Music News Digest 
Date posted: 2013-05-20
TWY all over @rocksound this evening. Got a question for them?
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Linkin Pilots? Stone Temple Park? What on earth is going on?
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Canadian superstar Justin Bieber told the crowd at the Billboard Music Awards to take him seriously last night - after they booed him as he received the Milestone Award.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Swiss melodic death metal act Dreamshade posted a new music video for the track "Your Voice," the second full production video from the band's latest (and second) LP ""Gift of Life," which is out now via Spinfarm Records. The first video for "Consumed Future" can be seen over at this location. A lyric video for the album's title track can be seen o...
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Pennsylvania metal act Sinsister Realm posted a new music video for the track "World of Evil." The song is the title track to the band's upcoming release, the band's third, which is scheduled for release on August 6th via Shadow Kingdom Records. The video was written and directed by Stacy Feit and filmed and edited by Lisa Koza.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
Drac of the week: still from Deep Purple’s Vincent Price video
Select your favourites from these 22 hot new tracks (if you missed them you can check them all out via the videos or streams below). Who will be your No.1 choice? And who will receive the chart-scraping booby prize? Results coming soon!
Note – you can vote for as many songs as you like but you can only vote once.
Last time’s Tracks Of The Week results are here.
Vote for your favourite tracks of the week!
Megadeth – Kingmaker
Free Energy – Girls Want Rock
Ragdoll – All I Want
Deep Purple – Vincent Price
The Tracii Guns League Of Gentlemen – The Sound
Drought – Last Words
The Winery Dogs – Desire
Deftones – Swerve City
Hugh Bob & The Hustle – Butternut
Gary Clark Jr – Numb
Killing Joke – Corporate Effect
Deap Vally – Baby I Call Hell
Lita Ford – Mother
White Wizzard – Kings Of The Highway
dUg Pinnick – That Great Thing
Pamela Moore – Paranoia
Great White – Shotgun Willie’s
David Bowie – The Next Day
Queens Of The Stone Age – Kalopsia
Queens Of The Stone Age – Keep Your Eyes Peeled
Queens Of The Stone Age – My God Is The Sun
Queens Of The Stone Age – If I Had A Tail
Date posted: 2013-05-20
My Dying Bride
The Manuscript
Peaceville Records
13 May 2013
by Daniel Cairns
Whilst peers like Paradise Lost and Anathema have gone through a litany of musical changes, experimenting with Depeche Mode style electronics and glorious anthemic rock songs, My Dying Bride have mercifully continued to wallow in their Keats-meets-Castlevania misery, writing melodic dirges for those moments at four in the morning when you’re not miserable enough for Khanate, but still feel a bit naff anyway.
It’s not like My Dying Bride were ever incapable of doing anything different. Their one attempt at branching out a bit, the severely underrated 34.788% was met with the kind of fan backlash which makes you wish metal fans would just bugger off down a well forever. So for the past 15 years they’ve stuck steadfastly to the melodramatic, lyrical doom that’s served them so well. They’ve managed to maintain a pretty high quality too, as their last EP The Barghest O’ Whitby and this one, The Manuscript proves.
It’s business as usual really. They’ll make no new fans off The Manuscript, but they won’t lose any either. Aaron Stainthorpe creaks away over melodic, mournful symphonies like he’s laconically, miserably slouched himself on a leather couch in a dimly lit room in a gothic mansion, with only candle-light, the dying embers of a once raging, warm fire, and glints of moonlight dancing languidly on the surface of the half-finished merlot he’s been nursing, providing any semblance of illumination while reading a book. For shits and giggles let’s imagine the book is the Players Guide to Banjo Kazooie.
There’s nothing wrong with it really. Nothing mould breaking either, and My Dying Bride will never suddenly find themselves inspiring a Harlem Shake style craze (although I would give absolutely everything to see them start the “Yorkshire sulk”) but sod it. In a shitty unpredictable world, it’s nice to have something reliable like My Dying Bride to remind you that everything is truly utterly meaningless, any and all struggle is futile and we are all but slaves to the whims of a cruel, unpredictable mistress called mortality who could cruelly yank away the choke chain of existence clasped around our necks at any moment.
Banjo Kazooie was the best game; the bird pooped out eggs.
