JUDAS PRIEST: Rob Halford Offers NEW Album Update!

Get stoked! Heavy Metal legends JUDAS PRIEST are hard at work on their seventeenth album. Here is an update from the "God Of Metal", Rob Halford, who told VH1 Radio Network's Dave Basner what the fans can expect.

"We have all the songs in our heads running right now as we're speaking to you, we can hear them. It's coming along really well. We're in no rush. It'll be ready when it's ready. What we will say is we felt it was very important to follow up 'Nostradamus', the last release, and that was a concept experiment and it was a real success for us and the fans loved it, but I think our fans and ourselves as a band, we want to get back to the side of PRIEST that we haven't heard for a few years and reemphasize and remake those big, Heavy Metal statements again."

As for when you will listen to a NEW PRIEST album, Halford made it clear that he and his bandmates aren't going to set dates for themselves.

"I think that's the best way to approach it, because it would be wrong to say, 'On this date, at this moment, the record is coming out.' But where we're at now, we're very, very confident and, going out on a limb, I would say that we should have it wrapped up by the end of this year. We're forging ahead and everything's looking good, and yeah, it's looking right. So in the not-too-distant Metal future, there will be new PRIEST to listen to."

There you have it folks! JUDAS PRIEST is far from "retiring", despite their "epitaph" tour. The bands 'Epitaph' concert DVD and Blu-ray is now available worldwide! More info HERE!

Related links:
Judas Priest's official site 

Nine Inch Nails Are D O N E Recording, NEW Album Out This Year!

Oh yeah! Trent Reznor has confirmed that NINE INCH NAILS are done recording their eight studio album. In a press release, Reznor said:

"I've been less than honest about what I've really been up to lately. For the last year I've been secretly working non-stop with Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder on a NEW, full-length Nine Inch Nails record, which I am happy to say is finished and frankly fucking great. This is the real impetus and motivation behind the decision to assemble a new band and tour again. My forays into film, HTDA and other projects really stimulated me creatively and I decided to focus that energy on taking Nine Inch Nails to a new place. Here we go!"

Additionally, NIN will be touring this Summer! Here are the confirmed tour dates:

07-26: Niigata, Japan at Fuji Rocks Festival
07-28: Ansan, South Korea at Ansan Valley Festival
08-02-04: Chicago, IL at Lollapalooza
08-09-11: San Francisco, CA at Outside Lands
08-15: Hasselt, Belgium at Pukkelpop
08-16: Biddinghuizen, Holland at Lowlands Festival
08-18: Hockenheim, Germany at Rock 'n' Heim
08-21: Belfast, Northern Ireland at Belsonic Festival
08-23: Leeds, England at Leeds Festival
08-24: Paris, France at Rock en Seine
08-25: Reading, England at Reading Festival
08-28: Milan, Italy at Mediolanum Forum
08-31-09-1: Philadelphia, PA at Made in America Festival
10-25-27: Asheville, NC at Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit
11-01-03: New Orleans, LA at Voodoo Music Experience



Related links:
Trent Reznor on Facebook
Nine Inch Nails' Official Site

Joey Jordison Talks About His NEW Project With Members Of NINE INCH NAILS, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD & DARKEST HOUR!

As previously reported, the multi-talented Joey Jordison from SLIPKNOT/MURDERDOLLS (ex-Rob Zombie) has made it very clear that he is not willing to wait around until Corey Taylor is ready to work on the NEW SLIPKNOT album. He has actually been real busy working on his as of yet untitled NEW musical project.

Jordison recently chatted with Metal Hammer about his project with Jed Simon (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TENET, ZIMMER'S HOLE) and Kris Norris (DARKEST HOUR) on guitar. Here is what he had to say about his next musical venture:

“I’d been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the 'All Hope Is Gone' tour cycle but I ended up with so much stuff I had to take a step back and stop working on it,” he explains. “The time wasn’t right. But I came up with a bunch of material that was really killer and heavy and started taking some of it in a different direction. I started focusing on a lot of the post-Punk and industrial stuff that I’ve always loved and started putting super heavy and brutal guitars over the top of it. That’s how it started. It’s taken me a couple of years to get to this point, but I can honestly say this is the most satisfied I’ve ever been in the studio. I can’t wait for everyone to hear this shit.

