New Jersey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL filmed videos for the songs “Bitter Pill” and “Armorist” this past weekend with veteran director Kevin J. Custer (HATEBREED, TESTAMENT, SUFFOCATION). Custer previously worked with OVERKILL on the “Electric Rattlesnake” and “Bring Me The Night” clips. Says OVERKILL frontman Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth: “[It’s] fantastic to …
Scottish post-rock icons MOGWAI (pictured) have slammed METALLICA as “s**te,” claiming that they don’t understand the controversy surrounding METALLICA being the first metal artist to headline Glastonbury in the U.K. festival’s 44-year history. The members of MOGWAI, who …
Official Metallica.com footage of the band’s May 28 performance at the Sonisphere festival in Helsinki, Finland can be seen below. The 30-minute clip includes footage of the band soundchecking on May 27, a scary …
Opeth will be releasing their new album Pale Communion on August 25 and you can preview the album’s first single Cusp Of Eternity right here. Produced by Opeth’s own Mikael …
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES will release their eleventh album, “Siren Charms”, in the U.S. on September 9 via Sony/RED. The CD was recorded at Hansa Tonstudios (DAVID BOWIE, DEPECHE MODE, U2) in Berlin, Germany. A single, “Rusted Nail”, …
Steven Rosen of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Ultimate-Guitar.com: Do you think part of the energy on “Worship Music” came from [singer] Joey Belladonna‘s return …
Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach is one of the contestants in ABC‘s new competition series, “Sing Your Face Off”. Actor John Barrowman (“Torchwood”, “Arrow”) hosts the show, which features five celebrity contestants taking on the identity of …
Nev Pearce of Australia’s “Rabid Noise” podcast recently conducted an interview with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz of Swedish / American / Canadian metallers ARCH ENEMY. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. ARCH ENEMY‘s …
In a brand new interview with Finland’s MTV, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett said that he still stands proudly behind “Lulu”, the band’s controversial collaborative album with former THE VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman Lou Reed. “Lulu” polarized fans around the world and …
Former PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo insists that he can still “nail” all of the band’s post-“Cowboys From Hell” songs and says that his “voice was fried” when he joined BLACK LABEL SOCIETY on stage on May 10 …
MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover has revealed via his Facebook page that he “spent this week in the studio with [MEGADETH mainman] Dave [Mustaine] tracking demo ‘ideas’ for the [band’s next studio] next record.” He added: “[There are] some …
The first track-by-track breakdown video for “War Eternal”, the new album from Swedish / American / Canadian metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be seen below. The CD will be released in North America …
