Former KISS and current GRAND FUNK RAILROAD guitarist Bruce Kulick will host a livestream event later this month. Dubbed "Bruce Kulick Live In Las Vegas", the show will be filmed at the Marquee Club's Library inside the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and will see Kulick joined by his wife Lisa, as well ...
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OF MICE & MEN's fan-favorite single "Second & Sebring" has been certified gold by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America) for accumulating 500,000 certified units. The song appears on the band's self-titled debut, released by Rise Records in 2010, and is that which launched the band's meteoric rise in the metalcore scene. According to ...
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Los Angeles alternative metal band GEMINI SYNDROME has released the official music video for its new single, "Die With Me". The clip, which was directed and edited by Brian Cox, can be seen below. GEMINI SYNDROME vocalist Aaron Nordstrom stated about the song: "23, Shakespeare, The divine wedding of yin and yang… 'Die With Me' ...
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ALICE IN CHAINS frontman William DuVall has mourned the passing of Milford Graves, a pioneering jazz drummer most commonly associated with the free jazz movement. Graves died of congestive heart failure on February 12 at the age of 79. DuVall, who spent more than a decade working on a yet-to-be-released documentary about Graves, took to ...
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Los Angeles alternative metal band GEMINI SYNDROME has released the music video for "IDK". The track will be available to purchase and stream on Friday, January 22 via Another Century. GEMINI SYNDROME vocalist Aaron Nordstrom states: "'IDK' plays with the double entendre, 'I decay' and 'IDK' (I don't know) to illustrate the Voltaire quote, 'The ...
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Los Angeles alternative metal band GEMINI SYNDROME has released the music video for its new single "Reintegration" today via Another Century. The clip, directed by Brian Cox (BRING ME THE HORIZON, THE USED, STARSET), can be seen below. The track, which is the first release off the band's forthcoming full-length album, is also available to ...
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Eddie Van Halen's cause of death has been revealed. More than two months after the legendary VAN HALEN guitarist's passing, TMZ has obtained his death certificate, which reveals the immediate cause of death was a cerebrovascular event, such as a stroke. Pneumonia, the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome ...
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Los Angeles alternative metal band GEMINI SYNDROME has released a new single, "Reintegration", via Another Century. The band states: "'Reintegration' perfectly encapsulates the theme of the third and final chapter of our trilogy of albums. It's a fearless and transparent introduction to the idea of traversing death and being reborn; ultimately reintegrating with our true ...
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Drum-cam footage of ANTHRAX performing the song "Be All, End All" in 2018, with Jon Dette filling in for Charlie Benante, can be seen below. For the past few years, Benante has been forced to miss certain shows on the band's tour due to his continuing battle with carpal tunnel syndrome. Charlie told San Antonio ...
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DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci will release his second all-instrumental solo album, "Terminal Velocity", on all digital and streaming platforms on August 28 and on CD and vinyl on October 30 through The Orchard Music on his Sound Mind Music record label. "Terminal Velocity" was written and produced by Petrucci, recorded by James "Jimmy T" ...
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NICKELBACK frontman Chad Kroeger and guitarist Ryan Peake recently performed "Rockstar" in socially distanced fashion for a live video which has now been uploaded to the band's YouTube channel. You can check it out below. As previously reported, NICKELBACK drummer Daniel Adair is recovering from recent surgery for radial tunnel syndrome, a condition in which ...
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DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci will release his second solo album, "Terminal Velocity" in the fall via Sound Mind Music/The Orchard. The follow-up to 2005's "Suspended Animation" features guest musicians Mike Portnoy (SONS OF APOLLO, ex-DREAM THEATER) on drums and Dave LaRue (DIXIE DREGS) on bass. The effort marks the first time Petrucci and Portnoy ...
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Former DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy played drums on "Terminal Velocity", the upcoming solo album from DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci. Due in the fall, the disc also features Dave LaRue (DIXIE DREGS) on bass. Petrucci discussed his musical reunion with Portnoy during a lengthy chat with the official DREAM THEATER fan club. He said ...
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Former DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy played drums on "Terminal Velocity", the upcoming solo album from DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci. Due in the fall, the disc also features Dave LaRue (DIXIE DREGS) on bass. Portnoy revealed his involvement with "Terminal Velocity" in a social media post earlier today (Wednesday, July 1). He also shared ...
