U.K.'s Total Guitar magazine recently spoke to ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal about his Vigier DoubleBfoot doubleneck guitar. Check out the clip below. Just days after guitarist DJ Ashba quit GUNS N' ROSES, a source has confirmed to Detroit music writer Gary Graff that Thal is also no longer a member of the ...
Victoria Purcell of RAMzine.co.uk conducted an interview with vocalist James LaBrie of progressive metallers DREAM THEATER before the band's July 21 performance at MetalDays festival in Tolmin, Slovenia. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the shorter songs that were included on DREAM THEATER's ...
Video footage of a SLAYER fan from State Of The Fart performing a "hand-fart" version of the band's classic song "Raining Blood" at last weekend's Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany can be seen below. Written by Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King for SLAYER's 1986 studio album "Reign In Blood", "Raining Blood" is one of ...
Fan-filmed video footage of Danish/American metal rock 'n' rollers VOLBEAT performing a brand new song, "The Devil's Bleeding Crown", in full live for the first time on Saturday, August 1 in front of over 37,000 people at Tusindarsskoven in Odense, Denmark can be seen below. Speaking about the progress of the songwriting sessions for VOLBEAT's ...
Audio snippets of two new METAL CHURCH demo tracks, "Find Your Way" and "Killing Your Time", are available in the YouTube clip below. Both songs will be included on METAL CHURCH's forthcoming album, to be released in the fall via Rat Pak Records. The tracks feature the lineup of Mike Howe (vocals), Kurdt Vanderhoof (guitar), ...
Y&T frontman Dave Meniketti's two new signature wines will be unveiled on the evening of Tuesday, August 11 at Testarossa Winery in Los Gatos, California. Meniketti and his wife Jill (who is also Y&T's manager) will be there all evening from 5 to 9 p.m. This is a private event (by reservation only) expressly for ...
KISS frontman Paul Stanley has announced the first-ever SOUL STATION concert at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California on September 11. SOUL STATION is a ten-piece coalition of some of today's leading musicians paying tribute to an era of great soul music. "We're living in a time of being fed canned pre-programmed backing tracks and ...
Sammy Hagar has partnered with full-service branding, licensing and social media marketing company Epic Rights and Prominent Brand + Talent, a global brand management and development consortium, to launch the worldwide brand strategy and to develop a wide-ranging licensing program for Hagar's Sammy's Island lifestyle brand. "For me, it started the moment I first stepped ...
Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will release their ninth studio album, "I Worship Chaos", worldwide on October 2 via Nuclear Blast. The artwork for the CD was created by Finnish artist Tuomas Korpi and can be seen below. The third trailer for "I Worship Chaos", in which the CHILDREN OF BODOM members talk about the ...
