Archive for July, 2010

Jul 23

Today Is The Day Sign With Black Market

Posted by Chris Harris on July 23, 2010 in New Records, News, Rad, Tour Dates

Today Is The Day are now on Black Market Activities, the label run by Guy Kozowyk from The Red Chord. Guy must be a big fan, and why wouldn’t he be? Today Is The Day rule…but I do admit I liked them better with Brann and Bill from Mastodon. The band, who have toured with Read More

Jul 23

Weed Found On Two Of Bret Michaels’ Tour Buses

Posted by Chris Harris on July 23, 2010 in Huh?, News, Rad

So, yeah…Bret Michaels, the recent winner of “The Celebrity Apprentice” and the recent survivor of a massive brain aneurysm, is in trouble. The Poison singer, according to reports, had two of his buses pulled over in Indiana, and police found some interesting shit. No, not a dead baby in a trash can, left by one Read More

Jul 23

New Lovage In The Works

Posted by Chris Harris on July 23, 2010 in New Records, News, Rad

For years now, I have been hearing that my favorite Mike Patton side-project, Lovage, was working on new music and that a follow-up to the band’s ultra-sexy 2001 debut Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By. The title literally says it all, and if you consider yourself a Patton freak, and don’t know Read More

Jul 23

The Fucking Wrath Sign With Tee Pee Records

Posted by Chris Harris on July 23, 2010 in New Records, News, Rad, Tour Dates

I will admit this up front. I had not heard The Fucking Wrath before yesterday. They’re a progressive metal band with a front man who growls as though he’d just swallowed a spoon full of molten-hot steel. Plus, there’s a dude in the band who looks like Ron Jeremy’s not-as-charming brother. So, I went to Read More

Jul 23

Gorod Lose Singer, Guitarist

Posted by Chris Harris on July 23, 2010 in Huh?, New Records, News

French tech metal outfit Gorod are down two members following the departure of frontman Guillaume Martino and guitarist Arnaud Pontaco. We wonder — as MetalSucks did — what this means for the EP Gorod have been promising they’d release this year. MetalSucks think “the timing strikes us as especially odd since we’ve already seen footage Read More

Jul 22

UPDATE: Jani Lane Puts Down Beer, Strikes Back At Warrant

Posted by Chris Harris on July 22, 2010 in News, Rad

Jani Lane is not about to take this shit lying down. After the dudes in his old band Warrant slammed him unnecessarily for his recent sentencing on DUI charges, Lane has countered with a statement of his own, creating a perfect hair metal beef to sort of close the week. Lane was sentenced this month Read More

Jul 22

Madball Returning In September With Empire

Posted by Chris Harris on July 22, 2010 in New Records, News, Rad

Being from New York, naturally I dig Madball. I’ve seen these NYCHC legends in concert more times than Cher’s thought twice about skiing, so I was pumped to learn the band were in the studio recently. Those recording sessions — with a very awesome producer, Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan — have wrapped (at least on Read More

Jul 22

Sicarus: The Gun Shy Interview

Posted by Chris Harris on July 22, 2010 in Gun Shy Interview, News, Rad

There are some dudes who — you can tell just by looking at ‘em — get laid like carpet. Sicarus guitarist Kenny “The Mad Scotsman” is one of those dudes. I mean, he looks like he stepped off of the pages of a Chippendales calendar. I’d totally have that kind of physique if I lifted Read More

Jul 22

Locusta Scrap First Week Of Tour After Van Troubles

Posted by Chris Harris on July 22, 2010 in News, Tour Dates

Locusta have van troubles up the ass. The Ohio-hailing progressive black death metallers were hitting the road with doom metallers Argentinum Asrum when their van took a shit. “Unfortunately, due to van trouble we had to scrap the first week of our tour; we had the (dis)pleasure of breaking down in a dry county in Read More

Jul 22

Knights Of The Abyss Announces Tour, Debuts New Cut

Posted by Chris Harris on July 22, 2010 in New Records, News, Rad, Tour Dates

Arizona metallers Knights of the Abyss have a new album coming out August 17 called The Culling of Wolves and its fucking heavy, dude. As a really heavy thing. It would maybe remind you of the Burn The Priest record. At times. Or early Black Dahlia Murder. Either ways, they’ve got this new track called Read More