Few Spirits and Warner Music Artist Services have announced All Secrets Known, a new, limited-release bourbon distilled by Few Spirits master distiller Paul Hletko in collaboration with Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum-selling Seattle grunge pioneers ALICE IN CHAINS. Bottles feature a custom-designed label by artist Justin Helton. All Secrets Known (SRP: $75/750 ml), a nod to the ...
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Tye Trujillo, the 15-year-old son of METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo, played bass with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES this past Saturday night (October 5) at the SoCal Hoedown in San Pedro, California. He was filling in for regular SUICIDAL TENDENCIES bassist Ra Diaz, who was unable to make the gig for reasons that have not been disclosed. Earlier ...
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MÖTLEY CRÜE has released a 2019 music video for the "Dr. Feelgood" album song "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)", with additional footage from the band's biopic "The Dirt". Check it out below. "The Dirt", based on CRÜE's 2001 New York Times bestselling autobiography, debuted in March on Netflix. The film's stars, Douglas Booth (Nikki Sixx), "Game ...
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SOILWORK vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid recently spoke with Australia's Heavy magazine. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the "craziest" thing he's seen happen at one of his concerts: Björn: "There's a lot of wheelchair surfing nowadays. It's really awesome to see ...
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Professionally filmed video footage of SCORPIONS' entire October 4 performance at the Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil can be seen below. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Intro 02. Going Out With A Bang 03. Make It Real 04. The Zoo 05. Coast To Coast 06. Top Of The Bill ...
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MACHINE HEAD has announced the North American leg of its 25th-anniversary tour for the band's classic debut, "Burn My Eyes". The dates kick off in Phoenix on January 16, and continue across Texas, Florida, New York, Toronto, Chicago and Denver, wrapping up at the legendary Fox Theater in Oakland, California on February 21 and House ...
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Technical death metal veterans NILE will release their ninth studio album, "Vile Nilotic Rites", on November 1 via Nuclear Blast. The official lyric video for the disc's second single, the album's title track, can be seen below. Karl Sanders commented: "'Vile Nilotic Rites' was a depraved yet fun song to write and record. Now that ...
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LYNYRD SKYNYRD's founding bassist Larry "L.J." Junstrom, who was also a longtime member of 38 SPECIAL, has died. He was 70 years old. 38 SPECIAL broke the news of Junstrom's passing in a post on the band's Facebook page. "The Big Man on the Big Bass has left us," the post reads. "He rocked arenas ...
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Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA will release their new album, "Quadra", in early 2020 via Nuclear Blast Records. After relentless touring for its previous opus, 2017's "Machine Messiah", SEPULTURA returned to Sweden's Fascination Street Studios to once again work with producer Jens Bogren. "Quadra" saw the bandmembers pushing their own mental and physical boundaries and has been ...
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STATIC-X will release a new album titled "Project Regeneration", featuring the last recordings of the band's late frontman Wayne Static, on May 29, 2020. The rest of the group's original lineup — bassist Tony Campos, drummer Ken Jay and guitarist Koichi Fukuda — will also be featured on the album and in the music videos, ...
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DISTURBED frontman David Draiman says that he "would be honored beyond words" if he could sing the U.S. national anthem at next year's Super Bowl. Super Bowl LIV will take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on February 2, 2020. Once again, the Super Bowl halftime show will not feature a rock band ...
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Prior to ALL THAT REMAINS's September 27 performance in Phoenix, Arizona, vocalist Phil Labonte spoke with Global AZ Media. The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On when to expect new music from the group: Phil: "We'll get done with this tour, and ...
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Members of RUSH, QUEEN, THE BEATLES, THE ROLLING STONES, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, WHITESNAKE and THE KINKS are among the musicians who reacted on social media to the passing of Ginger Baker. The legendary CREAM drummer died yesterday (October 6) at the age of 80. Baker's family posted a message to fans on Twitter, stating ...
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PRONG will release a new EP, "Age Of Defiance", on November 29. The five-track effort, which was produced by Chris Collier, will include two new studio songs, the title cut and "End Of Sanity", along with live recordings of three tracks: "Rude Awakening", "Cut-Rate" and "Another Worldly Device". A single, "The End Of Sanity", will ...