“I’ve done the bulk of the work in the studio but now I’ve got Jed [Simon, Strapping Young Lad] and Kris [Norris, Darkest Hour] to play lead guitar on everything,” he adds. “Chris [Vrenna, Nine Inch Nails] is doing the keyboards and synths and all that stuff and I have an unknown guy on vocals. His name’s Henry and he’s super talented and a great vocalist. I didn’t want someone from a known band singing in this band, because then it just becomes some supergroup thing and that’s not what this is.”

Don't forget that SLIPKNOT will be headlining the Download Festival on Friday 14 June 2013, marking the band’s second headline appearance following an explosive set in 2009. They join fellow headliners Iron Maiden on Saturday 15 June and Rammstein on Sunday 16 June.

Related links:
Slipknot

METALLICA's James Hetfield Has A NEW Album Update For You!

As you already know, METALLICA are going to take their sweet time before they release the follow up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic'. Up until now the bands legions of fans had no idea why the band is taking so long to release a NEW record. Well, during a recen interview with Gary Graff of Billboard, James Hetfield explained why the band hasn't even began recording their next sonic assault.

“I want it done yesterday,” frontman James Hetfield tells Billboard about Metallica’s next album, “and (Orion Music Festival) and this movie is keeping us pretty busy at this point and it’s taking a lot of our time and effort. We’ve been touring some obscure places; I guess basically what we’re trying to do is pay for this movie, so the touring is keeping us from getting in there and finishing the record. Right now the focus is on the movie.”

Hetfield did mention that the band has made a start on a NEW album.

“Yeah, we got out into the room and jammed and we’ve come up with enough material for a record, for sure,” Hetfield says. “We’ve gone through maybe one-tenth of the material that’s on our riffs CDs. We’ve got enough for an album, we just haven’t had enough time to really focus on it and dial in and start whittling it into these masterpieces, hopefully.”





METALLICA's "Orion Music + More" will take place this year in Detroit, Michigan during the weekend of June 8-9, 2013." Full details HERE

'Tallica will also be releasing their first ever 3D movie this fall! Details HERE!

Related links:
Metallica

REVOCATION: NEW Album Title, Artwork & Tracklisting Revealed!

REVOCATION have confirmed an August 6th release date for their new self-titled album via Relapse Records. This is their 4th full-length release and the first featuring new bassist Brett Bamberger. Today the band has unveiled the artwork and tracklisting for the album. The artwork was created by Orion Landau (Dying Fetus, Obscura, Nile).

REVOCATION Tracklisting:

1.     The Hive
2.     Scattering the Flock
3.     Arch Fiend
4.     Numbing Agents
5.     Fracked
6.     The Gift You Gave
7.     Invidious
8.     Spastic
9.     Entombed By Wealth
10.  A Visitation

Throughout the recording process the band had cameras rolling capturing everything. From this footage REVOCATION has put together a series of videos detailing different aspects of the recording process. Watch them HERE

Don't forget to catch REVOCATION at the 2013 Summer Slaughter Tour! Lineup and tour dates can be seen HERE

Related links:

Revocation

CHIMAIRA Announce NEW Album Title, Release Date & Premiere NEW Song!

Today, Monday, May 15, CHIMAIRA are premiering a NEW song called "All That Is Left Is Blood" via the live video below. The band has also announced that the follow-up to 2011's 'The Age Of Hell' is called 'Crown Of Phantoms' and will be released on July 30th via EOne Music.



CHIMAIRA is currently on tour with ASKING ALEXANDRIA, WHITECHAPEL, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE and I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN. Here are the remaining tour dates:

May15	Granada Theater	Lawrence, KS United States	Buy Tickets VIP
May16	Firebird	St. Louis, MO United States	Buy Tickets VIP
May17	The Intersection	Grand Rapids, MI United States	Buy Tickets VIP

CHIMAIRA is:

- Matt Szlachta
- Emil Werstler
- Sean Z
- Mark Hunter
- Austin D'amond
- Jeremy Creamer

Stay tuned for more CHIMAIRA news!

Related links:
Chimaira
E One Music

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Have A Special Announcement Regarding Their Next Record!

