Search results for 'saigon kick'

News

VAINGLORY: New Atlanta Concert Footage Available

American power metal band VAINGLORY, which features in its ranks vocalist Kate French (CHASTAIN) and lead guitar virtuoso Corbin King, opened for FIREWIND on October 10 at Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. Video footage of VAINGLORY's performance can be seen below. VAINGLORY recently announced the add...

News

NIGHTWISH: New Video Interview Posted Online

Holland's FaceCulture recently conducted an interview with keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen and bassist/vocalist Marco Hietala of Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH. You can now watch the chat in four parts below. "Imaginaerum", the first album in four years from NIGHTWISH, entered t...

News

NIGHTWISH's 'Imaginaerum' Tops Finnish Chart

"Imaginaerum", the first album in four years from Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH, has entered the official chart in Finland at position No. 1. According to Rytmi.com, "Imaginaerum" sold 50,000 copies in Finland in its first two days of release. The band's first CD since 2007's "Dark P...

News

DROWNING POOL, Ex-NONPOINT Members Join Forces In VOODOO CORPS

Former NONPOINT members Zach Broderick (guitar) and Ken MacMillan (bass) have joined forced with DROWNING POOL's C.J. Pierce (guitar) and Mike Luce (drums) in a brand new project called VOODOO CORPS. The band's mission statement: "From the collective bowels of the South rides forth the culmination o...

News

CHILDREN OF BODOM Frontman Gets Tattooed In Brazil; Video Footage, Photos Available

Guitarist/vocalist Alexi Laiho of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM was recently tattooed by Roger Marx of Estdio Nimbus in So Paulo, Brazil. Laiho's tattoo was the abbreviation "E.V.V.K.", which stands for the Finnish slang expression "Ei Voisi Vhemp Kiinnostaa," meaning "I couldn't care less." C...

News

ZAKK WYLDE On First-Ever ROCK & ROLL ROAST: 'How Can They Roast Me? I'm A Good Catholic Boy'

Get ready for a raucous night of comedy, charity and chaos! Guitar World is proud to announce the magazine's first-ever Rock & Roll Roast with inaugural honoree Zakk Wylde. Presented by Epiphone guitars and sponsored by Monster Energy Drink, EMG pickups, Revolver magazine, Marshall amplification...

News

APOCALYPTICA, SAXON, DIAMOND HEAD Members Perform With METALLICA At 30th-Anniversary Kick-Off

Jason Newsted (METALLICA, VOIVOD, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM),John Marshall (METAL CHURCH, former METALLICA guitar tech and occasional James Hetfield fill-in),Sean Harris (DIAMOND HEAD),Brian Tatler (DIAMOND HEAD),Biff Byford (SAXON) and APOCALYPTICA joined METALLICA on stage last night (Monday, Decembe...

News

ASG Signs To RELAPSE RECORDS

Relapse Records has announced the signing of North Carolina's finest psychedelic, stoner punks ASG. The band will enter the studio in February 2012 with producer Matt Hyde (SLAYER, CHILDREN OF BODOM, FU MANCHU) to begin recording its highly anticipated new album . Impossible to pigeonhole, ASG has b...

News

Former SKID ROW/SAIGON KICK Drummer Nominated For Two AVN AWARDS

Former SKID ROW and SAIGON KICK drummer Phil Varone has been nominated for two AVN Awards in the categories of "Best Celebrity Sex Tape" and "Best Overall Marketing Campaign" for his Vivid Entertainment movie, "Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash". The 29th annual AVN Awards, hosted by Bree Olsen and Sun...

News

MNEMIC To Enter Studio In February

Danish modern metallers MNEMIC will enter Antfarm studios in Aabyhj, Denmark in February 2012 with longtime producer Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, HIMSA, SICK OF IT ALL) to begin recording their new album for a June 2012 release via Nuclear Blast Records. MNEMIC recently parted ways with drummer Brian "B...

News

ELUVEITIE: 'Helvetios' Track Listing, Cover Artwork, Release Date Revealed

Swiss folk metallers ELUVEITIE will release their new album, "Helvetios", on February 10, 2012 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at New Sound Studio in Pfffikon, a municipality in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, with producer Tommy Vetterli (a.k.a. Tommy T. Baron; CORONER/ex-KREATO...

News

CALIBAN: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

German modern metallers CALIBAN will release their eighth studio album, "I Am Nemesis", on February 28, 2012 via Century Media Records. The CD will feature guest appearances by Marcus Bischoff (HEAVEN SHALL BURN) and Mitch Lucker (SUICIDE SILENCE). After spending 10 months writing new material, the...

News

NIGHTWISH Begins Rehearsing For Upcoming Tour; Photos Available

Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH have begun rehearsing for their "Imaginaerum" world tour, which will kick off on Saturday, January 21 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California. This will be the biggest NIGHTWISH show production ever on North American soil and strictly a one...

News

TWISTED SISTER Presents 'A Twisted Christmas' Holiday Extravaganza

TWISTED SISTER hosts a holiday party, with the promise of glad tidings and good cheer to folks of all ages! Get ready for the 2011 presentation of "A Twisted Christmas" a theatrical holiday extravaganza like no other to be held on Friday, December 2 at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, New York,...

News

ANTHRAX: Japanese, Indonesian Tour Dates Postponed

According to Tempo.co, ANTHRAX has been forced to postpone its previously announced dates in Indonesia and Japan. "The [December 10 concert at Pantai Carnaval in Ancol, North Jakarta, Indonesia] is not canceled but is being rescheduled for March 31," Jimmy Reagan Fernandes, Blade Indonesia's head of...