HELLYEAH will celebrate the release of its third album, “Band Of Brothers”, by taking part in an online chat today (Tuesday, July 17) at 3:30 p.m. Eastern / 12:30 p.m. Pacific at HellyeahBand.com.
Due on July 17 via HELLYEAH‘s new label home, Eleven Seven Music, “Band Of Brothers” was recorded in Dallas, Texas at drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
“Band Of Brothers” track listing:
01. War In Me
02. Band Of Brothers
03. Rage/Burn
04. Drink Drank Drunk
05. Bigger God
06. Between You And Nowhere
07. Call It
08. Why Does It Always
09. WM Free
10. Dig Myself A Hole
11. What It Takes To Be Me
Having produced track after track of heavy-hitting, in-your-face, feel-good rock and roll on their previous two albums (2010′s “Stampede” and 2007′s self-titled debut), HELLYEAH takes a slightly different musical direction on “Band Of Brothers”. Drawing on their former bands’ collective metal roots for inspiration, the influences and style of MUDVAYNE, PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN and NOTHINGFACE are immediately recognizable in tracks such as “Band Of Brothers”, “War In Me” and “Rage Burn”, while the party anthem “Drink, Drank, Drunk” retains the essence of earlier HELLYEAH.
Troy Culpan of May The Rock Be With You recently conducted an interview with HELLYEAH singer Chad Gray. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
May The Rock Be With You: How pumped are you to get [the new HELLYEAH album, "Band Of Brothers"] out to people?
Chad: Oh, fuckin’ I can’t wait. I honestly believe that this is probably the record that people have been waiting for us to put out, since they heard that the members were getting together, but unfortunately for us, it was never really possible because of the other band and keeping things separate, you know what I mean? I didn’t want to play in both bands the same way, so HELLYEAH was more of a, “Hey, let’s get back to songs and music and do shit that we wouldn’t normally do in our other heavier bands,” you know what I mean? So, with MUDVAYNE being on hiatus and stuff indefinitely and doing back to back HELLYEAH records, it occurred to me that I need that for my life, I’m a metalhead, I need… I’ve got a killer job because I have a job where I can fuckin’ get up there and rage and fuckin’ release demons every single day. I need that balance in my life, I was really ready for this record and I wanted to write a heavy, a solely heavy record, my own style and Vinnie‘s [Paul Abbott, drums] own style and let us let HELLYEAH stand on its own ten legs.
May The Rock Be With You: The album seems to have taken on the best parts of all your past groups, which were, of course, there previously but it seems that you’ve found your strides now and it’s a monster. Was there a realisation of when that actually happened?
Chad: I think that what we did was, we just, we just fuckin’ quit being afraid of who we are. This is the first time that we actually went, “Fuck it — we’re gonna be ourselves.” I’m gonna be Chad Gray, I’m not gonna be Chad from MUDVAYNE, but I’m gonna be Chad Gray, and that was the Chad from MUDVAYNE, on a level, writing songs like “Alcohaulin’ Ass”, “Pole Ride” and “Hell Of A Time”, that shit was fun because I’ve never done it before, so I didn’t know if I could do it. Now I know I can do it, but I like darker imagery, I like deeper darker lyrics, I like more helpless songs and shit like that, that’s what I dig, that’s what I always did with MUDVAYNE is play heavy music. Vinnie‘s drum tone has gotten more open over the years, more focused, versus PANTERA where it was just fuckin’ in your face and up the middle and the kick beaters just hit you in the head. We said, “I want you to play like you play but I want that sound, too. Be Vinnie Paul, be the dude that fuckin’ everybody fell in love with.” You know what I mean? We don’t have to hide from that, I want to be Chad Gray that people fell in love with, I want Greg Tribbett to be Greg Tribbett. Let’s just get out of this exterior metal shit and get back to honest and just really, really, really play music and I think by us doing that, I think that’s given HELLYEAH that was kind of like a sidecar to all the other bands, or keeping us tethered to something else, we’ve kind of cut the cord because we’ve all come and brought our styles and sounds to the table, it allowed HELLYEAH to be its own thing. It made the people hush with the, “When’s MUDVAYNE coming back?” “When’s PANTERA gonna do a reunion?” blah blah blah blah, “When’s NOTHINGFACE ever coming back out?” “Is DAMAGEPLAN ever going to do anything again?” I mean, these are fuckin’ questions we hear every day… There’s a little bit of all those bands in what we’ve done and you can hear it throughout the record and it’s cool; we’re not plagiarizing anything. It’s the honest thing we’ve ever done. We are the dudes from those bands, we’re not stealing anything, we’re just bringing what we’ve done to the table under the umbrella that it’s HELLYEAH.