Following the conclusion of their tour with DANZIG, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Woody Weatherman, Reed Mullin, Mike Dean - have entered the recording studio to record the follow up to 2012's self titled album. The effort is being produced by John Custer. Dean confirms, "During the recording of the Megalodon EP (Scion A/V 2012), we settled into a good style of collaboration with our long-time producer John Custer. The band, and myself in particular, get our hands dirty in creating the recording and this next round will be a continuation of that method."

C.O.C. is a confirmed performer at the upcoming Scion Rock Fest slated for June 1st. This year’s fest will include 32 artists performing at four separate venues around downtown Memphis. Entry to the event is free but interested parties must RSVP to obtain tickets. Visit http://www.scionav.com/rock for further details. You can follow the fest via Twitter at #scionrockfest. The band will also perform at Gwar’s 4th Annual BBQ slated for August 17th at Hadad’s Water Park in Richmond, Virginia.



Related links: COC's Official Site COC on Facebook Candlelight Records

TOOL's Danny Carey Celebrates His 52nd Birthday!

Today, Friday, May 10th, TOOL's legendary drummer Danny Carey is celebrating his 52nd birthday! Danny was born in Lawrence, Kansas. His first encounter with the drums began at the age of ten by joining the school band and taking private lessons on the snare drum. Two years later, Carey began to practice on a drum set.

In his senior year of high school in Paola, Kansas, Carey joined the high school jazz band and began to study under drumming great Ben Kelso specifically for jazz drumming training. Jazz would later play a huge role in his signature approach to the drum set in a Rock setting. As Carey progressed through high school and later college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he began expanding his studies in percussion with theory into the principles of geometry, science, and metaphysics as well as delving into Sacred Geometry and certain hidden aspects of life and the occult. Carey also played jazz while attending college and got to experience the jazz scene in Kansas City.

After college, a friend and bandmate convinced Carey to leave Kansas for Portland, Oregon, where he played briefly in various bands before moving to Los Angeles, California, where he was able to perform as a studio drummer with Carole King and perform live sets with Pigmy Love Circus. He also played in Green Jellÿ as Danny Longlegs and recorded the album Cereal Killer. He would later find his way to TOOL after coming to know singer Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones and practicing with them in place of drummers the two had requested but had never shown up. Besides TOOL, Carey also finds time for other projects new and old such as Pigmy Love Circus, VOLTO!, and ZAUM.
As previously announced, TOOL are working on some NEW music. Up until know, in typical TOOL fashion the band have been very mysterious about the status of their fifth studio album and have only been communicating with the outside world via their webmaster.



The Rock FM (New Zealand radio station), recently conducted an interview with TOOL's drummer Danny Carey. During the interview Carey discussed the progress of the NEW TOOL album, the effect that their music has on millions of people worldwide and his involvement with Jason Bonham (son of John Bonham from LED ZEPELLIN) on the NEW Superman soundtrack. Listen to the interview at this link:

http://www.therock.net.nz/Tools-Danny-Carey-talks-to-Tracey/tabid/381/articleID/23856/Default.aspx

When asked by Chilean radio station Futuro about the album arriving in the near future, Maynard James Keenan directly replied: “No NEW disc, not this year.” When pressed further replied: “I have not written any songs. So no, there is nothing.”

Related links:
Tool's Official Site

REVOCATION's NEW Album Is Done - Studio Videos Available!

Massachusetts metallers REVOCATION are finished recording the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2011 Relapse Records release 'Chaos of Forms'. This is the first full length album with bass player Brett Bamberger who joined the band in 2012 and was featured on the band's last EP 'Teratogenesis' which was released by Scion AV. Get it HERE!

Throughout the recording process the band had cameras rolling capturing everything. From this footage REVOCATION has put together a series of videos detailing different aspects of the recording process. Today the band has premiered the first video in the series focusing on the drums and bass. Additionally this clips features ten seconds of new REVOCATION music. Check it out below:





Revocation with Goatwhore, 3 Inches of Blood and Ramming Speed:
- 4/30: Burlington, VT @ Nectar's
- 5/1: Middletown, NY @ Sounds Asylum
- 5/2: Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
- 5/3: Toronto, ON @ Opera House

Related links:

Revocation

METALLICA's Lars Ulrich Offers Update On NEW Album!

