This year's Louder Than Life festival, which was scheduled to take place September 28-30 at Champions Park in Lousville, Kentucky, has been canceled. According to the Courier Journal, a combination of heavy rain and around 25,000 fans during during Saturday's Bourbon & Beyond festival turned areas of the River Road park into mud ...
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SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers recently spoke with Two Doods Reviews. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's new single, "Get Up", the lyrics for which were inspired by bassist Eric Bass's battles with depression: Zach: "We started writing the same way that we always ...
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Corey Taylor has called STONE SOUR's 2010 album, "Audio Secrecy", the only "hiccup" of his career. The band's third full-length effort was recorded and produced by STONE SOUR and Nick Raskulinecz at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and was the group's last album to feature bassist Shawn Economaki. Speaking to Jamey Jasta of "The Jasta ...
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METALLICA, SLIPKNOT, SHINEDOWN and BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are among the featured artists on the soundtrack to WWE's upcoming video game "WWE 2K19". Interestingly, the songs were chosen by a host of WWE superstars themselves, bringing a variety to the selections that's as varied as the WWE roster. Various wrestlers, including AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna was interviewed by Terrie Carr for the latest edition of "Box Of Rock" on WDHA-FM 105.5 FM, the rock music station licensed to Dover and Morristown, New Jersey. You can now watch the chat below. Asked how he felt the first time he listened to a completed version of GODSMACK's latest ...
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Earlier this summer, the music world was dealt a huge loss with the untimely passing of musician Vinnie Paul Abbott. In addition to his renowned work as a founding member of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN, Abbott was most recently a part of the group HELLYEAH, which was set to perform at both Louder Than Life and ...
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Fan-filmed video footage of GODSMACK performing a cover version of the AC/DC classic "Highway To Hell", with a special guest appearance by SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers, on September 2 at the Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York can be seen below. GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna recently picked AC/DC's "Back In Black" ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna spoke to the WAAF radio station about how he and his bandmates are getting along on the 20th-anniversary of the release of the group's debut album. "Wisdom comes from experience — it comes from living, it comes from just kind of tredging your way through life," he said (see video below). ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna spoke to Cameron Buchholtz of Rock 100.5 The KATT about the band's decision to take a slightly different musical direction with its latest album, "When Legends Rise". "We wanted to expand a little bit more and try some different textures and colors and just some things that we haven't experimented with ...
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SHINEDOWN's new single, "Get Up", has quickly found its way into the hearts and minds of many people and for good reason — the moving, uplifting track offers hope and encouragement in the face of personal struggles, whatever they may be. For frontman Brent Smith, the song was born out of watching his friend, SHINEDOWN ...
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GODSMACK front man was recently interviewed by Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On their current co-headlining summer tour with SHINEDOWN: Sully: "Between us and SHINEDOWN, I really feel like we've put together a great ...
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HardDrive Radio's Lou Brutus conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna backstage at this year's Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether GODSMACK was nervous before releasing the "Bulletproof" single about how it was going to be received by ...
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Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith. You can watch the entire chat in two parts below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his early musical upbringing: Brent: "The thing was for me, when I was 10 years old, I kind of figured out exactly what I ...
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Backstage Axxess recently conducted an interview with GODSMACK drummer Shannon Larkin. You can now listen to the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the more melodic and polished sound of GODSMACK's latest album, "When Legends Rise": Shannon: "Turning 50 — all of us are 50 now — is ...
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Barbara Caserta of Linea Rock conducted an interview with SHINEDOWN members Brent Smith (vocals), Barry Kerch (drums) and Eric Bass (bass) on June 26 at the Santeria Social Club in Milan, Italy. You can now watch the chat below. Asked to comment on the recent passing of Vinnie Paul Abbott, Smith said: "The ...
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iRock Radio conducted an interview with GODSMACK guitarist Tony Rombola and drummer Shannon Larkin at this year's Rock On The Range festival, which took place last month in Columbus, Ohio. You can now watch the chat below. Speaking about GODSMACK's initial plans to celebrate the 20th-anniversary of the release of the band's debut album in ...
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Mindy Novotny of Milwaukee FM radio station 102.9 The Hog recently conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna. You can listen to the entire chat via the SoundCloud widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the band's new "When Legends Rise" studio album: Sully: "It's an expansion from what we've done ...
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In a recent interview with Mindy Novotny of Milwaukee radio station 102.9 The Hog, SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith spoke about the full-scale concept behind their latest studio album, "Attention Attention", which addresses a society both enabled and blinded by technology and the decline and rise of an individual in that society. "We can't write anything ...
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A massive music lineup led by NINE INCH NAILS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, GODSMACK and DEFTONES has been announced for the fifth annual Louder Than Life as the festival expands to three days — Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, and Sunday, September 30 — at Champions Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Louder Than Life features a selection ...
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Jay Ramone of Rock 100.5 The KATT conducted an interview with GODSMACK drummer Shannon Larkin at this year's Rocklahoma festival, which was held earlier in the month in Pryor, Oklahoma. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the four-year gap between 2014's "1000hp" album and this ...
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BAD WOLVES' debut album, "Disobey", bowed at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 chat with 19,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 17. The disc includes the group's massively successful cover of THE CRANBERRIES hit "Zombie". The track hit the Top 15 on the American rock radio chart and was No. 1 ...
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GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna and drummer Shannon Larkin were recently interviewed by 95 WIIL ROCK's "Tom & Emily Morning Show". You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Asked about the response to GODSMACK's latest album, "When Legends Rise", Sully said: "We're getting some really positive reactions so far. It's reacting ...
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Danish/American rock 'n' rollers VOLBEAT are planning to enter studio before the end of the year to begin recording their seventh album for a tentative 2019 release. The follow-up to "Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie" will mark the band's first full-length effort to feature bassist Kaspar Boye Larsen, who joined VOLBEAT too late to ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH singer Ivan Moody has introduced his own answer to Jimmy Kimmel's popular comedy bit "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets". In the six-minute video below, Moody can be seen reacting to trolling at its most acute by reading the comments that were posted below BLABBERMOUTH.NET's most recent FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
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On May 18, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Zoltan Bathory was interviewed by Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Seeing as the interview took place on the first anniversary of Chris Cornell's death, Zoltan was asked if he was musically influenced by SOUNDGARDEN. ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH drummer Jeremy Spencer was recently interviewed by Metal Wani. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the impending release of new album "And Justice For None", which was delayed for more than a year due to a legal dispute: Jeremy: "It's a ...
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New Zealand rock act LIKE A STORM will release its new album, "Catacombs", on June 22 via RED Music. The disc marks the first collection of new music from the band in three years since the release of "Awaken The Fire", which spawned the hit singles "Love The Way You Hate Me", "Become The Enemy", ...
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Australia's Heavy magazine recently conducted an interview with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Jason Hook. You can listen to the entire chat via the Spreaker widget below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has been up to of late: Jason: "We've been recently getting back out ...
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Knoxville, Tennessee rockers 10 YEARS have released the official music video for "Burnout", taken from the band's latest album, "(How To Live) As Ghosts". The clip was directed by Robert John Kley and filmed in a warehouse at Structure Exhibits in Las Vegas, Nevada. "'Burnout' is a song about having everything you've ever wanted in ...
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has released the official music video for the new song "Sham Pain", off the band's upcoming seventh studio album, "And Justice For None". According to guitarist Zoltan Bathory, the track is "a lyrical snapshot of probably the most chaotic, yet the biggest year of our career. So far, we've come out ...
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