Search results for 'alien ant farm'

News

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Guitarist Checks In With Songwriting Update

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD guitarist Jed Simon has issued the following update on the songwriting process for the group's follow-up to last year's "Alien": "[The songwriting is] going great, got too many song ideas, haha! About 6 are complete, and the rest are very close... "Most of you probably know that...

News

STRYPER To Perform At Finland's SAUNA OPEN AIR Festival

Reunited Christian hard rockers STRYPER will perform at the Sauna Open Air festival on June 9 in Tampere, Finland. They are also scheduled to play at Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 10. As previously reported, STRYPER will be undertaking an acoustic tour of churches across the U.S...

News

BIRDS OF PREY Finish Recording Debut Album

BIRDS OF PREY, the studio project featuring Erik Larson (ALAMABA THUNDERPUSSY) on guitars, Bo Leslie (THROTTLEROD) also on guitars, Summer Welch (BARONESS) on bass, Dave Witte (MUNICIPAL WASTE) on drums and Ben Hogg (BEATEN BACK TO PURE) on vocals, spent time at the Karma Productions studio in Richm...

News

DEVIN TOWNSEND Says New STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Album Will Have 'Different Aesthetic'

Zoltan Koncsok of Metal Express Radio recently conducted an interview with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD mainman Devin Townsend. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Express Radio: [STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's] "Alien" was your most brutal album to date in my opinion. Where did all that aggression come...

News

MANNGARD To Re-Release Debut Album Next Month

Norwegian extreme metallers MANNGARD will re-release their debut album, "Circling Buzzards", on February 20 in Europe and March 31 in the U.S. via Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records. The lyrical concept on "Circling Buzzards" is said to be inspired by the works of American novelist Willia...

News

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD To Release New Album This Summer

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following message on the group's official web site: "We have just commenced writing for the follow-up to 'Alien'. We're only a week in, and we're already up to four wicked new tunes! I'm really psyched with the new stuff, hell, we all are. And J...

Review

Wake Pig

Not (thank the gods) the '80s delete-bin staple featuring ELP alumni Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer, this 3 is in fact a weird, proggy upstate New York band that pals around with COHEED AND CAMBRIA and gets compared to THE MARS VOLTA. Fans of either of these groups, PORCUPINE TREE, or the late and la...

News

AEROSMITH Guitarist Enjoying Holiday In Vermont

Launch Radio Networks reports: While AEROSMITH is on a holiday break from its current North American tour, guitarist Joe Perry and his wife, Billie, are hunkered down at their new spread in Vermont. The farmhouse was built in 1790, and Perry told Launch it serves the couple's purposes well. "It's ou...

News

Veteran Metal Producer ANDY SNEAP Reflects On Past Year

British producer extraordinaire (and former SABBAT guitarist) Andy "I Pissed On Colin Richardson's Hotel Room Desk" Sneap has posted the following message on his official web site: "Well, it's come to the end of the year and 2005 has been nothing but a blast. Great fun, good times and some killer al...

News

More Musicians Pick Best Albums Of 2005

Roadrunner Records has posted a list of some of their artists' picks for the best albums of 2005. Check it out below: Acey Slade (MURDERDOLLS): 01. CHELSEA SMILES - Easy Ride EP 02. LARS FREDERICKSON AND THE BASTARDS - Viking 03. TURBONEGRO - Party Animals 04. SOCIAL DISTORTION - Sex, Love and Rock...

Review

Synchestra

As much as I enjoy STRAPPING YOUNG LAD I always find myself enjoying THE DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND more. It is something about the way Canada's resident musical genius wraps beautiful melodies around layers of soulful wisp and intense emotion. Much like "Accelerated Evolution", "Synchestra" takes repeat l...

News

OPETH's 'Ghost Reveries' Named Best Album Of 2005 By Canada's UNRESTRAINED! Magazine

Canadian metal magazine Unrestrained! has named OPETH's "Ghost Reveries" the No. 1 Album of 2005 in their year-end issue that will be on stands December 15. Click here to view the cover of issue #29. Unrestrained! Top 20 Albums Of 2005 (as chosen by the staff): 01. OPETH - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner...

News

GENE HOGLAN Talks About Songwriting Process For Next STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Album

MetalEater.com recently conducted an interview with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan. An excerpt from the chat follows: MetalEater.com: What are your plans for Christmas? Gene Hoglan: "Well, I'm going home for a few days. I come back before the first (of January) and then we start writing the...

News

ARUM To Release New EP, Full-Length Album

Brazilian black metallers ARUM will release a new EP in early 2006. Entitled "Prelude to the Cataclysm", the CD will feature two new songs from the band's upcoming third album, "Occult Cataclysm - The New Era Rises", to be released on KillZone Records. Both the EP and album have been recorded and wi...

News

IN FLAMES, SEPULTURA, MACHINE HEAD, ARCH ENEMY Members Reveal Their Favorite Albums Of 2005

In the December/January issue of the Swedish magazine Close-Up, a number of heavy metal/hard rock musicians list their favorite albums of 2005. Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA): BIOHAZARD – "Means to an End" CLAUSTROPHOBIA – "Fulminant" EXODUS – "Shovel Headed Kill Machine" Anders Fridén (IN FLAMES): NINE...