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Lenny Kravitz will chronicle the first 25 years of his life in the upcoming memoir, "Let Love Rule", which will be published on October 6 via the Henry Holt And Company imprint. "I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection," says Lenny. "I never understood that connection until I ...
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Former OF MICE & MEN frontman Austin Carlile has denied multiple claims of sexual misconduct, which were posted by an alleged victim on social media. The 32-year-old singer has been accused of sexually assaulting several women. The accuser took to her Facebook to detail the allegations and call out Alternative Press for not reporting over ...
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Former OF MICE & MEN frontman Austin Carlile says that the the "Black Lives Matter" movement won't achieve its goal "until the world sees, accepts and walks in true love, which is only found in Jesus." Carlile — who became a born-again Christian in 2016 — took to social media on Thursday (June 4) to ...
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NICKELBACK bassist Mike Kroeger says that it's a "compliment" being compared to METALLICA. Kroeger addressed the musical similarity between the two acts just days after ALL THAT REMAINS frontman Phil Labonte said in an interview on the "Breaking The Ice" podcast that most of the songs on METALLICA's "Load" and "Reload" LPs are sonically very ...
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NICKELBACK frontman Chad Kroeger and guitarist Ryan Peake recently performed "How You Remind Me" in socially distanced fashion for a live video which has now been uploaded to the band's YouTube channel. You can check it out below. Asked by SOCAN how he wrote something as "crazy catchy" as "How You Remind Me", Kroeger said: ...
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OPETH frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt will score the upcoming Netflix series "Clark". The six-episode drama series about the Swedish criminal Clark Olofsson will be directed by Jonas Åkerlund, whose visually driven signature style often pushes the boundaries of the status quo. Production company is Scandinavian Content Group. Olofsson will be portrayed by Bill Skarsgård, who is ...
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NICKELBACK drummer Daniel Adair is recovering from a recent surgery for radial tunnel syndrome. Adair, who has played with NICKELBACK for 15 years, revealed the condition — in which the radial nerve is pinched when passing through a tunnel near the elbow — in a social media post earlier today. He wrote: "I've been off ...
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It's April, and we're halfway through Parkinson's Awareness Month, an effort designed to focus on education about the disease. Ozzy Osbourne, who revealed his own Parkinson's diagnosis in January, is donating a portion of proceeds from his tour merchandise all month to Keep Memory Alive to support enhanced treatment and ultimately cures for patients and ...
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Ozzy Osbourne has told Classic Rock magazine that he has no explanation for his continued success following the release of his new studio album, "Ordinary Man". "I can't answer the question because I don't know it," he said. "I must be the luckiest man in the world. It's been 10 years ...
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Ozzy Osbourne is donating 10 percent of the profits from his tour merchandise to The Michael J. Fox Foundation For Parkinson's Research, which is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through funded research and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson's today. "Past tours exclusive merch last bits of ...
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In an interview with Entertainment Tonight last week, Ozzy Osbourne's daughter Kelly said he had one stem-cell treatment in Panama a few weeks ago as he battles Parkinson's disease. "Seeing, after one treatment of stem cell, what has happened and the progress that he's made is mind-blowing," Kelly told Entertainment Tonight. ...
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Ozzy Osbourne has been forced to cancel his trip to Switzerland to see a professor who specializes in people's immune systems. The legendary heavy metal vocalist, who revealed earlier this year that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, was scheduled to travel in April for radical treatment to help him live with his progressive ...
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Ozzy Osbourne and the rest of his family are practicing social distancing amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On Thursday (March 26), Kelly Osbourne, the 35-year-old daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, shared a photo of her family sitting around a pool several feet apart from each other whole wearing face masks and gloves. She wrote ...
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Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of legendary BLACK SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne, has urged his fans to do their part in keeping everybody healthy while they are at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. One-third of Americans have been ordered to stay home as much as possible in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus. ...
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A month after announcing that he had Parkinson's disease during an appearance on "Good Morning America", Ozzy Osbourne has now revealed to the Los Angeles Times that it was actually first diagnosed back in 2003. "I'm not dying from Parkinson's. I've been working with it most of my life," the legendary ...
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GREY DAZE, Chester Bennington's pre-LINKIN PARK band, will release "Amends", featuring newly recorded music with remastered vocals from the group's long out-of-print and largely undiscovered catalog, on April 10 via Loma Vista Recordings. Accompanying the album announcement, GREY DAZE has simultaneously released a second single from the 11-song collection, "Sickness". A video for the track ...
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