May The Rock Be With You: So, the name speaks for itself, but what was the decision behind calling the album “Band Of Brothers”?
Chad: I think it started with the song. I wrote the song first and the more we started thinking about it, the more we just felt like we were… We’d seen a lot of success in our other bands and the way that we feel in HELLYEAH is that we all kinda feel like underdogs, you know what I mean? And you’ve gotta be careful when you bag an underdog in to a corner — you know what I mean? — because they come out fuckin’ fighting, and I think that was kind of our attitude with this record that we had this underdog kind of vibe to us because we felt feisty, we felt fuckin’ we were salty about shit, we just wanted to refocus our anger and fuckin’ frustrations and fuckin’ helplessness and bring it to the table and do it together and that really is what we are, we are fuckin’ bros. I’d lay down in traffic for those guys and they’d do the same for me, you know what I mean? It’s like fuckin’ militant, it’s like going in to battle, there’s only five of you facing the world, there’s only one way you’re going to win that war. That’s the fight, that’s the first wave, the second wave is you’re gonna have each other’s backs no matter what you know what I mean? I think that’s just the vibe to it, and the more I’ve even thought about it and we kind of agreed on that as the name of the record, the more that I really thought about it and standing on stage and looking out and playing songs for the kids with their fists in the air and fuckin’ whatever, I think that “Band Of Brothers” is more about the metal community than it is, almost even the five of us are a band of brother in itself but really we’re just five dudes in a much larger band of brothers and that band of brothers is the metal fuckin’ community. We all fight and go to the grave for something that we believe in very, very strongly which is music and it’s heavy and it’s relevant to our society that we create for ourselves.
HELLYEAH‘s third album, “Band Of Brothers”, is available for streaming in its entirety at AOL Music. Due on July 17 via HELLYEAH‘s new label home, Eleven Seven Music, the CD was recorded in Dallas, Texas at drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
“Band Of Brothers” track listing:
01. War In Me
02. Band Of Brothers
03. Rage/Burn
04. Drink Drank Drunk
05. Bigger God
06. Between You And Nowhere
07. Call It
08. Why Does It Always
09. WM Free
10. Dig Myself A Hole
11. What It Takes To Be Me
Having produced track after track of heavy-hitting, in-your-face, feel-good rock and roll on their previous two albums (2010′s “Stampede” and 2007′s self-titled debut), HELLYEAH takes a slightly different musical direction on “Band Of Brothers”. Drawing on their former bands’ collective metal roots for inspiration, the influences and style of MUDVAYNE, PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN and NOTHINGFACE are immediately recognizable in tracks such as “Band Of Brothers”, “War In Me” and “Rage Burn”, while the party anthem “Drink, Drank, Drunk” retains the essence of earlier HELLYEAH.
The metal juggernaut known as HELLYEAH — featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE), Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (DAMAGEPLAN) — will take part in a signing session on July 17 at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, New York beginning at 7:00 p.m. More information is available at this location.
Professionally filmed video footage of HELLYEAH‘s entire May 27 performance at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma can be seen below.
HELLYEAH‘s third album, “Band Of Brothers”, will be released on July 17 via the band’s new label home, Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded in Dallas, Texas at Vinnie Paul‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
HELLYEAH‘s “Band Of Brothers” video was filmed on March 26 at Loyal Studios in Burbank, California with director David Brodsky of MyGoodEye, who has previously worked with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, GOATWHORE, MUNICIPAL WASTE and SUFFOCATION, among many others.
Professionally filmed video footage of HELLYEAH‘s entire May 27 performance at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, Oklahoma can be seen below.
Although it was announced last week that HELLYEAH guitarist Greg Tribbett would sit out several dates — including Rocklahoma — on the band’s current tour due to a family emergency, he performed with his bandmates at this past weekend’s concert.
