Mary Ouellette, SheWillShootYou.com Stone Sour just dropped their ‘ House of Gold & Bones Part 1 ‘ album and singer Corey Taylor is currently working on the second half of the release, so where does that leave his other band, Slipknot ? The vocalist says that after touring the U.S. this past summer, things will scale back for the immediate future. He told Artisan News Service in a video interview (seen below), “We’re doing a couple of shows next year, but that’s about it right now. It’s on hiatus.” Taylor has also been plotting a comic book series and is contemplating turning the two albums into corresponding films. In other Corey Taylor news, the singer talks about his favorite tattoos in a new video clip, which can be seen below. The vocalist says of his general rule for getting tattoos, “There’s kind of a common theme of balance. You can’t have the good without the bad. You can’t have the light without the dark. For me, it’s been about having two ends of the spectrum.” Taylor picked the tattoos he has on each forearm as his favorites, with two recognizable celebrities that have served as inspirations getting the ink treatment. To see who they are and hear Taylor’s explanation as to why he got them tattooed, check out the video below. Watch Corey Taylor Discuss Slipknot’s Current Status Watch Corey Taylor Describe His Favorite Tattoos [button href=”http://loudwire.com/slipknot-confirmed-to-headline-first-day-of-2013-download-festival/” title=”Next: Slipknot to Headline 2013 Download Festival” align=”center”]
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Corey Taylor Says Slipknot Are ‘On Hiatus’
October 25th, 2012 
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No Comments »Courtney Love Reportedly Trying to Bring Nirvana Musical to Broadway or Big Screen
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult Jemal Countess, Getty Images Courtney Love is reportedly developing a Nirvana -based musical for Broadway or the big screen. The widow of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is apparently teaming up with music industry manager Sam Lutfi, who is currently in a legal battle with former client Britney Spears. According to the New York Daily News , Lutfi spoke about working with Love to create the Nirvana musical during his testimony in the current Britney Spears trial. “[Courtney Love and I] are currently working on a possible motion picture or Broadway musical based on the Nirvana catalog, based on her life and Kurt Cobain’s,’ said Lufti during the trial. He claims to be co-managing Love, whom he calls “an accomplished actress.” “She’s been talking about doing a movie or play about her life with Kurt for a long time,” claims an insider to the New York Daily News. “So far, nothing has materialized from it… It’s been her dream to get her side of the story out.” Courtney Love was recently forced to hand over rights to use Kurt Cobain’s name, likeness and image to daughter Frances Bean Cobain , due to the terms of a $2.75 million loan that Love took against Frances Bean’s personal trust fund in 2010. Nirvana seem to be a hot topic in the entertainment world lately, as a writer from ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is reportedly creating a sitcom for CBS called ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit.’ [button href=”http://loudwire.com/nirvana-you-know-youre-right-top-21st-century-hard-rock-songs/” title=”Nirvana – Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs” align=”center”]
Pop Evil Share Life on the Road in ‘Purple’ Video
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult Vevo It’s been a great year for Pop Evil , who have traveled the world promoting their ‘War of Angels’ album, and with the video for their new single ‘Purple,’ they now have a document to show some of the great times they’ve had. The clip serves as a salute to life on the road for Pop Evil, with the camera taking you behind the scenes when the guys are having fun and getting the viewer right up onstage to see the enjoyment that not only the band, but their fans are getting out of the shows. The song lends itself well to soundtrack the clip, with the lyric “ It only hurts when it’s over ” serving a different meaning here as it can be interpreted that the band realize their time on the road with fans will eventually have to stop for a new record. But their faithful followers don’t have anything to worry about just yet, as they expect more shows in store for 2013. Pop Evil spent the summer on the Trespass America tour, and have recently been sharing stages with Black Label Society in Canada. Fans can catch the band Nov. 27 joining the stellar lineup for ShipRocked 2012 , featuring Godsmack , Korn , Five Finger Death Punch , Sevendust , P.O.D. and more. Singer Leigh Kakaty says of the rock cruise, “We are very excited to be a part of this heavyweight lineup of bands this year on ShipRocked. It’s going to be the mother of all cruises. Pop Evil is ready to set sail.” Watch Pop Evil’s ‘Purple’ Video [button href=”http://loudwire.com/pop-evil-joined-by-mick-mars-and-playboy-playmate-for-bosss-daughter-music-video/” title=”Next: Watch Pop Evil’s ‘Boss’ Daughter’ Video” align=”center”]
Posted in News Tags: a-taking-you, heavyweight, news, pop evil, rock, summer, time, with-the-lyric, with-the-video No Comments »Dethklok’s ‘Dethalbum III’ Lands in Top 10 of Billboard 200 Chart
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult Cartoon Network Dethklok , the stars of the animated series ‘Metalocalypse’, find their latest release ‘Dethalbum III’ debuting at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 chart with roughly 20,000 units sold. It also hit the No. 1 slot on the Hard Music Albums chart. This was Dethklok’s highest chart debut to-date, and the band’s real life voice and creator Brendon Small is grateful. “Thanks to the fans for actually buying music in a world where they don’t have to.” Loudwire’s review of ‘Dethalbum III’ says it “is able to take a super serious (and often gore-slathered) genre like death metal and make it ‘deth metal.’ That is, it fuses skilled playing with a sense of humor, which is often not the case in the genre’s offerings.” Dethklok will be kicking off a North American headline tour with Machine Head , All That Remains and the Black Dahlia Murder on Tuesday, Oct. 30. When discussing the upcoming tour, Small said, “Dethklok are excited to be a part of the best tour of 2012. We spared no expense on production for the tour. We are unleashing tons of new animation, new comedy, and new sketches and are very excited to play many new songs and can’t wait for new people to see our show. I’ll be honest, I don’t know when we will be able to pull off anything this massive again, so don’t miss it.” To celebrate the album and the impending Dethklok tour kickoff, Loudwire, the band and Gibson Guitars are teaming up to give away an Epiphone “1958” Korina Explorer. Enter the contest below. Season 4 of ‘Metalocalypse’ will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray Oct. 30 as the tour launches. All 12 episodes from the show’s fourth season are included along with more than two hours of bonus material, highlighted by the 90 minute feature film ‘Nathan Reads Shakespeare 4: Comedy of Errors.’ [button href=”http://loudwire.com/dethklok-epiphone-guitar-giveaway/” title=”Enter the Dethklok Epiphone Guitar Giveaway” align=”center”]
