Heavy Metal News
While many fans have been patiently awaiting the promise of new Soundgarden tunes as the band keeps an air of suspense surrounding their upcoming reunion album, the wait may finally be over. Rumor has it the reunited band’s first official single from the new disc will impact radio next week, with the tune aptly titled ‘Been Away Too Long’ — isn’t that the truth! Their new studio album ‘King Animal’
The Louisiana-based rockers of 12 Stones and their single ‘Psycho’ beat out the reigning champs of Taproot in the last Cage Match but will they be able to do it again versus today’s challengers? All That Remains take the matchup by storm with their brand new single ‘Stand Up (Stand Up)’ off of their forthcoming seventh studio album ‘A War You Cannot Win’ which is set to drop on Nov.
It took a few years, but Steel Panther are now ready to make the move from the Sunset Strip into your living room. The band has officially finished their first DVD and it will be ready for your viewing pleasure Oct. 22 in all its bombastic glory. The group spent the last two years bringing along 16 HD cameras to film their world tour and come next month ‘Steel Panther
Mark Tremonti has embarked on a tour in support of his new solo disc ‘All I Was,’ which was released on July 10. However, bassist Brian Marshall, who plays with Tremonti in Creed and Alter Bridge, has been forced to drop off the trek. A tweet from Tremonti explained it, saying, “Due to personal reasons Brian Marshall won’t be with us on this tour.” The latter part of his tweet
Lamb of God had a memorable summer for mostly the wrong reasons, but drummer Chris Adler has a positive state of mind about how things will turn out for singer Randy Blythe relating to his alleged manslaughter case in Prague. The drummer tells Billboard, “Obviously this tragedy happened, but how they’re going to go about prosecuting is a mystery to us. Not knowing how their justice system works and being
Geoff Tate is putting aside his Queensryche legal issues long enough to continue his career with the new solo collection, ‘Kings & Thieves,’ arriving on Nov. 6. The vocalist already has one solo album under his belt and had begun work on this second release prior to the issues that led to his ousting in June. Tate recently revealed the title for the new disc on VH1 Classic’s That Metal
Here’s a look at the top stories of the day on Loudwire and around the Web: Guitarist Kirk Hammett shares his horror fascination (his new book ‘Too Much Horror Business – The Kirk Hammett Collection‘ is due Oct. 1) and talks about how Metallica deals with criticism. [Loudwire] Shinedown, Papa Roach, Slash, Nikki Sixx, Aaron Lewis and David Draiman were just a few of the rockers offering 9/11 Tributes via