Megadeth, Motörhead, Anthrax-three of the greatest heavy metal bands in the world – will perform at the first annual Motörhead’s Motörboat cruise onboard the Carnival Ecstasy from September 22nd-26th, 2014.
In addition to these three rock giants, “The Loudest Boat In The World” will also feature performances from Zakk Wylde, Jim Breuer, Danko Jones, Fireball Ministry, Wilson, and some big surprises…more bands to be announced soon.
Lemmy Kilmister proclaims, “This will be everything you’ve come to expect from a night out with us, except even louder, with more great bands and no way of escaping! If you thought waves could rock a boat, you’ve got another thing coming with this lovely little outing!”
Motörhead’s Motörboat will sail from Miami, visiting the ports of Key West, Florida and Cozumel just off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. While onboard, guests will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interact with band members and will see unforgettable performances on various stages throughout the ship.
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine says, “There never has and never will be another cruise like Motörboat cruise. Come on a thrashing voyage with Motörhead, Megadeth, Anthrax, Zakk Wylde and all Lemmy’s friends. This is the coolest way to ever see a metal concert.”
Scott Ian of Anthrax adds, “Anthrax, Motörhead and Megadeth at sea??? To quote Chief Brody [Jaws], ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat.’”
Tickets for Motörhead’s Motörboat go on sale Tuesday, March 18th at Noon ET. The event website–www.MotorheadCruise.com–will launch later this week with full details and cabin pricing.
Buckcherry have released a video for their track Dreamin’ Of You taken from their 2013 album Confessions. Watch it below.
The clip was inspired by memories from frontman Josh Todd’s childhood. He tells Loudwire, “Before I got into music I would surf every day. I spent a lot of time at the ocean, sitting on the beach thinking. It’s always been something very peaceful for me. That’s what I wanted to capture in the song – I just felt like it fit. It was something really simple and cool.”
The band are currently working on releasing an EP, which Todd wants to keep under wraps until the last possible moment. He hints, “There’s definitely a theme. If you’re a Buckcherry fan it’s a must-have.”
“It is hard to believe that 25 years has passed since John’s mighty debut album Blue Murder hit the stores. We remember the days when the songs we’re being demo recorded back in the UK before John head off to L.A to record with mighty rock producer Bob Rock. The Blue Murder debut album featured the powerhouse of Carmine Appice on drums and the fretless monster himself Tony Franklin on bass and was released on Geffen Records in 1989.
With this trio in place Blue Murder had a strong presence and left its mark as one of the best hard rock albums of the eighties. We constantly have fans online praising this album every day having a rollover effect on the younger generation of hard rock fans.
Fans may or may not know that this mighty album has been remastered with 24-bit remastering from the source tapes, a 3,500 word essay about the making of the album, a new interview with John Sykes, enhanced artwork and photos spread out over a 12 page full color booklet,and is available from rockcandyrecords.com.
Listen to the entire remastered album, plus a few official videos, below.
Greg Prato of Bravewords spoke with iconic guitarist George Lynch and Kings X vocalist dUg Pinnick about their new band KXM, that also features Korn drummer Ray Luzier. Highlights from the interview appear below.
BraveWords: How did KXM form?
dUg Pinnick: “We were at a party at Ray’s house, and George made the comment, ‘Hey, let’s do some music together.’ And Ray and I both said, ‘Sure.’ It’s something that we’ve always wanted to do, but when you get together with a bunch of people, we’re always talking about doing something together, and most of the time, nothing ever happens. So we just let it be. But then the next thing we knew, George had already set up some times in a studio, got everything together, called us up, and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a studio. Let’s record.’ And we went, ‘OK!’ From that point on, we started making music, and it got so exciting that we kept doing it.”
BraveWords: George, how does dUg compare to some of the other singers you’ve worked with over the years?
George Lynch: “Well, he’s very self-contained, and knows what he wants to do. Which is wonderful. He’s not very open to outside suggestions, and that’s a good thing actually, because he knows what he wants to do and he delivers. And it’s all good. So I’m happy. I have another situation I’m working in, a band called Shadow Train, which is affiliated with a film, Shadow Nation, which is a documentary film I have been working on for about four-and-a-half years, which is nearing completion. And the singer in that band, Gregg Analla, is a wonderful singer. Just unbelievable singer. But he’s a completely different kind of singer than dUg – not only in his voice, but as a lyricist, his melodies. Just on almost every count, he’s a completely different animal, on the opposite end of the spectrum. We get the best results with Gregg when we all are working together. So we’re putting in a lot of input. We’ll all write lyrics, we’ll all come up with melodies, and Gregg delivers them. With dUg, it doesn’t work that way. It’s similar to ONI LOGAN (Lynch Mob singer), where he is a poet, he’s talking about his own personal experiences, the way he views the world, things that people can relate to and identify with. And of course, he’s got a very unique style that’s him. Whereas the other singer I was talking about, who is unbelievable and we have great results with him, we work a completely different way. Where I’ll almost suggest, ‘Can we go in this direction?’ And I’ll play a song from a certain artist or singer, and he will do that. That would never work with dUg. (Laughs) dUg would go tell me to fuck myself. He’s wonderful to work with and he’s a pro through and through. As he says, ‘He’s a lifer,’ and I love that line – I saw that in another interview that I read that he did. It’s really an honor to work with him, a guy at his level. Despite commercial success or no commercial success, the guy – in my eyes – is right at the top, and should be at the top at all levels. As Gene Simmons said, in a world where Poison succeeds and King’s X fails, there is no justice. I guess you could say that about KISS too, right? (Laughs) Well then Gene, you should give dUg some of your money – make things more equitable…hello?”
