Canada's Exclaim! magazine recently conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT/STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Exclaim!: With "All Hope Is Gone", you returned to a bit more of a heavier sound. Did that just feel like the right thing to do? Corey: It just happened. We've ...
While Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON were in Melbourne as part of their Australian tour, the Australian branch of Roadrunner Records filmed a series of five guitar lessons with vocalist/main composer Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven. In each clip, Satyr explains a little bit about the riffs and then shows you how he plays them. If you ever ...
Directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of Banger Films Inc. — creators of "Iron Maiden: Flight 666", the feature-length documentary film which follows the IRON MAIDEN bandmembers on the first leg of their "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" in February and March of 2008 — were recently interviewed by Andrew Haug of Triple J's ...
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford and QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate will be the featured guests on this week's edition of Full Metal Jackie's nationally syndicated radio show. To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it airs, go to FullMetalJackieRadio.com. Rob Halford has launched a new garment entity: Metal ...
Lick Library has released a comprehensive teaching series of guitar tuition DVDs focusing on METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett's playing: Introducing the two-part "Learn To Play Metallica" double DVD sets, coming in at a weighty combined six hours of in-depth tuition. From the juggernaut "Enter the Sandman" to the ultra-fast and technically demanding "Battery", Lick Library ...
Chicago-based paranormal black metal band WITHERING SOUL has canceled its previously announced May 2 concert in Mount Prospect, Illinois due to an injury suffered by the group's drummer Marek. According to the band, "Marek's injuries are only minor and he will return to his drum kit shortly." WITHERING SOUL adds: "This is the first show ...
Guitarist Alexander Dietz of Germany's death metal and hardcore fusionists HEAVEN SHALL BURN has launched a solo project called ERODE. He says, "I had the idea for ERODE a long time ago. I always wanted to create atmospheres and soundscapes that are far away from guitars and the 'real' sound I normally go for. ERODE ...
THE QUIREBOYS, WOLFSBANE and GUY-MCCOY-TORME (GMT) have been confirmed for this year's Rock & Blues Custom Show, set to take place July 23-25, 2009 at Coney Grey Showground, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: SKINNY MOLLY AC/DC UK THE QUIREBOYS DAN BAIRD AND HOMEMADE SIN GMT WOLFSBANE BEHOLDER SHY NEVERLAND ...
Fan-filmed video footage of ZOUILLE & FRIENDS, the project featuring former SORTILEGE singer Christian "Zouille" Augustin, performing the SORTILEGE classic "Sortilege" at the Keep It True XII festival, which was held April 24-25, 2009 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany can be viewed below. ZOUILLE & FRIENDS is: Christian "Zouille" Augustin (ex-SORTILEGE) - Lead Vocals Renaud ...
Veteran Dutch thrashers DEAD HEAD have posted the 13-minute "20 Years Alive" video which was originally shown at the band's 20th-anniversary gig in Zwolle. Watch it below. DEAD HEAD's latest full-length CD, "Depression Tank", was released in February via Displeased Records. The CD was recorded at Hooiland Studios in Zwolle, Holland and was mixed and ...
