Danish modern metallers MNEMIC have unveiled the cover artwork (see below) of their fourth studio album, "Sons Of The System", which is scheduled for a January 2010 release via Nuclear Blast Records. Commented guitarist Mircea Gabriel Eftemie: "Since late 2008, we started looking into artwork for the album, but it was not before we entered ...
November 2009 - Blabbermouth Archive
SOTAJUMALA To Enter Studio In January
Finnish metal band SOTAJUMALA has issued the following update: "On Monday, January 11, 2010, we'll enter Studio Audio in Jyväskylä to start recording our third album! In the following four weeks we'll be working long days at both Studio Audio and Basement Alliance with Tuomas Kokko to finish the album. Mastering will be handled by ...
RECKLESS LOVE: 'Beautiful Bomb' Video Released
"Beautiful Bomb", the first full-scale music video from RECKLESS LOVE, the Finnish hard rock quartet fronted by former CRASHDIET singer H. Olliver Twisted (a.k.a. Olli), can be viewed below. The group says, "Featured in the video are a beauty, a bomb, a pink H.D. and us rocking our skinny asses off!!" RECKLESS LOVE recently inked ...
EUMERIA Parts Ways With Bassist, Announces Replacement
EUMERIA, the brainchild of former OUTWORLD keyboardist Bobby Williamson, is recording its debut album at Origin Sound in Spring, Texas with producer Craig Douglas (HELSTAR, NECROFAITH, LYCOPHILE). Williamson says, "Due to an unfortunate injury to EUMERIA bassist Shawn Kascak's hand, the band has chosen Derek Blakley (HAJI'S KITCHEN, THOUGHT CHAMBER) to fill in on bass ...
TIWANAKU: New Song Featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Posted Online
TIWANAKU, the central Florida-based metal band featuring Emo Mowery (ex-NOCTURNUS) on guitar/vocals and Mike Estes (BURNING INSIDE, ACHERON) on guitar, and newest addition, Royse Bassham on drums, has uploaded a song called "Today in Battle", featuring a guest appearance by bassist Alex Webster (CANNIBAL CORPSE, BLOTTED SCIENCE). Commented Mowery, "Alex is one of ...
Former ANTHRAX Singer To Guest On 'Heavy Metal Mayhem'
DEATHRIDERS/ex-ANTHRAX vocalist Neil Turbin will guest on the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" radio show with Mike "The Big Cheese". The interview will take place during the Sunday, November 8 broadcast from 6 to 8 p.m. EST. For information, go to this location. Fan-filmed video footage of DEATHRIDERS performing the ANTHRAX classic "Metal Thrashing Mad" ...
AC/DC Are Australia's Richest Entertainers
The Age reports that legendary rockers AC/DC have topped this year's list of Australia's richest entertainers, according to Australian business magazine BRW. The band dislodged the WIGGLES from the No. 1 spot in the 2009 BRW Top 50 Entertainers list, with revenue of AUD $105 million (approximately USD $95 million) — a nine-fold ...
Report: Metal Fan RUUTU Leads Fellow SENATORS To METALLICA Concert
Allen Panzeri of The Ottawa Citizen reports: About half of the Ottawa Senators went to the METALLICA concert on Tuesday night, led by one of the heavy-metal band's biggest fans, Jarkko Ruutu. He "fell in love" with the band when he was in school in the early '80s and has seen them in ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN, TONY IOMMI Interviewed For GUITAR WORLD's 30th-Anniversary Issue
Eddie Van Halen (VAN HALEN) appears with Tony Iommi (BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) on the cover of Guitar World's 30th-anniversary (2010) issue, available at newsstands November 17. Catch up with two of rock's living legends and most admired musical pioneers inside this special collector's issue as they talk shop about the past and present, ...