Search results for 'diablo swing orchestra'

News

NIKOLO KOTZEV Recruits GÖRAN EDMAN For DRACONIA Project

Guitarist Nikolo Kotzev (of BRAZEN ABBOT and NOSTRADAMUS fame) has recruited Swedish vocalist Göran Edman (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, JOHN NORUM, BRAZEN ABBOT, GLORY) to sing the part of the Storyteller on Kotzev's new mega-project called DRACONIA. This conceptual work will be recorded with eight lead singer...

News

IN THIS MOMENT Singer: 'OZZFEST Has Been Great For Us So Far'

Terry Perkins of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: How does a tour that gives away free tickets make money? It doesn't. Sponsorships, from companies such as Monster Energy, Jagermeister and Pilgrim Films, keep Ozzfest 2007 going date to date. But none of the bands on the bill is being paid beyond...

News

SHARON OSBOURNE's Father Buried In His Birthplace

Britain's This is Lancashire reports that more than 100 mourners converged on Agecroft Jewish Cemetery last week for the funeral of well-known former music mogul Don Arden. Absent from the ceremony, however, was the 81-year-old's daughter, Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon, who was reportedly "too traumat...

News

ZOROASTER Completes Work On New Album

Thundering power-doom trio ZOROASTER has completed work on its debut full-length, entitled "Dog Magic". The album is set for a September 11, 2007 release date via Terminal Doom / Battle Kommand Records (by way of Southern Lord). Summoned by the mighty sludge of MELVINS, the mysticism of CELTIC FROST...

News

Report: OZZFEST Brawl Ridiculous, Shameful

A MyFOXColorado blogger who goes by the name "Scribe2" has issued the following report: The Ozzfest at Coors Amphitheatre [in Denver, Colorado] on July 28 erupted into an absolutely ridiculous and shameful war of thrown items between the lawn-seat visitors and the reserved-seat visitors during the S...

News

ANTHRAX's DAN SPITZ Teams Up With Composer KEVIN MANTHEI For 'Upshift StrikeRacer' Soundtrack

StrikeRacers everywhere now have distinctive guitar-heavy music to compliment the online rubber-burning, explosive action of Gala-Net's Upshift StrikeRacer. The online game publisher announced today that acclaimed composer Kevin Manthei, who has scored dozens of critically and commercially successfu...

News

MONSTER MAGNET Frontman Talks About His Drug Overdose

MONSTER MAGNET frontman Dave Wyndorf recently spoke to U.K.-based music journalist Dave Ling about the occasion on which an overdose on prescription drugs almost killed him on February 27, 2006. "It had been a long time coming," recounts Wyndorf. "Eveything began when I couldn't sleep on tour, so th...

News

MONSTER MAGNET Frontman Talks Comic Books; Audio Available

MONSTER MAGNET frontman and comics enthusiast Dave Wyndorf was the featured guest on the Around Comics podcast #116. A description of the show reads as follows: "We were so shocked to find out that this rock-n-roller was not only a huge comic fan, but also a listener of the show, that we had to have...

News

MERENDINE ATOMICHE To Work With CHRIS CAFFERY On New Album

Veteran Italian metallers MERENDINE ATOMICHE have tapped guitarist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, DORO) to assist them during the recording sessions for their third full-length album, entitled "Rude Rebel Brotherhood". The CD will be recorded in August at New Sin studios in Loria...

News

The Dark Secrets Of SHARON OSBOURNE's Dad Revealed

Mick Wall of Britain's Daily Mail reports: Like everybody else who ever knew him, I'd heard about Don Arden, who died last week, long before I met him: he was the self-styled Al Capone of Pop, as he enjoyed being known. He was the music-business gangster who'd hung fellow pop impresario Robert Stigw...

News

PETER CRISS: 'I'm A Kid Inside And The Music Keeps Me Young'

Mario Tarradell of The Dallas Morning News recently conducted an interview with original KISS drummer Peter Criss. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the reminiscent nature of his new solo album, "One for All": "As I have grown and become a real adult — kind of — it's an album of ...

News

MANDY LION: 'DON ARDEN Represented Everything This Industry Should Be About But Rarely Ever Is'

WWIII frontman Mandy Lion has issued the following statement regarding the passing of music mogul Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father),who died on July 21 at the age of 81: "I am sad to let everyone know that one of the greatest men I ever knew died on Saturday... "Don Arden was more than just ...

News

MONDO GENERATOR Offically Drops Off OZZFEST

MONDO GENERATOR, the group led by former QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE bassist Nick Oliveri, has officially dropped off this year's Ozzfest due to "matters beyond the band's control." A statement from Nick Oliveri reads as follows: "It's very disappointing but MONDO GENERATOR has been forced to cancel the...

News

SHARON OSBOURNE 'Too Traumatized' To Attend Father's Funeral

According to ContactMusic.com, Ozzy Osbourne's wife/manager Sharon failed to attend her father Don Arden's funeral — because she was too upset to go. Arden passed away on Saturday (July 21) in a Los Angeles nursing home from undisclosed causes, although he was known to have Alzheimer's Disease. He w...

News

'A Night Of Mayhem' Benefit Concert Recap

Friday the thirteenth, 2007, was indeed "A Night of Mayhem" at the Lakewood Theater in north Dallas. THE HILLBILLY ORCHESTRA hosted writer/photographer Chris A., Alrosa Villa hero James Niggemeyer and several hundred guests at the third annual event. "A Night of Mayhem" commemorated the incredible l...