Anselmo's Housecore record label. The disc was apparently recorded at Philip's New ...
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Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley was the first guest on KFM-BFM Radio's new music series called "Origins". You can now watch video footage of his appearance below. Asked if it was true that he served as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix at the guitar legend's last concert in New York prior to his death, Ace ...
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The official video for the song "Apage Satana" from Greek extreme metallers ROTTING CHRIST can be seen below. The clip was directed and produced by Jon Simvonis (Magnum Production Studios), who previously worked with the band on the "666" video. Commented ROTTING CHRIST frontman Sakis Tolis: "Dear friends, following a string of lyric videos specifically ...
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Legendary MERCYFUL FATE axeman Hank Shermann, who played guitar for VOLBEAT on the latter band's 2012 U.S. tour, says that MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine did not allow King Diamond to perform with VOLBEAT during that year's Gigantour. When the MEGADETH-headlined Gigantour hit King's adopted hometown of Dallas, Texas four years ago, VOLBEAT asked King, a ...
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