Search results for 'slayer'

News

ZAKK WYLDE Hopes To Get New OZZY OSBOURNE Album Done In Time For OZZFEST

Guitar Player magazine (web site) recently conducted an exclusive interview with OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist/BLACK LABEL SOCIETY mainman Zakk Wylde for the cover story of its June 2006 issue. A few excerpts from the chat follow: Guitar Player: Now that Dime is gone, you're kind of "the guy." Zakk: "Ther...

News

SLAYER's New Album May Be Their Fastest Yet

SLAYER frontman Tom Araya spoke to MTV.com about the group's follow-up to 2001's "God hates Us All", tentatively due late July. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Cult", "Catalyst", "Catatonic" and "Jihad". At this stage, seven weeks into recording, five of the album's 11 tracks are finishe...

News

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: 'The New Black' Tentative Track Listing, Studio Report Available

Canadian extremists STRAPPING YOUNG LAD have set the tentative track listing for their new album, "The New Black", due in July 2006 via Century Media Records. The follow-up to last year's "Alien" was recorded at the Armoury and Profile studios in the band's hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia an...

News

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY Schedule Dates With CHIMAIRA, ARCH ENEMY, HATE ETERNAL

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY, the new band featuring former MEGADETH/current F5 bassist David Ellefson, ex-W.A.S.P. drummer Stet Howland, guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A),will be joining the Jägermeister-sponsored CHIMAIRA/ARCH ENEMY/HATE ETERNAL tour...

News

METALLICA's ULRICH: We Don't Need To Make Another 'St. Anger'

METALLICA's Lars Ulrich has exclusively revealed to Kerrang! magazine that the band's new material has an "old-school" METALLICA flavor. The metal legends are currently working on the follow-up to 2003's "St. Anger" in their own studio at METALLICA HQ in San Rafael, California. "The last album was a...

News

SLAYER Finish Recording New Album; Mixing To Begin This Week

More dates have been confirmed for the SLAYER-headlined "Unholy Alliance Tour - Preaching to the Perverted" which will kick off on 6.6.06 in San Diego, CA (see entire itinerary below). The seven-week trek boasts what has got to be the genre's coolest line-up — joining SLAYER will be LAMB OF GOD, MAS...

News

MENDEED Sign With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

Nuclear Blast Records has announced the signing of up-and-coming U.K. band MENDEED. According to a press release, "the Glasgow-based act plays a stunning mixture out of thrash metal, hardcore and MAIDEN-esque guitar solos and already gained high popularity in their home country, opening for acts lik...

News

TRIVIUM, IN FLAMES, OPETH Among METAL HAMMER GOLDEN GODS Nominees

The nominations for the fourth annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards — which this year takes place on Monday, June 12 at Koko in Camden, North London — were announced today. In keeping with the "Valhalla" theme of this year's awards, Metal Hammer magazine have teamed up with the crew of the "Hammer...

News

LAMB OF GOD Finish Tracking Drums For New CD

LAMB OF GOD have finished tracking the drums for their new CD at Spin Recording studios in Long Island City, New York. Produced by Machine (CLUTCH, KING CRIMSON) and engineered by Josh Wilbur, the follow-up to 2004's "Ashes of the Wake" is tentatively scheduled for release in late August via Epic Re...

News

CHILDREN OF BODOM Keyboardist: Chilling Out With Other Naked Men Is Part Of 'Finnish Culture'

Mark Hensch of antiMUSIC recently conducted an interview with CHILDREN OF BODOM keyboardist Janne Warman. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: antiMUSIC: Your musical output is pretty diverse, and you have strayed outside of BODOM a bit in the past. Are there any thoughts you'd like to offer a...

News

DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I Don't Want To Have Any Part Of METALLICA Feud Anymore'

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted a short interview with MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Classic Rock Revisited: As you watch the finished ["The Arsenal of Megadeth" DVD], what do you feel? You have had some good and some bad in your l...

Review

The Ultimate Destroyer

You knew it would only get bloodier after Chicago's LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR (LOTM) hacked and stabbed with murderous metal rage and old school spirit on 2004's "Carnage". On "The Ultimate Destroyer", lyrical themes based on the savage end of Greek Mythology (with poetic license liberally taken) once ag...

News

Label Founder Talks About EXODUS' Classic 'Bonded By Blood' Album: Video Available

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 posted a four-minute clip featuring Todd Gordon — who earned his rightful place in the annals of thrash metal's history by signing EXODUS to t...

News

SPEED\KILL/HATE Seek Bassist For Tour

Bassist Derek Tailer will be unable to join SPEED\KILL/HATE on their upcoming Metal Crusaders North American tour due to "personal reasons." As a result, the band are currently auditioning bass players to fill in for Derek on this trek. Backing vocals are "a MUST!!!" Interested parties can contact t...

News

APOCALYPTICA: 'Amplified' Collection To Feature New Recordings

SOULFLY mainman Max Cavalera (ex-SEPULTURA) and BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE singer Matt Tuck have recorded guest vocals on one of two "new" tracks that are set to appear on APOCALYPTICA's upcoming 10-year anniversary "best of" CD, "Amplified - A Decade of Reinventing the Cello", due on May 26. Cavalera...