I speak to metal and rock musicians all the time. I tape every single interview, but don’t end up using it all. Most times, I get stuck with leftover quotes that just end up at the bottom of a Word document, never to be seen. I’d say that, for most stories, I use about 60 Read More
Last week, I read in the Gun Shy Interview with Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory that he’s got a steady lady in Roni, a former Playboy model. Naturally, I was on Google looking for nude pics of her within five minutes. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any. But I must admit, Zoltan’s chick is Read More
Saying he needs “to move forward in life and do something else music-wise,” Dark Funeral bassist B-Force has quit Swedish black metal legends Dark Funeral. Guitarist Lord Ahriman thanked B-Force “for six fantastic years” of service, and that it was a pleasure working with him. Is this a black metal band or N*SYNC? B-Force said Read More
Jesus — this tour just sounds doomed, doesn’t it? When I first read about this on Blabbermouth, I thought it was an Onion headline. But I guess former Warrant singer Jani Lane, who’s been arrested a gazillion times in the last two years for DUI-related offenses, is taking over for sickly Great White frontman Jack Read More
Tony Mills, the former frontman for Shy and the current singer for Norwegian hard rock outfit TNT, has reportedly suffered a heart attack while at the Oslo airport on Saturday (August 28). He was on his way to a performance when the heart attack occurred. Mills is now recovering from treatment and should be moved Read More
And why should he be? He’s wanted to record a new album with Aerosmith for years now, and frontman Steve Tyler’s revolving-door rehab stints, overinflated ego, and talk of Tyler’s possible involvement as a judge on the upcoming season of “American Idol” has gotten in the way of the band. And Joe is not pleased. Read More
Ozzy Osbourne’s most recent record Scream took seven weeks to sell 165,000 copies. His previous album, Black Rain, sold that much in a single week. As The Gauntlet has joked, Scream has been certified pewter by the RIAA. Scream has been universally panned by critics, and I personally don’t know a single person who thought Read More
Christian metalcore outfit The Chariot have been hard at work on their next disc, Long Live. Whoopdifuckingdo. Of course, The Chariot are a Norma Jean offshoot; frontman Josh Scogin used to sing for Norma Jean, so, that means they’re an offshoot. Don’t question it. So, yeah: The Chariot are one of those bands people — Read More
Yes, this is all happening overseas and yes, I usually don’t give a shit unless it’s happening in America, but Guns N’ Roses stories are always amusing and I love Axl Rose’s ranting and rationale for things. Not even 24 hours after saying they would be pulling out of tonight’s Leeds Festival in the U.K., Read More
So, I remember loving Zao’s 2004 album The Funeral of God a whole bunch, but can’t say they’ve done much since to tickle my musical nuts. In fact, before going to their MySpace page today, I forgot they’d even released a disc in 2009. It’s called Awake? and I remember reading a one-word review of Read More