METALLICA are going to take their sweet time before they release the follow up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic'. As a matter of fact, the legions of 'Tallica fans worldwide won't see a NEW record for a while.

Cape Town's Channel24 recently spoke to METALLICA's own Lars Ulrich when the band returned to South Africa for three shows — one in Johannesburg and two in Cape Town. During the interview, Ulrich offered the following update regarding the bands 10th studio album:

"It would surprise me if the next full-length METALLICA record would come out before 2015. It takes us awhile to make records, and we're also so busy with so many other things. But we'll get around to it eventually."

What are the band members busy with? Well, they will be hosting the second annual METALLICA's "Orion Music + More" will take place this year in Detroit, Michigan during the weekend of June 8-9, 2013." Full details HERE

'Tallica will also be releasing their first ever 3D movie this fall! Details HERE!

Related links:
Metallica

The future of C.O.C. seems very bright; band on tour with DANZIG!

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will perform at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona tomorrow night as part of their trek with Danzig which began on April 17. The short tour allows the trio a momentary break from work on the follow-up to 2012’s self-titled album. The dates with Danzig follow the band’s recent festival appearance in Santiago, Chile; the band playing The Metal Fest alongside Down, Twisted Sister, Devin Townsend Project and others.

Vocalist/bassist Mike Dean comments, "We took time out from writing and recording to play Chile for the first time. We had a blast hanging out with Down. Of course Pepper [Keenan] played a couple of songs with us and I got to listen to Jimmy Bower and Pat Bruders sing Eagles songs for the entire flight back to the states. We picked up some rented gear in Los Angeles and drove through the desert to start the Danzig tour in Las Vegas. Things have been rolling since then and it has been really good travels. Denver and Albuquerque were particularly awesome. Austin was great too."

The band’s current set includes a mix of NEW and old songs, including “Deliverance,” “Priest Brains,” “Strong Medicine Too Late,” “Holier,” “Mad World,” “Hungry Child,” “Technocracy,” plus “Psychic Vampire,” “Your Tomorrow,” and “The Moneychangers” from their 2012 self-titled album. It merely taps the creative output of the legacy band that originally formed in 1982.

On the conclusion of the tour, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, consisting of guitarist Woody Weatherman, drummer Reed Mullin, with Dean, will return to the rehearsal room to pick up on the remaining songwriting and album work before hitting the recording studio. Dean confirms, “We have a lot of lyric writing to refine but a lot of solid musical arrangements in place. We plan to begin basic tracking for half the songs as soon as we return to North Carolina.”

Continuing he notes, “During the recording of the Megalodon EP (Scion A/V 2012), we settled into a good style of collaboration with our long-time producer John Custer. The band, and myself in particular, get our hands dirty in creating the recording and this next round will be a continuation of that method. We actually can’t wait to get back to work on the new songs.”

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY is a confirmed performer at the upcoming Scion Rock Fest slated for June 1st. This year’s fest will include 32 artists performing at four separate venues around downtown Memphis. Entry to the event is free but interested parties must RSVP to obtain tickets. Visit http://www.scionav.com/rock for further details. You can follow the fest via Twitter at #scionrockfest. The band will also perform at Gwar’s 4th Annual BBQ slated for August 17th at Hadad’s Water Park in Richmond, Virginia.



Related links:
COC's Official Site
COC on Facebook
Candlelight Records

Joey Jordison is not holding his breath for a NEW SLIPKNOT album & starts NEW project

The multi-talented Joey Jordison from SLIPKNOT/MURDERDOLLS (ex-Rob Zombie) has made it very clear that he is not willing to wait around until Corey Taylor is ready to work on the NEW SLIPKNOT album. Jordison has posted several photos from the studio where he is currently working on a "new project."