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Vivian Campbell has laughed off the "cash-grab" accusations leveled at his LAST IN LINE project, saying that the band is barely making ends meet while on the road. "You're talking about flying Southwest, staying at a Holiday Inn Express, driving in a... van and eating cheese sandwiches every day," he told
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German thrash metal veterans KREATOR played their first show with their new bass player, Frédéric Leclercq, Saturday night (October 5) in Santiago, Chile. Earlier on Saturday, Leclercq tweeted: "First show with @kreator in a few hours. It's a very important day for me, my career, but also for the band and for the fans. A ...
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METALLICA's social media has been updated with a link to the Metallicaxx.com web site featuring a countdown clock that is scheduled to hit zero Thursday (October 10) at 12:00 p.m. PT. Although no official information has been made available, fans are speculating that the band is preparing to announce some kind ...
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Guitarist George Lynch (DOKKEN, LYNCH MOB, KXM) recently spoke with Derek "Mr. Shred" Thomas of "Talking Shred". The full conversation can be seen below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On having to cancel his appearance with DOKKEN at this year's M3 Rock Festival after contracting pneumonia: George: "We're going to make up ...
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Morten Stützer, guitarist and founding member of Danish thrash metal veterans ARTILLERY, has died. He was only 57 years old. The surviving members of the band broke the news of Morten's passing in a Facebook post earlier today. They wrote: "Dear loyal friends and fans, it is with a heavy heart, a great deal of ...
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GHOST vocalist Tobias Forge recently spoke with Mark Strigl of the "Talking Metal" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether to expect additional GHOST songs featuring vocals by Papa Nihil, who is credited on the group's two newly released tracks ...
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Rob Zombie recently spoke with Australia's Heavy magazine about his new feature film, "3 From Hell". The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On revisiting the Firefly characters, who were originally featured in 2003's "House Of 1000 Corpses" and 2005's "The Devil's Rejects": ...
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MACHINE HEAD kicked off the first leg of its 25th-anniversary tour for the band's classic debut, "Burn My Eyes", Saturday night (October 5) in Freiburg, Germany. Building on the band's previous "An Evening With…" format, the "Burn My Eyes" anniversary show is described in a press release as "a three-hour musical extravaganza," comprised of two ...
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Legendary CREAM drummer Ginger Baker has died. He was 80 years old. After previously announcing that he was critically ill and asking fans to "please keep him in your prayers," his family said Ginger "passed away peacefully" on Sunday morning (October 6) at a hospital in the United Kingdom. "He was in no pain and ...
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SLAYER publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald has shot down suggestion that the short-term publicity created by Kendall Jenner being photographed wearing one of the group's t-shirts contributed in any meaningful way to the $10 million merchandise haul on the legendary thrash metal act's farewell tour. "As this is SLAYER's final tour, more fans ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of Vince Neil's October 3 performance at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user "asaf barlev"). Neil is continuing to tour the world with his backing group, which includes Dana Strum and Jeff Blando from SLAUGHTER, along with drummer Zoltan Chaney. Speaking to ...
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Several original FOREIGNER members joined guitarist Mick Jones and the current lineup of FOREIGNER on stage last night (Friday, October 4) as part of the "Double Vision: Then & Now" concert at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City in Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena. Drummer Dennis Elliott, keyboardist Al Greenwood, bassist Rick Wills ...
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Former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry says that fans can expect more new material from him, including "Christmas music." Perry's first solo album in more than two decades, "Traces", was released exactly a year ago — on October 5, 2018 — via Fantasy Records (a division of Concord Records/UMG). He credited his late girlfriend, psychologist Kellie ...
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The official lyric video for the song "We Were The Wild" from the legendary rock band ANGEL can be seen below. The track is taken fron ANGEL's comeback album, "Risen", which was released on October 4 via Cleopatra Records. The album has 17 solid tracks featuring 15 brand new songs written by original members Punky ...
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A one-minute video in which SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor discusses his favorite big-screen adaptations of Stephen King's work can be seen below. The clip is taken from the "Corey Taylor Collector's Edition" of the documentary "In Search Of Darkness", which will be released in November. Available for one month only, this unique ...
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British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have announced the cancelation of three European shows, as well as a concert in Tel Aviv, "due to time restraints concerning writing and pre-production" for the band's upcoming album. CRADLE OF FILTH said in a statement: "Having played literally all over the world this year, it is unfortunate that ...
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