The 2013 edition of the Greenfield Festival is scheduled for June 13th – 15th in Interlaken, Switzerland. NIGHTWISH are now confirmed to perform on June 15th.
Other bands slated to appear (listed in alphabetical order) are as follows:
A DAY TO REMEMBER, AIRBOURNE, BOUNCING SOULS, BRING ME THE HORIZON, BOYSETSFIRE, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, CALIBAN, DANKO JONES, EVERY TIME I DIE, GASLIGHT ANTHEM, JENNIFER ROSTOCK, MONO INC, NOFX, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, RAMMSTEIN, SALTATIO MORTIS, STONE SOUR, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, and WITHIN TEMPTATION.
Roadrunner has issued that Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor discusses his writing process in the exclusive interview above. He talks about who sees his writing in its rawest form; how he goes about sharing his lyrics with the other members of Stone Sour; whether writing the two-part House of Gold & Bones concept album changed his approach to lyrics; and more. Watch now!
Stone Sour will be on tour in North America from April 2 to May 4; find a show near you! House of Gold & Bones Part 1 is available everywhere now – pick it up at your local Best Buy store, or on Amazon! House of Gold & Bones Part 2 will be available for pre-order very soon; stay tuned!
Roadrunner has issued that Stone Sour have released a teaser for their upcoming “Do Me A Favor” music video, which you can watch below. The clip was directed by Phil Mucci, who’s previously delivered awesome, psychedelic videos for High On Fire‘s “Fertile Green,” Pig Destroyer‘s “The Diplomat,” and Opeth‘s “The Devil’s Orchard.”
STONE SOUR performed its new single, “Do Me A Favor”, live for the first time this past Tuesday, February 12 at Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen below.
“Do Me A Favor” is the first single from “House Of Gold & Bones – Part 2”, the second part of STONE SOUR‘s two-album series, “House of Gold & Bones”, which will be released on April 9 via Roadrunner Records. The albums were recorded at Sound Farm Studios just outside of the band’s native Des Moines, Iowa with producer David Bottrill (TOOL, MUSE) at the helm. “Do Me A Favor”, was made available digitally on February 12. The video for the track will be directed by Phil Mucci, whose video for HIGH ON FIRE‘s “Fertile Green” was named best video of 2012 by Revolver. Singer Corey Taylor gave The Pulse Of Radio a preview of what to expect from the song. “It’s quite aggressive, and actually the label asked me if I would go in and tame stuff down and I was like, ‘No.’ I’m not doing that,” he said. “This is going out the way it is and I’m not gonna touch it up. I’m not gonna have people looking for a song that doesn’t exist. This is the way it is on the album, that’s the way it’s going to be when we put it out to radio.”
“House Of Gold & Bones – Part 2” track listing:
01. Red City
02. Black John
03. Sadist
04. Peckinpah
05. Stalemate
06. Gravesend
07. ’82
08. The Uncanny Valley
09. Blue Smoke
10. Do Me A Favor
11. The Conflagration
12. The House Of Gold & Bones
“House Of Gold & Bones – Part 1” came out last fall.
STONE SOUR is on tour in North America through February 17, and will return in March for the Road To The Golden Gods tour, which will run through May 2.
Taylor recently told Billboard.com recently that the group is planning a world tour in 2014 during which they will spend two nights in each city and perform both halves of its “House Of Gold & Bones” double album in their entirety.
The official lyric video for “Do Me A Favor”, the new single from STONE SOUR, can be seen below. The song is the first single from “House Of Gold & Bones – Part 2”, the second part of the band’s two-album series, “House of Gold & Bones”, which will be released on April 9 via Roadrunner Records. The albums were recorded at Sound Farm Studios just outside of the band’s native Des Moines, Iowa with producer David Bottrill (TOOL, MUSE) at the helm.
“Do Me A Favor”, will be available digitally on February 12. The video for the track will be directed by Phil Mucci, whose video for HIGH ON FIRE‘s “Fertile Green” was named best video of 2012 by Revolver. Singer Corey Taylor gave The Pulse Of Radio a preview of what to expect from the song. “It’s quite aggressive, and actually the label asked me if I would go in and tame stuff down and I was like, ‘No.’ I’m not doing that,” he said. “This is going out the way it is and I’m not gonna touch it up. I’m not gonna have people looking for a song that doesn’t exist. This is the way it is on the album, that’s the way it’s going to be when we put it out to radio.”
“House Of Gold & Bones – Part 2” track listing:
01. Red City
02. Black John
03. Sadist
04. Peckinpah
05. Stalemate
06. Gravesend
07. ’82
08. The Uncanny Valley
09. Blue Smoke
10. Do Me A Favor
11. The Conflagration
12. The House Of Gold & Bones
When asked by ThisIsNotAScene what fans can expect from the second part of “House Of Gold & Bones”, Taylor said: “Part 2 is much darker [than the first part], if I’m honest. Aside from it being a completely different album, it feels more like a soundtrack to a movie in a lot of ways, man. It’s really thematic. There are themes from part 1 that reveal themselves and that come again, musically. There’s actually stuff from part 2 that you’ll hear that’s on part 1 and you’ll be like, ‘Fucking hell!'”
He continued: “We essentially recorded these, and this is where technology is now, so you could have these in a playlist on your iTunes and play them top to fucking bottom and really get that experience while you read both parts. So it’s some of our darkest music, our most intricate and complex music, some of the best fucking lyrics I’ve ever written, to be honest. Even writing from a narrative like that, it was so challenging. Plus, it’s got some of our best songs on it.
“You guys think part one’s good? Fuck off. ‘Do Me A Favor’ alone is going to kick the shit out of people and that’s going to be the first single, which comes out in January, that’s going to be the first taste that people get of part 2, and people aren’t going to know what to do.”
“House Of Gold & Bones – Part 1” came out last fall.
Music is just one of the mediums used to tell the “House of Gold & Bones” story, and Taylor recently revealed details of the new project with Dark Horse Comics of the same name, which follows, and expands on, the story contained within the albums. With stunning covers from Jason Shawn Alexander (Empty Zone, Batman, Abe Sapien), this four-issue limited series marks Taylor‘s debut in the comics genre. The first issue of the series will be out on April 17.
STONE SOUR is on tour in North America through February 17, and will return in March for the Road To The Golden Gods tour, which will run through May 2.
Taylor recently told Billboard.com recently that the group is planning a world tour in 2014 during which they will spend two nights in each city and perform both halves of its “House Of Gold & Bones” double album in their entirety.
SLIPKNOT, DOWN, BRAINSTORM, DEEZ NUTS, IN THIS MOMENT, THE SWORD and CLUTCH are the latest acts confirmed for the Graspop Metal Meeting 2013, taking place in Dessel, Belgium June 28th – 30th.
Confirmed acts now include: ABSU, AFTER THE BURIAL, AMARANTHE, AURA NOIR, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, BRAINSTORM, BULLET, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, CALIBAN, CLUTCH, COAL CHAMBER, DARK FUNERAL, DEEZ NUTS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, DOWN, DUNDERBEIST, ENTOMBED, EPICA, EVERY TIME I DIE, GHOST, GOD SEED, HACKTIVIST, HEAVEN’S BASEMENT, HELLYEAH, IN FLAMES, IN THIS MOMENT, IRON MAIDEN, KATATONIA, KING DIAMOND, KORN, KREATOR, LOCK UP, MAYHEM, MOONSPELL, PARKWAY DRIVE, RED FANG, SAXON, SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR, THE SWORD, TESTAMENT, UNLEASHED, VARG, VEIL OF MAYA, WINTERFYLLETH.
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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