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DISTURBED Singer DAVID DRAIMAN Says He's Written '95 Percent' Of Songs While High
According to The Pulse Of Radio, DISTURBED frontman David Draiman says that as much as 95 percent of the music he's written for the band has been created while he was high. Speaking with Revolver, Draiman revealed that the new song "Fire It Up", which opens with the sound of a bong hit, was inspired...July 28, 2015
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SLIPKNOT Announces Fall North American Tour Dates With SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, BEARTOOTH
SLIPKNOT continues its scorched-earth campaign across North America, announcing details of a fall headline tour, which will see the Grammy Award-winning group joined by hardcore legends SUICIDAL TENDENCIES and up-and-comers BEARTOOTH. The newly announced dates will kick off on October 13 in Bismarck...July 27, 2015
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D.J. ASHBA Quits GUNS N' ROSES
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist D.J. Ashba has announced his departure from the Axl Rose-fronted outfit. He says in a statement: "Six years ago, I received a call that changed my life forever. The call was from a dear friend of mine (Katie McNeil-Diamond) who was working with GUNS N' ROSES. It was an offer...July 27, 2015
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Guitarist Was 'Pissed Off' About Being Excluded From 'Temper Temper' Recording Sessions
Guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has revealed to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine that he was left out of the recording sessions for the band's 2013 album "Temper Temper". BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck and drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas flew to Thai...July 27, 2015
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SEETHER Announces U.S. Tour With SAINT ASONIA
SEETHER has announced its final headlining tour of the year, a 19-city jaunt that keeps the hard rocking outfit on the road through October. Joining SEETHER will be special guests SAINT ASONIA, the new act featuring ex-THREE DAYS GRACE frontman Adam Gontier and STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok. Tickets...July 27, 2015
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Long Live
In the six years since their last album, "Congregation of the Damned", metalcore favorites ATREYU took a sabbatical from each other to devote time to family and new projects such as I AM WAR, FAKE FIGURES and HELL OR HIGHWATER. Guitarist Travis Miguel did a stint with TRAPT a couple years ago until...July 27, 2015
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FEAR FACTORY's BURTON C. BELL Explains Return To 'Real' Drums On 'Genexus'
FEAR FACTORY vocalist Burton C. Bell says that the band decided to move past the drum-machine technology it used its 2012 album, "The Industrialist", in order to capture the "feeling" that only a real drummer can create in the studio and in the live environment. Legendary extreme-metal drummer Gene...July 26, 2015
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SLAYER's KERRY KING Slammed By JUNGLE ROT Frontman Over MAYHEM FESTIVAL Comments
Vocalist Dave Matrise of Wisconsin death metallers JUNGLE ROT has slammed Kerry King over the SLAYER guitarist's controversial comments about the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, saying that Kerry "could've waited until he was done after the tour to open his mouth." In a recent interview with...July 26, 2015
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Video: LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Reads Outtake From 'Dark Days' Book At Richmond Signing
LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe took part in a signing and reading of his new memoir, "Dark Days", on July 17 at a Fountain bookstore-sponsored event at Urban Farmhouse in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. After Blythe's initial draft of "Dark Days" was submitted, his editor decided to remove a se...July 26, 2015
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KERRY KING On This Year's MAYHEM FESTIVAL: 'You Need Talent To Make People Feel Like Spending That Much Money'
SLAYER guitarist Kerry King says that the organizers of the annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival "tried to reinvent" the event this year and "didn't put enough thought into it," resulting in poor attendance figures. In a recent interview with Metal Insider, King criticized this year's editio...July 25, 2015
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ACCEPT Members 'Stage Dive' - At A Museum!
Peter Baltes and Wolf Hoffmann, founding members of legendary German heavy metal band ACCEPT, had the very first stage diving and crowd surfing experience of their lives on July 18 at the most unlikely of places — at the "Holcim Werkforum Und Fossilienmuseum" ("Rock Fossils") event at the Werkforum...July 25, 2015
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Video: TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Performs JUDAS PRIEST, KING DIAMOND Classics In Manchester
Fan-filmed video footage of Tim "Ripper" Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) performing on July 24 at the Academy in Manchester, England can be seen below. Owens recently told Dubai's Mainstage Events that parting ways with JUDAS PRIEST in 2003 after a seven-year stint with the band "...July 25, 2015
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Video: SKID ROW Performs In Regina
Donz Digital has uploaded video footage of SKID ROW's July 16 performance at Casino Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Check it out below. The new SKID ROW lineup — featuring former TNT singer Tony Harnell — made its live debut on May 22 at Living Sky Casino in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Cana...July 24, 2015
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FEAR FACTORY: New Song 'Dielectric' Available For Streaming
"Dielectric", a brand new song from Los Angeles cyber metallers FEAR FACTORY, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's new album "Genexus", which will be released on August 7 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The follow-up to 2012's "The Industrialist" was co-produced by longtime col...July 24, 2015
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NILE: Lyric Video For New Song 'Call To Destruction'
The official lyric video for the song "Call To Destruction" from the reigning kings of technical, historically-themed brutality NILE can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's new album, "What Should Not Be Unearthed", which will be released on August 28 via Nuclear Blast. Produced by NIL...July 24, 2015
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