NASUM drummer Anders Jakobson has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "Today I got a very appreciated package from Denmark with NASUM's three shows from Japan January 2004 on CD. Our Danish sound engineer Bo Lund has really taken his time sending me these CDs but, boy, was it worth the ...
Swedish "old-school death metal" band RIBSPREADER have posted the following message on their official web site: "Due to severe alcoholism, even severer (we know that's not a word) mental issues and the lack of a unemployed drummer, RIBSPREADER was shot six times in the head yesterday. There were hopes for only having to use one ...
Vancouver-based 604 Records has announced they have entered into an agreement with MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee, whose new solo album, "Tommyland: The Ride", will be distributed through Universal Music Canada on August 9, 2005. In making this announcement Tuesday, 604's Jonathan Simkin noted, "604 Records is proud to have an artist like Tommy Lee ...
SYSTEM OF A DOWN have selected "Question!" as the second single off their latest CD, "Mezmerize". According to MTV.com, there's no word yet on "Question!" video plans or whether SYSTEM will release a third single from "Mezmerize" or wait until the album's second part, "Hypnotize", hits stores in late fall. Although fans have to wait ...
TacomaScene.com, in conjunction with Robb's Metal Works of San Antonio, Texas, is preparing to present WayneFest USA, a heavy metal music festival in honor of fallen metal master David Wayne of METAL CHURCH, REVEREND, WAYNE and DAVID WAYNE'S METAL CHURCH. The event is scheduled to be held in San Antonio, Texas, Friday and Saturday, May ...
RATT frontman Jizzy Pearl is currently travelling all over the country on the Rock Never Stops tour, also featuring QUIET RIOT, FIREHOUSE, and headliners CINDERELLA. An excerpt from his tour diary, as posted on the Metal Sludge web site, follows: "Steven Adler [ex-GUNS N' ROSES drummer and Pearl's former ADLER'S APPETITE bandmate] showed ...
According to RollingStone.com, former STATIC-X guitarist Tripp Eisen — born Tod Rex Salvador — was arraigned last Friday (June 24) and will spend his fortieth birthday today at the Intake Release Center for Men in Santa Ana, California, where he is being held without bail. He was arrested in Orange County on February 10 on ...
Vancouver-based rock singer BIF NAKED has covered METALLICA's "Nothing Else Matters" on her latest disc, the just-released "Superbeautifulmonster", available on her own indie label, Her Royal Majesty's Records. Listen to her version of the METALLICA classic on the media player at this location ("Nothing Else Matters" is track No. 6 on the "Superbeautifulmonster" ...
Smog Veil Records has announced U.S. and Canadian tour dates for THOR. The band will tour in support of the new album, entitled "Thor against the World", and retrospective DVD, entitled "An-THOR-logy", both set for release on July 12, 2005. Jon Mikl Thor — a rock music, film and bodybuilding legend (Mr. America and Mr. ...
MESHUGGAH's video for the track "Shed" is available for streaming at MTV.com. "Shed" comes off the Swedish experimental extreme metallers' latest album, "Catch 33" which sold 6,954 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 170 on The Billboard 200 chart. The follow-up to 2002's ...
