Colombia’s El Santuario Del Rock recently conducted an interview withguitarist/vocalist Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek of Polish extreme metal veterans VADER. You can now listen to the chat HERE. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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Video footage of VAN HALEN‘s March 13 concert at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire can be seen below.
The band’s setlist was as follows:
01. Unchained
02. Runnin’ With The Devil
03. She’s The Woman
04. The Full Bug
05. Tattoo
06. Everybody Wants Some!!
07. Somebody Get Me A Doctor
08. China Town
09. Hear About It Later
10. (Oh!) Pretty Woman
11. Alex’s Drum Solo
12. You Really Got Me
13. The Trouble With Never
14. Dance The Night Away
15. I’ll Wait
16. Hot For Teacher
17. Women In Love
18. Girl Gone Bad
19. Beautiful Girls
20. Ice Cream Man
21. Panama
22. Eddie’s Guitar Solo
23. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
24. Jump
Source: Blabbermouth.net
I AM I, the new band led by former DRAGONFORCE singer ZP Theart, has parted ways with drummer Paul Clarke Jr. for “personal reasons.” A replacement drummer has already been recruited but the musician’s identity has not yet been revealed.
I AM I‘s next live appearance will take place on August 11 at this year’s Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Hall in Walton On Trent, Derbyshire, England. I AM I made its live debut on May 27 at Birmingham, England’s O2 Academy 2.
The group’s lineup is completed by Jacob Ziemba on guitar and Neil Salmon on bass.
I AM I released its debut album, “Event Horizon”, independently on May 26. Written and produced by Theart and Jacob Ziemba and mixed and mastered by Roland Grapow (HELLOWEEN, MASTERPLAN), the CD is described in a press release as “an absolutely blistering slice of heavy rock liberally infused with Theart‘s passion, energy and soaring vocals.”
“Event Horizon” was, according to I AM I, the first-ever heavy metal album to be released solely on USB. The stick is packaged in a CD case and includes full artwork and all the usual content you would expect on a disc and more. The effort is available to order from the official I AM I web site.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
WWIII (Watt White) – multi-talented Composer, Singer, Songwriter, Performer and Producer based in New York City – became The Heavy Metal Puppet Master through sheer lack of skill. On a break from tour with Megadeth and Lamb of God (Watt fronted the post-hardcore band The SmashUp), Watt had only a day and a half to shoot homemade videos for the batch of comedy metal songs he had recorded in vans and hotel rooms while on the road. Having no clue how to use iMovie, he realized that a one-take video would require no edits. This laziness sparked the jaw-dropping brilliant stupidity of TAKE OFF YOUR T-SHIRT IF YOU CAN’T NAME A SONG BY THE BAND THAT’S ON IT, a sentiment that continues to ring true for defenders of rock’s dignity all across the globe. The intentionally hilarious shredding and 2-D video madness came back with a vengeance in 2012 as Watt begun churning out a new series called “30S2M” (Thirty Seconds To Midnight).
THE BATTLE AT IKEA has quickly found a following, and has been re-posted on both hardcore metal sites and the official world IKEA fan site. There is such a thing. Watt promises a new batch of videos in August 2012 that will feature “more emotion, more murder, more fluids” than ever before seen in a One-Take Comedy Paper Doll Cut-Out Rock Music Video. He is also hoping to set the world record for “Most Puppets Beheaded”.
For more information, please visit: www.WattWhite.com
Swedish metal masters extraordinaire MESHUGGAH will be taking their sonic arsenal and production that has already bulldozed U.K. and USA to mainland Europe on “The Ophidian Trek” tour, which launches November 22 in Hamburg, Germany. Direct support for all 19 shows will come from Nuclear Blast labelmates DECAPITATED; opening each night will be C.B MURDOC from Sweden.
States drummer Tomas Haake of MESHUGGAH: “After two amazing tours in the U.K. and North America, we are now warmed up and ready to give Europe their share of the MESHUGGAH ‘Ophidian Trek’ tour. For this stretch we’re proud to announce two magnificent bands to accompany us — Poland’s pride DECAPITATED and Sweden’s C.B MURDOC: two bands that push the boundaries of extreme metal!!
“To any and all of you European fans of MESHUGGAH, we hope to see you out there!! And you will want to come early, ’cause you don’t wanna miss out on the sheer skill and complete awesomeness of our support bands!!!”
DECAPITATED guitarist/founding member Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka adds: “I would have never thought that we’d have the honour to share stage with MESHUGGAH on two tours in one year but it looks like we will!!! Yes, we are happy to announce that DECAPITATED will be the direct support for the upcoming MESHUGGAH European tour together with C.B MURDOC!!! We are excited as fuck and we cannot wait for these 20 awesome shows!! All the best for all fans, see ya soon.”
