Search results for 'saint asonia'

News

BURST Announces Dates In Russia, Ukraine

Sweden's BURST has issued the following update: "We're psyched beyond all sense to announce that the first BURST shows since forever and the first in the touring cycle for our coming album 'Lazarus Bird' will take us to Russia and Ukraine. These countries have a tradition of loving heavy tunes, but...

News

DC4 Confirmed For ROCKLAHOMA Festival

DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass, has been added to the Tri-Label Stage (South) at this year's Rocklahoma festi...

News

SOULFLY Confirmed For UK's BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR

SOULFLY has been confirmed for the Bloodstock Open Air 2008 festival, set to take place August 15-17 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, England. Bloodstock Open Air festival billing is now shaping up as follows: AKERCOCKE ALESTORM AS I LAY DYING AT THE GATES CLOUDSCAPE COMMUNIC CROWNING GLORY DESTRUCTION...

News

DC4 Signs With CHAVIS RECORDS

Chavis Records has announced the signing of DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass. "Explode", the latest effort from...

News

ANTHRAX: Photos, Video Footage From HEAVY MTL Festival Posted Online

Fan-filmed video footage of ANTHRAX performing its classic song "Indians" yesterday (Sunday, June 22) in front of 22,500 fans as part of the Heavy MTL festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada can be viewed below (clip uploaded by YouTube user "gregdarth"). Check out photos at HeavyM...

News

Original JUDAS PRIEST Singer Talks About His Early Songwriting Contributions To Band

Stalker magazine recently conducted an interview with original JUDAS PRIEST singer Al Atkins. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow. Stalker: What band were you in prior to the formation of JUDAS PRIEST? Atkins: Late 1968, I was in a band I named THE CHAPTERS OF LIFE, but our agency thought the...

News

ANTHRAX Bassist BELLO Forced To Sit Out HEAVY MTL Festival; JOEY VERA Steps In

ANTHRAX will utilize the services of bassist Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING) for its appearance at the Heavy MTL festival on Sunday, June 22 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "Frankie [Bello, ANTHRAX's longtime bassist] can't make the Montreal gig due to a family obligation,...

News

APOCALYPTICA: More North American Dates Announced

Finnish cello quartet APOCALYPTICA has scheduled the following North American dates: Aug. 05 - The Black Sheep Colorado Springs, Colorado Aug. 06 - Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma Aug. 07 - Village Theatre Little Rock, Arkansas Aug. 08 - Antones Beaumont, Texas Aug. 09 - Ozzfest Dallas, Texas Sep. 1...

News

BULLETBOYS To Guest On Illinois' WQLZ 92.7 The Rock Station

BULLETBOYS will make a live appearance on Springfield, Illinois' WQLZ 92.7 The Rock Station this Friday June 13 at 10:15 a.m. WQLZ will debut "Road To Nowhere" from the forthcoming BULLETBOYS CD and will conduct an interview with the band. To listen to the program live via the Internet, go to www.wq...

Review

Conqueror

One need only read vocalist/guitarist Karl Simon's "thanks list" in the liner notes of "Conqueror", the new album by Indianapolis' THE GATES OF SLUMBER, to realize that this is anything but a new-school metal album. Stating "thanks for the inspiration to: CIRITH UNGOL, BUDGIE, LUCIFER'S FRIEND, URIA...

News

LITA FORD: More Warm-Up Shows Revealed

'80s hard rock queen Lita Ford will play at least a couple of warm-up shows for her upcoming Rocklahoma appearance. Ford is apparently being billed as the Lita Ford "tribute" act KISS ME DEADLY for these special performances, which will kick off in late June. So far the following dates have been ann...

News

Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer PAUL DI'ANNO: Five Songs 'Fully Recorded' For New Album

Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno has issued the following update: "My new album is well underway and I am excited because I have a great German producer called Dieter Roth at the controls. I have already fully recorded five of the songs in Germany (at Dieter's studio) and I will have the whole...

News

AMPLIFIER's BALAMIR To Guest On Debut WORLDENGINE EP

Sel Balamir (AMPLIFIER) is currently recording a guest vocal appearance for the upcoming debut EP by the Porto Alegre, Brazil-based modern progressive rock outfit WORLDENGINE, tentatively entitled "Fifteen Minutes to Judgement Day". Other guests scheduled to appear on the CD include Joey Vera (FATES...

News

LITA FORD Announces Lineup For 'Touring And Recording'

'80s hard rock queen Lita Ford has announced her "current lineup for touring and recording." It is as follows: Stet Howland (W.A.S.P.) - Drums Teddy Cook (DIO) - Bass Michael T. Ross (HARDLINE, ANGEL) - Keyboards Tom Cavanagh (ALMOST QUEEN, BENT PUSSYCAT) - Guitar As previously reported, Lita Ford w...

News

BULLETBOYS Confirmed For ROCKLAHOMA Festival

BULLETBOYS has been confirmed for the Rocklahoma festival, set to take place July 9-13, 2008 at the Catch The Fever Festival Grounds, four miles north of Pryor, Oklahoma. The band will be make a special headline appearance on Sunday night, July 13 on the Tri-Label Stage. TRIUMPH and EXTREME are amon...