Apoch's Metal Review recently conducted an interview with guitarist Robert Vigna of New York death metal veterans IMMOLATION. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. IMMOLATION's ninth full-length album, "Kingdom Of Conspiracy", will be released on May 14 in North America, both digitally and physically, via Nuclear Blast ...
Progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER are in the studio recording the follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album "A Dramatic Turn Of Events". Speaking to Artisan News, the band's keyboardist, Jordan Rudess, said: "Things are really kind of intense in DREAM THEATER land. We've made our way through our album process to a good point now. We're ...
A three-minute video clip of MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine talking about this year's edition of Gigantour — the critically acclaimed package festival he founded in 2005 — can be seen below. Joining headliners MEGADETH at this year's event will be BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, the band led by former OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Zakk Wylde; DEVICE, the ...
ROB ZOMBIE/ex-MARILYN MANSON guitar virtuoso John 5 was named "Best Guitarist" at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show presented by Epiphone this past Thursday (May 2) at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California. John 5 is one of the most sought-after players and composers of the last decade. His ability to play many ...
While on the "black carpet" at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show presented by Epiphone this past Thursday (May 2) at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California, members of METALLICA spoke about SLAYER guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who passed away earlier that day at the age of 49. "Well, it's always difficult when you ...
This past Friday (May 3) was declared Metallica Night at AT&T Park in San Francisco, home of baseball's San Francisco Giants. According to a press release issued by the team, members of METALLICA participated in pre-game festivities which included throwing out the ceremonial first pitch and guitarists James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett performing the National ...
Ronan McGreevy of The Irish Times recently conducted an interview with Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Irish Times: You've had 25 albums and counting. How do you keep up the pace? Devin: I've been doing it for so long now. ...
Lion Music recently announced the signing of the reactivated '90s Italian heavy metal band HEADLESS. The group's new album, "Growing Apart", contains ten songs shaped around the "licensed signature drumming" of Scott Rockenfield's (QUEENSRŸCHE, SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM) and melodic vocals of Göran Edman (JOHN NORUM, YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN), which fuse hard rock and heavy ...
Last night (Thursday, May 2) on the "black carpet" at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show presented by Epiphone at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California, Philip Anselmo (DOWN, PANTERA), Lemmy Kilmister (MOTÖRHEAD), Rob Zombie, Corey Taylor (STONE SOUR, SLIPKNOT), Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW), Alexi Laiho (CHILDREN OF BODOM), Chris Jericho (FOZZY) and ...
