The following item was originally published in today's edition of the New York Post: "MTV cameras rolled on New Year's Eve as Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne renewed their 20-year-old wedding vows at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Guests at the Oz-fest included Robbie Williams, Marilyn Manson, Chris Rock, Jon Lovitz, Britt Ekland and rock groupie Pamela ...
January 2003 - Blabbermouth Archive
Former ANTHRAX Guitarist Joins MEAT LOAF!
Former ANTHRAX and current SEBASTIAN BACH guitarist Paul Crook has joined MEAT LOAF's touring band. Having previously worked with the likes of Bach, ANTHRAX, GLENN HUGHES and movie director John Carpenter, Crook couldn't be more excited to work with MEAT LOAF and such a talented group of musicians. "First off, I am honored to play ...
ROB ZOMBIE: Excited About Future Movie Projects
Although ROB ZOMBIE's first movie, "House Of 1000 Corpses", was dropped by Universal and delayed countless times (it is now slated for a March release through Lion's Gate Films), the singer says he's excited to move on to his next movie project. "Well, there's a couple of different movies, and I don't know which one ...
NICKELBACK's KROEGER To Launch 'Fantasic' New Acts Through Label Imprint
NICKELBACK frontman Chad Kroeger says that future releases through his new label, 604 Records, will feature music beyond the gritty rock style of his band and of 604's first release, THEORY OF A DEADMAN. "Right now it's a lot of people saying, 'Well yeah, but everything you work with sounds like you' and at the ...
HALFORD's RAY RIENDEAU: I Haven't Left The Band
HALFORD bassist Ray Riendeau has dismissed as false rumors that he has left the band and has been replaced by FLOTSAM AND JETSAM bassist Jason Ward. As previously reported, Ward was set to fill in for HALFORD's Ray Riendeau during the group's West Coast mini-tour this week after Riendeau's family suffered a tragic loss that ...
ZAKK WYLDE To Appear On Chicago's Channel 19
OZZY OSBOURNE/BLACK LABEL SOCIETY guitarist Zakk Wylde and BLS drummer Craig Nunenmacher (ex-CROWBAR) will appear on the Chicago-area cable TV show "3 Guys Pickin" on Monday, Jan. 13 at 10:30 p.m. on cable channel 19. Zakk will perform "Spoke In the Wheel" and clips of the BLS show in Chicago last September will be shown. ...
CLAWFINGER Push Back Release Date, Set Tentative Track Listing
Swedish rap-metallers CLAWFINGER have set a May 2003 release date for their forthcoming fifth full-length CD, which was recently recorded at Stockholm's Polar Studios and at a recording studio they co-own with MESHUGGAH in the outskirts of the city. The tentative track listing for the as-yet-untitled effort is as follows: 01. Are You Talking To ...
Z RECORDS Kill Bid To Release JOHN SYKES Solo Albums In Europe
Z Records have officially withdrawn from negotiations to release legendary guitar superstar John Sykes' (TYGERS OF PAN TANG, THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE, BLUE MURDER, SYKES) solo albums in Europe. The following is the label's statement on the matter: "Z Records have had to review our position regarding John Sykes, after several weeks of labored negotiations we ...
QUEENSRŸCHE Scrap Album Title, Push Back Release Date
QUEENSRŸCHE have pushed back to Apr. 14 the projected release date through Sanctuary Records of their as-yet-untitled new studio CD (the previously-reported album title, "Tribe", has now apparently been scrapped). Undisclosed problems in the recording phase are being blamed for the delay, according to unofficial fan site WhoKilledMary.com. The band, who are believed ...
AUDIOSLAVE Guitarist, SYSTEM OF A DOWN Singer Break Law To Feed Homeless
AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello and SYSTEM OF A DOWN singer Serj Tankian handed out food to dozens of homeless people Friday in defiance of a new city ordinance that places severe restrictions on food distribution programs Morello and Tankian, who founded the activist organization Axis of Justice last year, also took part in a protest ...