Fan-filmed video footage of RATT's December 26, 2008 and December 27, 2008 concerts at the House Of Blues in Hollywood and San Diego, California, respectively, can be viewed below (clips uploaded by "elpaxus"). RATT returned to celebrate the holidays with a very special "Invasion Of Your Holiday" run of dates last month. In honor of ...
Acclaimed Southern California metal fusioneers COSMOSQUAD, featuring guitarist Jeff Kollman (GLENN HUGHES, MOGG/WAY, UFO), bassist Christopher Maloney (DWEEZIL ZAPPA, HARDLINE), and drummer Shane Gaalaas (B'Z, GLENN HUGHES, ULI JON ROTH), are scheduled to appear at the Baked Potato (3787 W. Cahuenga Blvd.) in Studio City, California on Saturday, January 3 for a double live set ...
Metal Injection has just posted a new interview (see below) with the British death metal act ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY. The group discusses being on its first U.S. tour, American beer, getting invited to house parties, what to do when you run out of merch and the upcoming ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY album. ...
GENITORTURERS frontwoman Gen will co-host this year's live webcast for Dean Guitars at the NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show along with Lacey Conner (villainess co-star of VH1's hit TV show "Rock of Love" featuring POISON's Bret Michaels) and Metal Sanaz. Dean will be webcasting live from NAMM for the third consecutive year, bringing ...
German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR will begin mixing their new album, "16.6: (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)", on January 5 at House Of Music studios in Winterbach, Germany with Dennis Ward and Achim Köhler. The CD, which is tentatively due in May via Frontiers Records, will mark the group's first release with guitarist Magnus ...
DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy writes: "Roadrunner asked me for my Top 10 album list back in November (with comments) for their artist/employee year-end wrap up. For whatever reason, they never posted anybody's lists this year — so I figured I'd share it here so it doesn't go to waste." Portnoy's comments on his favorite ...
LED ZEPPELIN 2: THE LIVE EXPERIENCE, the LED ZEPPELIN tribute act featuring Bruce Lamont (frontman for Chicago-based avantgarde metallers YAKUZA) and members of BUSKER SOUNDCHECK, will perform ZEPPELIN's entire "The Song Remains The Same" soundtrack plus a few other classic ZEPPELIN numbers on January 3 at at Empty Bottle in Chicago, Illinois. Jim Derogotis from ...
Guitarist Gio Geraca of Florida-based extreme metallers WYKKED WYTCH will represent Jackson Guitars at this year's NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, which is being held January 15-18 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. WYKKED WYTCH is currently demoing material for its fifth album, to be recorded in early 2009 for an ...
Finnish atmospheric and melodic death/doom metal band ABLAZE IN HATRED will release its second album, "The Quietude Plains", on January 21 in Finland. The international release is planned for March 2009. Also available from January 21 will be a special two-CD slipcase version (limited to 1,000 copies). The follow-up to 2006's "Deceptive Awareness" was recorded ...
METALLICA is in fourth place on Nielsen SoundScan's list of top-selling album artists, with cumulative sales of more than 51 million in the United States since the scanning service set up shop in May 1991. METALLICA's self-titled album from 1991 (also known as the "black" album) is the No. 2 top-selling album of the SoundScan ...
