Search results for 'van zant'

News

ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN, DANNY CAVANAGH To Team Up For One-Off Dutch Concert

According to Aftermath Music, Anneke Van Giersbergen (AGUA DE ANNIQUE, ex-THE GATHERING) and Danny Cavanagh (ANATHEMA) will team up for a special one-off show where each musician will take part in a solo performance followed by a special set featuring both artists. Anneke and Danny will each perform...

News

BIOMECHANICAL To Guest On IRON MAIDEN Singer's Radio Show

UK extreme metallers BIOMECHANICAL will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, February 1 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at B...

News

ENSIFERUM Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

Finnish folk-influenced melodic death metal act ENSIFERUM has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES AUTUMN AVANTASIA AXEL RU...

News

ALL SHALL PERISH Drummer Comments On THE RED SHORE Tragedy

CBS5.com reports that members of the Oakland, California-based death metal band ALL SHALL PERISH were unharmed in a mini-bus accident in Australia that claimed the lives of two members of another band, a band member said in an email Wednesday. Matt Kuykendall, the drummer for ALL SHALL PERISH, said,...

News

VAN HALEN: More 2008 Tour Dates Announced

More 2008 dates have been announced for VAN HALEN's tour with original lead singer David Lee Roth. The Live Nation-produced trek — featuring Roth, Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen's teenage son Wolfgang on bass — kicked off Sept. 27 in Charlotte, N.C., with 40 dates in place. The current...

News

RUSH: Cities, Venues Revealed For Forthcoming Tour

According to a posting on the RUSH fan site RushIsABand.com, RUSH's forthcoming tour will include stops in the following cities / countries / venues (exact dates to be announced): Coliseo De Puerto Rico - San Juan, Puerto Rico Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena - Jacksonville, FL Amway Arena - Orl...

News

EXTREME Guitarist Says LED ZEPPELIN Should Be Allowed To Rock At Any Age

EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has penned a lengthy response to music industry commentator Bob Lefsetz's recent review of LED ZEPPELIN's reunion concert at the O2 arena in London in which Bob wrote, in part, "LED ZEPPELIN is dead. And one of the reasons it's so revered is that the band didn't ca...

News

German 'A Capella Metal Band' VAN CANTO Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

German "a cappella metal" band VAN CANTO — which consists of five singers and one drummer (no guitars, no bass, no keyboards) — has been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. The festival billing is shapi...

News

'20 Fathers Of Heavy Metal' Canadian TV Special To Re-Air This Week

"Listed: 20 Fathers of Heavy Metal" will re-air on Canada's MuchMoreMusic this Friday, December 21 at 8 p.m., on Saturday, December 22 at 11 p.m., and on Wednesday, December 26 at 1:00 a.m. According to a program description, "Listed" "counts down the 20 'fathers of heavy metal.' These bands' grandi...

News

Fans Of THE RED SHORE Mourn As Smash Kills Lead Singer

Brendan Roberts and Karen Collier of the Herald Sun report: Tributes have flowed for two members of a Geelong, Victoria, Australia-based metal band killed in a horror smash while on tour in New South Wales. The lead singer of THE RED SHORE and a member of the band's entourage were killed when the .....

News

THE RED SHORE Singer Reportedly Killed In Australian Car Crash

The West Australian reports that the lead singer of the Geelong, Victoria, Australia-based heavy metal band THE RED SHORE has died in a crash on a New South Wales highway, according to the group's booking agent. An employee for Pan Studios in Geelong said the company had received news that the singe...

News

RAGING SPEEDHORN Guitarist Issues European Tour Wrap-Up

Guitarist Gareth Smith of the Corby, UK metallers RAGING SPEEDHORN has posted a lengthy European tour wrap-up on the band's MySpace page. A couple of excerpts follow: "It's weird when you get to the end of a tour… it's usually, as it is now, mixed feelings. I'm going home [to Stockholm, Sweden] tomo...

News

DELAIN: 'The Gathering' Video Posted Online

DELAIN — the Dutch gothic rock/metal project founded by ex-WITHIN TEMPTATION keyboardist Martijn Westerholt (brother of WITHIN TEMPTATION's Robert Westerholt) — has released the video for its song "The Gathering". Watch the clip below. The track is taken from the group's debut album, "Lucidity", whi...

News

WITHIN TEMPTATION Schedules First-Ever Russian Concert

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers WITHIN TEMPTATION will play their first-ever show in Russia on February 17, 2008 at the Shadow Club in Moscow. WITHIN TEMPTATION's November 24, 2007 concert at the Beursgebouw in Eindhoven, Holland was filmed for an upcoming DVD, tentatively due next summer....

News

WITHIN TEMPTATION Looks Back On 2007; Video Available

Guitarist Ruud Jolie and drummer Stephen Van Haestregt of the Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers WITHIN TEMPTATION recently took part in sounds2move.de's 2007 Christmas special. They spoke about their most memorable moments of 2007 and discussed their plans for the future. Watch the 13-minute...