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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guitarist Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) will be calling in for a special hour-long segment each day on May 3-5 begining at 1:00 p.m. EST via "The Vault of Metal". As always on the show, live questions will be taken via instant messenger, and possible chat room interaction. Tune into www.metalmassacreradio.com,
Australia's Undercover News (web site) is reporting that guitarist Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES) has filed for divorce from his second wife, Perla. Slash allegedly filed for divorce in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 27. Slash met Perla after the divorce of his first wife Renee in 1997. The couple became engaged ...
QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate will be Alice Cooper's special guest on Cooper's radio show "Nights with Alice Cooper" airing on Tuesday, May 2. The program is a classic-rock format and is nationally syndicated on the United Stations Radio Networks. Air times differ, so make sure to check out NightsWithAliceCooper.com for more information. As ...
Launch Radio Networks reports: TOOL singer Maynard James Keenan has posted a message at the band's official web site, Toolband.com, after fans began expressing disappointment over not being able to get tickets for the group's upcoming North American mini-tour. Keenan wrote, "Many people are complaining about the sold out shows. Relax. We're doing a full-on ...
LACUNA COIL singer Cristina Scabbia (photo) and ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow (photo) recently spoke to Katie Vrabel of The Hartford Advocate about being the only women on the bill of this year's New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, which takes place this weekend. About that question "What is ...
After 13 years of multi-platinum albums, sharing the stage with fellow rock titans from OZZY OSBOURNE to LINKIN PARK, hosting a Friday the 13th party at Hollywood cemetary, and even giving voice to their own South Park characters, KORN have done it all, right? Well, no, actually. Until today, they had never played acoustic. "We ...