More details about the band, which apparently features Jed Simon (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TENET, ZIMMER'S HOLE) and Kris Norris (DARKEST HOUR) on guitar, will be made available "soon," according to Jordison.
While we totally understand that it is not easy for SLIPKNOT to move on after losing their bassist Paul Gray in 2010, Taylor seems to have plenty of time to write music and to tour with STONE SOUR. So lets hope that Taylor commits to SLIPKNOT after STONE SOUR completes their current album cycle in 2015.
Here is Taylor's latest update:

"We're doing five shows this year, all overseas. But it's still not time yet. There's a lot of people in the band getting healthy and trying to stay healthy and I think by getting together and doing this handful of shows, that will encourage them, and that's important.

"It takes a long time to pull yourself out of where we were. We were all in really bad shape and really dark places and right now we just kind of realized, we don't want to be there anymore. You can visit it. You can tap into it. But you don't want to exist in it. That's not life. That's just sustaining pain. For me, I let that go a long time ago and now the rest of the guys in the band are seeing that as well.

"So, we're all just trying to be there for each other and I think we'll start working on new music by probably next year… just kind of throwing demos together, maybe start working on a new album at the end of next year or maybe 2015."

Don't forget that SLIPKNOT will be headlining the Download Festival on Friday 14 June 2013, marking the band’s second headline appearance following an explosive set in 2009. They join fellow headliners Iron Maiden on Saturday 15 June and Rammstein on Sunday 16 June.

Via Blabbermouth

Related links:
Slipknot

NEWSTED Forced To Cancel Their San Jose, CA Concert - Statement Available!

Bassist Jason Newsted's (ex-METALLICA) NEW musical project NEWSTED have completed the recording session for their full-length debut album. NEWSTED's as of yet untitled album will be released around the same time that the band will appear at this year's Download festival this Summer. NEWSTED is scheduled to begin mixing the effort later this week, with more details to be announced soon.

NEWSTED has just announced via Facebook that their concert at the San Jose Rock Shop in San Jose, CA has been cancelled:
"We regret to inform our San Jose fans that due to circumstances beyond our control, the Newsted show at the Rock Shop on April 23rd has been cancelled. Refunds will be available at point of purchase."
 
Upcoming NEWSTED tour dates in the United States:

Apr. 23: San Jose Rock Shop - San Jose, CA
Apr. 24: The Starline - Fresno, CA
Apr. 26: The Alley - Sparks, NV
Apr. 27: Ace of Spades - Sacramento, CA
May 01: The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA
May 03: Vinyl - Las Vegas, NV
May 04: KUPD Ufiesta - Mesa, AZ
May 15: Planet Rock - Battle Creek, MI
May 17: The Crofoot - Pontiac, MI
May 18: Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL
May 21: Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
May 22: The Middle East Downstairs - Cambridge, MA
May 23: The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ

Get the NEW NEWSTED EP here!

Related links:
Jason Newstead's Official Site

METALLICA's Rob Trujillo Offers Update On NEW Album!

METALLICA are in no rush to release the follow up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic'. As a matter of fact, the legions of 'Tallica fans worldwide won't see a NEW record before 2014. During an interview with Metal Hammer's What's On, Rob Trujillo offered a few snippets of what we can all expect.

“As clichéd as it sounds. It’s the music — or maybe just music in general [that keeps us going]. When we’re back home and we strap on the guitars, it just works. At the moment, we’re in the middle of writing a NEW album and, if anything, the problem is that we write too many riffs. That proves that there is a lot of music still in us.

What’s On: How’s the new album coming along?

Trujillo: Well, we can’t really say much, because it’s still being written, but we’ve been listening to our last album, 'Death Magnetic', a lot, which is inspiring the arrangements we are currently writing. There is a certain quality to that album that we are really proud of and we want to maintain a certain standard. Is the NEW album going to sound like “Death Magnetic”? Probably not, but there will still be those signature Metallica grooves and thrash elements.

Read the rest of the interview HERE!

Don't forget that METALLICA's "Orion Music + More" will take place this year in Detroit, Michigan during the weekend of June 8-9, 2013." Full details HERE

Related links:
Metallica

NEWSTED: NEW Album Update Available As Band Gets Ready To Hit The Road!

Bassist Jason Newsted's (ex-METALLICA) NEW musical project NEWSTED have completed the recording session for their full-length debut album. NEWSTED's as of yet untitled album will be released around the same that the band will appear at this year's Download festival this Summer. NEWSTED is scheduled to begin mixing the effort later this week, with more details to be announced soon.
 
