P.O.D. are reportedly in discussions with producer Ross Robinson (SLIPKNOT, KORN, LIMP BIZKIT) about collaborating on the group's next studio album, tentatively due on November 4 through Atlantic Records. The forthcoming album will be the group's first since the departure of guitarist Marcos Curiel, who has been replaced with former LIVING SACRIFICE axeman Jason Truby. ...
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KORN vocalist Jonathan Davis says that he is looking forward to seeing second-stage headliners CRADLE OF FILTH at this year's Ozzfest. "I love that band," Davis said. "It's some English grind-core, death metal. It's just funny they all look like vampires, and I love their T-shirts. Like, they have nuns masturbating and 'Jesus Is A ...
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KORN's David Silveria is in the studio laying down drum tracks for the follow-up to "Untouchables", frontman Jonathan Davis revealed during an online chat with fans at the Korn.com web site. "We wanted to get back into the studio to do the album we wanted to do," Davis said. " 'Untouchables' was great, but it ...
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LIMP BIZKIT are seeking a second guitarist to join the band on their forthcoming world tour, and they would like it if one talented player came from Japan. A video of LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst inviting Japanese guitarists to audition for the group has been posted online at this location. For more ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna is confident that the group's new album, "Faceless" (due April 8 through Republic/Universal Records), will help the band build upon the momentum created through the quadruple-platinum success of the group's debut and the double-platinum performance of its follow-up, "Awake". "Nobody's doing what we're doing on this record, I guarantee it," Erna ...
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KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, SUM 41, and AVRIL LAVIGNE have signed on to take part in MTV's METALLICA "mtvICON" special, according to Billboard. As previously reported, the event, to be broadcast May 6 by the music network, will find artists performing METALLICA's songs and saluting the group's influential career. METALLICA will perform during the finale of ...
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LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Well, back here in L.A. headed to the studio. 'Wrestlemania' was kinda ill. There were a lot of fucking people there, that's for sure. We played 'Rollin'' and 'Crack Addict'. Our new guitarist, Mike Smith, ripped it hard!! Also ...
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A full-length studio version of LIMP BIZKIT's "Crack Addict", was premiered during last night's "WrestleMania XIX", which also featured a live performance by the band. Check out the MP3 file at this location (size: 6.21 MB). Also available for download is a live version of "Crack Addict", as performed on "WrestleMania XIX" (featuring ...
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LIMP BIZKIT will be utilizing the services of KORN guitarist Head and former SNOT axeman Mike Smith during their appearance at "WrestleMania XIX" in Seattle, Washington on March 30. The band will perform the track "Crack Addict" from their forthcoming album and an undisclosed "surprise" song, according to the latest posting from LIMP BIZKIT frontman ...
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SUM 41, WEEZER, JA RULE with SEVENDUST, KORN and KID ROCK are rumored to be among the performers on MTV's "mtvICON: Metallica", the music tribute to the San Francisco metal pioneers, which is set to premiere Tuesday, May 6 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The show will be taped before a live audience in Los Angeles ...
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THE OFFSPRING drummer Ron Welty has announced that he has quit the band. In a statement on the band's web site, the drummer explained: "After more than 15 great years with THE OFFSPRING, I've decided to leave to devote all my energies to a new project called STEADY GROUND. I wish Dexter, Noodles and Greg ...
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KORN frontman Jonathan Davis believes significant sales of the band's last album, "Untouchables", were lost to piracy, and he vows to do something about it. "We got so fucked on our last one — it leaked four months early," he says. "[Next] time there will be no CD going out before release. We're not going ...
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People magazine reports that a member of the KORN entourage — possibly someone in the band — said or did something that annoyed Kelly Osbourne at a late-night New York City bash thrown by Blender magazine on Feb. 22 at Manhattan's Wye bar. Eyewitnesses say a friend of Kelly's then shoved the offender away, sparking ...
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AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE have set "Just For the Record" as the tentative title for their next studio effort, due later in the year through American Recordings. Among the tracks set to appear on the effort are: 01. Average Everyday Atrocity 02. Gone Wrong 03. March 04. Our Only Way Out 05. The Point of Getting ...
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According to the official Ozzfest newsletter, TRUST COMPANY — who were previously set to co-headline the second stage with CRADLE OF FILTH — have now been added to the main stage at this summer's traveling festival. As a result, Montreal's VOIVOD will go on right before second-stage headliners CRADLE OF FILTH at every show on ...
