UK singer Blaze Bayley (IRON MAIDEN, WOLFSBANE) and Lauren Harris — daughter of IRON MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris — were IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests earlier tonight (Friday, July 4) during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to a replay of the program at BBC.co.uk.
According to a posting on the Kiss-Related Recordings web site, KISS's forthcoming "best-of" collection, "Kiss Best - Kissology", will feature the following track listing:
MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the band's official web site:
"So, we go out on tour with Shawn [Drover, drummer] and Glen [Drover, now-former MEGADETH guitarist] and everything is documented, and we have James MacDonough [bassist] with us at the time too. Shawn ends up in the hospital the first night from vertigo and confesses that he has only played only two concerts before that night.
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Bassist Eric Brittingham of the multi-platinum '80s hard rock band CINDERELLA was a call-in guest on the June 28, 2008 edition of "The Classic Metal Show". Listen to the 25-minute interview below.
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Former IRON MAIDEN/WOLFSBANE vocalist Blaze Bayley was a call-in guest on the June 28, 2008 edition of "The Classic Metal Show". Listen to the 26-minute interview below.
Guitarist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) entered the studio at the end of April to begin recording his new solo album for an October release. According to Chris, "My new CD, 'House Of Insanity', is nearing the final days of tracking. I will break for the weekend and begin mixing on Monday. This will be the first full-length CD I have mixed alone!
Paul Cashmere of Undercover News reports that legendary Australian hard rockers AC/DC have three titles that they are considering for for their upcoming album, including "Black Ice" (which is said to be "a frontrunner at the moment") and "Runaway Train".
Danny Keenan of AC/DC's Australian record label Albert Music told Undercover News that a decision on the CD title will be made in the next week.
Atlanta's post-hardcore outfit NORMA JEAN — along with producer Ross Robinson (SLIPKNOT, THE CURE, DEFTONES) and engineer Ryan Boesch — have put the finishing touches on their fourth studio album, "The Anti Mother", due out August 5 on Solid State Records.
Austrian heavy 'zine Stormbringer.at conducted an interview with long-running California metallers LIZZY BORDEN after the band's June 28, 2008 concert at the Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany. Watch the 12-minute chat below.
This past weekend, LIZZY BORDEN became the first band to ever play two shows in one day at the Bang Your Head!!! festival.
Former EVANESCENCE guitarist/songwriter Ben Moody has taken his love for the music in a new direction; as head of the new, artist-centered label, FNR Records!
Since his departure from EVANESCENCE in 2003, Moody has collaborated with some of the hottest stars in the music business; the established and the up-and-comers. His songwriting and producing credits include working with AVRIL LAVIGNE on her second release "Under My Skin", penning "Nobody’s Home", "This Time" with CELINE DION, "What About Now" from CHIS DAUGHTRY, and Moody co-wrote and produced the smash hit "Because of You" with David Hodges for KELLY CLARKSON.
Tom Morello of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will release his new solo album, "The Fabled City", on September 30, 2008 via Epic Records. The 11-song set is the follow-up to the 2007 THE NIGHTWATCHMAN debut "One Man Revolution". Now being billed as TOM MORELLO: THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, Morello's new CD is the first release to bear the political and social activist's birth name. "The Fabled City" was produced by Brendan O'Brien (BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, PEARL JAM) and features appearances by SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Serj Tankian and Shooter Jennings.
Jump-started by the return of original guitar player Clint Lowery to the band, SEVENDUST has been on the road non-stop since the release of its new album, "Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow", in April. The band's current live attack is as ferocious as ever and they'll continue to be road warriors this summer with performances at Milwaukee's Summerfest and select dates with GODSMACK, ALTER BRIDGE, TANTRIC, NONPOINT and one stop on Ozzfest in Texas. SEVENDUST will head overseas to perform for the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany, Kuwait and Afghanistan for the first two weeks of July.
Guitarist Vinnie LaBella of the reactivated legendary New Orleans metallers EXHORDER — cited by many as the originators of the riff-heavy power-groove approach popularized by PANTERA (photo) — has issued the following update:
"Brothers and sisters of EXHORDER… YOU HAVE BEEN SCREWED!
Christa Titus of Reuters.com recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx and guitarist Mick Mars. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.
Q: What made MÖTLEY CRÜE different from the other bands coming out of Los Angeles at the time?
Austria's Mulatschag.TV has posted a three-minute video interview with Michael Poulsen of the Danish metallers VOLBEAT. Michael talks about his past as a substitute teacher, Elvis Presley, METALLICA, and what rock and roll is really about. Watch the footage below.
Swedish metallers OPETH have cancelled tonight's appearance at the Peace & Love festival in Borlänge, Sweden "due to sickness," according to a posting on the group's web site. Replacing them at the event is SABATON.
"Watershed", the new album from OPETH, sold more than 19,000 copies of in the United States in its first week of release.
Back in 2002 PiT founded by PiTRiFF Webmaster Curt split up. Recently PiT reformed and is ready to write new material and kick ass on as many stages as possible. If you are a drummer in the Cleveland area that wants to play killer all original metal email curt at curt@pitcleveland.net
Chavis Records has announced the signing of DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass. "Explode", the latest effort from DC4, saw a very limited release late last year year and will be reissued with an all-new package design and new artwork.
Guitarist Nils Norberg has announced his departure from the Swedish melodic metal band NOCTURNAL RITES.
"I have decided to lay down the guitar as my interest for music kind of cooled down the last years," he writes in a statement. So I'm not a part of NOCTURNAL RITES anymore. It's just because of myself. I decided to do this and it has absolutely not been a bad feeling in the band in any way. I don't know how or if I will go on with music, but I will take a break from the guitar that has been taking up all my waking time the last 20 years. The band will always be a second family for me and I'm not closing the door to play with them again if it would be an opportunity and I would have the urge to play again. I think the band will go on and will still make kick ass music both live and in the studio. I just wanna say thanx to the band for the best times in my life and to all the nice people I met and partied, destroyed, laughed and kicked ass with along these 12 years in the band. Thanx so much! Take care and maybe we meet again somewhere!"
Detroit metallers HALLOWEEN have issued the following update:
"Due to a difference in artistic vision, HALLOWEEN and Donny Allen [guitar] have decided to part ways. Donny has been a staple in this band for over 16 years and we love him like a brother, he will always be family and we hope the best for him. Good luck, Donny.
DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen has contributed to the original score of "Saving the American Wild Horse", a poignant documentary directed by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker James Kleinert. The 27-minute documentary short will receive its U.S. television premiere on Documentary Channel's network's "Primetime Premieres" programming block Monday, July 7, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Produced by Moving Cloud Productions, the film features Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen and Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow and is narrated by Emmy Award winner Peter Coyote. DOC is available on DISH Network (Channel 197), and several broadcast stations in major markets including NYC TV (Channel 25) throughout the greater New York metropolitan area.
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