NEWSTED on tour in the United States:

Apr. 19: Red House - Walnut Creek, CA
Apr. 23: San Jose Rock Shop - San Jose, CA
Apr. 24: The Starline - Fresno, CA
Apr. 26: The Alley - Sparks, NV
Apr. 27: Ace of Spades - Sacramento, CA
May 01: The Roxy - Los Angeles, CA
May 03: Vinyl - Las Vegas, NV
May 04: KUPD Ufiesta - Mesa, AZ
May 15: Planet Rock - Battle Creek, MI
May 17: The Crofoot - Pontiac, MI
May 18: Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL
May 21: Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
May 22: The Middle East Downstairs - Cambridge, MA
May 23: The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ

Get the NEW NEWSTED EP here!

Related links:
Jason Newstead's Official Site

REVOCATION's NEW Album Is Almost Done - Statement Available!

Massachusetts metallers REVOCATION are currently in the studio working on the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2011 Relapse Records release 'Chaos of Forms'. This is the first full length album with bass player Brett Bamberger who joined the band in 2012 and was featured on the band's last EP 'Teratogenesis' which was released by Scion AV. Get it HERE!

Frontman Dave Davidson commented on the recording progress:

"Today is the last day of tracking, just gotta finish up some vocals and then it'll ready for the mixing stage. We're all incredibly pleased with how this one turned out, it's going to be a very pissed off record but will also have some twists and turns to spice things up. We feel like this is some of our best playing laid down to date, can't wait for everyone to check out the new tunes!"

The band will take a quick break from working on their NEW album this Spring when they hit the road with Goatwhore, 3 Inches of Blood, and Ramming Speed. REVOCATION joins the tour in Bucksport, ME on April 28^th and will play six shows winding things down in Toronto on May 3^rd. A complete list of dates is below.
Revocation with Goatwhore, 3 Inches of Blood and Ramming Speed:

- 4/28: Bucksport, ME @ The Kave

- 4/29: Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
- 4/30: Burlington, VT @ Nectar's
- 5/1: Middletown, NY @ Sounds Asylum
- 5/2: Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
- 5/3: Toronto, ON @ Opera House

Related links:

Revocation

THE CROWN Begins Tracking NEW Album; Japanese Tour Announced!

After many months of writing and rehearsing songs for their next sonic assault, THE CROWN have published the following statement regarding the recording process for the follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed album, 'Doomsday King' (2010):

"A lot of things are happening with THE CROWN at this very moment. We are in the middle of recording a true masterpiece. Marko is more or less done with his rhythm guitar work and Magnus has started with the bass stuff. He recorded a bass track for one song today before we all got together and filmed a small 'jingle' for our Japanese friends. Only three months until we hit Japan for the very first time. We are extremely excited about this. Hopefully we'll see YOU there.  

"Last but not least, we are very proud to announce our NEW lineup. Yes, we have a new member in the band. His name is Robin Sörqvist and he fits the band more than perfectly. You have probably heard him in the band IMPIOUS before. He's got the lead guitar skills and the will to kick ass, just as the rest of us.

"Please embrace Robin with a big and loud HELL YEAHHHHH!!!!"  

Chaotic Tapestry presents "The Spring Is Gone" tour 2013 - THE CROWN live in Japan:

June 11 - Sendai - Flying Son

June 12 - Nagoya - Imaike 3 Stars

June 13 - Osaka - Pangea

June 14 - Fukuoka - Graf

June 15 - Shizuoka - Sunash

June 16 - Tokyo - Cyclone

The shows will be supported by GOROD, GOTSU TOTSU KOTSI, HYPOCRAS, AS SILENCE BREAKS and CREATE/DESTROY.

