BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR DATES WITH NITA STRAUSS AND JARED JAMES NICHOLS
Black Label Society will embark on a U.S. headlining tour in the spring, starting on April 30th in San Diego, California and ending on May 21th in Inwood, West Virginia. Supporting acts will be Alice Cooper’s guitarist Nita Strauss and blues-rock guitarist, and singer, Jared James Nichols. Strauss said in a statement, “We will be hitting the road at […]
GHOST RELEASE LYRIC VIDEO FOR NEW SONG “TWENTIES”
As previously reported, Ghost will release their fifth album, Impera, on March 11th through Loma Vista/Concord. The band has a released a lyric video for their latest single, Twenties, which can be streamed below. With its messianic promises of reigns of pennies and piles of moolah set to an appropriately manic musical backdrop, the unrelenting and propulsive Twenties stands […]
DRUMMER SCOTT ROCKENFIELD SLAMS BOTH ORIGINAL QUEENRŸCHE FRONTMAN, GEOFF TATE, AND CURRENT SINGER, TODD LA TORRE, IN SEPARATE ONLINE POSTS
Founding Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield – who has been on hiatus since 2017 – took to social media to share his thoughts on both current Queensrÿche singer Todd La Torre, and the band’s former vocalist, Geoff Tate. He took to his personal facebook page to write his post, which was directed at Todd La Torre, and states, […]
TESTAMENT ANNOUNCE THE RETURN OF DRUMMER DAVE LOMBARDO
This drummer is key in making Testament‘s mark in metal history. The band is very excited to welcome back one of the greatest drummers in heavy metal…Take your pick, one in one hundred, I don’t care who you have on that list, there is only one drummer who is the best, Dave Lombardo. Chuck Billy declares“ I’ll state the obvious, We are […]
KROKUS FRONTMAN MARC STORACE SAYS HE HAS “NO REGRETS” ABOUT TURNING DOWN A CHANCE TO AUDITION FOR AC/DC
Krokus singer Marc Storace says that he has no regrets about turning down a chance to audition for AC/DC more than four decades ago. The 70-year-old Maltese-born vocalist — whose band had opened for AC/DC in the past — passed on the opportunity to try out to replace the late Bon Scott in 1980. When asked in a new interview with Barbara Caserta of Italy’s Linea Rock if […]
WOLFGANG VAN HALEN SAYS HE’S READY TO GET BACK INTO THE STUDIO AND RECORD NEW MUSIC
On February 24th, Wolfgang Van Halen was guest on Eddie’s Sirius/XM show, “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk,” where he revealed he is looking forward to recording his next album. He tells Eddie [via blabbermouth.net], “We’ve got a busy year [of touring] ahead of us, I think we’re trying to find some time this year to […]