Kristi Singer of The Sun News recently conducted an interview with L.A. GUNS frontman Phil Lewis. An excerpt from the chat follows: Q: Do you enjoy performing the old or new material more? Lewis: "I like doing it all. I like doing the new stuff and impressing people that we've still got it ...
April 2006 - Blabbermouth Archive
'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' Documentary Set For VH1 Television Premiere
"Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", a brand-new documentary offering a guided tour through heavy metal's storied but largely ignored history, is one of eight new high-end feature-length programs that will be included in VH1's documentary series "VH1 Rock Docs". Each of the documentaries will reveal an untold story in the history of rock and hip-hop music, ...
KORN Guitarist To Perform Acoustically At Bassist's Wedding
KORN guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer has told Launch Radio Networks that he will have another chance to play acoustically a little later this spring at the wedding of KORN bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu. "I'm actually gonna play Spanish guitar," he said. "He asked me to play, so I'm gonna play nylon string Spanish guitar for ...
H.I.M. Perform On U.K.'s 'Top Of The Pops': Video Available
Finnish goth metallers H.I.M. performed their new single "Killing Loneliness" on the U.K.'s "Top Of The Pops", which aired this past Sunday (April 23). Watch a 30-second clip from the performance at BBC.co.uk (Real Media). As previously reported, H.I.M.'s new video for "Killing Loneliness" will premiere on MTV2 on Monday, May 1. It ...
10 YEARS Singer Not Ready To Go All-Digital
Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report: 10 YEARS recently made an EP of four acoustic tracks available exclusively through the iTunes online music store. While he likes the idea of selling music digitally, 10 YEARS singer Jesse Hasek told Launch that he doesn't see it replacing CDs. "I mean, that could very possibly ...
CANDLEMASS Bassist Says Singer MESSIAH Is Suffering From 'Severe Pre-Recording Psychosis'
CANDLEMASS bassist/songwriter Leif Edling has released a statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding singer Messiah Marcolin's announcement that he was leaving the band. As previously reported, Marcolin contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET earlier today (April 28) to reveal that he has parted ways with the Swedish doomsters and that it's 100 percent definite that he will not return. ...
BLACK SABBATH Guitarist Wasn't Aiming To Summon The Devil With Early Material
BBC News has published an article on the so-called Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages. On the surface there might appear to be no link between BLACK SABBATH, Wagner's "Gotterdammerung", "West Side Story" and the theme tune to the "Simpsons". But all of them rely heavily ...
EYEHATEGOD Tribute Album Details Revealed
Emetic Records will release an EYEHATEGOD tribute album, entitled "For The Sick - A Tribute To Eyehategod", sometime in the fall. A statement from the label reads as follows: "All the artists involved in the release are friends or fans of the sludge legends and we are happy to have the best of the underground ...
PRIMAL FEAR To Share Stage With SINNER In Germany
German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR will be sharing the stage with SINNER — the band fronted by PRIMAL FEAR bassist Mat Sinner — on October 7, 2006 at the H2O in Reichenbach near Stuttgart, Germany. Theer will also be an opening act and a "big European fan meeting," according to a posting on PRIMAL FEAR's ...