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In a new Artisan News report, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen reveals that the band will be hitting the studio on February 1st.
“We’re all excited and buzzy about new material,” he says. “I can’t remember the last time we were like that.”
Click below for the video report:
(Photo by Joe Kleon)
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MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover has kicked off 2014 with the launch of his official Facebook page here.
Drover has also posted the following announcement:
“Nicko McBrain of IRON MAIDEN and I will be teamed up for a golf skills challenge February 8th at Tampa Bay Downs, Inc. More details soon!”
Pop-Break.com recently caught up with Drover. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
PB: Your band recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of Countdown to Extinction by playing it in its entirety. Do you think any of the elements from Countdown rubbed off on Super Collider or will it possibly influence the new material? I know Dave is already talking about his ideas for the new music.
SD: “I don’t know because we did the celebration for that record a year ago. Obviously, we played that in a lot of areas. The thing with that, we also did the whole Rust In Peace celebration 2010 and that didn’t really rub off on the next record. It’s cool to go back and revisit, it’s a cool thing for the fans to come see, which is great. Honestly, you got to stay in the now. If you go back and try to repeat yourself, you’re just a fake and you’re trying to replicate something you have already done in the past. It’s like VAN HALEN going back and trying to re-record Van Halen 1. It’s not going to sound entirely like ‘Atomic Punk’; you just can’t do it because you’re in a different headspace. It could be aggressive or whatever you want it to be but it’s never going to be the same. I just don’t think it’s good to replicate yourself anyway.”
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Photo by Myriam Santos
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Capital Chaos TV has posted interview and live footage featuring EXODUS, shot in San Francisco, CA at Slim’s:
Exodus are confirmed for METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett’s Fear FestEvil, taking place from February 6th – 8th at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA. Exodus’ appearance is scheduled for February 7th.
When it comes to thrash metal, in particular Bay Area thrash, Exodus are one of the true Godfathers. Formed in 1980 by guitarist Tim Agnello, drummer Tom Hunting, bassist Carlton Melson and some other six-stringer called Kirk Hammett, Agnello soon left, allowing Hammett’s guitar tech Gary Holt to step up and in.
Hammett then stumbled across Paul Baloff, a demo was recorded, Hammett left to join some other upstarts, Rick Hunolt took the other guitar, and the rest became history. Their 1984 debut Bonded By Blood is a stonewall genre classic, and with cranium crunching classics such as ‘A Lesson In Violence’, ‘Strike Of The Beast’ and ‘Burn, Hollywood, Burn’, we can promise that this will not be a calm or gentle soiree more than an aural beatdown.
The current lineup of Holt, Lee Altus on guitar, Hunting, Jack Gibson on bass and Rob Dukes on vocals has been in place since 2007. Exodus’ last album was 2010?s Exhibit B: The Human Condition on Nuclear Blast Records, and the band have just started working on new material for a prospective release later in 2014.
Tickets for Kirk Hammett’s Fear FestEvil preview and dinner on February 6th are now on sale. Have dinner with Kirk and some of the event’s most notable horror names as well as a preview of the crypt, signings and photo ops before anyone else! Extremely limited, so get your ticket now. For tickets visit this location.
ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and Joel Harlow Designs will be at Fear FestEvil taking part in a live Blood And Guts event. Fans can watch Joel transform Scott, live and unedited, into a vision of Victorian killer Jack The Ripper! Series director-producer Jack Bennett will be on hand to moderate.
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British symphonic metal upstarts WINTER STORM have posted the following message:
“It is with great sadness that we have to make another announcement. Our bassist, Jamie, will be stepping down from his role unfortunately due to external commitments. He wants to say a huge thank you to the fans, for all the great times. We thank him greatly for his contributions to the band, and to our second album.
Therefore we are now holding auditions for a new bass player as well as drummer. Please get in touch asap if you are interested at Winterstorm@live.co.uk.”
Metal Shock Finland‘s partners at RACPA UK (Rock Against Child Pornography UK) have placed a signed Hobgoblin T shirt up for auction on ebay.
The tshirt was signed at last years Bloodstock Festival by many bands including: ACCEPT, BULL-RIFF STAMPEDE, MOTHERLOAD, MUNICIPAL WASTE, FIREWIND, EX DEO, DARK FUNERAL plus many more.
All proceeds raised will go to RACPA UK to further their work with and for the victims and survivors of childhood abuse.
For more information about the organisation, visit the official RACPA UK website here.
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On Friday, January 24th, the LIZZY BORDEN Appointment With Death lineup (Ira Black, Joey Scott, Marten Andersson and Lizzy Borden) will join forces for a performance at the Epiphone / NAMM party, dubbed LIzzy Borden: 30 Years Of American Metal.
Lizzy Borden will headline the Epiphone party for the NAMM Show at the Tiki bar in Costa Mesa, CA (about 15 min away from the Anaheim Convention center). You do not need to be part of the NAMM show to get tickets.
Lizzy Borden will be celebrating thirty years of American Metal with a brand new show, created from the ground up just for the monumental 30 year anniversary. The new show will encompass songs from each and every Lizzy Borden record to date, including classic songs and songs the band has never performed live.
Tickets here.