5/6
Sounds like: A long, lyrical and very smartly dressed sigh
Standout tracks: Vår Gud över Er, Only Tears to Replace Her With
Date posted: 2013-05-20
At About.com Heavy Metal we are big supporters of underground and unsigned bands. Check out our monthly column Drago's Dungeon, featuring great albums from unsigned metal bands. Dan Drago is himself a member of an unsigned band and knows the struggles and challenges unsigned bands face. If you're in an unsigned metal band anywhere in the world, or know someone who is, there's information in the column on submitting material for future columns.
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Disc 1 - Set 1 01 Track01 02 Bring it Back 03 Theosophy 04 Track04 Disc 2 - Set 2 01 track01 02 track02 03 Dive 04 banter 05 Jammer Time 06 track06 07 crowd Encore: 08 Soul on Fire.
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American superstar Beyonce has heightened rumours that she’s pregnant with a second child - after wheeling two prams onto the stage during a gig in Switzerland last week.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
The Answer are set to return in 2013 with a new album and full UK and European tour.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
American hip-hop star Kanye West has revealed that his forthcoming studio album will be called ‘Yeezus’.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
KT Tunstall has announced she will roll into towns across the UK and Ireland this October and November. This new tour will give fans a chance to hear new material from KT’s much anticipated new album ‘Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon’ which is released 10th June through Virgin Records.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
The AltSounds File-O-Facts feature on:
Julia Biel. Want to know more about this up and coming artist? Here you can find out loads of snappy facts about this new talent...
WATCH // Julia Biel - 'Say It Out Loud'
Name: Julia Biel
Star Sign: Pisces
Place of Birth: London
Now Based At: London
Level of Education: Degree
First Instrument Played: When I was little I was given the choice between joining my older sister at Brownies or having piano lessons - it was a definite either/or situation. I gave Brownies a go first but only lasted two weeks before realising I’d made a big mistake. Piano.
Current Instrument: I stopped playing piano for a few years but started taking singing more seriously. Then a few years ago I picked up the guitar and that was a really refreshing sound to mess around with. At the moment I think of myself as a singer who accompanies herself on the piano and guitar.
Last Venue Played: King’s Place, London where I launched my new single ‘We Watch the Stars’.
Last Gig Attended: Angelique Kidjo at The Royal Festival Hall. My almost brother-in-law is her sound engineer and he invited us to go - she’s an amazing performer and an inspirational female figure in the global music industry.
Can't Go On Tour Without: My check-list is long…! Besides guitar stuff, er.. I would have to say my slippers help me to relax wherever I’m staying so I take them. And I’m a terrible one for taking things ‘just in case’ and I hate being cold as well so generally I take much more than I should. Rock n roll.
The Best Thing About Live Music Is: Anything can happen if you let it
The Person I Would Most Like To Collaborate with Is: I’m finding it really difficult to settle on one person - a whole load of people I’m aware of and probably loads that I’m not aware of yet and different people for different things. I like collaborating - it’s always a fascinating process.
Worst Thing To Happen To Music Is: Simon Cowell.
Best Thing About The Current Music Industry: The vinyl revival.
Turn On: twinkly eyes; making me laugh.
Turn Off: Bad shoes.
Biggest Influence: Everything shapes you, good and bad... writing and producing music late at night has probably defined my sound more than anything else
My Favourite Person On TV Right Now Is: Charlie Brooker
Childhood Hero: Neneh Cherry.
When I Was Younger I Wanted To Be: A singer.
Last Album Bought: Brown Rice by Don Cherry.
Last Song Listened To On MP3 Player: I don’t have an mp3 player.
The Music I'm Into Is: Pretty varied. I like most things done with heart and soul… not heavy metal though.
My Favourite Drink Has To Be: Baileys and rum combined, try it it’s amazing!
My Favourite Book Is: ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’, Jonathan Safran Foer tied with ‘A Fine Balance’, Rohinton Mistry.
My Favourite Website Is: Can’t say I have a favourite website
My Favourite Item Of Clothing Is: Definitely a coat, I’ve got a coat thing going on.
My Favourite Shop Is: No more.. boo-hoo. well it’s not the same since the management changed so I am looking for a new favourite shop. Before it was Trinity Hospice Shop on Streatham High Road which used to be run by a stylist/make-up artist lady who sourced great vintage stuff and sold it really cheap to keep the stock turning over – I was in there all the time.
The Best Boredom Buster Is: Swimming at the Lido.
My Ultimate Snack Is: Crackers and cheese… once you pop you can’t stop.
The Worst Food Invented Is: Marmite
The First Thing I Do When I Wake Up Is: Feed the cat, he’s lovely but brutally insistent in the mornings bless him.
I Can't Leave The House Without: Coming back to get things I forgot.
I'm Well Known For: Liking cake a bit too much, being artistically stubborn where my own music is concerned I guess, generally being a bit late, terrible habit.
My Hobbies Are: Baking cakes, vintage clothes shopping, dreaming
I Have A Passion For: Besides making music… fairness, truth,
First Band Name: I never had anything to do with the band names of the bands I was in so there’s my disclaimer right there. It’s not easy coming up with band names though - I’ve copped out releasing music under my own name.
Tomorrow I Will: Finish all the unfinished DIY in my place. Honest.
My Biggest Aspiration: Is to be fondly remembered.
I Think AltSounds is: Tops
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Soundgarden have confirmed they’ll return to the UK and Ireland for four shows in September.
The Seattle icons blasted back into action with last year’s acclaimed album King Animal. And bassist Ben Shepherd says he had no doubt they’d be able to deliver the goods, despite having split in 1997.
He tells the St Louis Post-Dispatch: “Even when we were in the room together meeting about having meetings, it was already back to the same chemistry. There were no worries about us taking the next step and being able to write new songs.”
Of the album he says: “We wanted it to sound like us. The only pressure we put on ourselves was that we make a record that’s on par with our old stuff. I had the utmost faith in the others that we would bring it all the way. There was no way we were going to put out a crappy record that no one cared about.”
Tour tickets go on sale on Friday, May 24.
Soundgarden UK and Ireland tour:
Sep 13: Manchester O2 Apollo
Sep 14: Birmingham Academy
Sep 16: Dublin O2
Sep 18: London O2 Academy Brixton
Date posted: 2013-05-20
It’s the Big One..on video! We talk to Download head booker Andy Copping about all things Download – was 2012 the best year ever? Who was the first headliner booked for 2013? How did he end up bagging Slipknot? Who are his picks for the lower stages? Would he ever book The Lonely Island? And what is the story with that damn cowboy hat?
Watch it all unfold below…
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Stream The Hype Theory's new album 'Captives' on the Rock Sound site all week ahead of its release on May 27 through Smalltown Records!
Date posted: 2013-05-20
The final 15 have been chosen, come watch their videos and vote for YOUR winner!
Date posted: 2013-05-20
American rockers Queens of the Stone Age have released the official music video for their single ‘My God is the Sun’.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Only Men Aloud will be embarking on a UK tour at the end of the year, culminating with a massive homecoming show at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena!
Date posted: 2013-05-20
American pop-rock outfit R5 have announced their first ever UK gig today, following the release of their second EP ‘Loud’ earlier this year.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
As previously reported,
Satyricon have been recording their new opus and successor to
The Age Of Nero released back in 2008. Recently, the group's mastermind Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven has revealed that the recording process is nearing completion. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=20040>Read more...</a>
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Swedish metallers
Sterbhaus have just released a brand new video for their song "Frogboiler", taken from their newest album
Angels For Breakfast ...And God For Lunch. The video was written, directed and produced by Marcus Hammarström, filmed and edited by Brightbear Productions. You can enjoy it below. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=20039>Read more...</a>
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Fuselab Podcast 19 - Zagar#electronica #bass #glo #dream #psyche01. Michael's Opening (Mister Lonely OST)02. David August - Forgive Me If I Bleed03. Belle Belle - Home04. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine05....
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Disc 1 - Set 1 01 Track01 02 Bring it Back 03 Theosophy 04 Track04 Disc 2 - Set 2 01 track01 02 track02 03 Dive 04 banter 05 Jammer Time 06 track06 07 crowd Encore: 08 Soul on Fire.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
Band to return for 11 dates in November / December...
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Band set to mark 10 years since the first show at London venue - their own!
Date posted: 2013-05-20
People going to see The Postal Service tonight in London, feast your eyes! Ben, Jimmy and Jenny captured live at Manchester Academy on May 18, 2013.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Following the release of his new single ‘Blackout’, Wretch 32 today announces a string of UK dates in for October and November.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
The AltSounds File-O-Facts feature on:
Equinox, the Peacekeeper. Want to know more about this up and coming artist? Here you can find out loads of snappy facts about this new talent...
WATCH // Equinox, the Peacekeeper - 'Minding Your Own Business'
Wouter Albert Carola Buyst
Star Sign: Scorpio
Place of Birth: Rumst, Belgium
Now Based At: Belgium here and there, mainly Ghent
Level of Education: Master degree in English and Dutch literature
First Instrument Played: Little white Casio synth.
Current Instrument: Guitar, piano, harmonica, overtone singing, musical saw, charango, Jew's harp and a bunch of others (though honesty obliges me to state my skills in playing some of these might be below standard. If three notes plucked on a zither to fit a song arrangement means playing the thing, then I play zither).
Last Venue Played: Labadoux folk festival
Last Gig Attended: Mount Eerie
Can't Go On Tour Without: Tobacco, lots...
The Best Thing About Live Music Is: Live spine-shivers are the best, when you realise the unique beauty of the moment, which you share with everyone else in the crowd. While I'm performing myself, it's when I look at my fellow musicians on stage, and there's that spark of joy... when I feel my words come across. And the moments where you reach that zone... when it becomes ceremonial.
The Person I Would Most To Collaboration Is: There are many... If I can choose anyone, I'd love to work with Homer Simpson and Mississipi john Hurt; Jesus Christ producing the whole thing... Be prepared.
Worst Thing To Happen To Music Is: Low quality MP3's
Best Thing About The Current Music Industry: Hmm... 'music' and 'industry' rubbing shoulders, I'll never get used to the idea. Best thing about current developments though would be that anybody more or less has a chance to put out his art on the web and share it.
Turn On: Tune in (don't necessarily have to drop out).
Turn Off: Pass
Biggest Influence: Leonard Cohen, since he started my whole trip in the.. ahum... music industry, with some kind words of wisdom, in a brief encounter on the streets of Montreal. And because his poetry, of course, is utterly brilliant. Also: travelling, since most of my stuff starts on the road. And anything that could be filed under 'psychedelic experience', in it's broadest sense.
My Favourite Person On TV Right Now Is: Bruce Parry. The man who made the BBC documentaries 'Tribe', 'Amazon' and 'Arctic'. Be living for some time with remote tribes around the globe, he's showing western people that there's alternatives to the way we live together. I know him in person, he's one great, humble and sincere man. No show, searching to do good...
Childhood Hero: McGuyver (of course).
When I Was Younger I Wanted To Be: A biologist.
Last Album Bought: Push the sky away – Nick Cave (for my brother's birthday).
Last Song Listened To On MP3 Player: Walking down the line – Bob Dylan.
The Music I'm Into Is: I love the old stuff...Alan Lomax recordings and such. But anything that has soul, anything that pulls me through a dreary day.
Favourite Current Band: Don't really have a favourite current band. The Low Anthem, maybe...or Mum? I love some of Devendra Banhart's stuff, 'Smokey rolls down thunder canyon' is as good as an album gets.
My Favourite Drink Has To Be: Belgian Beer... though this week I'm not drinking, so ginger tea with lime juice.
My Favourite Book Is: Selected works of Joseph Campbell / The Upanishads / Survival for dummies by McGuyver
My Favourite Website Is: teach_your_cat_how_to_dance_to _dubreggae.org
My Favourite Item Of Clothing Is: my torn hoodie.
My Favourite Shop Is: Thrift-store down the block.
The Best Boredom Buster Is: Sleep... or sex.
The Best Film I Ever Saw Was: Some visions behind closed eyelids.... hard to describe. Also: The Idiots by Lars von Treer and E.T. which was the first film to make me cry. Such a sad alien...
My Ultimate Snack Is: Plantains, roasting on a campfire somewhere in Peru. And Kinder Bueno.
The Worst Food Invented Is: McDonalds and all their spin-offs... evil.
The First Thing I Do When I Wake Up Is: Piss.
I Can't Leave The House Without: Pissing.
I'm Well Known For: Taking the piss.
My Hobbies Are: Drawing, reading, eating plantain by a campfire somewhere in Peru, lucid dreaming.
I Have A Passion For: All of the above.
First Band Name: Pingu.
Tomorrow I Will: Be better.
My Biggest Aspiration: To keep breathing till I die.
I Think AltSounds is: Giving me a good quizzing!
Equinox, The Peacekeeper's Birdsongs On The Wasteland is out May 27th on Superspectacular.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
The AltSounds File-O-Facts feature on:
Scrimshire. Want to know more about this up and coming artist? Here you can find out loads of snappy facts about this new talent...
WATCH // Scrimshire - 'Convergent'
Name: Adam Michael Scrimshire
Star Sign: Libra
Place of Birth: Rugby, England
Now Based At: London
Level of Education: Still going…
First Instrument Played: Casio VL-Tone Keyboard for my 2nd birthday, my first and only instrument until 11 years later.
Current Instrument: Nylon and steel string acoustic guitars, Burns electric guitar (technically my girlfriend’s but now in my permanent use), Bass, Fender Rhodes keyboard, drums and a multitude of percussion instruments, Akai MPD and APC40 + macbook pro, my ears and my voice. Plus I still have a couple of didgeridoos from a phase in the early 90s.
Last Venue Played: Blind Tiger, Brighton
Last Gig Attended: Resonators and Femi Kuti at Koko, London
Can't Go On Tour Without: My sennheiser headphones. The things I mostly want are actually part of my tour gear ie. My mac and a portable keyboard for making music on the go. But I need the headphones for working anywhere. I always pack a book but never read it. I’ve been carrying around 1Q84 for a year now.
The Best Thing About Live Music Is: The volume maybe. Hard to say – it’s all such a blur when you’re up there. The buzz of nailing a track with your mates, playing in sync with each other. Elevating it just a little on one particular night for no particular reason at all. The surprises I guess.
The Person I Would Most To Collaboration Is: Bjork
Worst Thing To Happen To Music Is: A few to choose from here but I think the business is behind the curve because the majors didn’t use their position to innovate when they should have. I think this has impacted the entire world of music. Rather than fighting the likes of Napster in the courts and then subsequently suing individuals for downloading they should have been battling them with innovation and developing better subscription and streaming models earlier on. That is a highly simplified summary of my thoughts on that, but hopefully you get the point, I could go on.
Best Thing About The Current Music Industry: Ummmm… About the “industry”; I guess the increasing ability to earn reasonable streaming income from a variety of sources including the improvements to youtube streaming income and things like iTunes match, the growth of spotify, rdio etc. Lots of ways to make money even in the face of reducing sales. It’s also nice to be around in a period when the whole industry is in a period of change. It’s hard, but it’s never boring.
Turn On: Kindness
Turn Off: Rudeness
Biggest Influence: My family, I’m very close to them, they made me who I am, they made me as driven as I am, they gave me the skills to exploit that and the belief to chase my own ambitions down. They taught me how to be a good person too which is almost certainly why I’m now surrounded by more people who are kind, generous, loyal and caring. Which is a great environment to be creative in. Not that I’m always a good person unfortunately, but I do strive to be.
My Favourite Person On TV Right Now Is: Olivia Colman! UTTER legend. Probably the most talented woman on tv today. If you asked me last week it would have been Masterchef winner Natalie Coleman – not sure why it’s all Col(e)mans!? I don’t watch a lot of TV but I watch anything with Olivia in and I’m a masterchef addict.
Childhood Hero: I question whether I should be honest at this point… Fuck it… Phil Collins. He was the first person I understood played multiple instruments and wrote and recorded alone. It was inspiring to me at the time. That was probably around 10 years old and for a few years until I started getting into Beck and Bjork and Miles Davis and everything else. Before 10 it would have been Michael Jackson, hands down.
When I Was Younger I Wanted To Be: Michael Jackson. Or… I didn’t know I wanted to be a musician until 13. Before that I wanted to be an architect or landscape designer.
Last Album Bought: Running a record label I’m in the very fortunate position that I get sent a lot of music by a lot of my favourite artists so I don’t buy quite as often as I used to. It might have been some Jacques Brel. On vinyl it was either Shields by Grizzly Bear or Swing Lo Magellan, special edition by Dirty Projectors.
Last Song Listened To On MP3 Player: Just checking…I’ve been working on remixes for people so I’m afraid it’s something I was working on. Before those it was Gas Stations and Restaurants by Letherette.
The Music I'm Into Is: genre defying, emotionally complex and forces you to stop and listen.
Favourite Current Band: Resonators – I know they’re on my label, but, see them live. On even the most hectic and stressful day, when I see Resonators play I am transported to a happy place. For 40 minutes I’m relaxed and uplifted and I could stay there forever.
My Favourite Drink Has To Be: Coffee or good whisky.
My Favourite Book Is: 100 Years Of Solitude
My Favourite Website Is: Don’t have one, so much content is aggregated now via twitter or facebook, I flick around the web all day long but I couldn’t tell you. Wait, Dave Pensado’s website. He has HOURS of audio engineering and production tutorials up there for free – it’s an incredible resource from one of the best in the industry.
My Favourite Item Of Clothing Is: I picked up a great pair of Levi’s jeans in Nottingham last year that I love. Or any of my UniQlo socks!
My Favourite Shop Is: For clothes UniQlo, but the shop I’m most afraid of because of its absolute awesomeness and the fact it is packed to the rafters with things I want – Audio Gold in Crouch End. I don’t trust myself to take money into that shop.
The Best Boredom Buster Is: I don’t think I’ve ever been bored.
The Best Film I Ever Saw Was: Oh God I have absolutely no idea. The film I saw and would have happily walked straight back into and watched again was Scott Pilgrim, but I’m not sure it’s the best film I ever saw. Maybe Nikita or La Vie En Rose, no I’m forgetting something… There Will Be Blood? Sorry.
My Ultimate Snack Is: Koka noodles, Chinese sausage, poached egg and spring onion.
The Worst Food Invented Is: Coleslaw
The First Thing I Do When I Wake Up Is: Check my emails while the kettle boils.
I Can't Leave The House Without: my headphones.
I'm Well Known For: being a bit grumpy.
My Hobbies Are: I don’t really have a hobby. I work, I make music for my life, I make music for fun sometimes, I like building things and filming things and cooking, but there’s nothing I put time aside to do “on the side”. Everything just kind of contributes to where I’m going.
I Have A Passion For: The outdoors, the sea, escaping.
First Band Name: FUR
Tomorrow I Will: Get up late as I have a gig tonight and won’t be back til around 6am. Then make another failed attempt at taking some time off – usual Sunday business.
My Biggest Aspiration: Build a studio out in the country I think. And to play to a full room in every country on earth.
I Think AltSounds is: asking some fairly difficult questions… but being very kind to spend some time with me. Thank you.
Scrimshire’s 'Bight' is out 27th May on Wah Wah 45s.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
Megadeth have released new track Kingmaker. Hear it below.
It’s taken from the thrash giants’ upcoming album Super Collider, which is released on June 3.
Mainman Dave Mustaine recently explained the song is about the problems he sees across the US as a result of people becoming addicted to prescription medication.
He told Hard Radio (via Blabbermouth): “People’s lives are falling apart and they just take pills. I can help educate a lot of our fans, especially the younger ones, that it’s not glamorous as you think to go down that path of drugging yourself up and not facing reality.”
Mustaine admitted he was speaking from experience, as a former recreational drug user and as someone who became addicted to the medication he took for his 2011 back problems.
He said: “Part of what Kingmaker means to me is that I am able to look back now on this whole episode of my life, being a slave to Big Pharma. You have no idea what a pain in the ass it was.”
Super Collider track list
01. Kingmaker
02. Super Collider
03. Burn!
04. Built For War
05. Off The Edge
06. Dance In The Rain
07. Beginning Of Sorrow
08. The Blackest Crow
09. Forget To Remember
10. Don’t Turn Your Back…
11. Cold Sweat
Date posted: 2013-05-20
A (rubbish) artist’s impression of Chester Temple Pilots
Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington provided the most jaw-dropping moment of this year’s KROQ Weeinie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Saturday (May 20), filling in for recently sacked Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland and even performing a brand new track with the alt rock icons.
The new song, Out Of Time, was apparently recorded with Chester during some recent mutual downtime.
“Chester has a one-of-a-kind voice that we’ve admired for a long time,” explains Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo. “We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together. We managed to find the time to record a song and we’re all really happy with the result.”
Chester in his day job
“I’ve loved STP since I was 13 years old and they’ve had a huge influence on me,” explains Bennington. “When the opportunity came up to do something creative with them, I jumped at the chance. The guys in Linkin Park have been incredibly supportive of me undertaking this project while I’ve continued to work on new music with LP.”
So, it looks like we could be hearing a lot more from the Chester-fronted STP. Interesting….
Date posted: 2013-05-20
In 2012, doom metallers
Windhand released their self-titled debut album. The band is now putting the finishing touches on their second release for Relapse Records, due out this fall, which was recorded and mixed by the band's own Garrett Morris at The Darkroom and mastered by James Plotkin, in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Moreover, the band will trek across North America this summer showcasing songs from their upcoming new album. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=20038>Read more...</a>
Date posted: 2013-05-20
This is a private update for project pledgers. Pledge on
Midgar.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Guitarist Daniel Laskiewicz is no longer part of
The Acacia Strain. He was informed by the band that they will move on without him, who was mainly writing music for The Acacia Strain and not involved in the touring. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=20037>Read more...</a>
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Man down: Bon Jovi are touring without Sambora, second right
Jon Bon Jovi says the door is open for Richie Sambora to rejoin the band any time he feels ready.
He still won’t discuss what led to the guitarist’s non-appearance at the start of Bon Jovi’s latest world tour leg – but he insists it’s not about money, and the pair haven’t fallen out.
Bon Jovi tells the Mirror: “We were all in Calgary. Richie was going to turn up on show day, but we went the night before because it’s a long flight.
“At 3.30pm on show day the manager said: ‘Guess what?’ He didn’t even have to finish the sentence. Because we had been through it before we performed that night. We couldn’t let down the fans.”
He admits he hasn’t set eyes on his bandmate since that moment. “I talked to him once – once in six weeks and 18 shows. He’s not fired, we didn’t have a fight, it certainly isn’t about money. He can return when he is ready to die every night, the way I walk on stage. No one’s mad, no one’s sad.”
Bon Jovi is still reeling over his teenage daughter’s overdose – Stephanie, 19, was taken to hospital in November after being found unconscious in her college dorm. She faced drugs charges but they were later dropped.
“We went through something that a lot of parents do; many more than I thought,” he says. “I feel it was a terrible tragic lesson of life, but I thank God every day because she is whole. It happened and it has gone. I know people where it was a lot, lot worse. That could have been Stephanie.”
He believes it’s a struggle for parents to understand the environment that surrounds their children, because things are so different today. “There’s a lot of pressure on this generation – a lot of temptation and access and pressures that, just a generation ago, you and I didn’t know about.
“Our world is far more relatable to our parents’ world than the kids’ world. There’s many more pressures on kids: what is this college degree going to do for me, what am I going to be when I grow up, will I be able to accomplish things?”
Bon Jovi tour the UK next month:
Jun 8: Manchester Etihad Stadium
Jun 9: Birmingham Villa Park
Jun 12: Cardiff City Stadium
Jun 13: Sunderland Stadium Of Light
Jun 15: Dublin Slaine Castle
Jun 16: Isle of Wight Festival
Jul 3: Glasgow Hampden Park
Jul 5: British Summer Time Festival, London
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Seattle legends Soundgarden will return to the UK this Autumn!
The guys will play the following dates:
Fri September 13th 2013 – MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
Sat September 14th 2013 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
Mon September 16th 2013 – DUBLIN The O2
Wed September 18th 2013 – LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Soundgarden tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday 24th May.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Following Imagine Dragons release of their chart topping debut album 'Night Visions' and UK tour last month the band have today announced another full UK headline tour in November. This tour will see the band playing their biggest shows to date!
Date posted: 2013-05-20
American pop rock outfit Maroon 5 have been forced to postpone their June 2013 UK and European tour.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
New man: Bennington with STP
Stone Temple Pilots have released a new track, Out Of Time, which features Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington in place of fired frontman Scott Weiland. Hear it below.
STP announced in February that they’d “terminated” Weiland’s contract. But since then, he’s been insisting both that he wasn’t fired and that he can’t be fired, arguing: “I started the band. There’s certain clauses in place that keep that from happening.”