Posted in News Tags: a-super-serious, band, blu-ray, cartoon-network, comedy, dethklok, dvd, guitar-giveaway, machine-head, music-albums, new-albums, news, show, tour No Comments »Fear Factory Unveil ‘The Industrialist’ Video
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Fear Factory released their latest album ‘The Industrialist’ in June, and the band has now premiered the video for the title track via Metal Injection (watch below). The beginning of the seven minute clip is similar to a lyric video, with words from the spoken section appearing on the screen. But once the song kicks in, it becomes a traditional video that mixes performance footage with imagery taken from the album artwork. Vocalist Burton C. Bell talked about ‘The Industrialist’ with Full Metal Jackie. “There’s something so tight about this record, it’s very natural even though it was a focused and a very deliberate album that we were writing and it all came very naturally to us,” Bell said. “We were very focused and I think that word right there, is the one thing that is on this record that doesn’t really appear on any other record, the focus of the music, the sounds, the aggression and the concept and just everything. Everything had it’s purpose and we knew exactly what we were doing, we knew exactly what we had to do.” Fear Factory will embark on a European tour with Devin Townsend beginning on Saturday, Oct. 27. They also have one U.S. date scheduled for Jan. 26, 2013, in West Hollywood. Watch Fear Factory’s ‘The Industrialist’ Video
Posted in News Tags: band, fear factory, frazer-harrison, from-the-spoken, industrialist, Music, news, official music videos, once-the-song, very-deliberate, video, vocalist-burton No Comments »Landmine Marathon Part Ways With Singer Grace Perry, Announce New Vocalist
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult Prosthetic Sad news for Landmine Marathon fans: The band’s phenomenally brutal and unnerving vocalist Grace Perry has chosen to depart from the band. After eight years with Phoenix, Ariz., death metal act, Grace Perry has called it quits so she can focus on ‘non-musical endeavors.’ The news is surprising to say the least, as Perry was only one of two original members left in the band, the other being bassist Matt Martinez. Landmine Marathon have also been at the top of their game since the 2011 release of ‘Gallows,’ which featured some of the band’s nastiest songwriting yet, along with unforgettable aggression in the voice of Grace Perry, which we spotlit in our Brutal Female Metal Vocalists feature. An official press release broke the news earlier today (Oct. 25), adding an official statement from the band: This summer, Grace decided to leave the band to pursue non-musical endeavors. We are grateful for all of her contributions to LANDMINE MARATHON and wish her nothing but future successes. Krysta Martinez (pictured above) of the band Transient has been scouted to take Perry’s spot on vocals. The new Landmine singer definitely has a set of brutal pipes, which has already been demonstrated in an alternate edition of the Landmine Marathon song ‘Dead Horses,’ which Krysta has lent her voice to. Krysta Martinez has issued her own statement, in which she expresses her excitement while still praising the talents of Grace Perry. I’m stoked to be creating music with Landmine Marathon and look forward to hitting the road with them in coming months. Grace is an amazing vocalist, and filling her shoes is a great challenge. Things have been incredibly enjoyable so far and the best is surely yet to come. Check out both versions of ‘Dead Horses’ below and decide for yourself if Krysta Martinez can meet Landmine Marathon’s quota of sonic violence. Landmine Marathon, ‘Dead Horses’ (Original Recording) Landmine Marathon, ‘Dead Horses’ (Krysta Martinez Version)
Ozzy Osbourne ‘Bark at the Moon’ Halloween Light Show Terrorizes Texas Neighborhood
October 25th, 2012 Metalkult YouTube: OdessaWest The pagans who came up with Halloween deserve to be praised as saints. The world is covered in cobwebs and decorated by maniacal pumpkins, horror films possess every television channel and the forces of evil are finally let loose for once autumn night as children are encouraged to take candy from strangers. Halloween is awesome, and it meshes beautifully with heavy metal; as demonstrated by this suburban light show set to Ozzy Osbourne ‘s ‘Bark at the Moon.’ As one of Ozzy’s trademark hits, ‘Bark at the Moon’ is the opening track to Osbourne’s 1983 album of the same name. With hearts still mending after the death of iconic guitarist Randy Rhoads, ‘Bark at the Moon’ was the first track unveiled to the public with Jake E. Lee manning the six-string. Lee had massive shoes to fill, but he crafted a masterpiece of a track with some insane shredding added for good measure. There lies a house in Odessa, Texas, where ‘Bark at the Moon’ has come to life through a spectacular light show. Before the track kicks in, the epic philharmonic piece ‘O Fortuna’ hit its conclusion as Ozzy’s classic track takes over. The inhabitants of this spooky manor created the display to sync up with ‘Bark at the Moon,’ as Ozzy’s lyrics are sung by a disembodied pumpkin face on the left side of the home, as fog, tombstones, a giant illuminated spider web and even a giant inflatable Godzilla invade the rest of the Texas home. Check out this awesome light show and raise your horns to this Ozzy-fied Halloween house. Watch the Ozzy Osbourne ‘Bark at the Moon’ Halloween Light Show
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