Search results for 'darkness'
News
QUEEN Overtake THE BEATLES As The Most Successful Albums Act In U.K. Chart History
New research by the team behind the popular music annual "The Book of British Hit Singles & Albums" has revealed that QUEEN has overtaken THE BEATLES as official UK album chart champions, having spent more weeks on chart than the fab four. According to British Hit Singles & Albums' unique da...July 15, 2005
News
Irish Metal Legends WAYLANDER Stage Mini-Reunion At DAY OF DARKNESS Festival
Long-running Celtic metal act WAYLANDER were reunited with former band member and editor of Ireland's Metalworks magazine, Martin MacCormaic, for a memorable set at the fourth installment of Ireland's Day of Darkness festival on July 9. MacCormaic, who left WAYLANDER in 2002, took to the stage to at...July 13, 2005
News
Emergency Workers Invited To QUEEN Show
The Associated Press has issued the following report: Rock group QUEEN, whose open-air concert planned for London's Hyde Park was postponed by a week because of the terrorist attacks, said it will invite thousands of emergency services personnel to Friday's event in a gesture of thanks. QUEEN frontm...July 12, 2005
News
IMMORTAL Tribute Album: More Details Revealed
More details have been revealed about the upcoming IMMORTAL tribute album, "Epimythion - Tribute to Immortal", tentatively due this fall via Greece's Townsend Avalanche Music. The complete track listing for the CD is as follows: TRAGEDY BEGINS - "The Sun No Longer Rises" BEYOND DAWN - "Storming Thro...July 11, 2005
News
STORMHAMMER: New Singer Announced
German power metallers STORMHAMMER have announced the addition of former NEVERLAND/DREAMSCAPE frontman Mike Zotter to the group's ranks. Zotter fills the slot left vacant by the departure of Tommy Lion (ex-DRIFTER) earlier in the year. STORMHAMMER released their third album, "Lord of Darkness", in M...July 10, 2005
News
CRISIS Frontwoman: 'We Have A Message That Must Be Delivered'
Nashua Telepgraph recently conducted an interview with CRISIS frontwoman Karyn Crisis. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On playing a style of music that is hard to categorize: "We're more than a little bit aware that we’re a tough band to digest. We go to very confrontational, emotional places i...July 9, 2005
News
STORMHAMMER: Former NEVERLAND Singer To Join The Fold?
According to a posting on German power metallers STORMHAMMER's web site, former NEVERLAND (Switzerland) frontman Mike Zotter is the top candidate to fill the slot left vacant by the departure of Tommy Lion (ex-DRIFTER) earlier in the year. However, the band stress that "we have two more candidates t...July 8, 2005
News
FORGOTTEN TOMB, MORTUARY DRAPE, MORRIGAN Confirmed For Austria's DUNKELHEIT FESTIVAL
FORGOTTEN TOMB, MORTUARY DRAPE, MORRIGAN and KOLDBRANN are among the bands confirmed for the Dunkelheit Festival, set to take place September 2-3, 2005 in Niederhollabrunn, Austria (about 30km from Vienna). The festival billing is shaping up as follows: FORGOTTEN TOMB (ITA) NACHTFALKE (GER) MORTUARY...July 7, 2005
News
NEVERMORE Guitarist To Guest On New HATESPHERE CD
NEVERMORE guitarist Steve Smyth (ex-TESTAMENT) has completed a guest solo for the upcoming HATESPHERE CD, "The Sickness Within", due on September 26 via SPV Records. Smyth recorded his contribution to the song "Marked by Darkness" at Signal Creative Studios in London with engineer Gareth. HATESPHERE...July 7, 2005
News
DISMEMBER To Enter Studio In August
Long-running Swedish death metallers DISMEMBER will enter Sami Studio in Stockholm on August 15 to begin recording their seventh album. The recording sessions will end in September, with a planned mid-January 2006 release date through Regain Records. Drummer Fred Estby will once again produce the fo...July 7, 2005
Review
The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
COAL CHAMBER was one of those bands that just absolutely hit me the wrong way. Their overhyped simpleton nu-metal fuckery used to just piss me off, more so than almost any band this side of SIX FEET UNDER. So when frontman Dez Fafara killed that band off and released DEVILDRIVER's debut last year, m...July 7, 2005
News
Japan's Premiere Horror Punks BALZAC Return With New Release On MISFITS RECORDS
Japanese horror punks BALZAC have returned with their second North American release, "Out of the Grave and Into the Dark", available on Misfits Records/Rykodisc. "Out of the Grave and Into the Dark" is a double CD/DVD package combining two brand new full-length BALZAC CDs, "Came Out of the Grave" an...July 5, 2005
News
CRADLE OF FILTH To Enter Studio In Late August
CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Just a quick plunge into the darkness that is the CRADLE OF FILTH schedule of late, to let everybody know that the 'Viva La Bam' filming week near Philadelphia last month seems to have been a compl...July 5, 2005
News
CELTIC FROST Working On 'Amazing' New Album
CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "So many things are taking place here during the making of this album. Far too many things to list here, I often believe, even though this blog has been established to be utterly open and to provide a di...July 4, 2005
Review
Greatest Hits: Back To the Start
Does anyone at all believe bands when they claim they take fans' Internet votes on stuff into consideration? When I see a "fan favorite" IRON MAIDEN best-of track listing, and anything from the Blaze Bayley era shows up, that poll's credibility shrivels up like a black metaller in the sunshine. Simi...July 2, 2005
Prev 