The Crown is:

Johan Lindstrand - Vocals
Magnus Olsfelt - Bass
Marko Tervonen - Rhythm Guitars
Janne Saarenpää - Drums
Robin Sörqvist - Lead Guitars

Discography:

\m/ Demos:

- Forever Heaven Gone (1993)
- Forget the Light (1994)

\m/ Albums:

- Crown of Thorns (1994 as Crown of Thorns)
- The Burning (1995 as Crown of Thorns)
- Eternal Death (1997 as Crown of Thorns)
- Hell Is Here (1999)
- Deathrace King (2000)
- Crowned in Terror (2002)
- Possessed 13 (2003)
- Crowned Unholy (2004)
- Doomsday King (2010)

Related links:
The Crown on Facebook
The Crown on MySpace
Century Media Records

TOOL: Danny Carey Discusses The Bands Fans, Superman Soundtrack & NEW Batch Of Music!

As previously announced, TOOL are working on some NEW music. Up until know, in typical TOOL fashion the band have been very mysterious about the status of their fifth studio album and have only been communicating with the outside world via their webmaster.

The Rock FM (New Zealand radio station), recently conducted an interview with TOOL's drummer Danny Carey. During the interview Carey discussed the progress of the NEW TOOL album, the effect that their music has on millions of people worldwide and his involvement with Jason Bonham (son of John Bonham from LED ZEPELLIN) on the NEW Superman soundtrack. Listen to the interview at this link:

http://www.therock.net.nz/Tools-Danny-Carey-talks-to-Tracey/tabid/381/articleID/23856/Default.aspx

When asked by Chilean radio station Futuro about the album arriving in the near future, Maynard James Keenan directly replied: “No NEW disc, not this year.” When pressed further replied: “I have not written any songs. So no, there is nothing.”
 
As reported last week, the band had to postpone a few recording sessions after allegedly two members of the band were involved on some minor accidents. More info HERE!

Related links:
Tool's Official Site

SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor Updates Fans On The Bands Next Record!

For their millions of fans around the world, Slipknot are as much a culture and a way of life as they are a band. To completely engage with all of the perseverance, ingenuity, artistic integrity and holistic vision of Slipknot's creative output in all of its forms, is to fully embrace every facet, and to find community in counterculture and true strength in survival.

Needless to say, the "maggots" are impatiently waiting for a NEW SLIPKNOT album. And while most of the band is ready to get some songs recorded and released. The bands vocalist Corey Taylor is not ready yet. Here is Taylor's latest update:

"We're doing five shows this year, all overseas. But it's still not time yet. There's a lot of people in the band getting healthy and trying to stay healthy and I think by getting together and doing this handful of shows, that will encourage them, and that's important.

"It takes a long time to pull yourself out of where we were. We were all in really bad shape and really dark places and right now we just kind of realized, we don't want to be there anymore. You can visit it. You can tap into it. But you don't want to exist in it. That's not life. That's just sustaining pain. For me, I let that go a long time ago and now the rest of the guys in the band are seeing that as well.

"So, we're all just trying to be there for each other and I think we'll start working on new music by probably next year… just kind of throwing demos together, maybe start working on a new album at the end of next year or maybe 2015."

While we totally understand that it is not easy for SLIPKNOT to move on after losing their bassist Paul Gray in 2010, Taylor seems to have plenty of time to write music and to tour with STONE SOUR. So lets hope that Taylor commits to SLIPKNOT after STONE SOUR completes their current album cycle in 2015.

SLIPKNOT will be headlining the Download Festival on Friday 14 June 2013, marking the band’s second headline appearance following an explosive set in 2009. They join fellow headliners Iron Maiden on Saturday 15 June and Rammstein on Sunday 16 June.

Photo by: Damien Mitchell

Related links:
Slipknot 

TOOL: NEW Album Update From Maynard James Keenan!

As previously announced, TOOL are working on some NEW music. Up until know, in typical TOOL fashion the band have been very mysterious about the status of their fifth studio album and have only been communicating with the outside world via their webmaster. Well, this has finally changed. The bands leader Maynard James Keenan has released the following "update" regarding the bands next batch of music:

When asked by Chilean radio station Futuro about the album arriving in the near future, he directly replied: “No NEW disc, not this year.” When pressed further replied: “I have not written any songs. So no, there is nothing.”
 
As reported last week, the band had to postpone a few recording sessions after allegedly two members of the band were involved on some minor accidents. More info HERE!
Tool's Discography:

- Undertow (1993)
- Ænima (1996)
- Lateralus (2001)
- 10,000 Days (2006)

Related links:
Tool's Official Site