March 27, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Ratt • 0 Comments
Bassist Robbie Crane has officially quit RATT, the band he had played with since 1997. During an appearance on this past Thursday’s (March 22) edition of the “Headbangers At 11” show on the 93.3 KDKB radio station with host Mike Gaube, Crane stated about his decision to leave RATT, “I’ve been playing in LYNCH MOB […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: aerosmith, CHEAP TRICK • 0 Comments
AEROSMITH, America’s greatest rock and roll band, will start your summer sizzling and have you dancing around the fires of rock n’ roll again. After blowing away audiences in South America and Japan, the Bad Boys from Boston are back to rock America’s soul, with “The Global Warming Tour” playing 18 markets beginning on… Read […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS • 0 Comments
According to The Pulse Of Radio, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have a number of plans in the works for 2012, but apparently a new studio album is not one of them. Guitarist Dean DeLeo told New Jersey radio station WRAT on March 21 that contrary to earlier reports, the quartet are not recording their seventh studio […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: CHICKENFOOT, Journey, Kiss, RONNIE MONTROSE • 0 Comments
ormer and current members of KISS, Y&T, JOURNEY and MR. BIG will appear at a Ronnie Montrose tribute concert on Friday, April 27 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The show will also include performances by MONTROSE and GAMMA, both of which were founded by Montrose. MONTROSE‘s lineup for the concert will include… […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Marduk • 0 Comments
Swedish black metallers MARDUK will release their 12th studio album, “Serpent Sermon”, via Blooddawn Productions/Century Media Records on the following dates: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway: Friday, May 25 Rest Of Europe: Monday, May 28 Spain, Italy: Tuesday, May 29 Sweden, Finland, Hungary: Wednesday, May 30 Australia, New Zealand: Friday, June 1 USA/Canada: June 5 “Serpent […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Soundgarden • 0 Comments
A 22-second snippet of “Live To Rise” — the first completely new song from SOUNDGARDEN to be heard in nearly 16 years — can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The track will appear on the “Avengers Assemble” soundtrack, which will be released just three days before the film on May 1. SOUNDGARDEN entered […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Metallica • 0 Comments
All 60,000 tickets to METALLICA‘s three shows at the Sports Palace in Mexico City — scheduled for August 1, 2 and 4 — sold out in less than 90 minutes last week. As a result, the band has added two more dates in Mexico City: August 6 and 7 at the same venue. The Banamex […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Corrosion Of Conformity • 0 Comments
Mark Kadzielawa of 69 Faces Of Rock recently conducted an interview with guitarist Woody Weatherman of Raleigh, North Carolina legends CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. 69 Faces Of Rock: The new album isn’t really a retro album. In fact, it sounds as if this configuration of players continued […]
March 26, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Black Sabbath • 0 Comments
BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi, who is currently receiving treatment in England for the early stages of lymphoma, with which he was diagnosed late last year, has issued the following update: “A little update on how it’s all going: “Well, I’ve had the last dose of chemotherapy, so hopefully my body will start to get […]
Former KORN Drummer Arrested For DUI
March 27, 2012 by Rich Castle • Heavy Metal News Tags: Korn • 0 Comments
TMZ.com reports that original KORN drummer David Silveria was arrested for DUI in Huntington Beach, California this past weekend. According to police records, the 39-year-old musician — who played withKORN for 13 years — was arrested on Sunday at 10:45 a.m. Silveria recently joined forces with ANYONE members Riz Story andMiki Black in a brand new project called INFINIKA. David left KORN in late 2006 in order to focus on family life […]