U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine recently conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Kerry King. Several excerpts from the chat follow: Metal Hammer: Shouldn't you be releasing a record soon? It's been four years since "God Hates Us All". Kerry King: "It seems like everybody under the sun says, 'We want a new record,' but ...
Rob Zombie, Rex Brown (DOWN, ex-PANTERA), Vivian Campbell (DEF LEPPARD, ex-DIO, WHITESNAKE), Jerry Cantrell (ex-ALICE IN CHAINS), John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, ex-MARILYN MANSON), Billy Duffy (ex-THE CULT) and Steve Jones (ex-SEX PISTOLS) were among the musicians that joined CAMP FREDDY on stage during their appearance at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California Thursday night ...
DEEDS OF FLESH, EMBALMED, NON EXISTENCE, BLACKGOAT, BAREFOOT BARNACLE and LORDS OF DEATH have been confirmed for the Seattle Death Metal Festival, set to take place November 5-6 at Studio 7 in Seattle, Washington. Advanced tickets are $10 from local bands and $12 day of show. ...
NOVEMBERS DOOM and KEEN OF THE CROW (featuring former members of MORGION) are the latest acts to be confirmed for the Heathen Crusade Metalfest, set to take place Saturday, January 21, 2006 at Star Central in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Also scheduled to appear are Finland's MOONSORROW, Ireland's PRIMORDIAL, Sweden's THYRFING, THE CHASM, TYPHUS and TODESBONDEN. ...
Contrary to a posting on the web site of New York City's B.B. King's Blues Bar & Grill, British heavy metal veterans SAXON have **NOT** cancelled their previously rescheduled U.S. tour, the group's North American booking agent, Mark Hyman of Paradise Artists, Inc., has informed BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "The band has had to postpone the ...
In addition to headlining the 2006 edition of Norway's Inferno Festival, influential Norwegian extreme metal outfit EMPEROR will perform at next year's Wacken Open Air, set to take place August 3-5, 2006 in Wacken, Germany. Other bands confirmed for the three-day event include CHILDREN OF BODOM, SOILWORK, SUBWAY TO SALLY, IN EXTREMO and DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN ...
Influential Norwegian extreme metal outfit EMPEROR will reunite for the 2006 edition of the Inferno Festival, set to take place April 13-15 in Oslo, Norway, it was announced Friday night at Scream Magazine's 15-year anniversary event at the Rockefeller in Oslo. Tickets for the festival have just been made available via Ticketmaster.no. EMPEROR ...
According to Deep-Purple.net, DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan's upcoming album "Gillan's Inn" — a celebration of Ian's 40th year on the road, featuring remakes of tracks spanning Ian's entire career — will be made available on the new DualDisc format; regular stereo CD on one side, DVD on the other. Gillan has used this to ...
Canadian metal band KITTIE have posted the following update on their official web site: "Dave [KITTIE manager/father of guitarist/vocalist Morgan and drummer Mercedes] and Morgan Lander were turned back at the U.S.-Canadian border just a few moments ago. This makes the appearance at Chicago's Windy City Invitational [on Saturday, October 1] extremely unlikely to occur ...
The Associated Press has issued the following report: The legal battle over soundproofing foam blamed in a deadly nightclub fire resumed Friday with lawyers for the families of fire victims renewing their request to test the foam recovered from the club's wreckage. Pyrotechnics lit during a February 2003 performance by the heavy metal band GREAT ...