The band unveiled their current lineup and their latest song at LA radio station KROQ’s annual weenie roast over the weekend, taking the crowd by surprise. Bennington later said: “I’ve loved STP since I was 13 years old. When the opportunity came up to so something creative with them I jumped at the chance. The guys in Linkin Park have been incredibly supportive of me undertaking this project while I’ve continued to work on new music with LP.”
Guitarist Dean DeLeo added: “We know Linkin Park will always be his priority, but we thought it would be cool to try something together. We managed to find the time to record a song and we’re all really happy with the result.”
It’s not clear whether the band plan any further activity together.
Meanwhile, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash recently reported the band haven’t given up on finding a replacement for Weiland after firing him in 2008. “We’ve been very quietly been looking for somebody who’s right for that band,” he said. Slash was first to publicly discuss Weiland’s departure from STP.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
Date posted: 2013-05-20
The beat warriors
Cyberpunkers have returned with three outrageous tracks, setting the stage for the unveiling of their
brand new masks. So keep your eyes peeled, these Italian grave diggers are ready for a facial make-over. As one might expect from this
Freakz Me Out act, their fresh look is sinister, somewhat extraterrestrial and completely insane. The same can be said about their hot new tunes "
Whatta Mask", "
Mad Armada" and "
Ogre´s Ballad". Slipping and sliding through all musical terrain with a powerful four wheel drive, these Electro meets Dub beats Rock tracks are the perfect party crashers. Whatta Mask? You will fucking see!
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Tracklist:
1) Whatta Mask (Original Mix)
2) Mad Armada (Original Mix)
3) Ogre’s Ballad (Original Mix)
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The “Cyberpunkers” project is the child, born in 2006, of the passion for Cyberpunk culture of two young Italian DJ’s. The format aims at giving a fresh start to this style. In a nutshell, a transposition of the Cyberpunk world in modern clubbing Through several performances at famous clubs, “Cyberpunkers” drew lots of interest and ended up being much taked about for both their original look, made of masks behind which their true identity is hidden, and for the originality of their shows, which are marked out by the use of two consoles at once and powered by several audio machines. Cyberpunkers shared the stage of the biggest electronic European festivals with such worldwide stars. Such a tight schedule did not prevent them from doing a lot of important singles and remixes.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
What? You really had to ask? One Of Us Is The Killer by The Dillinger Escape Plan came out last week. Later this week we’re going to explain in great detail why it’s one of the best records you will hear all year.
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Date posted: 2013-05-20
Black bloody Sabbath
Well, if the answer was “Well yes, yes I have!”, a behind-the-scenes video of the artwork’s inception has now been released. Pretty handy, huh?
Black Sabbath were recently featured on hit US crime show CSI,where they planned brand new track End Of The Beginning.
Check out a behind-the-scenes video from the episode here
End Of The Beginning is taken from new Black Sabbath album 13, out June 10 and the first Sabbs album to feature Ozzy, Tony and Geezer for 35 years.
13 Tracklist
1. End Of The Beginning (8:07)
2. God Is Dead? (8:54)
3. Loner (5:06)
4. Zeitgeist (4:28)
5. Age Of Reason (7:02)
6. Live Forever (4:49)
7. Damaged Soul (7:43)
8. Dear Father (7:06)
The heavy metal godfathers will head out to Europe on the following dates this winter:
Black Sabbath European tour 2013
Nov 20: Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland
Nov 22: Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 24: Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Nov 26: Forum, Denmark, Copenhagen
Nov 28: Ziggo Dome, Holland, Amsterdam
Nov 30: Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
Dec 2: Bercy, Paris, France
Dec 5: Fiera Arena, Milan, Italy
Dec 7: 02 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
Dec 10: 02 Arena, London, UK
Dec 12: Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Ireland
Dec 14: Arena, Sheffield, UK
Dec 16: Hydro, Glasgow, UK
Dec 18: Arena, Manchester, UK
Dec 20: LG Arena, Birmingham, UK
Dec 22: LG Arena, Birmingham, UK
Date posted: 2013-05-20
One of the forefathers of the legendary Seattle alternative rock scene in the 90s, ​Soundgarden have announced a handful of UK and Ireland live dates for the autumn.
Date posted: 2013-05-20
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