With just 3 months to go until this year’s sold-out 10th anniversary Hard Rock Hell, the festival organisers have announced that they are to be joined by Florida’s finest: multi-platinum-selling rockers MOLLY HATCHET, who have a specially selected set for this year’s landmark event.
Formed in 1971, Molly Hatchet is an American Southern rock/hard rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The band is best-known for their iconic hit ‘Flirtin’ with Disaster’. Molly Hatchet have been major players in the Southern Rock & Hard Rock genres and are known for their energy on stage and their reputation of working hard, playing tough and living fast through intense touring with such bands as Aerosmith, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones and many more.
Joining them are Kory Clarke‘s NYC hard rockers Warrior Soul, making a rare UK appearance. Clarke started the band after a bet from a promoter following a solo performance art show called “Kory Clarke/Warrior Soul”. Clarke aimed to have the best band in NYC within six months: Nine months later they signed to Geffen Records.
Leader of Down was created by the legendary late Motörhead guitarist Würzel, and rightly has its place at HRH, as does another Aussie Outfit, Cherry Grind, who make up a fistful of bands coming over from Australia this November.
Other bands appearing on the ever-popular Stage 2 at HRH X include: Broken Witt Rebels,Red Spektor, Cross Eyed Mary, Bright Curse & The Bad Flowers.
HRH X will be a celebration of ten very special years which have made HRH Europe’s undisputed leader in residential festivals. Expect a Rock n Roll Marathon like no other on the planet!
Hard Rock Hell X takes place at Camp HRH, Pwllheli, North Wales, Gwynedd, on 10th – 13th November 2016 and has been sold out since last November at HRH 9.
Latest line up stands as:
Ugly Kid Joe, RATT, Glenn Hughes
Molly Hatchet, Living Colour, Last in Line, Hayseed Dixie, Fastway, Graham Bonnet Band, Phil Campbell’s All Starr Band Ricky Warwick and the Fighting Hearts , Warrior Soul, Bonfire, Sweet Savage The Vintage Caravan, Lionize, The Treatment White Miles, Massive, Vodun, The Amorettes, Aaron Buchanan & the Cult Classics, Hand of Dimes Leader of Down, Broken Witt Rebels, Cherry Grind The Last Vegas, Dear Lord, Hailmary, Tequila Mockingbyrd , Black Aces, 4Bitten, JOANovARC, The Mojo Sinners Welcome Back Delta, Dorje, The Texas Flood, Chase the Ace. Red Spektor, Skam, Cross Eyed Mary, Bright Curse, Crowsaw, Theia, Departed, The Bad Flowers
Back in May we premiered the brand new solo single and video ‘Alcoholocaust’ by the legendary multi instrumentalist and vocalist SNOWY SHAW. Now just ahead of his performance at Wacken Open Air this weekend, Metal Shock Finland are proud to present the exclusive worldwide premiere of Snowy‘s second song and video ‘Nachtgeist’, from his much anticipated forthcoming album, due to be released early in 2017.
The video is directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company and mixed and mastered by Arnold Lindberg of Sound Industry. Like ‘Alcoholocaust’, the new track and video ‘Nachtgeist’ was written, performed and produced by Snowy himself. Check it out here:
Snowy has stated that when he said he was going solo he meant that in the truest sense of the word, “but for stage I couldn’t possibly sing and play all the instruments at once and therefore have selected a live band consisting of highly skilled and competent musicians who are capable of making my conceptual supershow justice . The latest addition to the ranks is David Grimoire from one of my side projects Opera Diabolicus on bass guitar, who’ll be doing his first show with us on Saturday at Wacken Open Air. Other than him we’ll have Eric Rauti on guitar and drummer Petter Karlsson ( formerly of Therion, Diablo Swing Orchestra ) who’ve been featured in my live band since the Halloween spectacle show 2012. The Wacken show might be his last ever as a drummer though…”
Senior Manager Alison Booth caught up with Snowy to find out some more about this new release which includes guest star appearances of some of his favourite artists. The conversation can be read below:
Hi Snowy, how are you doing? You’ve just released the second song and video ‘Nachtgeist’ from your forthcoming album, can you tell me more about it and how you’re feeling about your new work?
“I feel very excited about it and especially to finally and get to it and get my thumb out of my ass, so to speak as I’ve been waiting for so damn long to start realizing my visions.
Like you say this is the second song/video of 4 in total that I have planned to release during 2016, as part of my conceptual plan to be out in advance of the album that will see a February/March release. Given things works according to plan. At this point and for a number of reasons I can’t and won’t reveal too much details about the upcoming album(s), but I can tell you it’s quite a massive body of work and something quite extraordinary like you’ve never seen before.
Although I’m collaborating with a number of sound engineers and studios, and have invited some of my all-time favorite musicians and artists to participate as guest stars on some songs I am singing and playing all instruments myself. Needless to say, I write and produce all of it myself and I must say it feels wonderful to have a full creative outlet and artistic freedom without little if any interference from other members and so on.
For the Nachtgeist filming I was delighted to work together with my buddy Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company, and I think it turned excellent and very very close to my original visions and ideas. Part John Bauer, part horror movie and folklore with a touch of classic Disney on the top.”
You worked with some great names on this track – Lasse Johansson, Mike Wead and the God of Hellfire himself, Arthur Brown! As an artist who has collaborated with so many musicians, what were your reasons for choosing these people in particular this time around and can you tell me about your experience working with such an iconic showman as Arthur?
“Like I mentioned earlier, I feel very privileged having reached a position in my life or career if you want, where I can include on my own recordings some of my heroes and favorites that have had a huge impact and been a big influence to me.
