One of the Nameless Ghouls from Swedish occult rockers GHOST was recently interviewed on Chile's Radio Futuro. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On why there are so many quality bands coming out of Sweden: "I get asked this every now and then, and I think that most Swedish bands ...
Ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland, who was accused by his former bandmates last year of battling drug addiction and chronic tardiness, says that his days of "dope use" are long behind him. STP fired Weiland in February 2013 after reuniting with him in 2010 for a series of tours and one self-titled album. The ...
July 27 marks the 30th anniversary of METALLICA's "Ride The Lightning". Along with original shots from the SLAYER "Hell Awaits" album and the EXODUS landmark "Bonded By Blood", not to mention POSSESSED's "Seven Churches", the Bazillion Points photo book "Murder In The Front Row: Shots From The Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter", by Harald Oimoen ...
SROmaginc.com recently conducted an interview with OVERKILL frontman Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth. You can now listen to the chat in the youTube clip below. OVERKILL's new album, "White Devil Armory", was released on July 22 in North America via eOne Music (July 18 in Europe through Nuclear Blast Records). The effort was tracked at ...
Brazil's Wikimetal podcast recently conducted an interview with Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE). You can now listen to the first part of the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's new studio album, "Catacombs Of The Black Vatican", sold around 26,000 copies in the United States in its first ...
SIXX: A.M., the band featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx alongside guitarist DJ Ashba and vocalist James Michael, will release its third album on October 7. A video for the CD's first single, "Gotta Get It Right", was filmed in mid-June. Other songtitles tentatively set to appear on the CD include "Stars", "Let It Haunt ...
During a roundtable discussion with the media at the Pittsburgh stop of this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch revealed more details about his forthcoming fourth book, which is tentatively due in 2015. "The working title is 'With My Eyes Open', and it's about the eight years that I was ...
KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley spoke to the Austin American-Statesman about the intraband tensions that ultimately resulted in the group's original guitarist, Ace Fehley, and drummer, Peter Criss, becoming permanently replaced by Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, respectively. "We were on the path of success, but that ultimately led us away from what we ...
Fan-filmed video footage of ANVIL's July 25 performance at the Headbangers Open Air festival in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany can be seen below. ANVIL's new album, "Hope In Hell", sold a little under 800 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The disc follows up "Juggernaut Of Justice", which opened with around 1,600 ...
U.K.'s Total Guitar magazine caught up with Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH at this year's Download festival to take a closer look at their PRS SE signature models. Check out the footage below. OPETH's highly anticipated eleventh studio album, "Pale Communion", will be released on August 26 via Roadrunner Records. ...
