Veteran San Francisco Bay Area melodic metallers VICIOUS RUMORS have set "Immortal" as the title of their forthcoming studio album, tentatively due in late 2003. Among the tracks set to appear on the CD are "Poveglia", "Broken Wings", "Fight" and "Broken Wings". Check out short MP3 clips at this location. VICIOUS RUMORS have ...
Posted in: News
Los Angeles-based BLUEBIRD, featuring former AMEN guitarist Paul Figueroa, have had musical equipment stolen from their tour van while touring the U.K. with HELL IS FOR HEROES. The band's van was reportedly broken into in Leeds on Monday night (April 28) and over $8,000 worth of instruments was removed. The band will be continuing the ...
Posted in: News
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Zakk Wylde will be making an in-store appearance at Slipped Disc Records in Valley Stream, New York on Sunday, May 11 at 6:00 p.m. BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's March 29 show in Ventura, California was filmed for the group's upcoming live DVD, "Broozed, Boozed & Broken-Boned", tentatively due in June. While ...
Posted in: News
SINS OF A DIVINE MOTHER, the new band featuring former BANG TANGO bassist Kyle Kyle, have posted four full-length MP3's via their MP3.com web site at this location. The tracks available for download are as follows: 01. Tick 02. My Last Breath 03. Complicate Me 04. Broken ...
Posted in: News
"With trembling hands you'll beg for mercy / I'll show you none," roars LAMB OF GOD front man Randy Blythe in "Purified". It's a fitting battle cry for the sophomore release from the Richmond, Va. quintet, for "As The Palaces Burn" — with points docked only for brevity (three years yields just 38 minutes?) — ...
Posted in: CD Reviews
Former BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd has completed work on his debut solo album, titled "You Made Me". The CD, which took three months to complete, was recorded in Los Angeles with Chris Johnson producing and Rob Chiarelli mixing. The complete track listing for "You Made Me" is as follows: 01. Afraid 02. Blast 03. Broken ...
Posted in: News
Vancouver police are being sued for beating two men outside the cancelled Nov. 7 GUNS N' ROSES concert, according to Canada.com. Lawyer Phil Rankin was planning to file a writ in B.C. Supreme Court Friday (April 25) on behalf of Robert Parent, 40, and Detlef Schroeder, 52. In November, both men filed formal police complaints ...
Posted in: News
Former STABBING WESTWARD keyboardist/programmer Walter Flakus has joined the reunited THE CLAY PEOPLE, according to www.stabbingwestward.com. "I wanted to let you know that I'm diving back into the pool," Flakus wrote in a message posted on the site. "It's funny that I would end up in Albany. Back in 1994, fellow industrial band, ...
Posted in: News
Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION have set the tentative track listing for their new album, "Metal Discharge", due in late September through Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2001's "The Antichrist" -will contain the following cuts: 01. The Ravenous Beast 02. Mortal Remains 03. Metal Discharge 04. Savage Symphony of Terror 05. Made To Be Broken ...
Posted in: News
Former SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph has finally broken his silence regarding the real reason he left the group in December 2001 (he has since been replaced by his predecessor in the band, original SLAYER skinsman Dave Lombardo). An official press release issued by the SLAYER camp had listed a chronic elbow injury as ...
Posted in: News
"Celebrity Justice" spoke with Sharon Osbourne after she was allegedly punched by Renee Tab, a 26-year-old who works at the mighty ICM talent agency in Hollywood. Sharon was asked how hubby Ozzy Osbourne reacted to the incident, "My husband is a lover, not a fighter," she said. "And he's always had this saying — violence ...
Posted in: News
Sharon Osbourne is set to appear on the television show "Celebrity Justice" Tuesday (April 15), according to MTV.com, to tell her version of how an altercation with a talent agent left her with a fist-size bruise on the left side of her face. "I honestly thought my jaw was broken," Osbourne says on the program. ...
Posted in: News
TURBONEGRO frontman Hank Von Helvete has issued a statement addressing the March 30 incident in New York when he was bottled off stage, leaving him hospitalized. Von Helvete's statement reads as follows: "Dear Fans, Friends and Turbojugends. "As you surely know, the US tour is now over, and I'm back home in Oslo ...
Posted in: News
New Jersey-based quintet GOD FORBID have finally broken their silence regarding the status of their singer, Byron Davis. Davis was previously rumored to have left the group just as they were preparing to enter the studio to begin work on the follow-up to their critically acclaimed Century Media debut, "Determination". "In an effort to dispel ...
Posted in: News
BIOHAZARD frontman Evan Seinfeld has once again hit out at the group's current record label, Sanctuary Records, for their failure to properly promote the group's albums, saying that "our record company sucks" and claiming that "they don't fucking do any marketing, any promotion" for any of their bands. When asked by RockConfidential.com in a recent ...
