MetalAssault.com caught up with ANTHRAX frontman Joey Belladona on October 28th in at the South Side Music Hall in Dallas TX. Check out the video interview below, which includes Belladonna discussing getting plowed on-stage in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre by overzealous security “guards” on October 22nd. Check it out below:
Footage of the on-stage debacle can be viewed below.
“It’s pretty smart to tackle the singer,” guitarist Scott remarked onstage. “Fucking geniuses they are working here, huh? I guess they haven’t seen him up here on stage for the last 90 minutes. He’s in the band!”
After a quick trip back-stage, a shaken Belladonna added: “Thank you very much sorry about that. I was trying to be cool and then it turned it shit. Next time I’m going to stand back. I’m going to have a sore ass tomorrow I know that!”
The band’s tour schedule is now as follows:
October
30 – Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
November
1 – House of Blues – Orlando, FL
2 – Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale – FL
4 – House of Blues – Myrtle Beach, SC
5 – Fillmore Charlotte – Charlotte, NC
6 – The Fillmore – Silver Spring, MD
8 – Northern Lights – Clifton Park, NY
10 – Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
11 – Palladium – Worcester, MA
15 – Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY
17 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
19 – Rave – Milwaukee, WI
Italian THE RITUAL formed in 2002 as a Heavy/Thrash project but after many line-up changes, most notably the addition of guitarist Marco Pastorino (of Secret Sphere and Timesword fame), they developed into the powerful force they are known today. Their music is violent, aggressive but also very melodic. Every guitar riff, vocal melody or drum pattern is totally devoted to the groove of each song. The Ritual’s debut album “Beyond The Fragile Horizon” will come out November 2011, via Bakerteam Records. I had a chance to interview The Ritual’s lead guitarist, Marco Pastorino, here’s what we talked about…
Hi Marco, I’m Tarja. Welcome to Metal Shock Finland! How’s your mood today?
Hi Tarja!!! I’m very well!!! I’m excited for this interview! Let’s go!
FinlandCalling.com recently conducted an interview with keyboardist/mainman Tuomas Holopainen of Finnish/Swedish symphonic metallers NIGHTWISH. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.
FinlandCalling.com: When you have an idea or are inspired by anything, do you have to write it down or does it just stay with you?
Tuomas: I always have my notebook with me and I always have a dictaphone with me, so if I just get an idea I write it immediately. It happens so many times that you get a killer idea, you think, “It’s so good I’ll never forget this” initially, and then I do.
FinlandCalling.com: I don’t know if you can tell me very much about this, you probably want to keep it a secret, but have you planned any visuals for the stage yet?
Tuomas: We’re in the planning stage as we speak. It was yesterday when I talked to the guy who’s making the props, so nothing concrete, but there will definitely be the pyros and maybe some screens, since now we’re making a movie, it would make sense to put some stuff from the movie there. Maybe some props related to the film or stage. We’ll have a Celtic pipe player with us for the entire tour, so that’s something unique too. It’s being planned!
FinlandCalling.com: You said that one day you were hoping to play the Royal Albert Hall. Is that still an ambition of yours?
Tuomas: Yeah, it all started when we started to think that we need to do this show with the orchestra and the choir at least once in our life. And where would we do it? Well the natural location would be the Royal Albert Hall because we want to use the same orchestra and the choir that we usually do. And to fly over 100 people somewhere else in England…. I think London would be the perfect place for that.
FinlandCalling.com: Have you planned it for this tour, or it just something that you want to do, but haven’t turned it into practice yet?
Tuomas: We haven’t made any concrete plans about it, and it’s something that, when we do it, needs to be so well planned in a big way, and it’s going to take years of planning. I have my doubts that it will be on this tour, but maybe after the third album with Anette, we would be ready to do that. The thing is that WITHIN TEMPTATION did a wonderful DVD and show with the orchestra, DIMMU BORGIR, OPETH…. And these are all such wonderful releases, so we need to find a new angle to do it as well, so we need to put a lot of thought into it. It’s not just about playing with the orchestra. It will be cool, but we want to take it a bit further.
FinlandCalling.com: How different was it for you now that you had Anette [Olzon, vocals] as a member of the band for a while and knew her voice and abilities, while on “Dark Passion Play” you didn’t know who was going to be providing the vocals for your work?
Tuomas: It wasn’t as different as you would imagine, actually. It was just that now I had a concrete voice in my head doing the vocals when I was writing the songs, and I knew her vocal range, her strengths and weaknesses. But it wasn’t much different. I think she sounds fab on the new album. Something happened to her, I mean she did a wonderful job on “Dark Passion Play”, but her singing is now taken to a different level on “Imaginaerum”. It’s not about me writing the songs for her voice, it’s about her being relaxed and confident. After surviving the tour, after surviving the fans’ reaction, maybe she feels like she’s in the band and she can be herself, her versatile self.
