Greg Prato of Songfacts recently conducted an interview with former PANTERA and current KILL DEVIL HILL bassist Rex Brown. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Songfacts: What would you say was your greatest contribution to a PANTERA song as far as songwriting? Rex: We were the three-piece kind of thing. ...
Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman doesn't rule out the possibility of rejoining the band as the replacement for the recently departed Chris Broderick, explaining that he "never said 'never' to anything in [his] life." Friedman originally left MEGADETH in 1999 in order to make the kind of music that he was passionate about: Japanese pop ...
Duff McKagan (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, LOADED, WALKING PAPERS) will release a new book, "How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions)", on May 12 via Da Capo Press. Speaking to TotalRock Radio last year about the upcoming book, McKagan said: "I had a column for the Seattle Weekly for five years, and
Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL will release their new album, "Extinct", in March via Napalm Records. The CD was completed at Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden with producer Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with KATATONIA, AMON AMARTH, OPETH and PARADISE LOST, among others. The first single from "Extinct", "The Last Of Us", was premiered on ...
Norwegian hard rockers TNT insist that the band is not dead yet despite the recent departure of singer Tony Harnell, explaining that it's "possible that TNT will rise again." Said the band: "We hereby want to thank you, and everybody on and off stage, for a great 2014 — celebrating 25 anniversary of the 'Intuition' ...
Vocalist Till Lindemann of German industrial metallers RAMMSTEIN has joined forces with Swedish producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN) in a brand new project simply called LINDEMANN. An official Facebook page has been launched at this location. Pär Hulkoff, vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist for the Swedish industrial metal band RAUBTIER,
Duff McKagan (GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, LOADED, WALKING PAPERS) was recently interviewed on HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta's official podcast, "The Jasta Show". You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the money he still earns from GUNS N' ROSES' classic recordings: ...
Mike C of WSOU (89.5 FM), the non-commercial college radio station broadcasting from the campus of Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, recently conducted an interview with former SLAYER and current PHILM drummer Dave Lombardo. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. Asked what advice he would give ...
SKID ROW guitarist Dave "Snake" Sabo says that he doesn't have any issues with people who come to see his band perform live believing singer Sebastian Bach is still a member of the group, explaining that the fact that they are spending their hard-earned money to attend a SKID ROW concert is a compliment in ...
American singer Tony Harnell has left Norwegian rockers TNT a little over a year after he rejoined the band. Says Tony: "This was an amazing year for me and for all the TNT fans who were lucky enough to be at the concerts. Many of the shows were the best TNT shows ever, in my ...
