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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”]
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”]
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
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)
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
Razor & Tie The Sword are back with the new album ‘Apocryphon,’ and Loudwire is giving you a chance to win a prize pack featuring a baseball tee, a 24″x36″ ‘Apocryphon’ poster, an autographed ‘Apocryphon’ CD and a limited-edition ‘Apocryphon’ cassette tape. The Texas rockers have stepped up their game on their latest release, and the guitars are as prominent as ever. Guitarist Kyle Shutt stated earlier this year , “I’m going to try to push myself with my guitar playing. A lot of the songs are more mid-tempo, but still impossibly heavy. People are going to like it. I think it’ll appeal to fans who aren’t fans right now. You can either get our first three record, you can just get this one.” The album just earned a four-star review from Loudwire. Highlights on the disc include the title track, the standout opening song ‘Veil of Isis,’ the incredibly catchy ‘Execrator’ and the trippy cut ‘Dying Earth.’ This is the band’s first release for their new label, Razor & Tie, and they’ll be launching a tour shortly to promote the effort. Fans can catch the band beginning Oct. 29 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Enter below for a chance to win The Sword’s ‘Apocryphon’ prize pack, which includes The Sword baseball tee, a 24″ x 36″ ‘Apocryphon’ poster, an autographed ‘Apocryphon’ CD and a limited-edition ‘Apocryphon’ cassette tape. You can also order the album at Best Buy or the Razor & Tie merch site . The Sword ‘Apocryphon’ Prize Pack Giveaway Enter your e-mail address and T-shirt size for a chance to win The Sword’s ‘Apocryphon’ prize pack, which includes The Sword baseball tee, a 24″ x 36″ ‘Apocryphon’ poster, an autographed ‘Apocryphon’ CD and a limited-edition ‘Apocryphon’ cassette tape. Contest ends Nov. 25, 2012. Click here for official rules . By entering this contest, you will receive email newsletters from Loudwire and be added to The Sword’s mailing list. You may unsubscribe at any time. Email T-Shirt Size
Sean Gardner, Getty Images It’s a whole new world out there for young artists looking to catch a break and established artists trying to maintain their momentum, but Trent Reznor says the key to approaching the current music business model is somewhat the same for all musicians. He tells Techdirt.com , “My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I’d give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about ‘What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?’” He adds, “As a 22-year-old kid in Cleveland, it seemed to me that just playing out in bars, hoping someone noticed your band, and then offered you a record contract, while that’s possible, I didn’t know anybody, and didn’t know anybody who knew anybody that that had ever happened to. The strategy, then, was let’s work on getting a band, and something that means something, music that matters, music that I feel proud of, and a vibe and name and ‘brand’ of this thing, and then try to reach maybe some small labels that had music in the same vein of what I liked.” But in today’s music scene, there are many more options for getting your music to listeners, and Reznor says it’s more important than ever to define what your ultimate goal is. He explains, “If I were that person [starting out] today, there’s a hell of a lot of things that didn’t exist then, that exist now — like YouTube, like the ability to self-publish, like the ability to reach everyone in the world from your bedroom if they’re interested. I’d focus my efforts on what seems like a logical way to do that [and] that maintains integrity. If my goal is to compete with Rihanna on the pop charts, I’d think that requires going through a major label system with a powerful manager.” For Reznor, he says the decision to revisit the major label strategy for his latest project How to Destroy Angels fit a particular goal, one that differs from what he has to do with Nine Inch Nails . He says he was worried that only Nine Inch Nails fans would follow his new project and that it might not fit what they were looking for, so a label provides him the opportunity to reach more people. He explains, “The main reason I do what I do is I want to do something that matters. I want to be able to create art that reaches the maximum amount of people on my terms … That was a key component … Because it came down to us — us being the band now — sitting around and identifying what our goals were. And the top priority wasn’t to make money. It was to try to reach the most amount of people, and try to reach the most amount of people effectively, that doesn’t feel like it’s coming completely from my backyard. Because I don’t want this project, ultimately, to just be dismissed as a ‘side project’ or … (loud sigh) … a ‘patronizing affair with Trent and his wife.’ Sounds terrible, you know?” [button href=”http://loudwire.com/best-nine-inch-nails-songs/” title=”Next: 10 Best Nine Inch Nails Songs” align=”center”]