"Deconstruccion", the new video from Chilean death metallers THORNAFIRE, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed, produced and edited by Daniel Duarte (a member of the fellow Chilean death metal act EXECRATOR) in a professional TV studio in Santiago. "Deconstruccion" was previously described by THORNAFIRE bassist/vocalist Alexis Munoz as a "futuristic song inspired by ...
Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA have been confirmed for the 2011 edition of the Rockharz Open Air festival, set to take place July 7-9 at Airport Ballenstedt in Harz, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AMORPHIS CALIBAN EMIL BULLS END OF GREEN FEUERSCHWANZ FREI.WILD GRAND MAGUS HACKNEYED HAIL OF BULLETS HAMMERFALL ...
Swedish melodic power metal band AXENSTAR will release its fifth studio album, "Aftermath", on January 7 via IceWarrior Records/Rock It Up Records. The cover artwork (see below) was created by Felipe Machado Franco, who has previously worked with RHAPSODY, AXEL RUDI PELL, BLIND GUARDIAN, GAMMA RAY, BLAZE BAYLEY and ICED EARTH. A teaser for AXENSTAR's ...
Former FIGHT guitarist Russ Parrish (a.k.a. "Satchel" of STEEL PANTHER) joined THE DISOWNED on stage on December 20, 2010 at the Key Club in Hollywood, California to perform a cover version of FIGHT's "Nailed To The Gun". Video footage of his appearance can be viewed below. FIGHT was the American heavy metal band assembled by ...
U.K-based metallers POWER QUEST have completed work on their new album, "Blood Alliance", at Foel Studios (PAUL RODGERS, NAPALM DEATH, THE WILDHEARTS) in Wales next for a late March European release via Napalm Records (early April in the U.S. and January 19 in Japan through Marquee/Avalon). Eleven songs were laid down for the follow-up to ...
Guitarist Uwe Lulis, drummer Gerd Lücking and guitarist Simone Wenzel have left the German metal band REBELLION. Commented Uwe: "REBELLION was also my band and I would be pleased if Tomi [Göttlich, bass] and Micha [vocalist Michael Seifert] will continue successfully." Göttlich and Seifert are currently contemplating whether and how they should carry on with ...
Swedish metallers THE HAUNTED have set "Unseen" as the title of their seventh studio album, due late March via Century Media Records. The CD was once again recorded with longtime producer Tue Madsen (MOONSPELL, DARK TRANQUILLITY, GOREFEST, SICK OF IT ALL) at his Antfarm Studio in Århus, Denmark. Commented THE HAUNTED vocalist Peter Dolving: "So ...
According to The Pulse Of Radio, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE guitarist Dean Fertita told Billboard.com on Wednesday (December 29) that the band will begin recording its sixth studio album in January. The disc is the band's first since 2007's "Era Vulgaris" and follows an extended break during which frontman Josh Homme recorded and toured ...
The Great Southern Brainfart conducted an interview with guitarist Mark Jansen of Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA on December 17, 2010 at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Great Southern Brainfart: Since EPICA plays some bigger venues in Europe, how is it playing small ...
