Search results for 'ken mode'

News

Do NICKELBACK/PUDDLE OF MUDD Fans Have 'Bad Taste In Music'?

The You Have Bad Taste In Music web site has uploaded yet another video in a collection of clips showing an unidentified individual wearing shades and a German army helmet going to various venues where certain musicians are playing (EVANESCENCE, LINKIN PARK, ADEMA, STAIND, etc.),and using a megapho...

News

Designer: No KISS 'Destroyer' Figures In The Works

KISS designer Christopher Franchi of Metaluna5 has contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET to set the record straight with regards to the report that McFarlane Toys are planning to release a seventh series of KISS figures. The original report, which was published last week, indicated that the "Destroyer" figures...

News

NIKKI SIXX Describes New MÖTLEY CRÜE Songs As 'True Rock 'N' Roll'

MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil "smoked" the four new CRÜE songs laid down last week during a recording session in Las Vegas with bassist/main songwriter Nikki Sixx. "He sang the best I've heard in in years," Sixx writes in his latest online posting. "Of course, these are demos and we're looking at re...

News

Report: How A California Death Metal Fan Turned Up On FBI Terror List

Annette Stark of LA CityBEAT reports: If the radical right wanted to paint a portrait of a terrorist, they couldn't do much better than Yahiye Adam Gadahn. In fact, the FBI's announcement last May that it was actively seeking Gadahn for questioning regarding his possible ties to Al Qaeda energized c...

News

A PERFECT CIRCLE: 'eMOTIVe' Details Revealed

Billboard.com is reporting that A PERFECT CIRCLE's forthcoming album, "eMOTIVe", will include 10 covers and two new songs. In addition to previously announced versions of JOHN LENNON's "Imagine", MARVIN GAYE's "What's Goin On" and FEAR's "Let's Have a War", "eMOTIVe" includes renditions of songs by...

News

MEGADETH Confirm EARSHOT As Opening Act On Upcoming Tour

Los Angeles-based quintet EARSHOT have been confirmed as the opening act for MEGADETH's upcoming U.S. tour, which is expected to launch in late October. Speaking to Quebec's Project Loud webzine during a promotional visit to Montreal on Tuesday (Sept. 7),MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine said of his c...

News

NEW YORK DOLLS Set Release Date For Live Album

According to RollingStone.com, the NEW YORK DOLLS will release their first-ever live album, "Morrissey Presents: The Return of the New York Dolls - Live From Royal Festival Hall, 2004", on September 28 via Morrissey's Attack label. The CD and accompanying DVD were recorded at the band's June show at...

News

IRON MAIDEN Drummer Due In Court Over Jones Beach Arrest

According to a posting at the IRON MAIDEN fan site MaidenFans.com, MAIDEN drummer Michael "Nicko" McBrain is due to make another court appearance in Long Island, NY this morning (Sept. 8) in connection with a July 2003 incident where McBrain was arrested for allegedly hitting a parking lot attendant...

News

Heavy Metal Musicians Speak Out On Rising Anti-American Sentiment Around The World

Norway's Imhotep 'zine recently asked more than 60 heavy metal and hard rock musicians to answer the following question regarding the current political situation in the world: What's your opinion on the rising tide of the anti-American sentiment around the world and to what would you attribute this?...

News

SLAYER's 'Still Reigning' DVD To Surface On October 26

The release date of SLAYER's upcoming DVD, "Reign in Blood Live: Still Reigning", has been pushed back to October 26. The disc will feature, for the first time ever, the original SLAYER lineup — Tom Araya (vocals, bass),guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, and drummer Dave Lombardo, who permane...

News

FACE DOWN: In Songwriting Mode

FACE DOWN, the reunited Swedish outfit featuring former THE HAUNTED singer Marco Aro, are currently in "songwriting mode and rehearsing will be resumed properly in early September," according to the group's latest newsletter. "If everything pans out the way we want it, we're gonna record three or fo...

News

HELL-BORN: In Writing Mode

Polish death/black metallers HELL-BORN have finished writing 10 new songs and will enter Hertz studio in Bialystok, Poland in early 2005 to begin recording their new album, tentatively due next summer through Conquer Records. In the meantime all previous HELL-BORN albums ("Hellblast", "The Call of M...

News

SLAYER Explain Myrtle Beach Cancellation

A representative at SLAYER's management company has sent the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the band's cancellation of their scheduled headlining appearance in Myrtle Beach, SC Wednesday night (Sept. 1): "Tom Araya, SLAYER's bassist/vocalist, was treated and released from a Myrtle...

News

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Bassist Embraces 'Emo-Metal' Tag

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE bassist Mike D'Antonio recently spoke to The Winnipeg Sun about a new breed of beast on the scene: emo-metal. "I feel a lot of bands don't know if they're happy, sad or what — they just go out and put on the metal face," he said. "We don't go out and pretend to ...

News

EPICA To Embark On DVD Promotional Tour

Holland's EPICA, the new group formed by ex-AFTER FOREVER guitarist Mark Jansen, ex-CASSIOPEIA guitarist Ad Sluijter and keyboardist Coen Janssen, will be embarking on a promotional tour for their upcoming DVD in late September. The tour, which will include in-store acoustic performances at various...