Search results for 'opeth'

News

IN GRIEF Parts Ways With Guitarist

Guitarist Jonas Andreassen has left Norway's IN GRIEF. The band states, "Jonas is moving to Lillehammer by the end of August. We are really going to miss him, because he is a awesome guy and a great guitarist. But IN GRIEF will, of course, go on and we have a new guitarplayer ready for launch." ...

News

SOILWORK Drummer Breaks Down 'Night Comes Clean' Beats

Sick Drummer Magazine has uploaded video footage of Dirk Verbeuren of SOILWORK breaking down some of the beats from the song "Night Comes Clean", off the band's latest album, "The Panic Broadcast". Watch the clip below. SOILWORK's new album, "The Panic Broadcast", sold around 5,300 copies in the Uni...

News

OPETH Pays Tribute To RONNIE JAMES DIO At U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR (Video)

Swedish progressive metallers OPETH paid tribute to legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN & HELL, DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) by performing a cover version of the RAINBOW classic "Catch The Rainbow" on August 13, 2010 at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival at...

News

KRUX To Enter Studio In The Fall

KRUX — the Swedish band featuring CANDLEMASS bassist Leif Edling, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Mats Levén, ex-ENTOMBED drummer Peter Stjärnvind, guitarist Jörgen Sandstrom (also in THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED/GRAVE),OPETH/ex-ARCH ENEMY guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and OPETH keyboardist Pär Wiberg — wi...

News

TRIVIUM To Enter Studio In October; Producer Revealed

Florida metallers TRIVIUM will enter Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida the third week of October with the production/mixing team of Colin Richardson (MACHINE HEAD, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, SLIPKNOT, FEAR FACTORY) and Martin "Ginge" Ford to begin recording their new album for an early 2011 rele...

News

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: New Song Available For Streaming

"Take", a brand new song from veteran Arizona metallers FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's long-awaited new album, "The Cold", which will be released on September 14 via Driven Music Group, the label created by former KORN guita...

News

BLOODBATH Bassist Interviewed At Finland's TUSKA

Melissa Zappa of StalkerMusic.com conducted an interview with bassist Jonas Renske of the Swedish death metal "supergroup" BLOODBATH at the thirteenth annual Tuska festival, which was held July 2-4, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. BLOODBATH's "Breeding Death" (1999) albu...

News

MADDER MORTEM Parts Ways With Guitarist, Announces Replacement

MADDER MORTEM, Norway's darling of the avant-garde, has issued the following update: "Odd [Eivind Ebbesen, guitar] has, after much pondering, left MADDER MORTEM, and it was a very tough decision. We sincerely thank him for all the music, magic, great times, blood, sweat and tears we've shared since...

News

OPETH Keyboardist Discusses Band's 20th Anniversary

Altsounds.com recently conducted an interview with keyboardist Per Wiberg of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Altsounds.com: You guys have been around for 20 years yourselves now, How do you feel about being considered a legendary act in your own right? Pe...

News

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Japanese Edition Of 'Return To Zero' To Include Bonus Track, Poster, Sticker

SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, the Swedish band featuring ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott and bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, along with new vocalist Apollo Papathanasio (FIREWIND),will release its seventh studio album, "Return To Zero", in Japan on August 25 via Trooper Entertainment Inc. — a label founded by le...

News

SOILWORK Frontman Interviewed By METAL ASSAULT

On August 3, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Swedish metallers SOILWORK. You can now listen to the chat below. SOILWORK's new album, "The Panic Broadcast", sold around 5,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release...

News

NEVERMORE: Pro-Shot Footage Of ROCK HARD Performance Available

Professionally filmed video footage of NEVERMORE's performance at this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival — which was held May 21-23, 2010 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany — can be viewed below. (Note: The footage originally aired on WDR's [German public TV] series "Rockpalast...

News

SOILWORK Guitarist/Producer Interviewed In Chicago

Karma E. Omowale of FourteenG conducted an interview with guitarist/producer Peter Wichers of Swedish metallers SOILWORK on July 22, 2010 at Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago, Illinois. Watch the chat in three parts below. SOILWORK's new album, "The Panic Broadcast", sold around 5,300 copies in the Unit...

News

KATATONIA To Release Special U.S. Tour Edition Of 'Night Is The New Day'

Swedish progressive metallers KATATONIA will kick off their North American tour — dubbed "Night Over North America" — on September 8 in Baltimore, Maryland. To coincide with the 26-date U.S. and Canadian trek, Peaceville Records will release a special edition of the band's acclaimed 2009 studio albu...

News

TRAIL OF TEARS Parts Ways WIth Guitarist

Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has issued the following lineup news: "Our guitarist, party-hat chief and beer drinker extraordinaire, Pål [Olsen], has informed the rest of us that he is leaving the band. His decision is based on lack of time and a general wish to concentrate on the band that he co-founded,...