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Bob Daisley: “Gary Moore was Ozzy’s first choice for original guitarist but turned him down”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 15, 2018
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Jimmy Kay and Alan Dixon from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently spoke to former Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne , Rainbow, bassist Bob Daisley about his new tribute album to former guitarist Gary Moore. Which was released on October 26 via earMUSIC, “Moore Blues for Gary – A Tribute To Gary Moore”.

Watch the interview here:

Daisley talks about Gary Moore’s career, the participants on the Gary Moore tribute album, Moore’ preference of Ozzy guitarists and when Moore turned down Ozzy as his frist choice for guitarist when Ozzy got fired from Black Sabbath.

When asked about the time Ozzy wanted Gary Moore as his guitarist prior to Randy Rhoads
“Ozzy never wanted to replace Randy Rhoads with Gary Moore, Gary Moore was Ozzy’s first choice. When Ozzy was in Los Angeles after he got fired from Black Sabbath and he was thinking of putting a band together his first choice was Gary Moore. Gary Moore didn’t want to work with Ozzy because of Ozzy’s reputation with drugs and booze being unreliable and unprofessional. Gary said I will help you find a guitarist or if you find a guitarist that you want my opinion on I will help you that way. ”

When asked about which Ozzy guitarist Gary Moore preferred
“One thing I would like to add is that Gary rated Jake E Lee very high he said, Saying I think Jake E Lee is one of the best guitariist Ozzy ever had. ”

When asked about his and Lee Kerslake’s induction into The Hall of Heavy Metal History Gala in January 23 2019 for their contributions to Ozzy’s Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman
“That is great it really puts the icing on the cake. I spoke to Lee Last week about it and he is over the moon because Lee is not having a good time at the moment he has some bad health issues and we don;t know how much longer Lee is going to be around, he can go in a few months we don;t know. So for this to happen for Lee it means a lot for him and it means a lot for me. it’s something that’s really really nice to have. ”

John Sykes (ex-THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE) does a rendition of “Still Got The Blues”, with the soulful vocals by Daniel Bowes (THUNDER) complementing each other.

“Parisienne Walkways” is played by Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE, DIXIE DREGS) and Ricky Warwick (THIN LIZZY, BLACK STAR RIDERS, THE ALMIGHTY).

Gary’s friends are here — his rocking keyboard / guitar / vocal sidekick Neil Carter sings “Empty Rooms”, which he co-wrote with Gary. Don Airey (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW) and Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE) had joined forces with Gary on numerous occasions, together with Eric Singer (KISS) and Darrin Mooney (PRIMAL SCREAM). .

Doug Aldrich (WHITESNAKE, DIO), r Steve Lukather (TOTO), Joe Lynn Turner (RAINBOW), Jeff Watson (NIGHT RANGER), Damon Johnson (BLACK STAR RIDERS, ALICE COOPER) and Stan Webb (CHICKEN SHACK).

Gary’s sons Jack and Gus are also involved, playing guitar and singing on “This One’s For You”, showing that the “Blood Of Emeralds” still runs their veins.

Moore Blues for Gary – A Tribute To Gary Moore” track listing and personnel details:

01. That’s Why I Play The Blues
02. The Blues Just Got Sadder
03. Empty Rooms
04. Still Got The Blues (For You)
05. Texas Strut
06. Nothing’s The Same
07. The Loner
08. Torn Inside
09. Don’t Believe A Word
10. Story Of The Blues
11. This One’s For You
12. Power Of The Blues
13. Parisienne Walkways

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LAMB OF GOD’s Mark Morton Announces New Collaborative Project, Listen To The First Single, “Anesthetic” Out March 1st

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Mark Morton, the prolific guitarist of LAMB OF GOD, has announced a new project that sees him further explore his creative drive for writing and collaboration. Joining forces with WPP Records and Spinefarm Records on a worldwide basis, Morton will release a 10-track album under his own name and titled Anesthetic. It arrives on March 1, 2019 but CD and vinyl pre-order and merch bundles are available now at www.markmortonmusic.com.

