Florida death metallers HATE PLOW and Switzerland's REQUIEM have been confirmed as the support acts for legendary Swiss thrash pioneers MESSIAH at their special reunion gig at the Volkshaus in Zürich, Switzerland on June 13. MESSIAH, who have no plans to record a new album or embark on a full-fledged tour, will also perform at ...
April 2003 - Blabbermouth Archive
ZYKLON Finalize Track Listing For 'Aeon'
Norway's ZYKLON, the band featuring Zamoth (a.k.a. Samoth) and Trym of EMPEROR, have finalized the track listing for their sophomore full-length effort, "Aeon", due in September through Candlelight Records. The follow-up to 2001's "World Ov Worms", which was recorded at Akkerhaugen Lydstudio and mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with producer Fredrik Nordström, will ...
DEFTONES: More 'Guerilla' Dates Leaked!
Several dates for DEFTONES' upcoming "guerrilla"-style tour have been leaked. They are as follows: May 04 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club May 05 - New York City, NY - Webster Hall May 06 - Boston, MA - Axis May 15 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre May 17 - Las Vegas, NY - Sam ...
ZONATA Split Up
Swedish power metallers ZONATA have officially split up. "[A couple of weeks ago] the rest of the band decided to call it quits and so it did happen," manager Jonas Hagström said in a statement. "I spoke to [singer/vocalist] Johannes Nyberg . . . about all this and he said that maybe someday in the ...
GROPE: Video Posted Online
Long-running Danish metallers GROPE have posted a video for the track "Searching For Something" at this location. "Searching For Something" comes off the group's latest CD, "If You Were My Dog", which was released in Scandinavia in late March. ...
MOTÖRHEAD's LEMMY Is Grateful For Return Of His Hat
MOTÖRHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister has released a statement via the group's official web site thanking the two fans who tracked down a black hat stolen from him last May, and returned the article to its rightful owner. Lemmy's statement reads as follows: "I would like to thank from the bottom of my black ...
MADONNA Designer To Tailor MARILYN MANSON's Touring Clothes
Clothing designer Jean Paul Gaultier, who created the super-pointy bras Madonna wore onstage for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition Tour", will tailor the clothing for MARILYN MANSON's trek to support his next album, "The Golden Age of Grotesque", which comes out May 13 through Nothing/Interscope Records. MARILYN MANSON is set to kick off the European leg ...
Owners Of JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Free To Sell It Despite Lawsuit
The owners of a guitar that once belonged to Jimi Hendrix are free to sell the axe, despite a lawsuit by the late guitarist's family, according to MTV.com. Rock Stars Guitars claimed a former roadie gave them the 1967 Fender Stratocaster, which they then tried to put on the eBay auction block. The Hendrix estate ...
HATEBREED Begin Recording New Album
HATEBREED will enter Planet Z studios in Massachusetts today (April 28) to begin tracking their new album for a tentative September release through Republic/Universal Records. The band have reportedly penned over 20 songs for the follow-up to last year's "Perseverance" and will record 15-17 of them over the next month with producer Zeuss (SHADOWS FALL, ...