AS IT CELEBRATES TURNING 30, ALICE IN CHAINS’ JERRY CANTRELL AND SEAN KINNEY REFLECT ON THEIR SEMINAL ALBUM “DIRT”
Ron Hart of Billboard reports: When talking about Alice in Chains’ sophomore LP Dirt, which turns 30, it’s easy to get mired in the darkness and addiction punctuating its original release on Sept. 29th, 1992. But focusing on the negative does a grave disservice to a fierce, creative recording from a band that was key in […]
WOLFGANG VAN HALEN BEGINS RECORDING SECOND MAMMOTH WVH ALBUM
Wolfgang Van Halen, the ex-bassist of the band Van Halen and son of the late guitarist Eddie Van Halen, will begin recording the second Mammoth WVH album on October 4th. The effort will be the follow-up to eponymous Mammoth WVH, which arrived in June 2021, some five years after the now-31-year-old musician began piecing together ideas for his solo career. Wolfgang revealed […]
BLACK SABBATH TO RELEASE DELUXE EDITIONS OF “HEAVEN AND HELL” AND “MOB RULES” ON NOVEMBER 4TH AND 18TH
Singer Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 which resulted in two back-to-back classic albums: Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules. On those memorable albums, Dio‘s soaring tenor and gothic songwriting were the perfect foil for the band’s bone-crushing mix of razor-sharp riffs, intense grooves, and dark imagery. BMG salutes the long shadow cast by this short-lived line-up with newly remastered versions of […]