Listen to the lead track “The Truth Is Dead,” featuring his Lamb of God bandmate Randy Blythe and Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, here:

 

The full track listing, complete with the list of guest artists is below. The album was made alongside a dream team of highly respected musicians from a multitude of musical worlds; some friends, and some who would never be expected to collaborate with metal genre leaders Lamb of God.

Starting as idea between Jake (leader of heavy rock band Oni and founder of WPP Records), producer Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Trivium, Oni, Gojira) and Morton, the project quickly gathered steam – with Mark at the creative center, Josh Wilbur co-writing, recording, mixing, and producing, and Jake Oni also co-writing and performing.

Morton had been writing some of this debut for years. “This album wasn’t a concerted effort to start something outside Lamb of God,”he explains. “Music is always in my head, and until I write and record it, it’s stuck there. But once I record it, it’s out. It’s a catharsis, more for my own sanity.”

Singers on the album include Chester Bennington, Randy Blythe, Jacoby Shaddix, Myles Kennedy, Alissa White-Gluz, Mark Lanegan, Chuck Billy, Jake Oni, Josh Todd, Mark Morales and Naeemah Maddox. Musically, Morton performs all guitars, with Roy Mayorga, David Ellefson, Ray Luzier, Paulo Gregoletto and Alex Bent, Mike Inez, Jean-Paul Gaster, Steve Gorman and Marc Paul rounding out the band.

ANESTHETIC TRACK LISTING:
1. “Cross Off” (feat. Chester Bennington)
2. “Sworn Apart” (feat. Jacoby Shaddix)
3. “Axis”  (feat. Mark Lanegan)
4. “The Never” (feat. Chuck Billy + Jake Oni)
5. “Save Defiance” (feat. Myles Kennedy)
6. “Blur” (feat. Mark Morales)
7. “Back From The Dead” (feat. Josh Todd)
8. “Reveal” (feat. Naeemah Maddox)
9. “Imaginary Days”
10. “Truth Is Dead” (feat. Randy Blythe + Alissa White-Gluz)

More information at https://www.facebook.com/markmortonmusic

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OKKULTIST Unleash Album Details For “Reinventing Evil”

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OKKULTIST, the Portuguese up&coming Death Metal beasts, will release their hotly anticipated debut album Reinventing Evil on the 15th of March, 2019. The album was produced by Pedro Paixão (Moonspell) and the band, tracked at Poison Apple Studios in Lisbon and amazingly mixed by Tue Madsen (Meshuggah, Moonspell, The Haunted). With a total of 8 rabid and brutal songs, the band’s debut will see the light of the day via Moonspell‘s Fernando Ribeiro ALMA MATER RECORDS in two digipack editions. One of them will come with a limited, different artwork and it will contain a Bathory cover song ‘Satan is my Master’. Furthermore the evil spell and album tracklist will read as follows:

1. Reinventing Evil
2. Back from the Dead
3. Sniff the Blood
4. Sign of the Ripper
5. I am the Beast
6. Grave Digger
7. Plasmodium Nocturnus
8. Rise and Reign

Today, OKKULTIST are also sharing with us the cover artwork designed by singer & demoness Beatriz Mariano. Stay tuned for December 22nd when the band will unleash upon us a first song from their upcoming evil beast of an album, pre-sale news as well announce their headliner release show date in Lisbon, at RCA Club in March 2019!

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Just recently, ALMA MATER RECORDS boss and MOONSPELL vocalist Fernando Ribeiro stated: “After listening to the rough mixes of what will become Reinventing Evil, I am more certain than ever that it was a very good move for Alma Mater Records to sign Okkultist and handle their debut album. They are the kind of band the Portuguese scene needs: talented, young, focused and just fucking brutal. Portuguese Death Metal has never sounded so exciting in my ears so we can’t wait to release this beast upon you and help you to reinvent evil together with this amazing Portuguese talent.”

