Search results for 'angel'

News

KROKUS Frontman To Guest On METAL EXPRESS RADIO

Swiss hard rockers KROKUS will be the subject of a special feature on Norway's Metal Express Radio this Thursday, February 13. KROKUS frontman Marc Storace will talk about the highs and lows of the band's nearly 30-year existence. For more information, visit www.metalexpressradio.com. KROKUS's lates...

News

ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Reports On NAMM, South American Tour

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Myself and Daniel Erlandsson [drums] traveled to sunny California last month and spent a few days at the NAMM convention. We had a wail of time hanging out and doing the NAMM thing! "So I met a lot...

News

BLIND GUARDIAN, Ex-NIGHTWISH Singers Added To 20th Anniversary NUCLEAR BLAST Compilation

RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski is working on a compilation CD to celebrate Nuclear Blast Records' 20th anniversary, entitled "Into the Light". Smolski composed, recorded and produced about 10 songs for various metal artists that are part of the Nuclear Blast history, including a track that is being r...

News

'Metal: The Definitive Guide' Book Due In April

Garry Sharpe-Young's next book, a 608-page, 600,000-word treatise simply titled "Metal: The Definitive Guide", will be published in the U.S. on April 28 by Backbeat Books. Rob Halford of JUDAS PRIEST provided the foreword. He wrote, in part, "From its beginnings out of Birmingham, England in the lat...

News

PATHS OF POSSESSION Drummer Launches Recording Studio

Drummer Nick Goodyear (PATHS OF POSSESSION, DARK FAITH, PROMETHEAN HORDE, EVISCERATOR) has opened up Death n Decay Studios and is currently working with VIREXDA, the new band featuring members of DARK FAITH and CRIMSON MASSACRE. Other recent projects include SUCCESS WILL WRITE APOCALYPSE ACROSS THE...

News

METALLICA's HAMMETT Talks About Meeting LARS ULRICH And JAMES HETFIELD; Video Available

The makers of "Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have posted a video clip of METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett about the San Francisco Bay Area club scene and the first t...

News

SEBASTIAN BACH Starting Mixing Process On 'Angel Down'

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach has posted the following message on his official web site: "Greetings from Hollywood, California ! I am busy here doing two things: 1. Filming a new episode of the 'Gilmore Girls' for the CW newtork! and 2. Starting the mixing process on the 'Angel Down' CD! O...

News

Singer JOHN BUSH: 'I Am Not Ready' To Commit To ANTHRAX Again

On January 23, 2007, Bob Nalbandian of Shockwaves magazine conducted a 36-minute interview with ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX vocalist John Bush about Bush's current status with ANTHRAX and his future plans. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET from Shockwaves Podcas...

News

GENITORTURERS Putting Finishing Touches On Studio Album, DVD

Florida-based "shock-rock" band GENITORTURERS, featuring MORBID ANGEL frontman David "Evil D" Vincent on bass, is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on two new releases for 2007 — a new full-length album and a live DVD. More information will be made available soon. In other news G...

Review

Eschaton

Sometimes a band can tweak the conventions of their chosen genre, not so much reinventing anything as just approaching things in a slightly different way, and by doing so they can set benchmarks for lesser mortals to follow. ENTOMBED's "Clandestine" comes to mind — on the surface, it was a slightly...

News

BEHEMOTH To Play Israel In April

According to Metal Israel, Polish extreme metal titans BEHEMOTH are scheduled to perform at the Theatre Club in Tel Aviv, Israel on April 21. BEHEMOTH is currently hard at work in the studio tracking its much-anticipated new album, "The Apostasy", which is set for a summer release. The new effort is...

News

SLAYER Guitarist Says ABC-TV Put Last-Minute 'Gag Order' On Band's 'Jimmy Kimmel' Performance

Ashley Brown of The Kansas City Star reports: For the second year SLAYER has been nominated for a Grammy in the best metal performance category. It goes to the ceremony, according to guitarist Kerry King, if only for the courtesy booze. "We went for the parties with no intention of winning," he says...

News

NORTHER: New EP Track Listing Revealed, Teaser Clip Available

Finnish metallers NORTHER have revealed the track listing for the new EP, "No Way Back", to be released in Finland by Suomen Musiikki at the Finnish Metal Expo (held February 16-18 in Helsinki). Release dates for other territories will be announced soon. "No Way Back" track listing: 01. Frozen Angel...

News

USIPIAN Calls It Quits

Danish "apocalyptic" old-school death metallers USIPIAN have issued the following update: "We are sorry to announce that USIPIAN no longer exists due to differences within the band in regard to musical direction. The final testament of USIPIAN will be a MCD/7-inch EP containing three tracks recently...

News

IN THIS MOMENT: New Track Posted Online

IN THIS MOMENT have posted a new track, "Daddy's Falling Angel", on their MySpace page, along with the cover art and track listing for their debut album, "Beautiful Tragedy", which is set for a March 20 release. The group kicks off their 2007 touring cycle with a bang, joining KITTIE, WALLS OF JERIC...