Search results for 'helmet'

News

HELMET Mainman PAGE HAMILTON Lays Down Riffs; Video Available

A four-minute video clip of HELMET mainman Page Hamilton "laying down riffs" from the band's new CD, "Monochrome", has been posted online at YouTube.com (courtesy of FPE-TV). HELMET's new video for "Monochrome", filmed by director David Brodsky (GWAR, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, THE RED CHORD) of MyGoodEye...

News

SMASHING PUMPKINS Confirmed For Austria's NOVA ROCK Festival

SMASHING PUMPKINS has been confirmed for the Nova Rock festival, set to take place June 15-17 on the Pannonia Fields in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria (near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders). The PUMPKINS will perform on June 15. Also scheduled to appear are SLA...

News

BLOODSIMPLE Frontman On Sophomore Album: 'We Really Have Come Into Our Own'

Frontman Tim Williams of New York metal band BLOODSIMPLE recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's upcoming sophomore album, tentatively titled "Red Harvest". "In any standard career, the first record puts you on the map," he explained. "[The second one] is when the haters come out. That's the tru...

News

EXTOL Pulls Out Of Norway's BY:LARM 2007 Festival

Norwegian progressive thrash/death metallers EXTOL have cancelled their appearance at the by:Larm 2007 festival (set to take place February 8-10 at Öst in Trondheim, Norway) due to "unforseen personal circumstances that lie outside [the band's] control," according to an official statement from the g...

News

TYPE O NEGATIVE's STEELE, HELMET's HAMILTON To Guest On Tonight's 'Chaos'

Peter Steele of TYPE OF NEGATIVE and Page Hamilton of HELMET will be the featured interviews on Indie 103.1's "Chaos" metal show tonight (Sunday, January 28). You can listen to the program live on the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and midnight PST (between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. EST) at this location...

News

SLAYER, LORDI, STONE SOUR, HELMET Confirmed For Austria's NOVA ROCK Festival

SLAYER, LORDI, STONE SOUR and HELMET are among the confirmed bands for the Nova Rock Festival 2007, set to take place June 15-17 on the Pannonia Fields in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria (near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders). The festival billing is shaping up...

Review

The Renovation

MY BITTER END is one of those metalcore bands that gets it right more than it gets it wrong. In other words, the style is done justice with a genuinely brutal approach that incorporates melody and compositional variety without sounding too generic. On "The Renovation", the impressive musicianship of...

News

THE CULT To Begin Recording New Album

THE CULT will enter the studio next month to begin pre-production on the group's first album since 2001's "Beyond Good and Evil". A fall release is expected. Also planned for release is a DVD of the band's November 13, 2006 concert at Irving Plaza in New York City, tentatively due in April. THE CULT...

News

SCUM OF THE EARTH: New Demo Samples Posted Online

SCUM OF THE EARTH, the band featuring former ROB ZOMBIE guitarist Riggs, has posted four new demo samples without vocals on its official MySpace page. SCUM OF THE EARTH recently tapped renowned U.K. concept artist Paul Garner to create the cover art for the band's upcoming second release, tentativel...

News

DAWN OF AZAZEL Confirmed For Australia's OVERCRANKED Festival

DAWN OF AZAZEL, MAMMAL (featuring ex-FULL SCALE vocalist Zeke),THE DAYLIGHT CURSE and SEVERED LINK are among the latest confirmed acts for the fourth instalment of the Overcranked festival, set to take place Saturday, March 24 on the RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane, Australia. The festival billing is s...

News

HELMET: More Australian Tour Dates Announced

HELMET will embark on a short tour of Australia in March. Confirmed dates are as follows: Mar. 23 - Byron Bay, AUS - Great Northern Mar. 24 - Brisbane, AUS - Overcranked Festival Mar. 27 - Sydney, AUS - Gaelic Club Mar. 29 - Melbourne, AUS - Hi Fi Bar Mar. 30 - Perth, AUS ...

News

DEFTONES, LAMB OF GOD, ARCH ENEMY Members To Appear At NAMM: Details Available

ESP has just finalized its schedule of artist meet-and-greet sessions at the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants),which is scheduled to be held January 18-21, 2007 the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. The details are as follows: Friday, January 19 (12:30 - 2:00 p.m.): Bruce...

News

LORD, BEHIND CRIMSON EYES Confirmed For Australia's OVERCRANKED Festival

FRENZAL RHOMB, BEHIND CRIMSON EYES, THE HARD-ONS, LORD, DREAMKILLERS, THE AMITY AFFLICTION, 50 LIONS, ROLLERBALL, BEIJING TANK and RUINS have been confirmed for the fourth instalment of the Overcranked festival, set to take place Saturday, March 24 on the RNA Showgrounds in Brisbane, Australia. The...

News

HELMET: More California Dates Announced

HELMET has lined up the following dates in California: Jan. 09 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah Jan. 16 - Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk Jan. 17 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's Jan. 20 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ Downtown Brew Jan. 31 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour Feb. 01 - Los ...

News

EXTOL To Perform At Norway's BY:LARM Festival

Norwegian progressive thrash/death metallers EXTOL will perform at the by:Larm 2007 festival, set to take place February 8-10 at Öst in Trondheim, Norway. EXTOL's video for the track "Pearl" has been posted online at this location. The clip was directed by Øystein Moe and Alexander Soma of Helmet Pr...