Less than four weeks to go until the release of MNEMIC’s new modern metal devastator “Mnemesis” (out on the 8th of June) – the excitement grows! For there surely are plenty of pending questions on the part of the fans regarding the album and the new line up, the Danish quintet has decided to kick off a fan Q&A via the official Nuclear Blast Europe Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/nuclearblasteurope . From today until next Wednesday, May 23, you can post whatever preys on your mind – afterwards, guitarist Mircea Gabriel Eftemie will attend to your questions!
Nuclear Blast feels honoured to welcome Swedish doom metal kings WITCHCRAFT to the family!
After a 5 year hiatus, the band is currently recording the follow up to 2007’s „The Alchemist“ together with renowned producer Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (KREATOR, OPETH, AMON AMARTH, PARADISE LOST, KATATONIA…).
The albums working title is set to „Legend“ and will feature the bands new guitarists and drummer for the first time:
Simon Solomon – guitars
Tom Jondelius – guitars
Oscar Johansson – drums
Furthermore, band leader Magnus Pelander will from now on focus on his unique vocals without playing guitar anymore.
Commented Pelander: „There’s magic going on in the studio and we can hardly wait to eventually give something back to our loyal fans! We know you guys have been waiting for this!“ http://www.witchcrafthome.com
UK’s Hard Rock Hell Festival have recently announced that PRIMAL FEAR and JETTBLACK are confirmed for Hard Rock Hell VI – Fistful Of Rock as the latest acts. The festival scheduled for November 29th – December 3rd at Hafan y Môr in Pwllheli, North Wales.
Acts confirmed for Hard Rock Hell VI – Fistful Of Rock include:
DAN BAIRD, BAD TOUCH, BLACKFOOT, THE BURNING CROWS, CIRCUS TOWN, DANTE FOX, DIE SO FLUID, THE DOGS D’AMOUR, ELECTRIC BOYS, ELECTRIC MARY, ACE FREHLEY, GRAVEYARD, HAVANA ROCKS, JETTBLACK, LA GUNS, JOHN MCCOY, MOLLY HATCHET, NIGHT BY NIGHT, PRIMAL FEAR, SERPENTINE, SKINNY MOLLY, TEN, VICIOUS RUMORS.
According to TMZ.com, VAN HALEN decided to postpone 31 of its previously announced summer concerts because the guys in the band felt like the current schedule was “too much, too fast” and they were “losing their focus.” The site quotes a source “close to the band” as saying “They’re simply burned out” and adding, “They want to make sure their concerts are not a routine … they want every performance to be special.” The members of the group want to take some time to “recharge their engines” and return to the road with a renewed energy and enthusiasm.
As for rumors that Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth are feuding, TMZ.com‘s source states, “It’s total B.S.”
A major selling point of VAN HALEN and David Lee Roth reuniting was that all of the squabbles and musical differences that tore the band apart in the mid-’80s had been resolved — a point that Roth and Van Halen have always been quick to drive home to the public. “We really have reformed this team like a brother team that it never was before,” Roth said, according to The Pulse Of Radio. “I think you hear that in my voice here, and we think we got it right this time. You come and judge the performance harshly. Please, I beg you, come on down and see.” Added Eddie Van Halen: “None of us want to give you less than our best and we are at our best.”
VAN HALEN‘s new album, “A Different Kind Of Truth”, has sold 377,000 copies in the United States since its February 7 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The CD is the band’s first full-length offering with original singerDavid Lee Roth since “1984” was released in January 1984.
“Stones Grow Her Name”, the new album from Finnish melodic metallers SONATA ARCTICA, is available for streaming in its entirety at this location. Released in Europe on May 18 and due in North America on May 22 via Nuclear Blast Records, the CD was recorded in several studios all over Finland, mixed at Sonic Pump Studios by Mikko Karmila and mastered at Chartmakers by Svante Forsbäck. The effort will be released as a limited-edition digipak, standard jewel case, vinyl and download.
“Stones Grow Her Name” track listing:
01. Only The Broken Hearts (Make You Beautiful)
02. Shitload of Money
03. Losing My Insanity
04. Somewhere Close To You
05. I Have A Right
06. Alone In Heaven
07. The Day
08. Cinderblox
09. Don’t Be Mean
10. Wildfire II
11. Wildfire III
The “I Have A Right” video can be seen below.
Commented SONATA ARCTICA frontman Tony Kakko: “‘I Have A Right’ was the very last song I wrote for this album. At that point Tommy had already played his last track for ‘Stones Grow Her Name’, gotten ready to go to sauna AND opened his first beer for that night, when I SMS’d him to check his e-mail and record yet one more ‘easy track.’ He was mildly pissed. And perhaps fueled by that he nailed the song on the first take. It was a very emotional moment for him, I was told. The song hits home, if you know the subject and can relate to the subject. To put it short, it’s a song about how we should not pass the burden we get from the past generation on the shoulders of our future offspring. Children’s rights subject. Not the most metal subject ever, I suppose, but then again I think it fits our band well and is pretty universal. Funny to actually have fans from each age group this songs speaks about. Let’s see what comes of it.
“Choosing the first single and video from this album was not very easy this time around as we had so many candidates. The best possible problem to have! ‘I Have A Right’ won the vote.
“The playing parts for this video were shot in our home town Kemi, here in Finland. The location was an old, abandoned school building. Somehow spooky and COLD. It was mid-March. Could say we were lucky the weather was unseasonably warm, yet way below zero.
“Director Tuukka Temonen and his crew did a great job with editing and all the additional footage. All in all, from my point of view, this was the easiest ever SONATA ARCTICA video to make. No 12 hours standing in a room filled with bird shit, no freezing my ass off on the ice in the middle of the sea from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., or running in the woods in the middle of the night and not sleeping for 48 hours… had all that with the past videos.” Source: Blabbermouth.net
Australian journalist Steve Mascord of White Line Fever TV conducted an interview with legendary ex-HANOI ROCKS frontman Michael Monroe when the singer performed in Wolverhampton, England in November 2011. The chat has now been posted online and can be viewed in three parts below.
Michael‘s latest album, “Sensory Overdrive”, was released in the U.S. and Canada in August 2011 via Spinefarm/Universal. The CD, which was released in Europe in March 2011 via Universal Music subsidiary Spinefarm Records, features guest appearances by MOTÖRHEAD‘s Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister and three-time Grammy-winning country/folk singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.
“Sensory Overdrive” was recorded in Los Angeles with legendary producer Jack Douglas, who has previously worked with AEROSMITH, JOHN LENNON, CLUTCH, SLASH’S SNAKEPIT and NEW YORK DOLLS, among many others.
Monroe in June 2011 recruited Dregen (real name: Andreas Tyrone Svensson) of Swedish sleaze rockers BACKYARD BABIES to be the guitarist of Monroe‘s solo band following the departure of Ginger (THE WILDHEARTS). Source: Blabbermouth.net
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