Louder than UB40? After complaints that UB40 had been deafeningly loud at a recent show in Cambridge, BBC World News invited Editor -In – Chief of Metal Hammer magazine Alexander Milas, on to the show to set the record straight about who exactly is louder than UB40…
Check out the clip below:
Alexander stated “It’s not every day you get asked to go on BBC World news to talk about Motorhead, Sabbath, Maiden, and, uh… UB40. Someone went to a gig on Monday and said it was too loud. Weird one. Fans of Cannibal Corpse will be pleased to know they also had a plug. Amazing crew that work on that programme. Jon Sopel was a dude. Big fan of ‘Purple it turns out.”
As part of our Tribute To Ritchie Blackmore week, we have invited well known names in the world of rock and metal to share their thoughts about Ritchie. For the next in the series, we have Henrik Flyman, producer, composer and guitarist with Scandinavian melodic metallers EVIL MASQUERADE. The band are preparing for the imminent release of their new album “The Digital Crucifix” next week on April 22nd.
You can read some excerpts from the interview below and listen to the chat in full on the player:
Henrik expressed his thoughts about Ritchie and his work:
“I’ve followed him from DEEP PURPLE, then moving on to RAINBOW, who were probably even better for me. Especially the first albums with Dio, where I thought his songwriting was absolutely brilliant.
Returning again to DEEP PURPLE with the “Perfect Strangers” album, which I think is one of the best albums they ever did, an absolutely fantastic album and songwriting. It feels like it has a lot of Ritchie Blackmore in that one.
When he moved onto BLACKMORE’S NIGHT, I don’t know what I expected, but I was extremely disappointed. I think maybe I expected a new RAINBOW, some hard rock and it was absolutely not. So, I lost him there for many years and then I picked him up again around 2000 and started to check out the BLACKMORE’S NIGHT albums again.
When I checked out the first one again, I can’t understand if I was on drugs or something as it’s brilliant. I think I had the wrong expectations and I didn’t give it chance. And now I can say the first, second, fourth and fifth albums I hear frequently, several times a week, which I can’t say about many bands.
I don’t think Ritchie ever got lazy and even though I don’t appreciate the more current BLACKMORE’S NIGHT albums as much as the early ones, I think they work hard writing new music, they still have something to prove. Some people can get boring with such a long career, but Ritchie hasn’t and I really like him for that.Primarily as a songwriter I respect him tremendously.”
English metallers HELL have announced via their official Facebook page that they will appear as special guests of Ireland’s PRIMORDIAL:
“We are honoured to be returning to Dublin as special guests of the mighty PRIMORDIAL for the launch of their next album on November 28th at The Academy. After the great time we had during the Manchester and London shows with this outstanding band in 2012, we’re really looking forward to working with Ireland’s finest once again \m/“
For more information on the show check out the official PRIMORDIAL website at this location.
As part of our Tribute To Ritchie Blackmore week, we have invited well known names in the world of rock and metal to share their thoughts about Ritchie. For the next in the series we have Mike Sabatini, drummer with New Jersery thrashers, ATTACKER. The band have had a recent addition, bass player Brian Smith and are currently working on new material for their next album which will be the follow up to “Giants Of Canaan.”
You can read some excerpts from the interview below and listen to the chat in full on the player:
Mike expressed his some of thoughts about Ritchie and his career:
“He basically brought Dio into the world – would we have known about Dio if Ritchie hadn’t taken him and other members of ELF and brought them in as his band in RAINBOW?
A lot of the guitar players in the late ’60’s into the ’70’s were blues based. He brought more of that classical thing in. You probably wouldn’t have had an Yngwie without Ritchie Blackmore.
That’s what Ritchie did, I think he brought that neo-classical style into rock music and influenced a lot of people.”
Gus G., well known in the Metal and Rock universe as guitar virtuoso for his work as leader of his own group FIREWIND and also as member of OzzyOsbourne’s band, continues to promote his solo album debut “I Am The Fire”, which was released last month via Century Media Records and entered the official sales chart in Greece on position # 27 as well as #32 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart at in the USA upon release.
A new video clip produced by Patric Ullaeus / revolver.se (Within Temptation, In Flames, Lacuna Coil, Europe, etc.) for the song “Eyes Wide Open (Feat. Mats Levén)” has being debuted today via the website of UK’s Metal Hammer magazine. Check the clip out here.
After some successful first solo-dates in Greece last month, Gus G. is soon to also kick off European live-action to support the release of “I Am The Fire” in Europe soon together with Marty Friedman as part of the “Guitar Universe 2” co-headlining tour. Here is a promotional trailer for the tour:
And here is a list of all upcoming dates for the tour as well as a few of the newly confirmed first festival appearances for Gus G. in 2014:
Gus G. + Marty Friedman / “Guitar Universe 2” Co-Headline Tour: 01.05.2014 Tampere (Finland) – Klubi 02.05.2014 Helsinki (Finland) – Nosturi 03.05.2014 Stockholm (Sweden) – Stockholm Rocks Festival 05.05.2014 Gothenburg (Sweden) – Trädgårn
07.05.2014 Malmö (Sweden) – KB 09.05.2014 Krakow (Poland) – Lizard King 10.05.2014 Warsaw (Poland) – Progresja 12.05.2014 Munich (Germany) – Backstage 14.05.2014 Hannover (Germany) – Musikzentrum 15.05.2014 Essen (Germany) – Turock 16.05.2014 Zoetermeer (The Netherlands) – De Boerderij 17.05.2014 Hasselt (Belgium) – MuziekoDroom 18.05.2014 Uden (The Netherlands) – De Pul 20.05.2014 Savigny Le Temple (France) – L’ Impreinte
21.05.2014 London (UK) – O2 Islington Academy 22.05.2014 Nuneaton (UK) – Queens Hall Gus G. @ Festivals 2014: 07.06.2014 Via Verdi (Italy) – Pegorock Festival / http://www.pegorock.it 01.08.2014 Szekesfehervar (Hungary) – Fezen Festival / http://www.fezen.hu More dates to follow soon…
In other news, Gus G. has just launched a competition (which runs up to the end of April) to win one of his signature ESP guitars. Here are more details for the contest run via Instagram: “Show us your best ‘air guitar’ pose on Instagram and win a Gus G. signature guitar! Post a photo of you on Instagram playing ‘air guitar’ and hashtag #iamthefire. Give us your best pose! The winner gets a LTD Gus-200 BLK signature guitar and will be handpicked by Gus!”
Legendary rockers AC/DC have released a statement via their official Facebook page regarding the health of guitarist Malcolm Young, following the last two days of media speculation:
“After forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC, guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health. Malcolm would like to thank the group’s diehard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support.
In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family’s privacy be respected during this time. The band will continue to make music.”
Best wishes to Malcolm for a speedy recovery from all at Metal Shock Finland.
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