HELLYEAH‘s third album, “Band Of Brothers”, will be released on July 17 via the band’s new label home, Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded in Dallas, Texas at Vinnie Paul‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
HELLYEAH‘s “Band Of Brothers” video was filmed on March 26 at Loyal Studios in Burbank, California with director David Brodsky of MyGoodEye, who has previously worked with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, GOATWHORE, MUNICIPAL WASTE and SUFFOCATION, among many others.
Steven Rosen of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with HELLYEAH guitarists Tom Maxwell and Greg Tribbett. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Ultimate-Guitar.com: When you first played with Vinnie [Paul Abbott, drums], was he as great as you thought he’d be?
Maxwell: Absolutely. I think it took a couple days for us to get into our groove, but we started writing right away and his insight and his ears are incredible. He would go in there and he’d hear things that we’re not hearing. Whether it’s sound or whether it’s just arrangement parts. Look, him and his brother wrote all those great songs and some of the most defining music in metal history. So he definitely brought that aspect into it and still does.
Ultimate-Guitar.com: The “Band Of Brothers” album is where it all came together musically?
Maxwell: We were fuckin’ focused coming into this record. We came off the tour of the last cycle and I remember having a conversation with Greg, just saying, “This next fuckin’ record, let’s just get fuckin’ balls out and bring what we are as individuals. Who you are and who I am, who Chad [Gray, vocals] is, who Vinnie is and who Bob [Zilla; bass] is and bring it in and be that. No more experimenting. Let’s just do what we fuckin’ do without thinking. Just go.” And that’s what we did and you hear it.
Tribbett: You can hear all the influences from all the bands and Vinnie‘s crushing it on the drums.
Maxwell: I read a review and the guy said Vinnie hasn’t sounded this fierce since [PANTERA's] “Great Southern” or “Far Beyond”. He broke out his old fucking sounds and his tones. He said, “You wanna hear fuckin’ Vinnie Paul? You’re gonna get it. Here it is.” Totally rad.
Ultimate-Guitar.com: Were you able to get all your excesses out on “Band Of Brothers”?
Maxwell: Me personally, I got everything I wanted out of this record. It’s all there for me. I listen to it and I don’t have any dead spots in the way I feel. Like, “This song shoulda, coulda had this or should not have that.” It all came out and I’m fuckin’ beyond proud of this record. Part of the cool thing about it is at the end of the day the insecurities of when we were first finished doing it are gone. I’m like, “Man, is this fuckin’ song good enough? Is this record good enough?” There’s always that hunger to know you did a good job. Then after we hear the mix and the master and the reaction from people, it’s kinda like a sigh of, “Yeah man, I fuckin’ did it. We fuckin’ did it.”
Ultimate-Guitar.com: Without trying to sound maudlin or corny, do you think [late PANTERA guitarist and Vinnie Paul's brother] Dime ["Dimebag" Darrell Abbott] is looking down and digging “Band Of Brothers”?
Maxwell: All the time. The funny thing is his big number is 333 and we see it everywhere we go. We were in Tokyo taking the bullet train and the train number was 333. Vinnie took a picture of it and posted it on Facebook.
Maxwell: Vinnie said something really fuckin’ deep. He said, “My brother would have loved this band and he’s with this band.” He feels it. Listen, he might be gone, but the essence of his life is running through the very veins of Vinnie still to this day and so is his spirit. And Vince brings that and in a way he kind of took the reins from a lot of things that Dime was and just continued on with it. Like Dime and like Vinnie said, and I can apply it to Vince, Vince gets off on making people happy and making sure everybody is having a good time and loving it. So yeah, I definitely feel that his spirit and all that lives through with us. And with anybody that was a real true fan of PANTERA and Dime — they know what I’m talkin’ about. Every time you put on that record, he’s alive.
Frankie DiVita, radio personality at Southern California’s 96.7 KCAL Rocks, conducted an interview with HELLYEAH/ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott on the red carpet of the fourth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards, which was held on April 11 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below.
