Ashley Brown of The Kansas City Star reports: For the second year SLAYER has been nominated for a Grammy in the best metal performance category. It goes to the ceremony, according to guitarist Kerry King, if only for the courtesy booze. "We went for the parties with no intention of winning," he says. ...
New Orleans sludge-meisters EYEHATEGOD have lined up two hometown shows during Mardi Gras: Feb. 08 - The Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans, LA Feb. 10 - The Bar - Metairie, LA EYEHATEGOD recently re-released its ultra-rare "99 Miles of Bad Road" seven-inch on CD through Canada's Moshpit Tragedy Records. The CD features re-mastered demo recordings ...
TESTAMENT, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, SADUS and NECROPHAGIST are among the confirmed bands for the California Metal Fest, set to take place March 31 – April 1 at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: Saturday, March 31: TESTAMENT FLOTSAM AND JETSAM SADUS ANIMOSITY SEVERED SAVIOR ABIGAIL ...
"Empty Heart, Loaded Gun", the debut album from RE:IGNITION — the San Francisco Bay Area band which features in its ranks SKINLAB members Steev Esquivel (guitar) and Snake (bass) — was the No. 1 most added release on the CMJ Loud chart this week, with 121 adds, and No. 2 most added on the FMQB ...
According to Markus Rutten of www.sounds2move.de, Norway's THEATRE OF TRAGEDY has cancelled its appearance at the upcoming Metal Female Voices Fest V, set to take place Saturday, October 20, 2007 at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium. Replacing them on the bill will be the Dutch "dark metal" outfit AUTUMN. Also newly added to the ...
SAVATAGE/TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA guitarist Chris Caffery will release his new solo album, "Pins & Needles", in Europe on March 23 via Metal Heaven Records. Release dates for the U.S. and other territories will be announced soon. "Pins & Needles" track listing: 01. Pins & Needles 02. Sixty-Six 03. Torment 04. Walls 05. YGBFKM 06. Sad 07. ...
Vocalist Wade Black of the reactivated classic Florida metallers CRIMSON GLORY has commented on the band's split with original singer Midnight and their future plans, including two live dates in Florida in March. CRIMSON GLORY parted ways with Midnight (real name: John Patrick McDonald Jr.) last month following the revelation that Midnight was ...
Finnish melodic metallers STRATOVARIUS have announced the following dates: May 22 - Osaka, JPN @ Big Cat May 24 - Tokyo, JPN @ Liquid Room May 25 - Tokyo, JPN @ Liquid Room (Finland Fest) Jul. 14-15 - Vizovice, CZR @ Masters of Rock Aug. 2-4 - Wacken, GER @ Wacken Open Air STRATOVARIUS mainman/guitarist ...
BLABBERMOUTH.NET spoke to singer Joey Belladonna on Wednesday, January 31 about his departure from ANTHRAX and his future plans. A transcript of the chat follows: Q: Scott Ian [ANTHRAX guitarist] said in his statement that was released on January 24 that ANTHRAX was offered a direct-support slot on a major tour and that ...