MESHUGGAH‘s “The Ophidian Trek” dates with DECAPITATED and C.B MURDOC:
Nov. 22 – GER Hamburg – Markthalle
Nov. 23 – B Antwerpen – Trix
Nov. 24 – F Nantes – Stereolux
Nov. 25 – ES Durango – Plateruena
Nov. 27 – PT Porto – Hard Club
Nov. 28 – PT Lisbon – Paradise Garage
Nov. 29 – ES Madrid – Penélope
Nov. 30 – ES Barcelona – Salamandra 1
Dec. 01 – F Bordeaux – Le Krakatoa
Dec. 02 – F Paris – Bataclan
Dec. 04 – CH Zürich – Komplex
Dec. 05 – IT Milan – Alcatraz
Dec. 06 – GER Munich – Backstage Halle
Dec. 07 – AT Vienna – Arena
Dec. 08 – GER Berlin – C-Club
Dec. 09 – NL Eindhoven – Distortion Festival
Dec. 11 – GER Frankfurt – Batschkapp
Dec. 12 – LUX Esch-Sur-Alzette – Kulturfabrik
Dec. 13 – GER Köln – Essigfabrik
Source: Blabbermouth.net
On June 18, Mike Bax of Lithium Magazine conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Lithium Magazine: [You have a] nice touring lineup [this time with HELLYEAH and ICED EARTH] — diversified.
Poulsen: Totally. This lineup, I’m really digging it. I’m very proud of it, because when we decided to do this run, our touring management sent out e-mails to different booking agencies saying that this VOLBEAT run was going to happen, and that [we] were looking for support bands. There were some really great names on that list. I was surprised because many of the names on the list that came back could easily do their own run, you know? That was a huge compliment. When I saw ICED EARTH and HELLYEAH were on the list, I went, “What!?” I’m a huge ICED EARTH fan. I’m really good friends with Jon Schaffer. For some time now we’ve been talking about doing something together, but I wanted to bring ICED EARTH to Europe. We play arenas in Europe and it would be cool to have ICED EARTH with us there. ICED EARTH can headline themselves in America, and do well… do really well. So I was feeling, “You guys don’t have to support us.” The same thing goes for HELLYEAH. They’ve got something cooking now, and they, of course, have Vinnie Paul. They’re our good friends as well and they do good albums. The whole thing was that we’re friends with those guys. I think they all felt like, “We didn’t care if it was a supporting show. We just want to play with you guys. It’s a great package.” We’d been talking about doing this, but every time I brought it up I was talking about Europe. Now that they want to do it in the USA, it’s a compliment to us that they want to do it together. We’re very, very thankful for that. It’s going to be great — great to be among bands that you like and that you like personally. It’s friends, and it’s really nice.
Lithium Magazine: Like many people in North America, I was introduced to VOLBEAT at a METALLICA show.
Poulsen: Oh yeah, that’s where it actually started because not many people knew who we were at that certain time. There was some underground buzz going on, but after those shows with METALLICA, that’s when people starting talking like, “Wow, that opening band was actually pretty good.” So they started coming to the VOLBEAT shows when we started headlining and they’d say, “The first time I saw you was at METALLICA.” That’s the biggest promotional tour and band that you can go out with; the biggest heavy rock band in the world. They’re great guys. We still are very inspired by those guys. For us, it was good to be part of that package. A lot of guys came back to us and said that they first saw us at a METALLICA show.
Lithium Magazine: What I wanted to know was whether Hank [Shermann of MERCYFUL FATE] was going to play with you on this tour or not?
Poulsen: Oh, yes, Hank is with us. He’s been playing with us since Gigantour. We’d just gotten home and we had only been home for a few weeks. There was not time to find a new guitar player. We have only been hiring Hank as a stand-in guitar player because he’s busy with his own thing.
Lithium Magazine: Are you working on some new stuff?
Poulsen: Yeah, yeah. That’s actually why I have this amp over there (indicates towards an amp, recorder and guitar to our left). Because when I’m not doing the interviews or whatever, I’m actually composing and writing. So there is some stuff stored in that amp there, so there is a lot of writing backstage. When I come home I’ll put it all together. Now and then we jam a little bit during sound checks. We definitely have a lot of new material that we’re working on. When this tour is over we have a festival show in Germany. When that is over we will use a half year to write the songs, finish the songs and then get into the studio and hopefully early next year there will be a new album.
Read the entire interview from Lithium Magazine. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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