HELLYEAH‘s third album, “Band Of Brothers”, will be released on July 17 via the band’s new label home, Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded in Dallas, Texas at Vinnie Paul‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
February 25 marked the 20-year anniversary for PANTERA‘s “Vulgar Display Of Power”, a landmark album widely acknowledged as one of metal’s most enduring and influential masterworks. Recorded by singer Philip Anselmo, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, bassist Rex Brown and drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, the album has been certified double platinum by the RIAA and features several of the group’s most iconic songs including “Walk”, “Mouth For War”, “This Love” and “Fucking Hostile”.
To celebrate, Rhino channels the album’s relentless blitzkrieg of musical aggression onto a two-disc Deluxe Edition. The CD includes the original album remastered and “Piss”, a recently discovered unreleased track from the recording sessions. The DVD contains an unreleased live performance filmed in Italy in September of 1992 plus the three official music videos from the album.
Due out May 15 from Rhino, the CD/DVD set will be available at retail outlets, including Pantera.com and Rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $19.98. A version of the release will also be available digitally.
VOLBEAT will embark on a North American tour in June with support from ICED EARTH and HELLYEAH.
Commented ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer: “I’m completely stoked, VOLBEAT is one of my all-time favorite bands, and Michael and the boys are great people. There is a lot of mutual respect and admiration, and I think we are in for a hell of a good time! This will be a package that won’t soon be forgotten, I’m sure of that.
“I want to thank VOLBEAT for the invitation, and I look forward to many years of laying down the metal as both bands continue to grow and reach new audiences around the world.”
The dates are as follows:
June 18 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus
June 19 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
June 21 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
June 23 – Clifton Park, NY – Northern Lights
June 26 – Saint Paul, MN – Myth
June 27 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
June 29 – Weyburn SK – Crescent Point Place
June 30 – Gibbons, AB – Boonstock 2012
July 08 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
July 10 – Anaheim, CA – The Grove
July 11 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
July 12 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
July 15 – Colorado Springs, CO – City Auditorium
The release date of “Band Of Brothers”, the third album from the metal juggernaut known as HELLYEAH — featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE), Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (DAMAGEPLAN) — has been pushed back to July 17 from the previously announced June 5 (via HELLYEAH‘s new label home, Eleven Seven Music). The CD was recorded in Dallas, Texas at Vinnie Paul‘s home studio, VP’s Upstairs Studio, and was produced by the band and Jeremy Parker (GODSMACK, EVANESCENCE), who also served as engineer.
HELLYEAH last week released the “War In Me” digital single via iTunes.
Having produced track after track of heavy-hitting, in-your-face, feel-good rock and roll on their previous two albums (2010′s “Stampede” and 2007′s self-titled debut), HELLYEAH takes a slightly different musical direction on “Band Of Brothers”. Drawing on their former bands’ collective metal roots for inspiration, the influences and style of MUDVAYNE, PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN and NOTHINGFACE are immediately recognizable in tracks such as “Band Of Brothers”, “War In Me” and “Rage Burn”, while the party anthem “Drink, Drank, Drunk” retains the essence of earlier HELLYEAH.
Commented HELLYEAH singer Chad Gray, “I’m really excited about what we’ve done on this new album. I’ve always separated MUDVAYNE and HELLYEAH as much as I could, even though it was my voice. Melodies, lyrics and just the overall style of writing were different. With ‘Band Of Brothers’, I just quit being afraid of who I am in relation to this band. I think we’ve all really gotten back to the original roots of what we’ve done individually and brought it together on this album. As an artist, as long as you’re painting with your own brush, no one can compare or challenge you. I just painted with a bigger, heavier brush than I had with HELLYEAH in the past. I think this is what fans have always expected to hear from us, and now were giving it to them.”
Added Jeremy Parker, “It’s impossible not to have a good time jamming this record. It has the anger and violence of PANTERA and MUDVAYNE, but a party vibe that can only be HELLYEAH!”
In a recent interview with Loudwire, Vinnie stated about “Band Of Brothers”, “On our first two records, we were a new band. We really wanted to branch out and expand and experiment with all different styles. We all come from traditional metal bands and backgrounds, so it was a great breath of fresh air to play in a band that was rock ‘n’ roll, blues and Southern rock. We got that out of our system and got really focused on going back to our metal roots. It’s heavy, focused, groove-oriented and I’m excited about it.”
“Band Of Brothers” track listing:
“Band Of Brothers” track listing:
