Archive for July 23rd, 2012

Judas Priest to Release 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘Screaming for Vengeance’

Judas Priest’s 1982 album ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ will see a special 30th anniversary edition released on Sept. 4. The band’s eighth album has been their biggest commercial success and was their first record to go double-platinum. It included the hit singles ‘You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” and “Electric Eye.’ The 2012 version of ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ has been remastered, and includes several bonus tracks. ‘Devil’s Child’ and the ‘Turbo’ outtake

Mark Lanegan To Contribute Vocals to Upcoming Mad Season Album

After recent word that a new album of previously unreleased Mad Season material is in the works, the band’s drummer Barrett Martin has revealed that singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) will be contributing vocals to the effort. The band’s original vocalist, Layne Staley (Alice in Chains), died in 2002. Mad Season was a supergroup formed in 1994 by Staley, guitarist Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), bassist John

Between the Buried and Me Unveil ‘Telos’ Off New Album ‘The Parallax II: Future Sequence’

Enjoy your faces while you still have them, because Between the Buried and Me‘s first single from their upcoming full-length, ‘The Parallax II: Future Sequence,’ is going to melt it off Indiana Jones-style. The new BTBAM track ‘Telos’ picks up exactly where the band left off from their 2011 EP, ‘The Parallax: Hypersleep Chronicles,’ with their unique blend of spacey progressive rock, death metal and highly technical experimentation. Between the

Deftones Bassist Chi Cheng Struggling With Pneumonia Again, But Slowly Improving

Our hearts go out to Deftones bassist Chi Cheng and his family, as yet another bout of pneumonia is keeping the musician in the hospital. Back in June, Cheng, who has been in a three-plus-year coma, was supposed to be sent home after battling pneumonia but now remains hospitalized with another bout with the illness. Chi Cheng fell into a coma after a 2008 auto accident. He has been under

Disturbed’s David Draiman Clarifies ‘Bad Parenting’ Twitter Commentary

Disturbed vocalist David Draiman has added a little more clarification on his weekend Twitter commentary about parents bringing infants to late night movie theater screenings. In his initial posting, Draiman suggested that those parents who think it’s okay to take their infants out on the town with them should give up their children for adoption to parents who know what it means to be responsible and sacrifice on behalf of

Guns N’ Roses and Special Guest Izzy Stradlin Play Private French Wedding

Guns N’ Roses know a thing or two about making a wedding scene, as evidenced years ago in the ‘November Rain’ video. But in real life, the group made a surprise detour in Saint-Tropez, France Saturday night playing a private wedding concert for a wealthy pal. Further making it a special night was the fact that reclusive guitarist Izzy Stradlin turned up to join his former GN’R bandmate Axl Rose

Win a Smashing Pumpkins ‘Pisces Iscariot’ Deluxe Reissue Prize Pack

Attention, Smashing Pumpkins fans: Loudwire is teaming up with Diffuser.fm to give one lucky reader a copy of the deluxe reissue of the Smashing Pumpkins compilation album ‘Pisces Iscariot.’ Originally put out in 1994, the album contained 14 B-sides and outtakes. We are giving away a prize pack consisting of a deluxe CD reissue of ‘Pisces Iscariot’ along with the recent deluxe reissues of the Pumpkins albums ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream.’