Posted in: News
A year after the band's surprising breakup at the end of a respectable 20-year career that yielded several platinum and gold albums, former MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has broken his silence and addressed his fans via a posting to the band's official web site, www.megadeth.com. Mustaine's message reads as follows: "Droogies, well it ...
Posted in: News
IRON MAIDEN have finished mastering the much-anticipated follow-up to 2000's "Brave New World", due later in the year through Sony/Columbia Records. The following is producer Kevin Shirley's latest posting to his official web site: "Woah - New York is such a fun city and now I'm in 'clear air chop' on a very bumpy teeth-rattling ...
Posted in: News
Reunited Danish thrashers INVOCATOR have set "Through The Flesh To The Soul" as the title for their fourth full-length album, tentatively due in early October through Italy's Scarlet Records. The CD — the group's first in eight years — features cover artwork by Chad Michael Ward (DARKANE, GRIEF OF EMERALD, etc.) and includes a guest ...
Posted in: News
Eight months after nearly losing their lives in a severe tractor trailer accident, CANDIRIA will make a triumphant return to the New York stage May 5. "We chose the venue where CANDIRIA got its start, the club with the most history... CBGB's," says CANDIRIA bassist Mike MacIvor. "This is like the beginning of Phase Two ...
Posted in: News
The following message was posted on the official DREAM THEATER web site, www.dreamtheater.net: "Someone has been out on the streets and in bars in New York City claiming to be [DREAM THEATER drummer] Mike Portnoy. This person apparently knew a lot of Mike's intimate business and family details, and as such, managed to ...
Posted in: News
THE GATHERING's long-awaited new full-length album, "Souvenirs", is scheduled for a May 6 American release through The End Records. "Souvenirs" was released in most of Europe on Feb. 24 through the group's own Psychonaut Records. The full track listing for the CD is as follows: 01. These Good People 02. Even the Spirits are Afraid ...
Posted in: News
Norway's SATYRICON have posted the following tour update via their official web site at www.satyricon.no: "Altogether Switzerland and Austria were more exciting than we expected. These places are not exactly fantastic when it comes to metal despite CELTIC FROST coming from Switzerland, but it was nice. Graz being for sure the most enjoyable ...
Posted in: News
VOIVOD fans hoping for a reunion of the band's original — and most celebrated — lineup are unlikely to get their wish, according to drummer Michel Langevin (a.k.a. Away). "Unfortunately we don't really get along with [original bassist] Blacky," Langevin told Metal Update. "He is the one who will never be back in the fold. ...
Posted in: News
Former BANG TANGO bassist Kyle Kyle has resurfaced in a new band called SINS OF A DIVINE MOTHER. The group, who recently launched their official web site at this location, are currently offering MP3 clips of their four-song demo. The tracks available for download are as follows: 01. Tick 02. My Last Breath ...
Posted in: News
FOR MY PAIN is the new Finnish "goth metal" supergroup featuring Tuomas Holopainen (NIGHTWISH) on keyboards, Altti Veteläinen (ex-ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW) on bass, Lauri Tuohimaa (EMBRAZE) on guitar, Olli-Pekka Törrö (ex-ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW) on guitar, Juha Kylmänen (REFLECTION) on vocals, and Petri Sankala (ex-ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW) on drums, have posted the cover ...
Posted in: News
SUPERJOINT RITUAL, MESHUGGAH, THE HAUNTED, SUFFOCATION and LAMB OF GOD are among the artists scheduled to appear at this year's New England Metal And Hardcore Festival, set to take place on May 16-17 at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. The compete lineup for the fesatival is as follows: Friday, May 16 (3:00 p.m. doors): OPETH ...
Posted in: News
Reunited Danish thrashers INVOCATOR have finished mixing their as-yet-untitled fourth full-length album, due before the summer through Italy's Scarlet Records. According to the band, "We've mixed 11 songs in 5 days, and the album is now ready to be mastered and edited. John and Asmus from SACRIFICIAL + Tommy from SLUGS did backing vocals on ...
Posted in: News
Julius Davis, an education programs manager at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, lost his job Friday, about two weeks after screening a video featuring Jimi Hendrix to a large group of fifth-graders, according to Cleveland's The Plain Dealer. Davis' dismissal came after one teacher complained to the Hall that the presentation ...
Posted in: News
In a recent interview with Germany's Voices From The Darkside, VOIVOD drummer and founding member Michel Langevin (a.k.a. Away) revealed the circumstances that led to the departure of previous bassist/vocalist Eric Forrest and the return to the group of original singer Denis Belanger (a.k.a. Snake). "[Eric] didn't leave the band actually," Away explained. "In early ...
Posted in: News
In his final interview, conducted less than three months before he died from an overdose of heroin and cocaine last April, ALICE IN CHAINS singer Layne Staley looked and sounded like a broken 34-year-old who had given up the will to live. "I know I'm dying," he rasped through missing teeth, according to a report ...
Posted in: News
