Heavy Metal News
We wish a happy birthday today (July 28) to Papa Roach singer Jacoby Shaddix, who celebrates 36 years on this planet. There may be no singer in rock as energetic as Shaddix, whose live wire personality and gregarious nature has served him well as a rock frontman who lives and breathes the music his band performs onstage. And he has shown no signs of slowing down. In fact, in the
Deftones are getting the itch to play, having booked a gig on short notice at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and dropping by the Warner Bros. ski lodge headquarters, also in L.A., for a Friday performance. During the latter event, an audience member managed to record a fairly decent audio quality version of a new track the band played during their set for the staffers and it’s surfaced on the
Adelitas Way have taken part in several video shoots over the last few years, but for once they may not be the focal point of every camera at the shoot. That’s because their new video shoot is also serving as the backdrop for a date on Monday night’s episode of ‘Bachelor Pad’ on ABC. As part of the reality series, former cast members of past seasons of the ‘Bachelor’ have
We know that Jesse Leach gives an intense performance when onstage with Killswitch Engage but behind the scenes he is a master interviewer as his alter-ego ‘Salty Rizz,’ who recently asked tough and very funny questions to his tour mates on the Trespass America Festival. Salty Rizz looks a tad like the late wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage as he dons a do-rag and unique sunglasses while asking Trivium frontman Matt
Given some of the lineup and representation changes for Limp Bizkit over the past year, it’s somewhat of a given that their future direction is more up in the air than ever. But guitarist Wes Borland has given a few clues as to what listeners might expect when they do return. “We’re going two different directions right now. One direction is very heavy like our last album ‘Gold Cobra,’ but
Vancouver, Canada-based hard rock quartet the Veer Union came on the national scene in 2009, when their track ‘Seasons’ shot to the upper echelon of the active rock chart. Now, the lads are wrapping up their latest touring cycle in support of 2012’s ‘Divide the Blackened Sky’ with a gig at Dirt Fest, a music gathering slated for Aug. 11 in Birch Run, Mich., that also features Clutch, In This Moment and
We recently reported that Down offered a stream of their new track ‘Witchtripper.’ Now, the band has revealed the actual title and album art for their upcoming EP. Their forthcoming disc is titled ‘Down IV Part I – The Purple EP,’ which is due out Sept. 18 via Down Records/Independent Label Group. It will be the band’s first batch of new tunes in five years since the release of ‘Down