These days DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke On The Water" is such a ubiquitous rock "anthem" that it almost seems as if it has been out there forever. Yet the story of how this most famous of metal tracks came into being is shot-through with chance incidents, any one of which could have seen the recording stifled ...
Vocalist Biff Byford of British heavy metal legends SAXON spoke to EonMusic about the progress of the recording sessions for the band's follow-up to 2015's "Battering Ram" album. He said: "Yeah, we got about nine drum tracks laid down. We're running two studios at the same time, so we're writing in one, and ...
New Orleans sludge masters CROWBAR will release their eleventh album, "The Serpent Only Lies", on October 28. The cover artwork was created by renowned artist Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with bands like HATEBREED, SOULFLY and KATAKLYSM. The second song from "The Serpent Only Lies", titled "Plasmic And Pure", can be streamed below. "The ...
The final trailer for "The Violent Sleep Of Reason", the new album from Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH, is available below. The CD, which will be released on October 7 via Nuclear Blast, was inspired by a Goya painting called "The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters". MEHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake comments: "Looking back at the ...
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES will release their twelfth studio album, "Battles", on November 11 via Nuclear Blast in all territories excluding North America and Scandinavia and Eleven Seven Music Group in the U.S. The CD was recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson, who has previously worked with MOTÖRHEAD, BODY COUNT and SEPULTURA, ...
ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian will host "Never Meet Your Heroes", a new radio show which is set to air on Volume, SiriusXM's first-ever 24/7 talk radio channel dedicated to music — its latest news, raging controversies, and non-stop debates — as the focus of the conversation. "Never Meet Your Heroes" features Ian as he chats ...
Faroe Islands natives TÝR have reportedly several shows on their 17-date November European tour supporting the Norwegian metal band SIRENIA canceled over lead singer Heri Joensen's participation in the Faroese practice of whaling. The owners of the Hamburg, Germany club Logo issued the following statement about their cancelation: "It came to our attention only after ...
FAITH NO MORE's music video for the song "Cone Of Shame" can be seen below. "This is one of those tracks that had to be a video, really, because it lends itself so much to visual imagery," FAITH NO MORE bassist Bill Gould explains. "Given the song's sense of Americana, it would have been easy ...
THE PRETTY RECKLESS's music video for the band's scorching single "Take Me Down" can be seen below. The track, which recently landed No. 1 on the Rock Radio chart, marking the band's fourth consecutive No. 1 single, is the first single from THE PRETTY RECKLESS's highly anticipated third studio album, "Who You Selling For", due ...