OKKULTIST formed back in late 2015. Two years and memorable live shows later, their debut EP ‘Eye Of The Beholder’ was released by the band independently, but caught up and spread all around Europe and overseas – selling out every single printed copy. Even at this early stage, OKKULTIST already had the honor to curse stages such as at Mosher Fest or Female Growler United Front in Portugal and as an opening act for legendary names such as Entombed AD. Inspired by the likes of Master, Abomination, early Morbid Angel, Death or Dismember, OKKULTIST pick up where impure 90’s Death Metal left and are ready to release Reinventing Evil on March 15th 2019. OKKULTIST became the very first band ever to sign with Fernando Ribeiro’s new label ALMA MATER RECORDS. Better be prepared for some infernal vibes and a deadly raw, new Death Metal brand this upcoming March, when OKKULTIST will be REINVENTING EVIL!

 

LEGION OF THE DAMNED Release New Video And Single “Slaves Of The Southern Cross”

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If there is a band that’ll break your neck from the sheer force of their music, it must be LEGION OF THE DAMNED!

Now the Dutch thrash/death/black outfit releases their second single off their upcoming album Slaves of the Shadow Realm – watch the video for the crushing “Slaves of the Southern Cross” right here:

Vocalist Maurice Swinkels on the new single:

“Next to “Dark Coronation”, “Palace of Sin” and “Warhounds of Hades”, this is one of my favorite tracks on the album: “Slaves of the Southern Cross”, its heavy as hell and sometimes reminds me of Infernal Majesty, it has a great atmosphere and I cannot wait for the fans to sheer with me “Slaves of the Southern Cross”. For the video we rented the big hall of the Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen and kept it relative ‘simple’, spend the entire day in fire blasters and filmed the band that captures the essence of LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Aggressive and heavy!”

On January 4th 2019 the quartet will release their new album Slaves of the Shadow Realm via Napalm Records. This monster resembles a colossal, smooth and blackened monolith. Five years after the much-praised Ravenous Plague, the shredding legion returns with producer Andy Classen and presents an album that merges the unadulterated fury of the early LOTD years with the sophistication of a veteran band.

Pre order Slaves of the Shadow Realm HERE!

Tracklist of Slaves of the Shadow Realm:

01 The Widows Breed
02 Nocturnal Commando
03 Charnel Confession
04 Slaves of the Southern Cross
05 Warhounds of Hades
06 Black Banners in Flames
07 Shadow Realm of the Demonic Mind
08 Palace of Sin
09 Priest Hunt
10 Azazels Crown
11 Dark Coronation

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SLAYER Announce Leg Five: North America Of Final World Tour + Episode 3 Of “Slayer Looks Back On 37 Years”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 14, 2018
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With Leg Three: Europe of SLAYER’s »Final World Tour« having wrapped up this past Saturday, dates in Australia, Japan, the South Pacific and the final European dates announced in the past weeks, today SLAYER announces Leg Five: North America of its »Final World Tour«.

Maintaining the band’s ethos of “play as many places as possible to make it easier for everyone to see the band one last time,” Leg Five will kick off May 2nd, 2019 at the Ak-Chin Amphitheatre in Phoenix, AZ and see the band performing 16 shows across the Southern states and then up the East coast culminating at the Xfinity Center Amphitheatre in Mansfield, MA on May 25th. LAMB OF GOD, AMON AMARTH and CANNIBAL CORPSE will support SLAYER on all Leg Five dates. Special SLAYER VIP Packages will be available for all dates those details are accessible here: http://bit.ly/slayervip

Also Episode 3 of the »Slayer Looks Back On 37 Years« video interview series is released. Tom Araya and Kerry King talk about getting their first record deal and the release of »Show No Mercy«. Tom, Kerry and Paul Bostaph remember Paul‘s first meeting with the band and his subsequent audition to be SLAYER‘s drummer.

