Roughly a month before the release of “Halo Of Blood”, Metalpaths had the chance to chat with bassist Henkka Blacksmith from Children Of Bodom. New album, new label, touring, Metallica, covers, photo books and applications, everything is in here just a few days before the release of their brand new and very promising record...
"MK Ondergrond" (meaning "Underground" in Afrikaans) conducted an interview with METALLICA frontman James Hetfield last month when the band returned to South Africa for three shows — one in Johannesburg and two in Cape Town. You can watch the chat below (Note: The intro is in Afrikaans, but the interview was conducted in English).
"MK Ondergrond" (Facebook page) is South Africa's first dedicated underground music variety show, hosted by a macabre crew of animated characters, featuring band interviews, video reviews, gig guides and the best in local and international underground music videos.
MK Ondergrond: So, here's an odd question to break the ice: without glam, or at least the hatred of glam, would thrash metal exist?
"Wild Eyes", the new video from Australian metallers PARKWAY DRIVE, can be seen below. The song comes off the band's fourth album, "Atlas", which was released on October 30, 2012 via Epitaph Records. The deluxe package included the "Home Is For The Heartless" DVD, a unique travelogue that follows the band's adventures touring to many obscure destinations including Colombia, China and India.
Yet another creative leap forward for the chart-topping Australian band,"Atlas" boasts some of the most up front and confrontational materialPARKWAY DRIVE has ever released, while at the same time taking several unexpected turns into lush sonic terrain, redefining their trademark sound while reinforcing their position as leaders in their field.
Singer Rob Halford of British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST was interviewed on this past Friday's (May 10) edition of Eddie Trunk's"Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM. A transcript of the chat follows below.
Eddie Trunk: I saw you get up and do [JUDAS PRIEST's "Rapid Fire"] with METALLICA [on May 2 at Revolver Golden Gods in Los Angeles].
Rob Halford: Yeah, was another great night. Let me quickly bring everybody up to speed about that. Out of the blue, I get this really cool e-mail from the guys from FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, and much like you do in metal, you know, you just throw things out there and see what happens. And they said they had this cool song ["Lift Me Up"] and they wondered whether there was a chance of me jumping in and doing some singing on the track. And I asked them to send it to me, and, man, as soon as I heard it, I just lit up. I said, "I want to be a part of this." So a few days later, I was in Las Vegas recording it.
1 July 2013
Plateia Nerou, Faliro Olympic Complex
HEAVY BY THE SEA FESTIVAL
SLAYER
DOWN
ROTTING CHRIST
NAPALM DEATH
KVELERTAK
The line-up of Heavy By ...
Candlelight Records has set a June 25 North American release date for"Unnatural Selection", the new album from Denver thrashers HAVOK. The ten-song CD was produced by David Sanchez, with mixing handled by Terry Date (PANTERA, OVERKILL, DEFTONES). It features original artwork from Polish illustrator Rafal Wechterowicz (SLAYER,MASTODON) and was mastered by James Murphy (ABORTED, WORLD UNDER BLOOD, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS).
"Give Me Liberty… Or Give Me Death", the first single from "Unnatural Selection", will hit Loud Rock/Metal radio on May 27. The topical song is a furious and urgent anthem that displays the band's classic thrash and old school metal sound. Vocalist/guitarist David Sanchez ignites the fret board and barks the righteous lyrics while drummer Pete Webber punishes his immense kit. The song's towering sound benefits from the unique acoustics of the old theater that was utilized as one of the many recording locations for the album.
Two years ago the band that would be characterized as the ‘Black Sabbath of our century’, released their first full-length work, under the name of "Capricorn". ...
SLAYER has just issued an update about Jeff Hanneman's loss revealing that there will be a celebration in memory of Jeff Hanneman sometime later this month.