Tonight’s (Sunday, May 13) Michael Schenkerconcert at O13 in Tilburg, Holland will be filmed for DVD release.
Schenker‘s “Temple Of Rock” European tour marks the first time Schenker‘s band features two fellow ex-SCORPIONS members — Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass). Vocalist Doogie White (ex-RAINBOW and YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) and keyboardist Wayne Findlay complete the lineup.
The European concerts feature a plethora of hits spanning Michael Schenker‘s colorful career. Songs that are being performed by the “Temple Of Rock” lineup include UFO‘s “Rock Bottom” and “Doctor Doctor”, MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP‘s “Armed and Ready” and “Into The Arena”, SCORPIONS classics “Another Piece Of Meat” and “Rock You Like A Hurricane”, plus new songs from the recently released “Temple Of Rock”album“Miss Claustrophobia” and “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead”.
Fan-filmed video footage of Schenker‘s May 5 concert at Sala Totem in Pamplona, Spain can be seen below.
Eric Mackinnon from Classic Rock spoke with AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young while he was touring the isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides (an island chain off the west coast of Scotland).
He confirmed that the band are working on a potential follow-up to 2008?s Black Ice. But he warned fans are in for a longer wait than expected, after singer Brian Johnson suggested there would be new material next year.
Young explained: “You know what Brian’s like. He just says things and then walks away. It’ll be a little while – a year or two anyway.
“I’ve been doing some jamming on some song ideas but I do that all the time, as do the rest of the band. We are still working. But we had a long rest between Stiff Upper Lip and Black Ice, so I think we need a couple of years to recuperate and work on it a bit more.”
He added it’s unlikely any world tour in support of a future release will grow to the scale of the AC/DC Black Ice trek, which lasted almost two years and sold nearly five million tickets.
Today (Sunday, May 13) is Mother’s Day, and Roadrunner Records thought it would be nice to let some of the label’s artists represent for their moms, who supported their kids’ musical ambitions early on. Roadrunner asked two simple questions: “Does your mom like/support your band?” and “What’s your mom’s favorite song by your band?” Here are the answers they got.
Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu (KORN): “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! My mom is a very big supporter of KORN — so big that she wants T-shirts, stickers, key chains, hats, bracelets… Everything that we ever make. I brought her out on tour with us in Europe — she had the best time of her life, on stage every night. Her favorite song is ‘Got The Life’, because she seemed to be dancing on the side of the stage the most for that one.”
John Petrucci (DREAM THEATER): “My mom loves DREAM THEATER and has been a fan since the beginning. Her new favorite song is ‘This Is The Life’ from our latest, ‘A Dramatic Turn Of Events’.”
Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, SEPULTURA): “Yes, my mom was our first big supporter. She let everybody camp in our house. Our house was always full of metal kids. Her favorite song is ‘Inner Self’ [from SEPULTURA‘s ‘Beneath The Remains’]. I think she likes the lyrics, because it was about when I was living in Brazil and she remembers that period of our life.”
Phil Demmel (MACHINE HEAD): “My mom, being a musician, was supportive of my interest in music from the word go. Her and my father cultivated my ‘hobby,’ doing everything from matching me dollar for dollar on my first guitar, videotaping my earliest gigs at the seediest Bay Area bars/clubs, to standing on stage with me in front of 60,000 people in her native Portugal when we opened for METALLICA. She loves our acoustic material. Our songs ‘Descend The Shades Of Night’ and ‘Darkness Within’ are favorites.”
Joe and Mario Duplantier (GOJIRA): “Since we started playing music, my brother and I, our mother was supporting us, encouraging us. She always had faith in us, even if the first notes we played were out of tune. She also wrote the lyrics of our first song ever, ‘Victim’. She understands our music very well, even though she is not a metalhead, she feels the music in her guts! I could never thank her enough for such amazing support. Her favorite song is ‘Indians’ from our second album ‘The Link’.”
Original, one-off artwork by PINK FLOYD drummer Nick Mason is being auctioned on eBay in support of The Prince’s Foundation for Children & The Arts, and bidding concludes today (Sunday, May 13th).
Mason’s original signed artwork features him behind the wheel of his Bugatti racing car, and is included in a collection of over 50 self-portraits by artists, celebrities and sports legends as the culmination to Face Britain, the UK’s largest art project.
Aniruddh “Andrew” Bansal of Metal Assault recently conducted an interview with guitarist Dave Chandler of doom metal legends SAINT VITUS. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Metal Assault: Your new album [“Lillie: F-65”] is your first studio release after a 17-year gap. That’s a really long time. First of all, it must be a great feeling to have this album ready for release now.
Chandler: Yeah, it’s really cool. It has been a long time, but we are excited about it and we like the way it came out. We’re real happy with it, so we hope the fans like it too. It seems to be a pretty cool record.
Metal Assault: You did some shows in the last couple of years leading up to the release of this album. So, that must have made it easier for you guys to get back into the groove and write this album.
Chandler: Yeah, because we actually wrote the song “Blessed Night” on the road, and when we started playing it, people started asking us if it was a song from a new album, which actually gave us the idea to try to put out a new album. It was purely because the fans were asking for it.
Metal Assault: Well, this album is 33 minutes long, and honestly, leaves me hungry for more. So do you think it could have been longer, or did you want it to be as long as it is?
Chandler: It actually worked itself out to that time, because it’s sort of like a weird concept thing. I thought about may be trying to rush a song, but then I was like, no, because it’s going to sound rushed and it’s not going to sound the way the rest of the songs did, as they were all written at the same time and they all flowed together. So when I started checking time, I saw that it’s actually the same length as all of our albums. I think there are only two releases we have, “C.O.D.” and “Die Healing”, that are longer. All the other ones are right around the same length of time. So for this new album I was like, “That’s a regular VITUS album!”
Metal Assault: I was checking out another interview that you did a short while ago and you said, whether or not you make the next album will depend on how this one is received. It has been received really well so far. Will that inspire you to write more material now?
Chandler: Well, you know, once we get going out on the road and start doing the shows and stuff, it’ll get our creative juices flowing, so to speak. We’ll see. We want to take things one step at a time, and we don’t want to jump the gun and say we’re doing to this and do that, and then not do it for some reason. The record’s still on a tentative release date over here in the U.S., which is going to be in a couple of weeks. So we want to see how the people take it and see how they react to the new songs when we play them live, and we’ll see what happens. If everybody’s into it, we’ll probably do something because we’ll be thinking of it.
Tairrie B. Murphy, vocalist for underground LA-based metal veterans MY RUIN, has checked in with the following update:
“Just finished laying rough vocals to the first two new songs Mick Murphy and I have written for the next record. Looks like we’re going back to Soundtrack Black Studio and Knoxville Tennessee to record album #8 in August.”
(Photo by Kayla Wren / Skin Deep Magazine)
In addition, My Ruin have announced a show for Hollywood, CA on June 30th at the Whisky A Go Go. Also on the bill are ALL HAIL THE YETI and ANA KEFR. Tickets are $15.00 in advance and $11.00 at the door night of show with the password “Revelation”. Go to this location for more information and updates.
My Ruin’s latest album A Southern Revelation is still available for free download at www.myruin.net. Check out BW&BK’s review of the album here.
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