Search results for 'ken mode'

News

ANOREXIA NERVOSA Goes On Hiatus

Guitarist Stefan Bayle of the French black metallers ANOREXIA NERVOSA has issued the following update on the band's current status (translated from French): "It's been a while since there has been any news from the ANOREXIA NERVOSA camp, and I think that it is time to give a progress report on the g...

News

CHILDREN OF BODOM Confirmed For United Arab Emirates' DESERT ROCK Festival

Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM are among the first confirmed bands for the Desert Rock 2007 festival, set to take place March 9-10, 2007 at the Dubai Country Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Also scheduled to appear are THE PRODIGY, INCUBUS and PRIME CIRCLE. Around 10 more acts have yet to...

News

MSG Bassist Slams 'Talentless' MICHAEL SCHENKER For 'Disrespectful' Behavior

MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP (MSG) bassist Rev Jones has issued the following statement regarding guitarist Michael Schenker's performance at the group's recent shows in Japan and Thailand: "I want to apologize to all the fans that wrote to me and all the fans in Japan and Thailand for the talentless guit...

News

RAGE Drummer Schedules German Clinics

RAGE drummer Mike Terrana has lined up the following drum clinics in Germany: Nov. 21 - House of Drums - Bochum, GER Nov. 22 - Dr. Drum - Mainz / Kostheim, GER Nov. 23 - Drumhouse - Waldkirch, GER Nov. 24 - Musik Hieber Lindberg GmbH - München, GER As previously reported, RAGE filmed its ...

News

OBITUARY Frontman: 'Mexico Was A Blast!'

OBITUARY frontman John Tardy has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "This [past] weekend at the Monterrey Metal Fest in Mexico was a blast! We really appreciate all of our Mexican fans that came out, they really showed us a good time and anytime we get to hang out with our...

News

KAMELOT Guitarist: 'New Album Is Going Killer'

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood of the American/Norwegian melodic metallers KAMELOT has issued the following update: "I am flying back from some intense and very productive recording sessions with producer Sascha Paeth in Wolfsburg, Germany. We are flying over one of nature's most beautiful sites, a cry...

News

RAGE Guitarist Schedules German Workshops

RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski has lined the following guitar workshops in Germany: Dec. 02 - Berufsfachschule – Dinkelsbühl, GER Dec. 04 - Popakademie – Mannheim, GER Smolski, who is said to be an avid race-car driver/enthusiast, recently took part in two test races on Germany's Nürburgring circuit....

News

THERION: Singer Applications No Longer Accepted

THERION mainman Christofer Johnsson has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "We want to thank everyone who sent their applications for the soprano position with THERION live 2007. We have received tons of applications. Both from hopeful amateurs and professional singers. To...

News

SEPULTURA Explains Show Cancellations

Brazilan thrashers SEPULTURA have issued a statement explaining the cancellation of the first few shows of their North American headlining tour (as BLABBERMOUTH.NET first reported yesterday). It reads as follows: "We would like to apologize to everyone for our delay for the upcoming U.S. tour. There...

Review

Gateway

The cold grey album cover of "Gateway" from Finland's PESTIFEROUS speaks volumes of the pitch-black metal in store for the listener. Few would mistake PESTIFEROUS for one of the genre's great ones, but many should applaud the band's better than average assault, which features more than just DARKTHRO...

News

DEVILDRIVER Completes Drum Tracks For New CD

DEVILDRIVER, the Santa Barbara, California-based band featuring former COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara, has entered Sonic Ranch studios in El Paso, Texas to begin recording its third album, tentatively due next summer via Roadrunner Records. "We got to Sonic Ranch three days ago, loaded in and bega...

News

COLD Disbands Once Again

After announcing the band's break-up in February 2006 and then apparently having a change of heart in April, COLD frontman Scooter Ward has once again announced the group's decision to disband. In a posting on the COLD MySpace page, Ward writes, "We had a great career and played together for over .....

News

EPICA Shoots Down Rumors Singer SIMONE Will Leave Band For NIGHTWISH

Dutch symphonic metal act EPICA has rejected as false a report published in the Finnish weekly celebrity gossip magazine Katso that NIGHTWISH leader Tuomas Holopainen and the group's manager Ewo Rytkönen have been in contact with EPICA singer Simone Simons about her possibly taking over the frontwom...

News

BLITZKRIEG Confirmed For Italy's PLAY IT LOUD FESTIVAL

NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends BLITZKRIEG have been confirmed for the Play It Loud Festival, set to take place February 17, 2007 in Milan, Italy. Headlining the event will be RAVEN. BLITZKRIEG supported German metal queen DORO on her U.K. dates in early November. BLITZKRIEG's most...

News

IRON MAIDEN Book Author Slams 'Pathetic' BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors

OneMetal recently conducted an interview with Paul Stenning, author of the GUNS N' ROSES book "The Band That Time Forgot", AC/DC tome "Two Sides to Every Glory", and the 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled "30 Years of the Beast - The Complete Biography 1976-2006". An excerpt from the ch...