VINDIKATION, the new band featuring former STEEL PROPHET members Jim Williams (guitar) and Karl Rosqvist (drums), vocalist Jason McCrarey (SANCTUS) and keyboardist Rob Rampley (WINDS DIED DOWN), have completed tracking their debut CD, "Chamber of Discontent". The recording sessions were engineered by Erik Norlander, with final mix and mastering scheduled for mid-April. The release date ...
California's AMEN will occupy one of the two opening slots on BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION's "Honeymoon From Hell" U.S. tour beginning in late April. A second act is yet to be named. "Honeymoon From Hell" U.S. tour dates: Apr. 30 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights May 01 - Springfield, VA – Jaxx May 02 ...
The New Jersey-based quintet GOD FORBID will embark on their second headlining tour in support of their latest release, "Gone Forever", next month. Support on this two-week run, lasting from April 6 through April 21, will come from ALL THAT REMAINS, SCARS OF TOMORROW and TRIVIUM. Preceding the tour, GOD FORBID will join an all ...
DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover has posted the following message on his official web site: "Well, it's been a while. Some would say an era, others have probably not noticed, but it's about time I wrote a report. Indeed I haven’t really noticed. Time has a way of inexorably tick-tocking away when one ...
MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio, who executive-produced FEINSTEIN's debut album "Third Wish", has commented on the CD's musical direction, calling it "one of the best debut albums in heavy metal history." "I've known Rock (David Feinstein) for many years and I knew of his great potential, so naturally when I first heard how great this album ...
Black metal legends THORNS' mastermind Snorre Ruch has been keeping busy with a variety of musical activities involving interesting exponents of the art world since the band's long awaited and much acclaimed self-titled debut in 2002. In the past few months alone, Snorre has created THORNS LTD, a separate outlet from THORNS dedicated to making ...
Austrian death/black metal act BELPHEGOR and Sweden's THE LEGION will be teaming up for a two-week European tour, dubbed "Lucifer Incestus Terror Tour 2004", beginning in mi-May. Confirmed dates are as follows: May 14 - Salzburg, AUT @ Rockhouse May 15 - Glauchau, GER @ Alte Spinnerei May 16 - Hanau, GER @ Audion May ...
MY RUIN, the Los Angeles-based band fronted by ex-TURA SATANA singer Tairrie B., have announced that longtime friend Mat Dauzat of the band HYDROVIBE will be filling in on bass for the upcoming U.K. tour and the rescheduled The Whiskey (Hollywood) show on June 12. Dauzat will be playing with the group as a temporary ...
Singer Rob Halford of the recently reunited JUDAS PRIEST, who are co-headlining Ozzfest 2004, told Launch Radio Networks that the idea of a BLACK SABBATH reunion at this year's traveling festival makes sense to him. "It's brand new news to me, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it happened," he said in ...
THE MORE I SEE, new band of PRODIGY guitarist Gizz Butt (ex-ENGLISH DOGS, JANUS STARK), have been confirmed to appear at the Rock Im Ring open air festival on July 3 in Bozen, Italy. Also set to perform at the festival are ADDICTION CREW, the Italian band formerly known as ADDICTION. More confirmations will be ...
