Search results for 'exciter'

News

Former And Current Members Of WHITESNAKE, ANTHRAX, OBITUARY To Take Part In 'NAMM Metal Jam'

Current and former members of WHITESNAKE, ANGRA, ANTHRAX, OBITUARY, SCAR SYMMETRY, CHASTAIN and EXCITER are among the musicians who will take part in this year's NAMM Metal Jam, set to take place Wednesday, January 22 at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California. Michael Angelo Batio will co-...

News

WATAIN Mainman: 'The Devil Always Wins And The Devil Always Finds His Way'

The Great Southern Brainfart recently conducted an interview with Erik Danielsson of Swedish black metallers WATAIN. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Great Southern Brainfart: So I have to be honest. Aside from listening to VENOM as a kid, I was never much of a black metal fan, a...

News

Canada's IVORY KNIGHT Announces Reunion

Canadian classic metal band IVORY KNIGHT has announced its reunion after eight-year break. The band is currently in rehearsals and intends to return to the live stage first before deciding on whether or not to resume writing and recording. IVORY KNIGHT's second full-length album, titled "Unconscienc...

News

Video: ANTHRAX Guitarist Remembers Late METALLICA Bassist

Video footage of ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian remembering late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton on June 7 at Limelight 2 in Belfast, Northern Ireland during his "Speaking Words" U.K. spoken-word tour can be seen below. In a September 2011 entry on his official blog, Ian commemorated the 25th anniversar...

News

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD: 'Demos & Rarities' LP Details For 'The Complete Works' Box Set Revealed

Finnish extreme metal non-profit Blood Music has set an April 17 pre-order date for the incredibly long-overdue vinyl worship session of every last bit of STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's music one could ever ask for. The monstrous limited edition 7xLP box set discography will contain all five STRAPPING YOUNG...

News

WACKEN Metal Battle Comes To Canada

The world's most prestigious metal festival, Wacken Open Air, known for its elite lineup of the globe's best metal bands is bringing the largest metal contest on the planet to Canada. Wacken Metal Battle Canada will be recruiting one independent Canadian band to perform at this year's highly celebra...

News

EXCITER Guitarist Interviewed On WFMU's 'Peer Pressure' (Audio)

Guitarist John Ricci of Canadian power metal pioneers EXCITER was interviewed by Diane "Kamikaze" Farris on the "Peer Pressure" segment of her radio show on WFMU. You can now listen to the chat below. EXCITER released its latest album, "Death Machine", on October 29, 2010 via Massacre Records. The e...

News

MPIRE OF EVIL Recording New Album

MPIRE OF EVIL (formerly PRIMEVIL) — the band formed in 2010 by ex-VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (bass, vocals) — finished laying down the drums for its forthcoming second album, tentatively due in November. After completing a successful U.S. tour with...

News

EXCITER: New Video Interview Posted Online

Matt of JT TV recently conducted an interview with Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER. You can now watch the chat below. EXCITER released its latest album, "Death Machine", on October 29, 2010 via Massacre Records. The effort was made available as a standard CD, a digipak and a limited-edition (...

Review

The Complete Albums Collection

"Think 'heavy metal' and few bands come to mind as quickly as JUDAS PRIEST," reads a sentence from Greg Prato's liner notes from the 17-disc box (literally) set titled "The Complete Albums Collection". And who could argue that point with any semblance of a logical foundation? One could say the same...

News

MPIRE OF EVIL Announces New Drummer

After completing a successful U.S. tour with new drummer Marc Jackson (who replaced Antony "Antton" Lant earlier this year),MPIRE OF EVIL (formerly PRIMEVIL) — the band formed in 2010 by ex-VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (bass, vocals) — has announced...

News

MPIRE OF EVIL: Footage From Italy's MARATONA ROCK Festival

Video footage of MPIRE OF EVIL (formerly PRIMEVIL) — the band formed in 2010 by ex-VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (guitar) and Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (bass, vocals) — performing on April 29 at the Maratona Rock festival in Santhià, Italy can be seen below. MPIRE OF EVIL recently completed...

Review

Hell to the Holy

It's called heavy metal, as in actual bona fide heavy metal, as is in the genuine article, and MPIRE OF EVIL (previously known as PRIMEVIL) play it with sooty heart and jagged, rusty edges that guarantee a trip to the hospital for tetanus shots. Featuring former VENOM members Jeff "Mantas" Dunn (gui...

News

SLAUGHTER: 25th-Anniversary Edition Of 'Strappado' Available

Canadian thrash/death metal pioneers SLAUGHTER have released a 25th-anniversary two-disc edition of their 1987 full-length debut, "Strappado". The set also contains the band's rare demos — "Meatcleaver", "Bloody Karnage" (both recorded in 1984) and "Surrender Or Die" (1985) — and previously unreleas...

News

EXCITER: New Audio Interview With JOHN RICCI

On April 15, Brian Rademacher of RockEyez conducted an interview with guitarist John Ricci of Canadian thrash metal pioneers EXCITER. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. EXCITER released its new album, "Death Machine", on October 29, 2010 via Massacre Records. The effort was ma...