Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH has checked in with the following update:
“Hilarious interview with Martyr TV, where interviewer is very drunk and I am very sober! For a change! Haha, nice one dude!”
Following is a note from the interviewer in question:
“It’s was 9:30pm on a Thursday night, I think. My interview with Bach had been scheduled for something like six hours before, but when I couldn’t reach through to his line in New Jersey, Bach’s publicist told me to ‘just keep trying.’ I did.”
As previously reported, Bach has launched an official Google+ band page, found at this location. He has issued the following update:
“Figuring it all out! Once I do we will do some fun webcam hangouts etc. Anyone who wants to give me tips on how to utilize the Google+ band page, post comments here. I don’t really get it yet .”
Bach’s video for the track ‘TunnelVision’, lifted from his new album Kicking And Screaming, can be viewed below:
His Kicking & Screaming & Touring 2012 dates are as follows:
February
1 – Ziggy’s – Winston Salem, NC
2 – Ram’s Head Live – Baltimore, MD
3 – The Omni – Toledo, OH
4 – Emerald Theatre – Mt Clemens, MI
7 – Peabody’s Cleveland, OH
8 – Cubby Bear – Chicago, IL
10 – The Venue At The Hub – Fargo, ND
11 – Deerfoot Inn and Casino – Calgary, AB
April
12 – Teatro Caupolican – Santiago, Chile
13 – Teatro Flores – Buenos Aires, Argentina
14 – Carioca Club – São Paulo, Brazil
15 – Opiniao Porto – Alegre, Brazil
Viking/folk metallers NORDHEIM have released the track ‘Beer, Metal, Trolls And Vomit!’ for gameplay on Xbox 360 via the Rock Band Network. This song is for the game Rock Band 3 and was authored by Rockgamer Studios. There is also a pro expert double-bass version of ‘Beer, Metal, Trolls and Vomit!’.
The track can be found here, as well as for the Xbox at this location.
The track can be heard below:
Nordheim recently announced that Lucas Biron is their new official drummer, from the band KALTER. Lucas will also continue to fulfil any obligations with his original outfit. Kalter are a prog/melodeath band from Quebec City, Canada, Nordheim’s home town. A band photo with Nordheim, reveals Lucas as furthest to the left
The band’s debut album Lost In The North was produced at MGL Studios in Quebec City, by Maxime Lamontagne, and the album was mastered by Jean-Francois Dagenais of KATAKLYSM. Maple Metal Records officially released their album on October 31st, worldwide
The metal year with monster horns upon the head, 2011 or better type 20\m/ is gone now, a year full of the good, bad and the sad news about the Heavy Metal world, many great albums were released, and some new stars appeared. But the important thing is that the METAL music was played loud throughout the world, from Japan to the Middle East from the Middle East to America and from the icy land, south, to the heart of the cold north, Metalheads and Metallers were united as ONE!
I asked the 3 most interesting questions about 2011 from some Artists, metal musicians and colleagues.You may like to know their opinions. You can read my questions and their answers below:
What was the most important news in the whole of the metal world in 2011 that impressed you the most?
Which metal band do you feel was the most successful in 2011?
Which are your top 3 albums’?
Tarja Virmakari (Chief Editor, METAL SHOCK FINLAND):
1) To pick up only one news, it’s nearly impossible… but maybe all these great artists that have passed this year, have been the news that have left me without words… it’s been a sad year in metal world in that way.
2) The most successful band… well, there are plenty of them, but I guess my reply just have to be Metallica… already for their 30 years’ of carrier. But then again IF you’d ask what is to my opionion the worst album of the year, I’d reply Lulu of Metallica and Lou Reed… but you didn’t ask it, so…
3)
In Flames – Sounds of a Playground Fading
The-Haunted – Unseen
Hypocrisy – “Hell Over Sofia”
Exo (lead Guitarist , Noctem)
1) Nergal finally recovering from Leukemia
2) Not talking about metal, just my fav. genre, extreme metal:
Fleshgod Apocalypse and Obscura, I choose both.
3)
Obscura: Omnivium
Decapitated: Carniva, is forever
Fleshgod Apocalypse: Agony
Rob Mancini
(Rob was in studio when i asked him to answer to my questions, so he answered them short. But i want to thank him here for giving me his time.)
1) That EMI sold its recorded music operations to Sony and Universal.
2) Hard to say, prob nickelback
3) Rob Moratti – Victory
Angeline – Disconnected
Sixx AM – This is gonna hurt
Axel Wiesenauer(Owner at Rock N Growl Promotion)
1) Reunion of “BLACK SABBATH”! I hope they doin the right. I’m curious to hear new songs and see them live in 2012.
2) Nightwish
3) Mystic Prophecy – Raven Lord
Andrea Rodella (Journalist, METAL SHOCK FINLAND)
1) Definitely the announcement of the Italian MetalFest bill: a new heavy metal festival!
2) Talkin’ about international charts position, probably Nightwish and Metallica (with Lou Reed), but in my heart there’s the place for Mastodon only.
3) The three most interesting albums in 2011, imho, are:
3-Opeth – Heritage
2-Hypocrisy – Hell Over Sofia
1-Mastodon – The Hunter
Joe Matera
1) As for news, it was the retirement of KK Downing from Judas Priest. It didn’t really impress me, it saddenned me as the twin guitar attack of Downing/Tipton is one of the most influential in metal. But on the other hand, it is impressive to make the decision to leave such an iconic band whom are still popular.
