ThatsSoMetal.com has uploaded video footage of guitarist Jack Frost (ex-SAVATAGE) and his band SEVEN WITCHES recording their new CD, entitled "Year of the Witch". You will get to hear them recording a couple tracks from the record along with some in studio antics and a report on what the near future holds for the WITCHES. ...
The release date of DREAM THEATER's upcoming DVD reissue of their first two home videos, "Dream Theater - Images And Words: Live In Tokyo" (1993) and "Dream Theater: 5 Years in a Livetime" (1998) has been pushed back to July 13 from the originally announced June 29 date due to "manufacturing delays," according to a ...
Former HOLE/SMASHING PUMPKINS bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur will be the musical guest on NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" on June 18 at 12:35 a.m. ET. Melissa will be promoting her Capitol solo debut, which will be released June 1 under the "Auf Der Maur" moniker. "Auf Der Maur" was produced by MASTERS OF ...
Sweden's AMON AMARTH have finished recording the drums for their upcoming album, "Fate of Norns", "and at the moment the guitars are being put on tape," according to a posting by vocalist Johan Hegg on the group's web site. "Next week we'll start recording the bass and vocals. Everything is running according to plan, and ...
TRASH LIGHT VISION, the new band featuring MURDERDOLLS guitarist Acey Slade (ex-DOPE), have lined up several East Coast dates in June before heading over to the U.K. for a 10-dte tour. The group's itinerary is shaping up as follows: Jun. 05 - Philadelphia, PA @ Doc Watsons Jun. 10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Abilene Jun. ...
BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION guitarist Tracii Guns has refuted published reports that his B.O.D. bandmate Nikki Sixx (ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE) knocked a Nevada fan out last Saturday night (May 22) when he flung his instrument into the crowd and clocked the guy in the head. Describing the previously published account of what supposedly transpired that ...
Sandy Tomcho of Middletown, NY's Times Herald-Record writes: "Mark Garcia wanted to go to an IRON MAIDEN concert. Problem was, it was 1998 and the last time the band performed in the Hudson Valley was 1988. MAIDEN wasn't making it back anytime soon. So he took matters into his own hands. "SANCTUARY (web ...
Brian Hoffman of DEICIDE and Neal Moser have joined forces to introduce the newest guitar to the Moser Custom Shop guitar line — The Beast Master. Designed by Hoffman and Moser, The Beast Master is an update/improvement from The Beast, which Hoffman designed for BC Rich. To see Brian's new design, click here. ...
LAST CRACK's "Energy Mind", a song Metal Maniacs magazine called "one of the greatest songs of the decade (1990s), if not all time," from the group's 1991 Roadrunner Records release "Burning Time", produced by Dave Jerden (JANE'S ADDICTION, ALICE IN CHAINS), became the first song to be played on 94.6 FM Special Ops Radio in ...
PRONG have reportedly had some of their gear stolen in Dallas, Texas Thursday night (May 27). The band, who are in the middle of their U.S. tour, are continuing to play all their previously scheduled shows while hoping to recover some of the stolen equipment. According to a friend of the group, James Francis of ...