FinlandCalling.com: In the press release you said “Imaginaerum” stands as a testament to what NIGHTWISH have always been about. Taking it further, how would you then describe what NIGHTWISH is all about to someone who has either not heard the album or is completely new to the band?
Tuomas: It’s a bit of a melodramatic statement, to be honest. I just realized at some point that “Imaginaerum” is in the very core of the truth that NIGHTWISH is about. And it’s about celebration of life, the privilege of existence and all the beautiful, fantastic stuff on the planet. Gospel of imagination and memory… being with the band from the very first song we did. It’s about the celebration of imagination.
FinlandCalling.com: On a completely different topic, would you ever do a feature with a band from an entirely different genre?
Tuomas: I’m not a prisoner of genre by any means, I listen to all kinds of music. For me it has everything to do with the feeling and the song itself, so… I definitely see myself doing something completely different or working with people from other genres as well.
FinlandCalling.com: Have you considered an acoustic gig at all?
Tuomas: I love acoustic stuff, and I’m sure that something that we will do with NIGHTWISH in the future as well. There would be even a full-length acoustic album, acoustic shows… I’m pretty sure.
Read the entire interview from FinlandCalling.com. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Greece’s Rock Overdose recently conducted an interview with keyboardist Henrik “Lance” Klingenberg of Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA. You can now listen to the chat HERE. A brand new “time-lapse” trailer for “Live In Finland”, the upcoming concert DVD from SONATA ARCTICA, can be viewed below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
According to WIVB-TV, Tony Lorenzo, guitarist and founding member of Buffalo death metal band SONS OF AZRAEL, was shot by an armed robber while walking in Buffalo’s Elmwood Village Wednesday night. The 25-year-old musician is paralyzed from the waist down, with a bullet lodged in his spinal column.
Tony‘s friend, Alex Artemas, said, “Him and I were just walking to a friend’s house, and it was just a complete random hit, came from behind, never saw it coming.”
“The kid asked me, he said, ‘Give me what you got.’ And before I could even get my wallet out, he just shot me,” said Tony.
Initial reports were that the victim may have known his attacker.
Tony‘s mom, Caroline Bronckers, said, “He absolutely did not know his attacker, and I want that cleared.”
Tony added, “I’m not a gang banger. I’m not someone who owes anyone money. I don’t start beefs. I’m just a normal guy, you know? I work at Pano’s Restaurant.”
Doctors have to wait for the swelling to go down before they can remove the bullet.
A PayPal account (helpingtony@gmail.com) has been set up to help pay for Lorenzo‘s medical expenses.
SONS OF AZRAEL‘s latest album, “Scouting The Boneyard”, was released in January 2010 via Ironclad Recordings (the label formed by UNEARTH frontman Trevor Phipps).
The band’s full-length debut, “The Conjuration of Vengeance”, came out in August 2007.
A two-minute video report from WIVB-TV can be seen HERE. Source: Blabbermouth.net
With Halloween here again (Monday, October 31), Musician Photo Journal asked a few of its favorite rockers to share some of their thoughts on this mysterious and scary holiday. Members of TRIVIUM, OTEP, ALL THAT REMAINS, SKID ROW, HELLYEAH, ADRENALINE MOB and SHADOWS FALL have offered their personal stories of spooky scary tales — including ghost stories, scariest moments and most memorable Halloweens. Check out the footage below.
TOOL and PUSCIFER frontman Maynard James Keenan told The Pulse Of Radio a couple of years ago that he enjoys Halloween because it’s more than just costumes and trick or treating. “It’s an interesting season to me, having done a little research on it,” he said. “It’s an interesting holiday. I recommend that people really kind of dive into some more of the origins of, you know, why the jack-o-lantern on the porch and why the trick or treat — why the door to door. What is that all about? It really is an interesting story.”
METALLICA‘s James Hetfield shared an embarrassing childhood memory about a costume he once had to wear: “I wanted to be Batman, but my mom made me a suit. You know, she was good at sewing, and she made me this thing, and I was like a giant tiger with the ears and everything. (laughs) Oh my God! There’s a picture of me at school in the, you know, the school picture, and I got this goofy outfit on with the little whiskers and everyone else is like cowboys and stuff, and I’m sittin’ there in my tiger outfit, and I don’t think it was what I wanted to be. But that’s what happened. (laughs)”
Rob Zombie, of course, is an expert on all things Halloween — after all, he’s even made two movies named after the holiday — but he also happens to know his Halloween candy as well. He revealed his favorite on a recent conference call with reporters. “Candy corn is my favorite and I usually get very excited when I see it on the shelves, which they usually start laying out the Halloween stuff first week of August,” he said. “So pretty much by the second week of August, I never want to see candy corn again, so . . . usually by the time I buy it, I open the bag in the car in the parking lot, on the way home, and by the time I get home I’m disgusted with myself for eating it. The days of gorging on Halloween candy are long gone.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
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Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
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