LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT the instrumental progressive rock/metal project featuring DREAM THEATER members Mike Portnoy (drums), John Petrucci (guitar) and Jordan Rudess (keyboards) alongside progressive rock icon Tony Levin (bass) of KING CRIMSON and PETER GABRIEL fame and legendary hard rock singer Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) have been confirmed as the headliners of ...
Long-running California metallers VICIOUS RUMORS and Texas metal act PHANTOM-X will team up for a tour of the U.S., Europe, and Brazil. Exact cities and dates will be announced as soon as they are confirmed. Capital Chaos last month posted video footage of VICIOUS RUMORS performing the first show with the band's new lineup at ...
Reunited progressive metallers CYNIC, whose 1993 album "Focus" is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal, have inked a worldwide deal with France's Season of Mist Records. The band is set to enter the studio this summer with Grammy-award winning producer Warren Riker (DOWN, SANTANA) to begin work on its long-awaited ...
Justin of Boston.tv conducted an interview with Virginian thrashers MUNICIPAL WASTE following the band's April 27, 2008 performance at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. Watch the two-minute chat below. MUNICIPAL WASTE last year filmed a video for the track "Headbanger Face Rip" from the group's latest release ...
LIMP BIZKIT/THE KILLER AND THE STAR drummer John Otto has decided to share expertise with the world by offering private lessons. All beginner lessons are one instructor to 1-2 students per lessons. Students are carefully matched according to age, skill level, and musical goals. Pairings will be evaluated and regrouped monthly to provide the best ...
The Pulse of Radio reports that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss recently wrapped up a few U.S. shows and are headed off to tour Europe in May. They'll return this summer to kick off another U.S. leg and are being joined onstage by producer and musician T-Bone Burnett. He tells The Pulse of Radio we ...
Justin of Boston.tv conducted an interview with Montreal extremists DESPISED ICON prior to the band's April 27, 2008 performance at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. Watch the three-minute chat below. DESPISED ICON will team up with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, KATAKLYSM, VADER, CRYPTOPSY, THE FACELESS, ABORTED, BORN ...
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "I felt the need to check in and let everyone know what the latest and greatest is...as you know, my original band, STP, have reunited and are gearing up for our 4 month tour of the U.S. this summer. ...
When Swedish metallers IN FLAMES came to New York for a two-day Gigantour stint, Headbanger's Blog hooked up with singer Anders Fridn and drummer Daniel Svensson to talk about the band's new album, "A Sense of Purpose", the tour, the video for "The Mirror's Truth" and their future plans. In the second of ...
GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal has set "Abnormal" as the title of his new solo album, due later in the year. As previously reported, Bumblefoot will appear at the Chiller Theatre toy, model and film expo at the Hilton Hotel in Parsippany, New Jersey the first weekend in May (May 2-4). Bumblefoot says, ...
