METALBUZZ

Trap Them Are Even Good When Anti-Social

KK — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:46:15 +0000

Just a year ago Trap Them released ‘Seizures in Barren Praise’ and shook up the lives of hardcore and grindcore lovers all over the universe. Like the three other road-crazed bands Trap Them played with at The Crazy Donkey Nov. 3 — Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch and Black Dahlia Murder — they are always on tour, [...]

Tesla Announce Plans for New Live Album

KK — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:26:43 +0000

One thing you can say about Tesla — they’ve been able to sustain a massive fan base for well more than two decades. The band will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a new live album of deep cuts for the die-hard fans. The band also plans to release an album of new material in the [...]

Slayer Drummer Lombardo To Release Solo Album

KK — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:16:35 +0000

Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo is planning on putting out a solo album next year – and it’s all about drums! “It will showcase a very different side of me,” Lombardo told Classic Rock. “If you’re a metalhead then you may not appreciate a lot of what’ll be on it. It’s really world music with an edge. [...]

PELICAN Announce In-Store Performances

KK — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:19:23 +0000

In anticipation of the release of their fourth full length, What We All Come To Need, PELICAN will celebrate with an in store performance at Reckless Records in Chicago followed by an album listening party on October 16th at 11:30 pm at Kuma`s Corner (http://www.myspace.com/kumascorner) , a renowned restaurant/bar responsible for dozens of burgers named [...]

DragonForce: House Of Blues Chicago

KK — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:40:30 +0000

9/30 :: House Of Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA (9 images) + Download DragonForce

ARMORED SAINT begins recording new full-length studio album

KK — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:34:14 +0000

Los Angeles’ sons of metal, ARMORED SAINT, are set to enter Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to begin recording the band’s 6th full-length studio album. Tranzformer Studios is owned by Dave Jerdan (Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, etc) who produced ARMORED SAINT’s 1991 classic Symbol of Salvation and Bryan Carlstrom who handled engineering on the [...]

ANIMALS AS LEADERS Announce Tour Dates

KK — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:44:42 +0000

After months of anticipation, ANIMALS AS LEADERS – the acclaimed progressive instrumental solo project of 7- and 8-string guitar virtuoso Tosin Abasi (ex-Reflux, touring guitarist of Born Of Osiris) – have announced their first tour dates, a three-week November trek throughout the south and midwest with Between The Buried And Me and Veil of Maya. [...]

Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue

Mr. Censored — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:37:39 +0000

You know the story by now: Hard-rock heroes Alice in Chains help forge a new sound for the 1990’s, inspiring countless bands in their wake, only to disintegrate before the end of the decade, citing typical rock-star excess and drama (see: drug abuse). Any chance of a meaningful reunion is seemingly squashed when frontman Layne [...]

Steven Wilson’s Video Competition

KK — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:30:16 +0000

Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson has set up a video competition. He wants people to create a video for the David I. Sitek remix of the song Harmony Korine, which is on the remix album Nsurgnts Rmxs. You can download the track from the Kscope store – www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/product/272/1686/ – and then upload the video to their YouTube [...]

Straight Line Stitch’s Alexis Brown is a Little Goofy, But Not From All the Touring

KK — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:01:53 +0000

“We plan to finish out the rest of the year, doing as much touring as possible,” Straight Line Stitch vocalist Alexis Brown told Noisecreep. Touring is the bread and butter for a new band — and the way to make yourself into a household name, one fan at a time. So SLS are doing things [...]

MASTODON Confirmed For Big Day Out Festival

KK — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:20:37 +0000

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have been confirmed for the 2010 Big Day Out festival tour of Australia and New Zealand. The festival will have day-long events running in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth from January 15 to January 31. The dates are as follows: Jan. 15 – Auckland MT Smart Stadium Jan. 17 – Gold [...]

POWERMAN 5000 gear up to unleash first album in three years, ‘Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere’

KK — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:01 +0000

Futuristic metallists Powerman 5000 have been plotting their next move for the past few years, and their latest step towards a global takeover is upon us, in the form of ‘Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere.’ The album will drop from the solar system on October 6th (via Mighty Loud!/Fontana), and as judged by [...]

Fan filmed footage of Porcupine Tree performing ‘Time Flies’ live in Chicago at The Vic (9/22/09)

KK — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:17:35 +0000

Fan filmed footage of Porcupine Tree performing ‘Time Flies’ live in Chicago at The Vic on 9/22 can be found here. + Download Porcupine Tree

AC/DC To Make ‘Big Announcement’ This Coming Tuesday

KK — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:31:39 +0000

There are unconfirmed reports that AC/DC are to release a major box set later this year. These reports suggest this will come in a box shaped as an amplifier – that actually works. It will contain three CDs, two DVDs and a vinyl album. There will be a CD of studio rarities, two CDs featuring live [...]

New W.A.S.P. Single ‘Crazy’ Available For Download Starting September 28th

KK — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:56:01 +0000

Global Music have announced the release of ‘Crazy’, the first single from the new W.A.S.P album, Babylon. The single will be available for download on September 28th. Frontman Blackie Lawless commented on the track: “Although like it may sound like a man talking to a woman, ‘Crazy’ is about a performer talking to an audience; the [...]

ALICE IN CHAINS streaming ‘Black Gives Way To Blue’

KK — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:35:20 +0000

Head on over to http://www.alice-in-chains.net to hear ‘Black Gives Way To Blue’ in it’s entirety. + Download Alice In Chains

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD Unveil Album Title, Tracklisting And Cover Art

KK — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:06:54 +0000

South Carolina death metal act THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD have announced the title of their forthcoming release, on Prosthetic Records. The album, their third full length, will be titled Skepsis. The band has been recording at New York’s Gellar Cellar Studios. Alan Douches has been tapped to master the effort. The tracklisting is as follows: ‘Parasite Throne’ ‘Dementia’ ‘No [...]

Ministry Make One Last Hurrah With ‘The Last Dubber,’ Revolting Cocks Lubed to Take Over

KK — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:59:29 +0000

On Sept.18, 2007, Ministry released ‘The Last Sucker,’ the last of three sequential studio albums of bracing, throbbing industrial metal with lyrics denouncing the Bush administration as corrupt, murderous crooks. At the time, ringleader Al Jourgensen said the album would be the absolute final Ministry album. Of course, he wasn’t counting the 2008 covers album [...]

Iwrestledabearonce Frontwoman Just Wants Metal Equality

KK — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:24:42 +0000

Krysta Cameron, vocalist for the deathcore band Iwrestledabearonce, just wants to be considered one of the guys — especially by strangers who are seeing her band for the first time. “People seem confused when we get on stage,” Cameron told Noisecreep. “Granted there’s people who have heard of us before. But then they’ll come out to [...]

BONHAM: Touring Lineup Revealed

KK — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:17:35 +0000

BONHAM, the band led by drummer Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN, UFO, FOREIGNER) — son of the late LED ZEPPELIN drummer John Bonham — has scheduled the following dates: Oct. 14 – Revolution Live – Ft. Lauderdale, FL Oct. 15 – House of Blues – Orlando, FL Oct. 16 – State Theatre – St. Petersburg, FL Oct. 29 – Coach [...]