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DEFTONES: New Album Due In October

April 6, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Deftones • 0 Comments

DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno told the Buenos Aires, Argentina radio station Vorterix Rock 103.1 earlier this week (see video below) that the band completed pre-production on its seventh album late last month and will enter the studio in a few days to begin recording the effort for a late 2012 release. “We start recording next week,” he said. “Right before […]

CHILDREN OF BODOM: ‘Holiday At Lake Bodom’ Track Listing, Cover Artwork Unveiled

April 5, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Children Of Bodom • 0 Comments

On May 22, Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM will release“Holiday At Lake Bodom (15 Years Of Wasted Youth)”, a very special CD+DVD career retrospective in celebration of the band’s 15th anniversary. The release will spotlight specially selected tracks from every one of the group’s critically acclaimed albums (1997’s “Something Wild”, 1999’s “Hatebreeder”, 2000’s “Follow The Reaper”, 2003’s“Hate Crew Deathroll”, 2005’s “Are […]

GODSMACK’s Cover Of JOE WALSH’s ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ Available For Streaming

April 5, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Godsmack • 0 Comments

GODSMACK‘s cover of JOE WALSH‘s “Rocky Mountain Way” can be streamed at Banana1015.com. The song will be featured on GODSMACK‘s first-ever concert album, “Live And Inspired”, which will also contain a bonus disc of four newly recorded cover songs. According to Loudwire, the disc will contain 13 tunes that were all recorded at a single show at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit […]

UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER, ROB ROCK, STEVE GRIMMETT To Guest On New EMPIRES OF EDEN Album

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: EMPIRES OF EDEN, ROB ROCK, STEVE GRIMMETT, UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER • 0 Comments

EMPIRES OF EDEN — the brainchild of PAINDIVISION/ex-DUNGEONguitarist Stu Marshall — will release its third album, “Channelling The Infinite”, on June 1 in Japan through Rubicon, and on June 6 in rest of the world June 6 through Music Buy Mail. The CD features guest appearances by some of the most influential voices in metal, including: * Udo Dirkschneider (ACCEPT, U.D.O.) * Rob Rock (IMPELLITTERI, DRIVER) […]

AEROSMITH’s BRAD WHITFORD On New Album: ‘I Would Have Preferred To Do It All Old School’

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: aerosmith • 0 Comments

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with AEROSMITH guitarist Brad Whitford. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Classic Rock Revisited: AEROSMITH has been talking about the new album they are working on. I have heard that the album is going to be like the 1970s albums. Is that true? Whitford: There is more of that on […]

REFUSED To Perform On ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Refused • 0 Comments

Reunited seminal Swedish hardcore band REFUSED will be the musical guest on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, April 23. The show airs on NBC at 12:30 ET/PT and 11:30 CT. REFUSED‘s first-ever television appearance will coincide with the band’s appearance at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held for the first time over two consecutive weeks […]

New JOEY RAMONE Solo Album Detailed

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: JOEY RAMONE • 0 Comments

On May 22, Joey Ramone‘s second solo album, “…Ya Know?” will be released (BMG Rights Management), eleven years after his life was cruelly cut short by lymphoma. The tracks were drawn from a cache of demos and unreleased recordings that Joey had cut at various times during the last decade and a half of his life. Joey‘s brother, musician Mickey Leigh, […]

OVERKILL’s ‘The Electric Age’ Cracks U.S. Top 100; ‘Electric Rattlesnake’ Video Released

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Overkill • 0 Comments

“The Electric Age”, the new album from New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL, sold 6,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 77 on The Billboard 200 chart. OVERKILL‘s previous CD, “Ironbound”, opened with 4,100 units to enter the chart at No. 192. The effort landed at No. […]

GOJIRA: New Album Title, Track Listing Revealed

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Gojira • 0 Comments

French progressive metallers GOJIRA have set “L’Enfant Sauvage” as the title of their fifth album, due on June 26 via Roadrunner Records. The CD (the title of which translates to “The Wild Child”) features 11 tracks of mind-bending, thunderous metal. “When you become a musician, you don’t have… Read more here

SHINEDOWN’s ‘Amaryllis’ Cracks U.S. Top 5

April 4, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: SHINEDOWN • 0 Comments

SHINEDOWN‘s fourth studio album, titled “Amaryllis”, sold 106,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 4 on The Billboard 200 chart. SHINEDOWN landed the biggest debut of its career in July 2008 when its third album, “The Sound Of Madness”, sold 50,000 copies in the United States in its […]

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