Mike Wead and I go back and among other things worked together in Memento Mori and he’s a phenomenal guitarist. I’ve always loved Candlemass and Lasse is unquestionably one of my favorite solo players and I always thought I should have him doing a guest appearance on one of my songs. I asked him probably 10 years ago and if I’m not mistaken it was for this particular song as a matter of fact that had a solo background with a typical Candlemass style that oughta be perfect for him,. or Mike. So I figured why not involve them both in a trade off kinda solo. For the record I gotta say that I’m not usually starstruck in the least and I’m very selective with whom I idolize.
In the case of Arthur, ( or King Arthur as I sometimes jokingly call him) he may be a complete unknown to the average metal fan but to me it means the world. Perhaps even more so because he was the pioneer shock rocker years ahead of Alice Cooper. An underground unsung hero and typical one hit wonder with his massive hit Fire released in 1968, the same year I was born. He loves my version of Fire by the way and I couldn’t be any happier.
When I brought Arthur to the studio to record his narration thingy, my engineer Arnold didn’t have the slightest clue who this crazy looking 74 year old english hippie was who was screaming like a banshee at the top of his lungs and was visibly in shock yet impressed. Afterwards he said, now I know there is hope for you too Snowy.”
Wacken Open Air festival is this weekend and you will be performing with your band there on Saturday – what can fans expect from your show and what are your thoughts about performing at the legendary festival?
“If you don’t mind I’d like to flip your question around and tell you what you can NOT expect from my show, which is a generic and predictably boring metal show that you’ve seen a hundred times before. Other than that everything’s possible.
I love Wacken and I’ve played there many times before with my former bands but this is the first time with my solo band and I’m very excited about it and think we gonna have a great time and deliver a great show.”
If you’re going to Wacken this weekend, don’t miss Snowy‘s show on Saturday 6th August at 4.15PM on the W.E.T. stage!
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Music, merch and all sorts of accessories and memorabilia available at Snowy‘s Official Webshop.
Sweden’s modern metal virtuosi IN FLAMES are set to release their brand new live DVD, entitled “Sounds From The Heart Of Gothenburg” on September 23rd.
Catch an exclusive first live clip preview of ‘Everything’s Gone’ in its entire length here:
Nostalgia or a return to their roots has never been an option for the progressive IN FLAMES, but the setlist of this bombastic concert DVD tears through the band’s entire history. With 20 tracks, the show that was recorded at Gothenburg’s Scandinavium, reaches a length of one and a half hours, and achieves in capturing the band at their very best, celebrating current hits such as ‘Through Oblivion’, ‘With Eyes Wide Open‘ or ‘Rusted Nail‘ to a packed out arena. But of course, old school classics such as ‘Trigger‘, ‘Cloud Connected‘ or the hypnotic finisher ‘Take This Life‘ are not left out.
Prepare for an intensive and visually explosive performance in front of 10,000 fans featuring pyros, circle pits, flying crowdsurfers and IN FLAMES’ incomparable riffs.
“This DVD is for everyone who was been following our career; we have songs from the early years, the middle years and the new era. It has to be fun for us to play but also fun for the audience to watch and we try to get a good flow with nice dynamics and different songs,” states axemaster Björn Gelotte.
A date-science blogger by the name of Degenerate State has researched the most ‘metal’ word in the English language, according to teamrock.com.
He initially published his findings in late April, but only now has his project come to light – and it throws up some surprising results.
To get the data, he mined website Dark Lyrics, which features a database of 222,623 songs from 7364 rock and metal bands spread over 22,314 albums. He then cross-referenced his findings with the Brown Corpus – a collection of documents published in 1961 covering a range of different genres.
By combining statistics to show the frequency of words used from both sources, Degenerate State came up with a comprehensive list of the “metalness” of each word.
And he found that while Five Finger Death Punch have the highest number of swear words in their lyrics, the word ‘burn’ is the most ‘metal’ word used in the English language.
Other words featuring in the top 20 were ‘cries’, ‘veins’, ‘eternity’, ‘scream’ and ‘demon’. The least ‘metal’ word he stumbled across was ‘particularly’.
French Symphonic death/progressive metal band THE FALL OF TIME has inked a worldwide management deal with GlobMetal Promotions.
The band was formed at Belfort, France in 2009 by Emmanuel Joly, who started writing a personal work, made of symphonic orchestrations and drums programming. The aim was to achieve the creation of a story, a science-fiction scenario, through melodies rich in originality, power and feeling, supported by drumming borrowed from the brutal/extreme metal scene. On March 25th 2016, the band released their debut album “Universe Reloaded”.
Italian doom trio UFOMAMMUT are the latest addition to this year’s stacked Damnation Festival line up.
They’ll play the Eyesore Merch Stage at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 5th.
Also joining the bill are a selection of some of Europe’s best emerging bands; France’s post-metal sludge outfit, Erlen Myer, Norway’s blackened hardcore quintet, Attan (who will make their debut UK appearance), and England’s newest doom heroes, Conjurer.
Ufomammut said: “We’re very excited to be a part of Damnation festival this coming November.
“Looking forward to be there to play Ecate for the last time and share stage with a lot of cool bands!”
A suitable replacement for Nails – who broke up without warning or an explanation last week – is in the works.
Announced so far are: Electric Wizard, Abbath, Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas, Enslaved, Ufomammut, Akercocke, Black Tusk, Bossk, Ne Obliviscaris, Oceans of Slumber, Erlen Myer and Conjurer.
Tickets, priced just £38, are on sale now via the website and Facebook.
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