Search results for 'smile empty soul'

News

TONY MACALPINE, VIRGIL DONATI, MARK BOALS Join Forces In SEVEN THE HARDWAY

SEVEN THE HARDWAY, the new Southern California-based progressive rock/metal band featuring guitar virtuoso Tony MacAlpine (STEVE VAI, PLANET X, CAB),legendary drummer Virgil Donati (PLANET X, STEVE VAI, SOUL SIRKUS),renowned vocalist Mark Boals (ULI JON ROTH, ROYAL HUNT, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN),bass pl...

News

NEAERA: New Album Artwork, Track Listing Revealed

German extreme metallers NEAERA will release their fifth album, "Forging The Eclipse", on October 22 via Metal Blade Records. The drum tracks for the album were laid down at Stage One Studio with Andy Classen, while the rest of the recording process was overseen by Alexander Dietz. The mixing/master...

News

NIGHTFALL: 'Ambassador Of Mass' Video Released

"Ambassador Of Mass", the new video from Greek metallers NIGHTFALL, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants", which is scheduled for release on August 31 (one day earlier internationally) via Metal Blade Records. The cover artwork was create...

Review

V

Five albums in and one still marvels at just how apt a name that the ever-prolific Ryan Lipynsky (THE HOWLING WIND, THRALLDOM) chose for this project. The vocalist/guitarist seems to thrive in a world rife with tremors, dense smog, and aural proclivities that tend not to be soothing to the soul. And...

Review

Eparistera Daimones

Sickened, haughty, lurching, three weeks long and drenched in pretentious, glowering atmosphere, TRIPTYKON picks up right where CELTIC FROST's brilliant "Monotheist" left off. It's at once highbrow and lo-fi, art and brutality, and it places Tom Gabriel Fischer's "new" band immediately in the vangua...

News

THE OCEAN: 'Anthropocentric' Details Revealed

THE OCEAN is in the process of mixing its new album, "Anthropocentric", at Studio Mecanique in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the same facility where the band's previous effort, "Heliocentric", was recorded and mixed. The new CD will be mastered on August 25 by Svante Forsbäck in Helsinki. Musicall...

News

DAVE MUSTAINE On METALLICA: 'We're Totally Friends Now, Have Been For Years'

Chris Riemenschneider of the Star Tribune recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Star Tribune: The book sets a different tone on your firing from METALLICA. You didn't come off so hot in the movie "Some Kind of Monster"....

News

IN GRIEF Parts Ways With Guitarist

Guitarist Jonas Andreassen has left Norway's IN GRIEF. The band states, "Jonas is moving to Lillehammer by the end of August. We are really going to miss him, because he is a awesome guy and a great guitarist. But IN GRIEF will, of course, go on and we have a new guitarplayer ready for launch." ...

News

GREAT WHITE Singer Undergoes Surgery For Perforated Bowel

Jack Russell, lead singer of the multi-platinum and Grammy-nominated rock band GREAT WHITE, is recovering from major surgery after suffering a perforated bowel (a medical emergency in which a hole in the bowel opens to allow its contents to empty into the rest of the abdominal cavity). The surgery l...

News

ADAM DUTKIEWICZ And JESSE LEACH Re-Team In TIMES OF GRACE

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE vocalist Jesse Leach are re-teaming for TIMES OF GRACE, a brand new band that finds the duo taking a creative left turn, boldly exploring new musical terrain, while fearlessly digging deep into the recesses of their musical syn...

News

OZZY OSBOURNE Performs On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'; Video Available

OZZY OSBOURNE performed the songs "Crazy Train" and "Fearless" on the Monday, August 16 episode of ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" (which actually aired the morning of Tuesday, August 17). Watch footage of the performance below. According to CDJapan.co.jp, a special Japanese edition of OZZY OSBOURNE's...

News

OPETH Pays Tribute To RONNIE JAMES DIO At U.K.'s BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR (Video)

Swedish progressive metallers OPETH paid tribute to legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN & HELL, DIO, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) by performing a cover version of the RAINBOW classic "Catch The Rainbow" on August 13, 2010 at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival at...

News

RAGE With LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA: Footage From ROCK HARD Festival Available

Professionally filmed video footage of RAGE's performance with the LINGUA MORTIS ORCHESTRA at this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival — which was held May 21-23, 2010 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany — can be viewed at this location (courtesy of WDR's [German public TV] series...

News

OZZY OSBOURNE: Special 'Scream' Japanese Edition To Include Bonus Tracks

According to CDJapan.co.jp, a special Japanese edition of OZZY OSBOURNE's latest album, "Scream", will be released on October 13 via Sony Music Entertainment. The CD will include a Japan original sport towel as well as several bonus songs. The track listing is as follows: 01. Let It Die 02. Let Me H...

News

BELIEVER Begins Recording New Album

Reactivated late '80s/early '90s technical-thrash metallers BELIEVER have entered the studio to begin recording their new album for a tentative early 2011 release. Guitarist/vocalist Kurt Bachman writes in an online posting, "The drums are just about finished and I have many tunes in the bag for the...