BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass) will tape an appearance on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" when they are in New York next month during their Ozzfest tour. The show will be broadcast on Saturday, July 23 at 10:00 p.m. As previously reported, Iommi and Butler will be the featured guests on the nationally ...
Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have set "The Sickness Within" as the title of their upcoming album, due on September 26 via SPV Records. HATESPHERE entered Jailhouse Studios with producer Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, PRETTY MAIDS) on June 5 to begin recording the follow-up to 2004's "Ballet of the Brute". Guitars and bass were recorded at Hansen Studios ...
Israel National Radio's Ben Bresky, host of "The Beat" music program, conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine prior to the band's appearance at the third annual Metalist Festival on June 22 on Palmachim Beach near Tel Aviv, Israel. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Israel National Radio: My first question is how ...
According to the web site of the B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City, British heavy metal legends SAXON are scheduled to perform at the venue on Tuesday November 1, 2005. Two days later, on Thursday November 3, 2005, SAXON are scheduled to play the Jaxx nightclub in West Springfield, Virginia. Support at the ...
After spending the last few years as a successful producer in Los Angeles, former ANTHRAX/ZAKK WYLDE/WHITE LION drummer Greg D'Angelo (or "GD3", as he's now known) has joined ANTIPRODUCT as permanent replacement for ailing drummer Simon the Gonk. ANTIPRODUCT are continuing work on recordings at Albert Studios (AC/DC, BREED 77) with famed producer Ray McVeigh ...
Legendary Swedish metallers ENTOMBED have commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2003's "Inferno", tentatively due in early 2006 via Threeman Recordings. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "The Fiery Father", "I Need Hell", "Radarslave" and "Burn the Flag". "Inferno" received its long-awaited U.S. release last August through Candlelight Records. The special ...
Legendary Swedish death metallers UNLEASHED will be filming their July 1 performance at the With Full Force festival in Leipzig, Germany for an upcoming full-length DVD, tentatively due next year. "Together with all the UNLEASHED warriors we'll make the loudest piece of video in the history of death metal," the band write on their web ...
According to Pause & Play, Geffen Records has set a November 29, 2005 release date for the long-awaited GUNS N' ROSES album, "Chinese Democracy". "Chinese Democracy" will feature the band's first new music since "Oh My God", the group's contribution to the soundtrack to the 1999 movie "End of Days". GUNS N' ROSES' ...
ILL NINO have hit back at former guitarist Marc Rizzo over his assertion that the band use backing tapes during their live performances and that he gave the group's lead singer, Cristian Machado, a "beatdown" after Machado allegedly "talked shit" about Rizzo's current band, SOULFLY, from the stage while on tour as the support act ...
According to Billboard.com, AUDIOSLAVE plan to make a quick return to the studio after their European festival tour ends July 10 in Dublin to record some of the material the band have been working on since the release of their sophomore album, "Out of Exile" (Interscope/Epic). "What we'd like to do is blur ...
