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As previously reported, after completing his epic quadrology last year with the simultaneous release of 'Ghost' and 'Deconstruction', renowned multi-instrumentalist and producer Devin Townsend is ready to start the next chapter in the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT's career with their NEW effort, 'Epicloud'. Due out September 18th in North America and September 24th in Europe, 'Epicloud' boasts 13 light-hearted, hook laden tracks featuring once again, guest vocal appearances by Anneke van Giersbergen. It's Epic and it's loud, it's 'Epicloud'.
You can listen to 'Epicloud' in its entirety HERE:
This September, DTP and KATATONIA will team-up for the "Epic Kings
& Idols Tour", a co-headlining North American run featuring PARADISE
LOST as direct support and STOLEN BABIES as openers (DTP and KATATONIA
will alternate in headlining each show). Dates for the "Epic Kings
& Idols Tour" are below, so check to see when Hevy Devy will be
coming to a city near you!
Sept. 4: Seattle, WA at Studio 7
Sept. 5: Vancouver, BC at Commodore
Sept. 7: San Francisco, CA at Great American Music Hall
Sept. 8: Los Angeles, CA at El Rey Theater
Sept. 9: Phoenix, AZ at Marquee Theater
Sept. 11: Houston, TX at Warehouse Live Studio
Sept. 12: Dallas, TX at Trees
Sept. 13: Lawrence, KS at Granada
Sept. 14: Denver, CO at Summit
Sept. 16: Minneapolis, MN at Station 4
Sept. 17: Chicago, IL at Bottom Lounge
Sept. 18: Pittsburgh, PA at Mr. Smalls
Sept. 19: Toronto, ON at Opera House
Sept. 20: Montreal, QC at Cafe Campus
Sept. 21: Worcester, MA at Palladium
Sept. 22: Philadelphia, PA at TLA
Sept. 23: New York, NY at Irving Plaza
Sept. 24: Baltimore, MD at Rams Head Live
Recently, Jason Simms from The Oregonian got a chance to interview Scott Ian for an upcoming feature on ANTHRAX. While Jason had Scott on the phone, he asked him about the cancellation of the "Mayhem Cruise". Here is what Scott had to say about this:
"I
saw the press release (read it HERE), and we were as
surprised as everybody else. We were literally out on the [Rockstar Energy Drink] Mayhem [Festival] tour when we heard that the cruise was canceled.
"It's a bummer. We were all really looking forward to it.
"It's funny because us MACHINE HEAD, LAMB OF GOD,
we're all good friends, we've all known each other forever. None of us
had ever been on a cruise before. We were all in Europe this summer
playing festivals together and we were like, 'What do you think of this
cruise thing? What's your take on it?' Everyone was kind of like,
'Alright, it's a little weird, we're going to be stuck on this boat for
four days,' but everyone was excited that we were going to get to hang
out and all get really shitty and have a lot of fun. I know all of us
were bummed and I heard from the MACHINE HEAD guys that they were bummed.
"Yeah,
I don't know why [it was canceled]. I can speculate and think that
maybe in this economy, it's kind of tough to sell a ticket for that much
money. You get all these bands and it's three days on a boat, if you
break it down to what it's costing you per day, it doesn't seem like a
lot of money. But I understand where we're at in this world in 2012.
People just don't have that kind of money to shell out. I can only
assume it comes down to that."
As previously reported, ANTHRAX is the first Heavy Metal band ever to have their music cranked in Mars. Read more about this HERE!
Today would have been Dimebag's 46th birthday! Pantera’s guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott was born on August 20, 1966 in Ennis Texas. Influenced by his father Jerry Abbott who is a country musician and producer, Dime and his brother Vinnie Paul fell in love with music at a young age. At first Dimebag wanted to play the drums but his older brother Vinnie took over the drum kit. This was tough for Dime, who eventually started playing the trombone. However, his father was not having it, and convinced Dime to try playing the guitar. Goddamn, was his father right!
Dime’s first guitar was a Hondo Les Paul, which he got with a small amplifier. At the beginning all he did was pose in front of the mirror with Ace Frehley (Kiss) makeup, and his guitar in hand. Vinnie needed someone to play with so he started harassing his little brother. One day, Dime goes into the jam room and tells Vinnie: “Hey dude, you want to jam?” Little did they know that they were planting the seed of what would later become Pantera, which is arguably the best Heavy Metal band of the 90’s.
After a few months of jamming classics like Deep Purple’s “Smoke In The Water” with Vinnie. Dime started competing on local guitar competitions, which he usually won. On one of these competitions he was awarded a Dean ML. Coincidentally, his father Jerry had bought him a cherry burst finish Dean ML standard, the same morning of the competition. At another competition, he won a Randall Amplifier. As we all know, this became Pantera’s signature sound. Eventually, the organizers barred Dimebag from competing, because they wanted to give other kids a chance to win.
In 1981, Dimebag formed Pantera with his brother Vinnie. The two recruited vocalist Terrence Glaze (replaced by Philip Anselmo in 1987) and bassist Rex Brown. After releasing 4 albums that were produced by their father, who also owned a studio called “Pantego Sound”. Pantera got their big break, and things would never be the same in the Heavy Music World. Signed by Atco Records, who had already turned them down, the story about how Pantera got signed is very unique.
