Former JOURNEY drummer Deen Castronovo says that he was kicked out of the band in early August — two months after he was charged with domestic abuse. The 51-year-old musician, who replaced Steve Smith as JOURNEY's drummer in 1998, was arrested last June after an altercation at his Salem, Oregon home. It was later revealed ...
Living Out Loud - LA recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On SLIPKNOT's split with drummer Joey Jordison in December 2013: "I mean, it was hard at ...
In a brand new interview with Goldmine magazine, DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover was asked if he ever gets tired of playing the band's classic song "Smoke On The Water". He responded: "I don't mean to be disrespectful, but the only boring part is people asking me about it. [Laughs] It's a great ...
METALLICA has confirmed that it will perform at "The Night Before", a concert event set to take place the night before Super Bowl 50, on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. During an appearance on yesterday's (Monday, November 2) edition of the "Lamont And Tonelli Show", which airs ...
DEF CON ONE, the British metal band featuring former VENOM and MPIRE OF EVIL drummer Antony "Antton" Lant (brother of VENOM frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant), will release a live, bootleg-style CD in November. The idea came about after fans kept asking for a live CD/DVD from the band. The songs, which were recorded at Beermageddon ...
Fan-filmed video footage of LOUDNESS's October 30 performance at Count's Vamp'd Rock Bar & Grill in Las Vegas, Nevada can be seen below. According to Roppongi Rocks, LOUDNESS will release a special 30th-anniversary edition of its classic "Thunder In The East" album in Japan on November 25 in several different versions featuring bonus ...
Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters SWALLOW THE SUN will release a triple album titled "Songs From The North I, II & III" on November 13 via Century Media. Incorporating dark menace and gradations of death, black and funeral doom, each of the three albums of "Songs From The North I, II & III" embodies the ...
Progressive metallers DREAM THEATER have set "The Astonishing" as the title of their thirteenth album, due in early 2016 via Roadrunner. The band confirmed the title after promoters in Europe leaked it on a number of tour posters. DREAM THEATER yesterday announced new tour dates for a momentous European headline run which is set to ...
The owners of the Bucharest nightclub where a fire killed 32 people and left almost 200 injured have been arrested. The fire reportedly started after heavy metal band GOODBYE TO GRAVITY's pyrotechnical show went awry, causing the ceiling and a pillar to catch alight and producing heavy smoke. Media reported that clubgoers initially thought the ...
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford told Newsday.com that he is interested in recording a blues album and pursuing other non-heavy metal projects because he wants to find out what his voice can do. He said: "I've always felt that [the blues is] very much a part of my background and musical roots. I ...
