American/German/Swedish symphonic metallers KAMELOT have posted the first in a series of webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the band’s recent European festival appearances. Check it out below.
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Metal Shock Finland is pleased to present The GuitarMasterClass Competition in which you can have the chance to win one of three memberships for six months on GuitarMasterClass.net. So if you would like to be one of our lucky winners answer the question at this location. Competition will closed on 6th of August 2012. Winners would be announce on Metal Shock Finland website and official facebook page.
GuitarMasterClass is a place where you can improve your musical skills and meet people with similar interests. The main focus is to having fun while learning. GuitarMasterClass also strives to inspire students to find their own unique style. To help you become a great guitarist, GMC have collected a crew of skilled guitar instructors from all around the world. They are on and around the site 24/7 to answer questions, give feedback, and show support.
GuitarMasterClass, often called GMC, was founded March 12th 2006 by Kristofer Dahl a professional guitarist, instructor, and resident of Stockholm, Sweden. GMC is run by the Swedish company Rock My Web AB, owned by Kristofer Dahl and Maria Gasch. From the beginning, the GuitarMasterClass website has been developed in close cooperation with Henrik Skotth Konsult AB.
Maryland rockers CLUTCH played a brand new song — whose title was not disclosed — for the first time on July 18 at Vinyl Music Hall in Pensacola, Florida. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below. The entire concert is available at Tyronehood.tv.
CLUTCH released a new limited-edition picture-disc single, “Pigtown Blues”, on June 5 via Weathermaker Music. The A side is “Pigtown Blues” and the B side is an acoustic version of the track “Motherless Child”. The disc is available at your favorite record store as well as online at IndierMerchStore.com and Pro-Rock.com. This is the first new studio material from CLUTCH since 2009’s “Strange Cousins From the West” and the first simultaneous worldwide release for Weathermaker Music.
CLUTCH is currently taking part in a headlining tour with special guests PRONG and LIONIZE. The run kicks off July 11 in Fayetteville, Arkansas and wraps up tonight (Sunday, July 22) in Richmond, Virginia.
CLUTCH will also be playing select dates in August with LIONIZE. These shows are scheduled for August 9, 10 and 12.
CLUTCH has also rescheduled the two shows that were postponed this May. These dates are now scheduled for November 1 through November 3. LIONIZE will be providing direct support and MONSTRO will open these dates.
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After it was revealed that a 6-year old girl, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was one of the victims of last week’s Colorado movie theater massacre, there has been some criticism about parents who would take young children to see a midnight screening of the new Batman film, “The Dark Night Rises”.
DISTURBED singer David Draiman, who has never been afraid to voice his opinion on controversial topics, took to his Twitter account and tweeted a link to a CNN report which posed the question if infants were too young to be at late-night movie showings. Draiman first wrote “Yes, they are,” before further elaborating on Twitlonger.com (a related Twitter site that allows one to send tweets that require more than 140 characters), stating, “All you parents out there that think it’s OK to take your infants out on the town with you, to a movie theater or otherwise, do the world a favor. Give your children up for adoption to parents who know what it is to be a responsible parent, and sacrifice on behalf of their children. Get a damn babysitter.”
He added, “Maybe we should take infants to nightclubs and restaurants in the late hours of the night as well? Honestly, fuck off. This is why only certain people should be allowed the gift of a child. Too many simply aren’t ready for the responsibility.”
After apparently receiving several negative responses to his rant, Draiman wrote, “anyone who doesn’t like what’s being said on here, simply unfollow,” before tweeting, “Wow … Multiple-choice question, kids. People either 1. Can’t read 2. There are more shitty parents out there than I thought 3. All of the above.”
Veronica was named on Saturday as one of the 12 victims of the Aurora cinema shooting. Another 58 people were injured when suspect James Holmes opened fire during a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises”.
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MÖTLEY CRÜE played its new single, “Sex”, live for the first time at the opening show of the band’s North American co-headlining tour with KISS — simply dubbed “The Tour” — this past Friday, July 20 at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.
Written when the band was together during their residency in Las Vegas last February, “Sex” is the first studio track from the CRÜE since their June 2008 release of “Saints Of Los Angeles”. The song was recorded at MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee‘s studio called The Atrium in Calabasas, California.
Speaking to VH1 Radio Network‘s Dave Basner in March, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist and main songwriter Nikki Sixx stated about the band’s new track, “It sounds very much like it’s off of the first record [1981’s ‘Too Fast For Love’]. And that was definitely on purpose. I’ve been writing very simple riffs for the last year and focusing on how these riffs would work for Vince [Neil, vocals], basically, and took it in the studio with Tommy and Mick [Mars, guitar] and the thing just came alive.”
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“Bag Of Bones”, the ninth studio album from Swedish hard rockers EUROPE, has been certified gold in the group’s home country for sales in excess of 20,000 copies. According to the band, the CD entered the official chart in Sweden at position No. 2 and “has since then continued to sell steadily.” The group adds, “‘Bag Of Bones’ is fast becoming the most successful record since the reunion.
Note: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Sweden has revised the sales requirements for albums to reach gold status in the country twice in the last seven years — from the pre-2002 level of 40,000 to the current 20,000.
EUROPE recently filmed a video for the song “Firebox” in Gothenburg, Sweden. Helming the clip was Patric Ullaeus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE, KAMELOT), who previously worked on the last three EUROPE videos.
The “Firebox” video will make its online debut in August.
“Bag Of Bones” was released in Europe on April 27 via earMusic/Edel. The CD, which features a guest appearance by blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION), was produced by Kevin Shirley, who has previously worked with IRON MAIDEN, JOE BONAMASSA, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, BLACK STONE CHERRY and JOURNEY, among others.
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