Pat Prince of Goldmine magazine recently conducted an interview with DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Goldmine: How is everything on the IRON MAIDEN tour so far? Mike Portnoy: Good. But, to be honest, it's a weird adjustment for us to be the opening ...
Glenn Danzig was recently interviewed by Joe D, host of the metal show "Saturday Night Scream", which airs every Saturday night from 9:00 p.m. to midnight on WAQX (95X) in Syracuse, New York. The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. Glenn Danzig is currently editing the music video he directed ...
SUNDOWN SINDROME, the project featuring TO/DIE/FOR frontman Jape Perätalo and members of the German band DAS SCHEIT, has posted rough-mix versions of a couple of new songs in the YouTube clip below. The band's debut album was recorded at Bazement studios in Germany and is tentatively due before the end of the year. SUNDOWN SINDROME ...
On July 2, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with bassist Tom Cato Visnes (a.k.a. King ov Hell; OV HELL, GOD SEED, GORGOROTH). You can now listen to the chat below. "The Underworld Regime", the debut album from OV HELL — the new black metal project featuring DIMMU BORGIR vocalist ...
DEMIURG — the Sweden-based band featuring Rogga Johansson (RIBSPREADER, PAGANIZER) on vocals and guitars, Johan Berglund (THIS HAVEN) on bass, Ed Warby (GOREFEST, AYREON, HAIL OF BULLETS) on drums and Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY, NIGHTINGALE, BLOODBATH) on lead guitar and keyboards — will release its third album, "Slakthus Gamleby", on July 30 via Cyclone ...
Video footage of Jerry Only, a member of seminal horror-punk band the MISFITS, performing "The Star Spangled Banner" at Seattle's KeyArena on June 5, 2010 can be viewed below. Commented Jerry: "The MISFITS have for a third of a century toured the world representing the United States of America. It was always a dream and ...
Fan-filmed video footage of San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans DEATH ANGEL performing a new song, "River Of Rapture", on April 6, 2010 at Rio's in Leeds, England can be viewed below (courtesy of Dave Ingham a.k.a. YouTube user "triptykon"). The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Lord of Hate 02. Evil Priest 03. Buried ...
Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach is currently working on material for a new solo album which he says will be released through an as-yet-undisclosed "major label." **UPDATE**: Sebastian Bach has released the following clarification/statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "It says on Blabbermouth today that my new CD will be released 'on a major label.' I never ...
Finnish hard rock monsters LORDI debuted their brand new single, "This Is Heavy Metal", during their headlining appearance at this year's Gods of Metal festival, which took place June 25-27 in Torino, Italy. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below. Photos of the LORDI concert are available on the Italian news blog ...
