Hugh Ochoa of Modern Guitars magazine recently conducted an interview with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Modern Guitars: What motivated you to record your new solo album, "Fused"? Tony Iommi: "Well, I just wanted to do another solo album. And basically, under SABBATH, we never ...
San Diego film company ZU33 is currently developing "Lords of Chaos", a fiction film based on true events in the Norwegian black metal music scene in the early 1990s. The project goes into pre-production in November, with physical production scheduled to begin in Februrary 2006. The screenplay was written by Hans Fjellestad, Ryan Page and ...
Veteran hard rockers RIOT will be performing at next year's Keep It True festival, set to take place April 8, 2006 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. This will be RIOT's first appearance in Germany in over five years and may turn out to be the only show that the band will play in the area ...
Former EVANESCENCE guitarist Ben Moody has teamed up with Lindsay Lohan for a song on her new album, "A Little More Personal", due on December 6. Moody produced Lohan's cover of Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen". "A Little More Personal" is the follow-up to Lindsay's debut album, "Speak", which came out last year. Moody has ...
Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with former RATT frontman Stephen Pearcy. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: Why did you leave RATT? Stephen: "You can perceive it as voluntary or involuntary, withdraw. It was an agreement or partnership that was sometimes honored and sometimes not. I ...
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Yesterday, we spent a very uneventful day-off in Cleveland. Stayed at a Radisson right across the street from Jacob's Field, where the Indians play. Country artist Keith Urban was playing at whatever enormo-arena also across the street, so ...
Iowa-based metal/hard rock act INDEX CASE, the first signing to Tim King (SOIL) and Rob Such's (TWELFTH GATE) Mortal Music/Platform Records (via Fontana/Universal distribution), have announced more tour dates for their current tour with AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE. Other supporting bands include DIECAST and BLEED THE SKY. Remaining dates are as follows: Nov. 05 - Columbus, ...
A full-length MP3 of a new GREEN CARNATION track, entitled "Alone", has been made available for download at this location (3.4 MB). The track comes off the Norwegian band's upcoming release, "The Acoustic Verses", due in North American on January 24, 2006 via The End Records. "The Acoustic Verses" finds the sextet successfully ...
The New Jersey-based quintet AGENTS OF MAN are currently preparing for a flurry of fall touring activity, which kicks off on November 12 with GOD FORBID and CANNAE, leading immediately into a month long trek with DANNY DIABLO and RINGWORM. The group recently completed a highly successful European tour alongside AS I LAY DYING, EVERGREEN ...
