KNIFE PARTY follow their stunning headline set at Miami's Ultra Music Festival by releasing the brand new track "Battle Sirens", a highly anticipated collaboration with legendary guitarist Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, AUDIOSLAVE, PROPHETS OF RAGE) out now via Earstorm Records / Big Beat Records / Comandante / Mom + Pop Music. "Battle Sirens" ...
The journey of Neal Morse has seen three decades of musical accomplishments, the latest being the inception of THE NEAL MORSE BAND. Morse has forged many relationships over the years with his other bands, SPOCK'S BEARD, FLYING COLORS and TRANSATLANTIC. However, the most compelling and fruitful efforts have been those with drummer Mike Portnoy (THE ...
United Rock Nations recently conducted an interview with vocalist Simone Simons and guitarist Mark Jansen of Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On whether EPICA felt any pressure following up 2014's "The Quantum Enigma" album: Simone: "Only a little bit, but more in a positive way. We were so ...
IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has compared the oil market's worst slump in a generation to what happened to the music business fifteen years ago when it refused to adapt to the changes brought about by the Internet. The digital music revolution started with Napster — the file-sharing service dreamt up by two teenagers in ...
According to Billboard, "The Party's Over", the debut EP from PROPHETS OF RAGE, the supergroup featuring members of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, PUBLIC ENEMY's Chuck D and CYPRESS HILL's B-Real, landed on position No. 5 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart with first-week sales of 7,000. The effort also entered the Hard Rock ...
GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna has confirmed that the band has officially left its label home of nearly two decades, Republic/Universal, and signed a deal with BMG. Erna's first release for BMG will be his sophomore solo album, "Hometown Life", which will arrive on Friday, September 30. In the latest webisode documenting the making of "Hometown ...
FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares has slammed musicians who complain about fans using their cell phones during live shows, saying that people who buy tickets for concerts should be able to enjoy the performances however they like. During an interview that was captured on video as part of episode four of FEAR FACTORY's ongoing summer ...
Finnish folk metallers KORPIKLAANI have released a new digital single. The song "FC Lahti" is a very special track written in support of the 20th anniversary of the band's local football team, FC Lahti, which plays in Finland's premier football division Veikkausliiga. KORPIKLAANI's Jonne Järvelä states: "When I was asked if KORPIKLAANI would want to ...
During an interview with Rolling Stone about the upcoming "A Vulgar Display Of Pantera" photo book, former PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown were asked to comment on a photo of the band's stage display from the 2001 "Reinventing The Steel" tour that relied heavily on Confederate flag imagery. Said Anselmo: ...
