It’s well known by now that the surviving members of Alice Cooper are collaborating on a new record together. Bassist Dennis Dunaway, guitarist Michael Bruce, and drummer Neal Smith have joined Alice Cooper in the band’s upcoming studio record, and it seems as if the band’s reunion doesn’t feel much like a reunion, and more […]
Earlier this week, it was reported that Lord Buffalo drummer Yamal Said was detained by Customs and Border Patrol in the US when the band were on their way to Europe to start their EU leg of the tour. Lord Buffalo said in an original statement that, “”We are heartbroken to announce we have to […]
Festival season is not just looming, or impending – it’s within sight. Reservations have been made, tents have been bought, timetables have been dissected to ensure the appropriate sets are seen, it’s here. And with that in mind, and a new editor on the other side of the pond (that’s me!), there is a whole new […]
It’s shaping up to be a weird year for Foo Fighters. The band just announced their first show since taking a break after frontman Dave Grohl fathered a child outside his marriage for this October in Singapore… and apparently they’ve got another new drummer. According to drummer Josh Freese, he was fired by Foo Fighters […]
The upcoming Final Destination Bloodlines movie has a pretty straightforward soundtrack featuring artists like Johnny Cash, Kelly Clarkson, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and UK-based thrash band Evile. One of those things is certainly not like the other, but it’s true! Evile‘s 2007 track “Enter The Grave” appears somewhere in the movie, though who knows where. Now […]
Filter frontman Richard Patrick got pretty candid with Columbus, Ohio’s 99.7 The Blitz radio station about the state in which artists are expected to make records nowadays – “Short Bus was written and recorded and we made the record for, like, three or four hundred thousand dollars. Now we make records for 20 grand, 40 grand.” […]
I Prevail has officially split with original vocalist Brian Burkheiser. I Prevail issued a brief statement on the split, saying they’ll carry on as a band and will have their other vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe pulling double duty. Burkheiser has not issued a statement on his departure just yet, though it is worth noting that I […]
The Rivers Of Nihil that produced tech death corkers like The Conscious Seed of Light and Monarchy; and the Rivers Of Nihil that are ushering in their self-titled fifth studio effort on May 30, are different beasts entirely. Embracing tripped-out prog and dynamic layers and textures that have bordered on the beautiful and the grotesque, […]
Dolven – the project featuring Nick Wusz (Travellers Rest), Jason Walton (Agalloch, MoonBladder, Sculptured), Hunter Ginn (Agalloch, Canvas Solaris, Radical Research), and Jori Apedaile (Eneferens, Hyalithe) – is set to release their third record In My Grave… Silence on June 13 via Fiadh Productions and Winding Stair Records. I’m more than thrilled to present the […]
“”Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” needs no introduction – one of the best songs ever recorded, if you ask me. Maybe not the obvious choice, but it’s a dream for me to do it one day and here it is. Our rendition of ‘S.B.S.’ (Mass Bloody Mass?),” Leif Edling of Candlemass says of the band’s cover of Black […]
