Search results for 'iced earth'

News

SONS OF OTIS And QUEEN ELEPHANTINE To Release Split Album

Doom heavyweights SONS OF OTIS, notoriously famous for producing some of the heaviest space rock humans have ever experienced, have teamed up with young psychonauts QUEEN ELEPHANTINE to release a split on Concrete Lo-Fi Records. The disc is due out mid-March. The three-track, forty-five-minute album...

News

FIREWIND: U.K. Dates With GRAND MAGUS Announced

Greek metallers FIREWIND have have announced four headlining shows in the U.K. in April. Support at the dates will come from Sweden's GRAND MAGUS, which features in its ranks current SPIRITUAL BEGGARS frontman Janne Christoffersson. The details are as follows: Apr. 21 - Peterborough, UK @ The Park A...

News

OZZY OSBOURNE Draws Inspiration From Iraq War, Wife's Battle With Cancer For New Album

Ozzy Osbourne has told Rolling Stone magazine (web site) that the war in Iraq weighed heavily on his mind during the recording sessions for his first album of new material in six years. "Bombs are falling and tears are falling," Ozzy reportedly sneers across what Rolling Stone describes as "a modern...

News

OCTAVIA SPERATI Announces New Album Title

Norwegian metal band OCTAVIA SPERATI has issued the following update: "We are proud to announce that OCTAVIA's new album, entitled 'Grace Submerged', will be released via Candlelight Records in May. There will be two release dates; one to coincide with the bands release party in Bergen on the 16th o...

News

LOS ANGELES MURDERFEST VERSION 3.0 Set Times Announced

The set times have been announced for the Los Angeles Murderfest Version 3.0, which is scheduled to take place March 24-25 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California. The details are as follows: Saturday March 24: Front Stage: TBA 3:00 - 3:20 TBA 3:35 - 3:55 TBA 4:10 - 4:30 TBA 4:45 - 5:05 WAT...

News

SAMAEL Signs With NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS

Swiss metal experimentalists SAMAEL have inked a deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The group's eighth album, "Solar Soul", is scheduled for release on June 15. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Solar Soul", "Promised Land", "Slavocracy", "Western Ground" and "On the Rise". Commented vocalis...

News

TONY IOMMI's Guitar Tech Launches HEAVEN AND HELL Tour Diary

BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi's technician Mike Clement has posted the first installment in the HEAVEN AND HELL tour diary at Iommi's official message board. Mike first started keeping a diary for Iommi.com back in 2005 and his bits of backstage gossip and humorous tales from the road kept ever...

News

TWISTED SISTER Frontman To Guest At 'Stairway To Hell' Off-Broadway Experience

TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider will reportedly make a guest appearance tomorrow night (Tuesday, February 27) at the off-Broadway show "Stairway to Hell". Dee will be there to support bandmate A.J. Pero of TWISTED SISTER. "Stairway to Hell" is the the ultimate off-Broadway headbanging experience,...

News

HEAVEN AND HELL, DREAM THEATER, ICED EARTH Confirmed For Greece's ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL

HEAVEN AND HELL, DREAM THEATER and ICED EARTH are among the newly confirmed bands for this year's installment of Rockwave Festival, which is set to take place from July 1 to July 3 in Terra Vibe, Malakasa, Greece. The billing is now shaping up as follows: July 1 HEAVEN AND HELL DREAM THEATER ICED EA...

Review

Resurrection

CHIMAIRA is a rejuvenated band and they are about to release what is sure to stand as one of the best metal albums of 2007, "Resurrection". Though I have always appreciated the quintet's music, particularly the work subsequent to 2001's "Pass out of Existence", I found myself shocked at the excellen...

Review

The Uncanny Valley

Groovy grinding relentless death metal is the name of the game here, as this Danish band delivers a simple, primal and vicious second album. It's pretty much the only game, too, KOLDBORN being a fairly single-minded proposition. But if the band possesses only one trick, they're really goddamned good...

Review

You are the Lamb

Canada's Goodfellow Records has consistently unearthed the kind of bands that scrape, crawl, and destroy in fine sludge and hardcore fashion. Add Seattle's IAMTHETHORN to that list. Debut EP "You Are the Lamb" is 23 minutes of EYEHATEGOD-style angry sludge and doom, in this case with the boys pissed...

News

JASON BECKER: 'I Have Love For Life'

Guitar World magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Jason Becker (DAVID LEE ROTH, CACOPHONY). A few excerpts from the question-and-answer session follow: Q: Because of your physical limitations, has your creativity been sparked in new areas? Jason Becker: I remember when I was first...

News

FASTWAY Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

FASTWAY, the reactivated band featuring original MOTÖRHEAD guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clark, have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 6-9 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): AEROSMITH AFTER FORE...

News

SIN DEALER Completes Work On New CD

SIN DEALER, the band featuring members of SEA OF GREEN, SONS OF OTIS, EDWIN and PLASMA BLAST, has finished recording all the remaining vocal and guitar tracks for its follow-up to 2004's "13" at Q Music and was engineered by Andrew St. George (THE WHO, KILLER DWARFS, IAN ASTBURY) and Gary Honess (I...