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KORN's as-yet-untitled follow-up to "Untouchables" will be a self-produced effort, according to singer Jonathan Davis, who told the Los Angeles Times recently that the change in the group's approach "is really cool. Don't have someone outside coming over to tell us what we need to do. It's the fastest we've ever worked — three weeks ...
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A Boston Phoenix article spotlighting the dwindling sales numbers for many of modern metal's biggest acts has been posted online at this location. Author Sean Richardson writes, "The 2002 numbers are in, and it's official: last year was a bad one for the music industry in terms of sales. And it was simply ...
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MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen has confessed that he has never heard a LIMP BIZKIT song, despite recording a track for their new album "Bipolar". "I've never heard a LIMP BIZKIT song," Jourgensen told Britain's Metal Hammer. "I'm doing a track on the album because I met Fred Durst and he offered to do my back ...
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Producer Ross Robinson (LIMP BIZKIT, KORN, SLIPKNOT) has officially signed THE CURE to a three-album deal with his ARTISTdirect Records imprint, I AM. The band and Robinson are expected to begin work in London in July on a new album. "THE CURE has been my favorite band for years and years," Robinson said in a ...
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KORN won a Grammy in the "Best Metal Performance" category at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, held last night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Bakersfield, California quintet were honored for the track "Here To Stay" off their most recent Epic/Immortal album, "Untouchables". FOO FIGHTERS took home a Grammy for "Best Hard ...
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Several photos of LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst walking to his car on Madison Avenue in New York City on Friday, Feb. 21 have been posted online at this location. Durst is in town overseeing the mixing process for LIMP BIZKIT's new album, "Bipolar", due on May 13 through Interscope Records. Veteran producer/mixer ...
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MARILYN MANSON says that he will have no problems performing in the daylight for Ozzfest 2003, as KORN and OZZY OSBOURNE have claims to the last two headlining spots. "It just turns things into something new," Manson said. "People expect such gloominess and gothic, dark pre-conceptions of what we are, but no one person can ...
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KORN frontman Jonathan Davis has written ten songs for the follow-up to last year's "Untouchables" and plans for the band to co-produce the forthcoming album. However, Davis says he's still unsure of its direction. "Can't really say yet," he said. "I'll know once I get digging into it. It's basically all about us coming together." ...
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Despite having been called "has-beens" and "just too fucking gay from the word go" by Sharon Osbourne in a Rolling Stone article last fall, KORN are confidently pressing ahead with their decision to tour this summer under the Ozzfest banner. "She started rumors about us, but that is just how she is," Jonathan Davis said ...
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MARILYN MANSON will direct the video to "mOBSCENE", the first single from the group's upcoming "The Golden Age of Grotesque" CD. The clip will feature "a giant Victrola, painting an elephant black, [and] setting pianos on fire," the singer told Rolling Stone. MANSON will spend much of the summer promoting "…Grotesque" on the road alongside ...
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Jonathan Davis, lead singer of the Grammy-nominated nu-metal band, KORN, has re-recorded the theme song for UPN's "The Twilight Zone". The new recording will make its debut on Wednesday, February 26, 9:00 p.m. –10:00 p.m. ET/PT on UPN opening an original episode featuring Eriq La Salle, Vivica A. Fox, Wayne Knight and Bonnie Sommerville. Davis ...
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KORN are currently working on their follow-up to "Untouchables", vocalist Jonathan Davis revealed revealed during the press conference Tuesday (Feb. 18) to announce the lineup for the eighth annual outing of Ozzfest. He also noted that fans on Ozzfest will probably be the first to hear all brand-new material from KORN. "Yeah we're working on ...
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LIMP BIZKIT are currently mixing their new album, "Bipolar", at Soundtrack studios in New York City with Andy Wallace (KORN, DISTURBED, NIRVANA, SEPULTURA). "We've finished the album and I've just arrived in [New York] to mix with Andy Wallace," Durst wrote on the band's official web site. "The name of the album is 'Bipolar' and ...
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MARILYN MANSON recently told Launch the reasoning behind the title of the group's upcoming album, "The Golden Age Of Grotesque". "The album is called 'The Golden Age Of The Grotesque' for a reason, because this is an age, an era, that I'm trying to bring about," he said. "Take people's minds off the horribleness of ...
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