Paul Stanley's 98-year-old father attended KISS's February 16 concert at the Forum in Los Angeles, California. Last night, the KISS frontman tweeted out a backstage photo of him with his dad, aloing with the caption: "MY DAD! The Oldest And Coolest Man Ever At A KISS Concert. At @theforum Saturday Night. He'll be NINETY NINE ...
Finnish melodic deathsters INSOMNIUM have begun recording their eighth studio album for a fall 2019 release. Drums are being nailed at SF Studio with engineer Kimmo Perkkiö. Work will then continue at Teemu Aalto Music Productions in Kotka. Jens Bogren will handle the mix at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. Comments guitarist Markus Vanhala: "Again, ...
KATATONIA, the Swedish purveyors of dark progressive rock/metal, are starting to make their first moves after an idle year of stillness. Says the band: "We will begin our return with a celebration of our album 'Night Is The New Day', which turns 10 years now in 2019. For the album's 10th anniversary, Peaceville are set ...
According to CBC, AC/DC guitarist Angus Young has donated $19,260 CAD (approximately $14,580 USD) to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario after hearing about a Canadian fan's unusual fundraiser. Steve McNeil, who lost his mother and his mother-in-law to Alzheimer's, has been travelling across Canada to skate for 19 hours and 26 minutes in ...
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has announced a series of new headlining U.S. shows and festival dates for July. Special guests, including IN THIS MOMENT, will support on select show dates. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will also perform on a handful of major festival shows throughout the summer. Tickets will go on sale February 22 at ...
John Petrucci has admitted to SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation" that "The Astonishing", DREAM THEATER's wildly ambitious double concept LP, was criticized by some fans for being an overblown, self-indulgent exercise in excess. "[The response] was very mixed," the guitarist said. "It was really mixed, which, quite honestly, I totally anticipated. First of all, that whole project ...
GREAT WHITE rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Michael Lardie has told the K-97 radio station that the band has begun putting together new material with its latest addition, singer Mitch Malloy. "We're working on some ideas right now," he said (hear audio below). "Nothing carved in stone as far as when we're gonna start [recording]. But ...
Erik Rutan made his live debut with CANNIBAL CORPSE at the opening show of the "Decibel Magazine Tour" on February 17 in San Antonio, Texas. He is playing with the band as the temporary replacement for guitarist Pat O'Brien, who was arrested in December for burglary and assaulting a police officer while his Florida home ...
Tom Morello will embark on a U.S. tour in May in support of his his recently released solo album, "The Atlas Underground". Prior to the run, the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and PROPHETS OF RAGE guitarist will perform at Ultra Music Festival in Miami on March 29. The 14-date spring trek will launch May 3 ...
Former LIFE OF AGONY drummer Sal Abruscato has slammed the band's transgender lead singer, Mina Caputo, as "a really nasty person" who "is not who she says she is." Asked in a new interview with Big Music Geek about the reasons for his December 2017 departure from LIFE OF AGONY, Sal said: "We ...
