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Death Angel announces Spring touring plans
Even though the band will be hard at work recording their next album for Nuclear Blast Records, THRASH LEGENDS Death Angel will still find time to do some select dates in this Spring.
Here’s what Death Angel vocalist, Mark Osegueda, had to say about the coming dates -
“Every year one of the ultimate highlights for Death [...]
Pornstar Claims Killswitch Engage Singer Got Her Pregnant
New details are surfacing about singerHoward Jones‘ sudden departure from Killswitch Engage last month. According to various sources, Jones took leave from the group’s headlining tour after allegedly having an affair with porn star Allie Foster.
Though neither Jones nor anyone from the band will confirm the allegations, Foster claims that he got her pregnant and demanded she [...]
DRAGONFORCE Part Ways With Singer
DRAGONFORCE have split with lead singer ZP Theart. The band issued the following statement regarding the matter:
“It is with great regret that DragonForce announce a parting of the ways with singer ZP Theart. This is due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion but the rest of the band sincerely wishes ZP great success with his [...]
Black Sabbath Announce Deluxe Expanded Editions of Dio-Era Albums
Black Sabbath, one of the most prominent and influential faces of the 70’s Rock topography were, by the decade’s end, a band in disarray. Once the masters of their own reality; the Birmingham four-piece were now battle weary veterans, wearing the deep scars of a near ten year album-tour-album cycle. Black Sabbath’s latest album, Never Say [...]
PENDULUM announce details of new single
PENDULUM made one of the biggest breakthroughs of recent years with their hit album ‘In Silico’. Having sold over 1 million records worldwide, the band completed a sell-out Academy tour in 2008 and went on to smash the international festival circuit last summer with killer appearances at GLASTONBURY, DOWNLOAD, V and GLOBAL GATHERING to name a few. Both Pendulum studio [...]
Foo Fighters New Album in the works
American alt rockers Foo Fighters are set to begin recording a new album in september. The news was confirmed by frontman Dave Grohl on BBC 6 Music earlier today. The album will be the seventh full length studio album from the band.
“Foo Fighters have just started writing and we’re going to start recording in September, [...]
White Belt Yellow Tag Release Album Details and Video
WHITE BELT YELLOW TAG have finally unveiled details of their new album, along with a tour and a veeeeeeeery cool colourful new video.
The album, ‘Methods’, is out on Monday April 5th 2010 through Distiller Records and will be preceded by a single ‘Always & Echoes’, which is set for release on March 29th. The single also features the [...]
Killswitch Engage talk temporary replacement singer
MetalAssault.com’s Julia Neuman caught up with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Joel Stroetzel on March 6th in Los Angeles at The Wiltern. An excerpt from the interview is available below.
Julia: Howard (Jones) dropped out of the tour, and he has been temporarily replaced by Phil Labonte [from ALL THAT REMAINS]. So it’s ‘Philswitch’ now! Tell me a [...]
Deftones Unveil track listing for Diamond Eyes
Deftones have released the tracklisting for their upcoming album Diamond Eyes, the sixth studio album from the band.
The album, produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver), will be the first recording to feature Quicksand bassist Sergio Vega, who is standing in for Chi Cheng (second from right) who remains in a coma following a [...]
Coheed and Cambria Unveil Second Single Here We Are Juggernaut
Coheed and Cambria via a series of timers revealed to their fans their second single “Here We Are Juggernaut” from the bands highly anticipated release Year of the Black Rainbow due out on Columbia Records April 13th.
Link to MySpace here to listen to the track:
http://www.myspace.com/coheedandcambria
Produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe [...]
CHTHONIC Announce UK Shows
FOLLOWING THEIR headline tour of the UK in October/November 2009, Taiwan’s premier metal outfit Chthonic will be making further live appearances in April of this year, when they take their place on a four-band bill headlined by Swedish/German melodic death metallers, Arch Enemy.
Going out under the ‘Metal Hammer Meltdown’ banner, the full list of shows is as [...]
THE DEFILED TO SUPPORT (HED) p.e
Fast rising British Metalheads THE DEFILED will join US Hip-Rocksters (h?d) p.e on a few dates of their upcoming tour. Bassist Drex Exel states:
In perfect timing for the healing of my broken hand, our debut shows of 2010 have been brought forward! We’ve just been asked to support the very awesome (Hed)p.e. on the home stretch [...]
SONISPHERE CLUB NIGHTS ANNOUNCED
The Sonisphere club nights are back and coming to a town near you! With a bunch of new venues on board and more than 60 nights in over 15 cities between now and Sonisphere 2010 there are no excuses! So get yourselves down to one of these nights to hear tracks by your favourite Sonisphere [...]
FORBIDDEN sign with Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast have announced the signing of legendary Bay Area thrashers FORBIDDEN!
“We are very proud to announce that FORBIDDEN has signed to Nuclear Blast Records! Ultimately, we all knew that there is NO better label in the world to handle Metal and bring it to the masses with authority.
For the last year, we have been [...]
Iron Maiden North American tour announced
Heavy metal icons Iron Maiden have announced a North American tour in support of their upcoming new album, The Final Frontier, which is expected out later this summer.
The tour kicks off June 9 in Dallas. Dream Theater will be the support act for the entire tour, except a lone Canadian date June 30 in Winnipeg. [...]
Sun Dial Return With New Studio Album
Cult psychedelic/stoner rock band Sun Dial celebrate their 20th anniversary by returning from the wilderness with a brand new self-titled studio album, released April 26th. Back in the early 1990s, Sun Dial were a critics’ favourite, the perfect assemblage of grunge, shoegazing and moody late 60s psychedelia. After a lengthy sabbatical, they’re back with an [...]
JAGUAR LOVE new album UK release details
Blood Brothers may have betrayed their blood oath by breaking up, but the spirit of that raucous Seattle act lives on in Jaguar Love. Despite being mainly based in Seattle and Portland, the duo basically live on the road and have played live with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age [...]
The Chemists Release New Single March 29th
The Chemists release their new single ‘This City’ on March 29th through Distiller Records. The single includes remixes by renowned DJ Adam Freeland, Losers, B-List and a remix of the bands previous single ‘Milk and Honey’ by bootleg supremo Dave Remix. The lead track was mixed by Adrian Bushby (Muse /Doves / Foo [...]
Aerosmith To Play First Indoor UK Show in 13 Years
Aerosmith –the biggest, most enduring and thrilling band in rock history will make a sensational return to the UK & Europe this summer, with the COCKED, LOCKED, READY TO ROCK TOUR, spawning what will be the ultimate event of the new decade. The band will play a very special, “intimate” show at London’s O2 Arena [...]
Trivium release video for Shattering The Skies Above
Trivum have release the video for their new song “Shattering The Skies Above”, which will be appearing on the upcoming soundtrack to God Of War III – God Of War: Blood & Metal.
The track features the band’s signature aggression and intricate guitar work as well as featuring the debut of new drummer Nick Augusto’s blistering [...]