After being stranded in Texas due to a hurricane, Mark Ross (Atco Records) was asked by his boss to go check out Pantera, who were playing a birthday party in Dallas. After experiencing the insanity of Pantera (there was birthday cake all over the floor), Mark called his boss and told him: “We have to sign this guys!” Next thing you know Dimebag heads over to Philip Anselmo’s house and shows him the record contract.
From that moment on Pantera put the pedal to the Metal and started taking over the world. The band got their big break when the Metal God Rob Halford, invited the band to tour with Judas Priest in Europe. Soon after, they were asked to play the “Monsters of Rock” festival in Moscow Russia in front of 1,000,000 people. That day they outperformed Metallica, AC/DC, and the Black Crowes. During their successful career, Pantera also shared the stage with legendary bands like Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Megadeth, Motörhead, and Venom.
After 13 years of hard-hitting success, and releasing classic albums such as Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, and Far Beyond Driven (which charted #1 on Billboard). Pantera’s career came to a halt, mainly because of Anselmo’s addiction problems. After various failed attempts of communicating with Philip, Dimebag and Vinnie decided to start a new band called Damageplan.
In order to complete the lineup, Dime and Vinnie recruited former Rob Halford guitarist Pat Lachman to perform vocal duties, and Bob Zilla on bass. Damageplan released “ New Found Power” in the US on February 10, 2004. When writing music for Damageplan, Dimebag said that: "Damageplan wanted to stretch out and expand our capabilities to their fullest.”
On December 8th 2004, Nathan Gale shot Dimebag Darrell Abbott on stage, while Damageplan was performing at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus Ohio. Dime was shot six times (four times in the head), which killed him instantly. Gale continued shooting, killing four others and wounding a further seven. Jeff “Mayhem” Thompson (Damageplan’s head of security) was killed after tackling Gale, as was Alrosa Villa employee Erin Halk. Nathan Bray (a fan of the band) was killed while trying to perform CPR on Dimebag and Mayhem. Gale was finally shot dead by officer James James D. Niggemeyer. Dimebag Darrell was laid to rest at the Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Texas. From that moment on Heavy Music was never the same.
“I remember when I met Dimebag in Cologne Germany after Pantera’s spectacular performance. We see Dime in the distance (at least 20 feet away); we call him up and next thing you know he stumbles towards us. He was drunk as hell, and said that we were way too sober for being at a Pantera show! He calls Bobby (Pantera videographer) over, and tells him: “get this kids some blacktooths and get them on the new home video.” Lo and behold Bobby came back with some blacktooths, which we all put back fast. To this day I think of Dimebag every day, because he is the driven force of the lifestyle that we Metaleros share and are proud of.” –Jo Schuftan (founder of Horns Up Rocks)
We want to dedicate this piece to Dimebag Darrell Abbott, his family, and all his fans!
According to Artisan News, the rumors about MARILYN MANSON having AIDS are false, and it stems from his role in a forthcoming episode of Showtime's Californication. Here is a video of MANSON clearing the air about the AIDS rumors:
As previously reported, MANSON wrote the words "fuck you" over his mouth and chin as he strolled through security at LAX this Friday, August 10th. More about this story HERE!
Catch Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie on the "Twins of Evil" tour (more dates to be announced soon):
(U.S. Leg)
SEPTEMBER:
28 Desert Uprising Festival, Ashley Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ 29 48 Hours Festival, Las Vegas, NV
OCTOBER:
1 USANA Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT 2 1st Bank Center, Denver, CO 4 Topeka Expo Center, Topeka, KS 8 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NE 9 Verizon Wireless Center, Mankato, MN 11 Allstate Arena, Chicago, IL 12 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, MI 13 US Cellular Coliseum, Bloomington, IL 15 Covelli Center, Youngstown, OH 16 The Armory, Rochester, NY 17 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY 19 Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ 20 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT 21 Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH 23 Agganis Arena, Boston, MA 25 Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA 30 Reliant Arena, Houston, TX 31 Dallas, TX
(European Leg)
NOVEMBER:
26 London, UK 27 Manchester, UK 28 Glasgow SECC, UK 29 Birmingham, UK
DECEMBER:
1 Luxembourg 2 Bochum, Germany 3 Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5 Stockholm, Sweden 6 Copenhagen, Denmark 8 Vienna, Austria 9 Munich, Germany 10 Basel, Switzerland 12 Bologna, Italy
As previously reported, LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe spent five weeks incarcerated in a Prague, Czech Republic prison. Blythe was released on a $400,000 bail and was able to return to the United States on Friday, August 3rd. Although LAMB OF GOD was forced to cancel their summer co-headline tour with Dethklok and special guests Gojira, the band performed this weekend at SLIPKNOT's "KnotFest". The series of events took place on Friday, August 17th in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Saturday, August 18th in Somerset, Wisconsin.
LAMB OF GOD is already rescheduling a canceled U.S. tour for October. Here is footage of the return of Randy Blythe to his home away from home: the stage!