BraveWords: Would you like to see KXM continue on beyond this release?
dUg Pinnick: “Oh yeah, I hope we do more records. We’re even talking about going back in the studio and making more music, so we’re really excited. We’ve learned a lot of things with this record and we want to try some new things on the next record.”
BraveWords: What is King’s X currently up to, and is there talk of working on a new album?
dUg Pinnick: “We’re doing tours – we’re in and out all the time. We’ve been talking about doing a new record for three years now, and it’s been taking us a long time to finally nail down a date. We haven’t done it yet. But the future is bright, and there will be another King’s X record. I just don’t know when.”
BraveWords: George – let’s discuss your documentary project a bit more.
George Lynch: “It’s called Shadow Nation. We’ve been working on it for four-and-a-half years now, we’re in the finishing stages of editing. It is basically a film about human nature, and can we be better? And we use Native American culture as sort of an exploration of the human condition through the Native American experience. But there’s a band, called Shadow Train, that goes on this continuous road trip. We’re camping out, we’re making our own food, we’re playing gigs, we’re filming, we’re talking to people – everybody from Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine and Serj Tankian from System Of a Down, we go back to Boston and talk to Noam Chomsky, we go to Texas and talk to Ted Nugent on his ranch and go hunting with him and play guitar with him and talk about politics and things like that. It’s all very Native American-centric, because I think we can learn a lot from the injustices that have been done to our indigenous people. The genocide that occurred – 15 million people estimated killed, that eclipses the holocaust. It should be in the history books somewhere, I would think. And a real suppression that continues to this day, and it says a lot of who we are as animals. The premise or the underlying question with the film is, ‘Are we able to evolve?’ Are 50% of us wired to be greedy and self-serving from birth to grave, and the other half are altruistic? That’s a question I ask, and it’s a personal question that I’ve come to deal with, and it’s the underlying vital question of who we are. When you look at all this political polarization of how people treat each other, and how we exist and the kind of economic system we choose to adopt or are forced to adopt, and all these things that stem from that – all these other issues that stem from those underlying issues. The most underlying issue is how we’re built as creatures – how we’re wired and what we respond to, and can we evolve to a better place?”
Bon Jovi have once again topped Billboard’s rock rich list of annual earnings, raking in an estimated total of $29,436,801 in 2013.
The band have topped the cash chart for three of the previous six years, and have never been far from the top. Their return to the head of the list comes despite the absence of guitarist Richie Sambora following a dispute with frontman Jon Bon Jovi.
Billboard, who compile their chart based on available figures from US music and ticket sales, say: “It’s no surprise Bon Jovi’s immensely popular stable of songs continues to drive strong digital track sales, with more than 1.5m downloads producing nearly $300,000 in royalties. Streaming royalties are also catching up, approaching $150,000. But this is a touring band – road-warrior revenue streams include robust merch sales, likely in the eight-figure range. Fans have spent an estimated $2m per year in online merch purchases.”
Kill Devil Hill have announced the departure of drummer Vinny Appice, who co-founded the band in 2011 with ex Pantera bassist Rex Brown and appeared on their first two albums.
The sticksman has decided it’s time to focus on other things – including a new record by his Dio offshoot band Last In Line.
Appice says in a statement, “It’s been a great musical adventure from the beginning, but the time has now come to go our separate ways and continue to make music that we love.”
Brown comments, “We all have a lot of love and respect for Vinny. We wish him well – it’s been a blast.”
The band’s new drummer is Johnny Kelly, known for stints with Type O Negative, Danzig and A Pale Horse Named Death, admits: “I have some really big shoes to full, but I’m ready for that challenge. I’ve been a fan since their debut and I’ve known the guys for a long time.”
Last In Line, featuring original Dio men Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain, Claude Schnell and Appice alongside vocalist Andrew Freeman, will start studio work next month.
Def Leppard guitarist Campbell last week admitted he’d resisted the idea of making new music at first. He told Tickets There, “It became apparent that for Last In Line to move forward, that’s what we needed to do. We got into the studio in January and started writing, just Jimmy, Vinny and myself. It was so effortless – it just fell out of us like it did on the first record, Holy Diver.”
