Search results for 'heathen'

News

Former GRIP INC. Bassist Resurfaces In THE ALLKNOWING

Former GRIP INC./HEATHEN bassist Jason Vie Brooks has launched a brand-new Ohio-based project called THE ALLKNOWING. Joining Jason in the new group are vocalist Billy Cox, drummer Sean Harford and guitarist John Lynn. Commented Vie Brooks: "After I left GRIP INC. I felt like a sitting duck reading a...

News

EXODUS Schedule Dates In Korea, Thailand

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS have added dates in Korea and Thailand to their upcoming schedule. The group's irinerary is now shaping up as follows: w/ THE HAUNTED, NILE: Feb. 25 – Seoul, Korea @ Rolling Hall Feb. 28 – Osaka, JPN @ Big Cat Mar. 01 - Nagoya, JPN @ Club Quattro ...

News

EXODUS: 'Now Thy Death Day Come' Video Posted Online

EXODUS' video for the track "Now Thy Death Day Come" has been posted online at NuclearBlast.de (Real Media). The song comes off the band's latest CD, "Shovel Headed Kill Machine", which was released on October 4 via Nuclear Blast Records. Recorded at Trident studios in Pacheco, California and mixed...

News

'Get Thrashed' Documentary Nearing Completion

The makers of "Get Thrashed", the much-anticipated documentary profiling the thrash metal scene of the early Eighties and its impact on the music scene, have issued the following update regarding the project's current status: "In the year since the last news update, we have made giant strides toward...

News

PRIMORDIAL To Play Hometown Warm-Up Show Before U.S. Debut

Irish heathen metallers PRIMORDIAL will play a special hometown warm-up show prior to making their U.S. debut at the Heathen Crusade Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 21 (with MOONSORROW and THYRFING, among others). They will play The Voodoo Lounge in Dublin on Saturday, January 14 along...

Review

Reborn

Cleaning up the office at the end of the year, making room for the onslaught of 2006 releases, this one popped up and seemed like an irresistible piñata for critical derision. STRYPER, those God-rockin' bumblebees with the lame ballads and hair from here to the Pearly Gates? Well, pass me some of th...

News

EXODUS To Support THE HAUNTED In Australia

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS will support Sweden's THE HAUNTED on their upcoming tour of Australia. Confirmed dates are as follows: Mar. 05 - Perth, AUS @ Heat Mar. 06 - Melbourne, AUS @ Hifi Bar Mar. 07 - Sydney, AUS @ The Forum Mar. 08 - Brisbane, AUS @ The Arena EXODUS ...

Review

Heralding: The Fireblade

A refreshing change of pace and a melodically pleasing experience, FALKENBACH's fourth album, "Heralding: The Fire Blade" proves yet again (to me anyway) how a folk music core can be so eloquently intertwined with metal when the right mind is put to work creating the combination. It is the mind of V...

News

TODESBONDEN To Headline Virginia's A MIDWINTER NIGHT'S DREAM

TODESBONDEN, the doom metal, atmospheric, renaissance, ethnic, Celtic, medieval, and classically influenced project founded by Laurie Ann Haus (AUTUMN TEARS, EPHEMERAL SUN, NEST, RAIN FELL WITHIN, GARDEN OF SHADOWS),have been confirmed as the headliners of A Midwinter Night's Dream, set to take pla...

News

EMERALD TRIANGLE Featuring Ex-VICIOUS RUMORS Guitarist IRA BLACK: Tour Dates Announced

EMERALD TRIANGLE, the San Francisco band featuring frontman Jade Steel and guitarist Ira Black (METAL CHURCH, VICIOUS RUMORS, HEATHEN),will be hitting the road in late January in support of their new CD, "Tales of the Rondo". The album is being described in a press release as "a sci-fi comic book a...

News

EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION: More East Coast Dates Announced

According to the band's booking agent, EXODUS will be teaming up with CRYPTOPSY and IMMOLATION for the following East Coast dates: Apr. 27 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Apr. 28 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance Apr. 29 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium Apr. 30 - New York, NY @ B.B. King's EXODUS will ...

News

EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION To Team Up For U.S. Tour?

According to the upcoming events calendar on New York City's B.B. King's Blues Club web site, EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY and IMMOLATION will be teaming up for a April 30, 2006 show at the venue. Additional dates are expected to be announced soon. EXODUS are continuing to tour in support of their latest album...

News

THYRFING To Be Joined By Special Guest At HEATHEN CRUSADE METALFEST

The organizers of the Heathen Crusade Metalfest and the members of THYRFING have announced that Toni Kocmut will be performing several songs with THYRFING during their set at the Heathen Crusade on Saturday, January 21, 2006, at the Star Central in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. For those of you who d...

News

BILLY SHEEHAN Contributes Liner Notes To DAVID LEE ROTH Tribute

Amid his busy recording and touring schedule, bassist Billy Sheehan (DAVID LEE ROTH, TALAS) took out time this past fall to contribute the liner notes to the just-released "Just Like Paradise: A Millennium Tribute to Diamond David Lee Roth". Among other things, Sheehan praised Dave for "changing my...

News

NOVEMBERS DOOM To Showcase New Material At HEATHEN CRUSADE FESTIVAL

Chicago's NOVEMBERS DOOM, who are currently in the writing process for their still-untitled follow-up to 2005's successful "The Pale Haunt Departure" (due out sometime in 2006 on The End Records),will be taking a break from studio work to take part in the inaugural Heathen Crusade Festival in Minne...