Check out the clip below:

Episode 1: https://youtu.be/UJe1A5M4t3o
Episode 2: https://youtu.be/MsliP7optgE

With still more dates coming – it’s a big world and it takes time to transverse it – confirmed 2019 dates for SLAYER’s »Final World Tour« are as follows:

SLAYER live:
07.03. AUS Brisbane – Riverstage (w/ ANTHRAX, BEHEMOTH)
09.03. AUS Sydney – Download Festival
11.03. AUS Melbourne – Download Festival
13.03. AUS Adelaide – Entertainment Centre (w/ ANTHRAX, BEHEMOTH)
15.03. NZ Auckland – Eventfinda Stadium (w/ ANTHRAX)
17.03. NZ Christchurch – Horncastle Arena (w/ ANTHRAX)
21.03. J Chiba – Download Festival
23.03. RP Quezon City – Pulp Summer Slam

w/ LAMB OF GOD, AMON AMARTH, CANNIBAL CORPSE
02.05. USA Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Amphitheatre
03.05. USA Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
05.05. USA El Paso, TX – UTEP/Don Haskins Center
07.05. USA Edinburg, TX – Bert Ogden Arena
08.05. USA Dallas, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
10.05. USA Tampa, FL – MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
11.05. USA West Palm Beach, FL – Coral Sky Amphitheatre
13.05. USA Huntington, WV – Big Sandy Superstore Arena
14.05. USA Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
16.05. USA Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
17.05. USA Bonner Springs, KS – Providence Medical Center Amphitheater
19.05. USA Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
20.05. USA Youngstown, OH – Covelli Centre
22.05. CDN Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
24.05. USA Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion
25.05. USA Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

04.06. PL Gliwice – Arena
06.06. S Sölvesborg – Sweden Rock
08.06. D Nürburg – Rock am Ring
09.06. D Nürnberg – Rock im Park
11.06. H Budapest – Papp László Sportaréna
13.06. D Leipzig – Arena
14.06. A Nickelsdorf – Nova Rock
15./16.06. UK Donington – Download Festival
19.06. CH Genf – Arena
21.06. B Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting
23.06. F Clisson – Hellfest
25.06. CZ Prag – Tipsport Arena
28.06. N Ekeberg – Tons of Rock
29.06. FIN Helsinki – Tuska Open Air
03. – 06.07. E Viveiro – Resurrection Fest
05.07. P Lissabon – VOA Heavy Rock Festival
07.07. I Verona – Rock The Castle
10.07. RO Bukarest – Metalhead Meeting
11.07. BG Sofia – Airport Park
27./28.07. CDN Montréal, QC – Heavy Montréal
03.08. D Balingen – Messegelände
04.10. BR Rio de Janeiro – Rock in Rio (w/ ANTHRAX a.o.)

Order SLAYER‘s latest album »Repentless«, in various formats (6,66″ vinyl box set and more): http://www.nuclearblast.de/suche/slayer

BLIND GUARDIAN Release Second Documentary Trailer About “A Night At The Opera”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 14, 2018
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Recently, on November 30th, the progressive power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN released the remixed and remastered versions of “Imaginations From The Other Side”, “Nightfall In Middle-Earth” and “A Night At The Opera”, which also entered the German charts: “Imaginations From The Other Side” on #89, “A Night At The Opera” on #77 and “Nightfall In Middle-Earth” even landed on #52!

Today the band reveal the second documentary trailer, this time talking about “A Night At The Opera”. Watch it here:

“Out of the three recent re-releases ‘A Night at the Opera’ surely benefits the most from the remixing. It is such a rich album with so many things to discover. The album is a commitment to quality and an achievement. I am enjoying each and every re-visit, especially now with the new” vinyl version. Check it out!”, comments Hansi Kürsch.

In case you missed one of the other trailers, watch them here:
Trailer #1 ‘Imaginations Revisited Pt. I’: https://youtu.be/LunAj8vkPl4
Trailer #2 ‘Imaginations Revisited Pt. II’: https://youtu.be/b3wQR_UJq5U
Trailer #3 ‘Nightfall Revisited Pt. I’ https://youtu.be/IVV97JoRQnQ
Trailer #4 ‘Nightfall Revisited – Pt. II’: https://youtu.be/GirG9urVpS8
Trailer #5 ‘A Night At The Opera -Revisited Pt. I’ : https://youtu.be/MT4cXoZ6XQw

Order the re-releases of the albums via the following link: http://nuclearblast.com/blindguardian-reissues