Search results for 'johnny winter'

News

DREAM THEATER Drummer Jams With MEGADETH, Says 'Goodbye' To GIGANTOUR

DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy joined MEGADETH on stage for a rendition of "Peace Sells" during the two bands' joint appearance at the Toronto stop of the Gigantour festival tour on Saturday (September 3). MEGADETH skinsman Shawn Drover reportedly played guitar alongside brother Glen while Portn...

News

Guitarist MARCO SFOGLI In Pre-Production For DREAM THEATER Singer's New Solo CD

Italian guitarist Marco Sfogli, who is featured on the new solo album from DREAM THEATER vocalist James LaBrie, "Elements of Persuasion", has just completed a week of pre-production for LaBrie's next solo CD, according to a posting on Sfogli's web site. "It was a blast with Matt Guillory again and B...

News

AEROSMITH To Release 'Rockin' The Joint' Live Album Next Month

AEROSMITH have set an October 25 release date for their new live album, "Rockin' the Joint". Recorded on January 11, 2002, the CD/DualDisc features such AEROSMITH classics as "Beyond Beautiful", "S.O.S.", "Light Inside", "Draw the Line", "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Walk...

News

PILEDRIVER Replace EXCITER At Toronto's GATES OF HELL Festival

Reunited classic Canadian metallers PILEDRIVER will be replacing EXCITER on the billing of the Gates of Hell 2005 festival, set to take place Saturday, September 17 at the Reverb/Kathedral club (651 Queen St.) in Toronto, Ontario. The complete lineup for the festival is as follows: NUCLEAR ASSAULT A...

News

Original ANTHRAX Singer Talks About Group's Early Years

Australia's Inside_Out666 recently conducted an interview with original ANTHRAX frontman Neil Turbin. Several excerpts from the chat follow: Inside_Out666: For those who don't know the story how did you get involved with the guys in ANTHRAX? Neil Turbin: "Well, it's pretty interesting, actually. I w...

News

CELLADOR Sign With METAL BLADE RECORDS

Metal Blade Records has announced the signing of CELLADOR, a melodic speed/power metal band from Omaha, NE. Originally formed in summer 2004 by guitarist Chris Petersen, CELLADOR was founded with the purpose of introducing aggressive European-style melodic speed/power metal to the Midwest USA, where...

News

PANIC CELL To Support STAIND/SEVENDUST In Europe

Hotly tipped British metallers PANIC CELL have just been confirmed as support for both the U.K. and continental European legs of the co-headlining STAIND/SEVENDUST tour in September/October. Confirmed dates are as follows: Sep. 19 – Ambassador – Dublin, IRE Sep. 21 – Barrowlands – Glasgow, UK Sep. 2...

News

RESUSCITATOR To Record New Album, Tour With ROTTING CHRIST

California-based "dark occult blackened death metal" act RESUSCITATOR will enter the studio on September 9 to begin recording their new album, "Crusades to Immortality". This release will contain two covers — ROTTING CHRIST's "Sign of Evil Existence" and SAMAEL's "Into the Pentagram". The band are a...

News

DEFTONES Frontman On Working With BOB EZRIN: 'If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say...'

Canada's ChartAttack.com recently conducted an interview with DEFTONES/TEAM SLEEP frontman Chino Moreno. An excerpt from the chat follows: ChartAttack.com: What was it like working with [producer] Bob Ezrin [KISS, PINK FLOYD, JANE'S ADDICTION] for the new DEFTONES record? Chino Moreno: "Oh, it was,...

News

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY: First Live Dates Announced

TEMPLE OF BRUTALITY, the new band featuring former MEGADETH/current F5 bassist David Ellefson, W.A.S.P. drummer Stet Howland, guitarist Peter Scheithauer (BELLADONNA, KILLING MACHINE) and vocalist Todd Barnes (13-A),will be making special appearances and playing shows surrounding the premiere parti...

News

CELTIC FROST Mainman: 'We Are Opening Ourselves On So Many Levels On This Album'

CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog: "Sleepless, still. For weeks and weeks. Days and nights blend into one giant blur of feelings and impressions and sounds and creations and images of a personal abyss. This album keeps biting back at me,...

News

TYPE O NEGATIVE To Release New Album In Early 2006

TYPE O NEGATIVE drummer Johnny Kelly has posted the following message on the band's official web site: "Here's what's going on. Peter [Steele] and Josh [Silver] are currently completing their tracks for the 'Roadrunner All Stars' CD. Hopefully they will be done this week. After that, we go back into...

News

HENRY ROLLINS Prepares To Embark On Sixth USO Tour

Singer, author, actor and monologist Henry Rollins will embark on his sixth USO tour to provide a morale boost to troops stationed in Egypt and Turkey Aug. 25-Sept. 1. Rollins will meet with service members, tour a variety of job posts and sign autographs. Rollins's past USO tour stops include Kuwai...

News

IRON MAIDEN Inducted Into HOLLYWOOD ROCKWALK: Photos Available

IRON MAIDEN were officially inducted into Guitar Center's Hollywood RockWalk Friday evening (August 19). Band members added their handprints — with a fake skeleton hand to stand in for their album cover skeleton mascot, "Eddie" — to the sidewalk gallery outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard,...

News

ALLELE: Former COLD Guitarist Resurfaces With New Music

ALLELE, the new project featuring Kelly Hayes (ex-COLD) and Lane Maverick (ex-OTEP),have posted an MP3 of their first single, "Closer to Habit", on their MySpace.com page. The unmastered track is the first glimpse of the band's Ben Schigel-produced (CHIMAIRA, DROWNING POOL, SWITCHED) debut album, "...