Search results for 'sleeping'

News

Former STATIC-X Guitarist Back In Jail

According to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, former STATIC-X and DOPE guitarist Tripp Eisen — whose real name is Tod Rex Salvador — is back in jail as of December 10, 2008 following an apparent parole violation. He is currently scheduled to be released on October 19, 2009....

News

FEARSCAPE Signs With BOMBWORKS RECORDS

Bombworks Records has announced the signing of Australian melodic progressive black metallers FEARSCAPE. The band's first release with Bombworks will be a remastered reissue of 2008's "Scent of Divine Blood", featuring brand new artwork, contain one previously unreleased track and bonus live footage...

News

IMPENDING DOOM, SLEEPING GIANT, WAR OF AGES Confirmed For FACEDOWN FEST

IMPENDING DOOM, SLEEPING GIANT, WAR OF AGES, FOR TODAY, XDEATHSTARX, A PLEA FOR PURGING, NO INNOCENT VICTIM, as well as 10 more bands from Facedown, Strike First and Dreamt Music will take part in the Facedown Fest 2009 on April 3-4 at The Glass House in Pomona, California. For more information, vis...

News

DREAM THEATER's PORTNOY: 'Death Magnetic' Is METALLICA Album I've Been Waiting 20 Years For

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy writes: "Roadrunner asked me for my Top 10 album list back in November (with comments) for their artist/employee year-end wrap up. For whatever reason, they never posted anybody's lists this year — so I figured I'd share it here so it doesn't go to waste." Portnoy'...

News

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Joined By THE RIVALRY Drummer

Drummer Billy Rymer of the Long Island, New York-based progressive rock band THE RIVALRY has reportedly joined THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN as the replacement for Gil Sharone. Billy (see photo below) grew up living the small town life of Long Island. It was there that upon receiving his first drum set...

News

DREAM THEATER's MIKE PORTNOY Reveals Favorite Albums, Films, Shows Of 2008

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has revealed his favorite albums, movies and TV shows from 2008 via the band's official web site. They are as follows: Favorite Albums of 2008 (in no particular order) 01. METALLICA - Death Magnetic 02. PROTEST THE HERO - Fortress 03. THE MARS VOLTA - The Bedlam In...

News

URIAH HEEP Guitarist Issues Year-End Update

Guitarist Mick Box of legendary progressive rock veterans URIAH HEEP has issued the following update: "Well, here we are heading towards the festive holiday season once again after a year of many ups and downs. The release of [the new URIAH HEEP album] 'Wake The Sleeper' was a highlight after us wai...

News

ROB ZOMBIE Confirmed For 'Halloween' Sequel

Michael Fleming of Variety.com reports that Dimension Films and Rob Zombie are teaming for another chapter of "Halloween", tentatively due for release in October. Zombie will write and direct "H2", the sequel to his 2007 reinvention of the John Carpenter horror classic. Production will begin in Marc...

Review

While You Were Sleeping…

Just when I'm feeling like I can't take any more of this propagating breed of new school death/grind/core metal youngsters THE PLASMARIFLE's "While You Were Sleeping…" comes along and leaves a mighty big impression on me. Though an overused term like deathcore might apply in this case, it seems more...

News

ROB ZOMBIE: WHITE ZOMBIE 'Was A Painful Situation Most Of The Time'

BigMusicGeek.com recently conducted an interview with Rob Zombie. Several excerpts from the chat follow below. BigMusicGeek.com: Overall, how would you describe your time as a member of WHITE ZOMBIE? Do you look back on it all with a certain fondness? Rob: "It was a weird situation because when the...

News

METALLICA's LARS ULRICH: 'It's Been A Great Year For Us On All Fronts'

Lisa Wilton of Sun Media recently conducted an interview with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Sun Media: Would you say the new album, "Death Magnetic", is a return to form for METALLICA? Ulrich: I don't agree or disagree with it. The more I hear people...

News

WHITE ZOMBIE: 'Let Sleeping Corpses Lie' First-Week Sales Revealed

WHITE ZOMBIE's 4-CD/1-DVD box set, "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" (Geffen/UMe),sold 2,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. A trailer for "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" can be viewed below. Released on November 25, the CDs bring together for the first...

News

ROB ZOMBIE Directing 'Halloween 2'?

The Pulse of Radio reports that Rob Zombie is rumored to be directing the sequel to his hit 2007 remake of "Halloween", according to Shock Till You Drop. A source told the horror movie web site that following the departure of French directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo from the project, Zom...

News

TIAMAT In Moscow: More Video Footage Available

Video footage of TIAMAT's November 21, 2008 concert at the Tochka club in Moscow, Russia can be viewed below. More clips can be found at this location. TIAMAT utilized the services of guitarist Johan Nieman (ex-THERION) for its Russian dates following the recent departure of Thomas Wyreson. The grou...

News

TIAMAT: Moscow Photos Available

The MetalList webzine has uploaded photos of TIAMAT's November 21, 2008 concert at the Tochka club in Moscow, Russia. TIAMAT utilized the services of guitarist Johan Nieman (ex-THERION) for its Russian dates following the recent departure of Thomas Wyreson. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. Vo...