2) Successful metal band – Slayer because no matter what stuff they went through in 2011, they still hammered on and showed why they’re true metal warriors.
3) Top 3 metal albums of 2011:
The Hunter – Mastadon
Th1rt3en – Megadeth
Atomkraft – Cold Sweat (I know its an EP and also I’m biased since I play on title track, but this is my choice)
Ali Blackdiamond (DJ, Manager and Interviewer on FIREBRAND ROCK RADIO)
1) I’m sure there were lots of different news items that impressed me throughout 2011, but one that stands out was the news of a new Accept album to come in 2012.
Their last album Blood Of The Nations blew me away and I was lucky enough to see them live twice and meet them in 2011, so I really can’t wait to see what the next one will bring!
2) This is a hard question to answer as there were so many successful bands who released great albums and toured too.
I would say personally two for me, the first being Saxon as they released yet another album that will become a classic and it’s great to see them still going strong with no sign of stopping!
Also Wolf with their hard work as always, touring, including an awesome BOA show and delivering the best as always with their awesome album!
3)
1. Wolf – Legions of Bastards
2. Saxon – Call To Arms
3. Turisas – Stand Up and Fight
Joey Severance (Vocal, Tornado)
1) The most important news for me personally was when listenable got in touch and said they wanted to sign us!
2) Most successful metal band of 2011 had to be metallica. headlining the big 4, 30 year celebration in SF……yes, they are still metal and they still kick ass!!
3) my top 3 favorite albums of 2011 are:
Tornado- Amsterdamn, Hellsinki
D.A.D. – Dic.Nii.Lan.Daft.Erd.Ark
Symphony X – Iconoclast
* You read some answers up to now but before I give you the last one from an awesome Metaller and Vocalist, I’d like to give you mine as well.
My name is Mohsen Fayyazi and i’m the first booking and promotion manager and also the first Metal music journalist from Iran.I believe the news about the reunion of Black Sabbath was the most impressive of 2011 and the successful metal bands are all Metal bands around the world who kept Metal alive.
The top 3 albums that i enjoyed listening to are:
3. Turisas – Stand Up and Fight
2. Symfonia – In Paradisum
1. WOLF – Legions of bastards
Niklas Stalvind (Vocalist and Guitarist, WOLF)
1) I don’t read metal magazines, so I have absolutely no idea! Well, maybe then that Bruce Dickinson got fired from his airline company. I am very impressed how he can keep working as a pilot and be the Maiden front man, touring and recording – and be a family man. How the hell did he do it? I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a new employment at another airline.
2) Ghost and Graveyard has been very successful, at least here in Sweden. Especially Graveyard. I think that’s great, because for once it’s a band that I actually like that gets the success.
3) Graveyard. The first two would be Arch / Matheos and Ghos. When come to think of it, I don’t remember if Graveyard and Ghost released in 2010… They probably did, and I don’t read the metal magazines as I said earlier, ha ha! I have no clue! I just stay focused on Wolf.
* I also asked Nik if he and WOLF have any message for their fans, here you can read a message from WOLF:
“We want to thank our fans all over the world, for keeping the true metal alive! You are the best!”
According to The Guardian, a mysterious benefactor has emerged with hundreds of unreleased THIN LIZZY songs, stored in secret since the death of frontman Phil Lynott in 1986. Universal Music will release a selection of these recordings in June, working with the full co-operation of the band’s surviving members.
“This is an absolutely stunning find,” Steve Hammonds, project manager for the box set, told the Irish Independent. Featuring nearly 700 songs, “these are out-takes, unheard versions of Thin Lizzy hits and, most exciting of all, material that was recorded but never released at the time”.
It’s been exactly 26 years since Lynott died, aged just 36, and almost 30 years since the original Thin Lizzy lineup split. As Lynott was dying, Hammonds explained, he entrusted 150 tapes to an unnamed third party, described as a “Thin Lizzy fan”. “They held on to it for decades because they were waiting for the right people to come along,” Hammonds said. “They really didn’t trust anyone enough to release it properly.”
Skeletonwitch hit the UK with The Black Dahlia Murder for an epic tour starting next week, and we have some ace swag to give away!
We’re so excited about Ohio blackened thrashers Skeletonwitch’s mammoth upcoming tour with The Black Dahlia Murder that we’ve got some freakin’ sweet stuff to give away!
As well as three copies of the vinyl edition of the band’s immense latest album ‘Forever Abomination’, we also have three signed posters to send your way, so to stand a chance of winning one of each, just answer a ridiculously easy question by clicking here.
“We’re really, really excited!” says Skeletonwitch frontman Chance Garnette of the tour. “We usually do a handful of shows in the UK and then go to the mainland, but we’re really excited that we’re gonna be in the UK for almost the entire run and go all over the place.
“It’s gonna be more intimate,” he continues. “Instead of everybody coming to us, we’re gonna be coming to you! I think my liver is gonna shut down.”
You can catch the Ohio crew at the following venues this month. It’s gonna be epic…
A one-minute teaser for “Fisheye”, the new video from the Norwegian “blackjazz” outfit SHINING (not to be confused with the Swedish extreme metal band of the same name), can be seen below. The full clip will make its online debut on January 7. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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