Several students from the Aaron O’Keefe music-instruction school in Ohio recorded a cover version of the PANTERA classic “Cowboys From Hell” on Saturday, February 20 at the Saint Claire Recording Company in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
ORIGIN Confirmed For Germany’s PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR Festival
Topeka, Kansas-based death metallers ORIGIN have been confirmed for this year’s edition of the Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2010 in Bad Berka, Germany.
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GUNS N’ ROSES’ São Paulo Concert Interrupted By Bottle-Throwing Incident
Singer Axl Rose stopped GUNS N’ ROSES’ concert last night (Saturday, March 13) at Estádio do Palmeiras in São Paulo, Brazil about two minutes into the show’s opening number, “Chinese Democracy”, after a member of the audience allegedly threw a bottle on stage.
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ELLEFSON On His Return To MEGADETH: ‘This Is The Beginning, The Starting Of The Next Chapter’
Joseph Hudak of The Times Leader recently conducted an interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson.
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Report: Iraqi Heavy Metal Band ACRASSICAUDA Hits Hard Times
Lorraine Ali of Newsweek.com reports: Though Iraqi heavy metal band ACRASSICAUDA’s first-ever recording, the EP “Only the Dead See the End of the War”, was released last week, most of the band’s members are working two or three service jobs each and living in cramped apartments.
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VOIVOD Drummer: ‘PIGGY And I Saw Some UFOs In Buffalo’
JON LORD: New Album Samples Available
Former DEEP PURPLE keyboardist Jon Lord will release his next album, “To Notice Such Things”, on March 29 through Avie Records.
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RATT To Tour U.S. With SCORPIONS
Harvest of Hope Fest, Day One
Friday at the second annual Harvest of Hope Fest has come and gone, but not without a lot of loud bands, some anxious kids, and a metric buttload of mud. What bands did I watch? How many near-death experiences did I have? How many gross band dudes did I drink after?
TESTAMENT: Greensburg Footage Available
Video footage of TESTAMENT’s March 12, 2010 concert at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (approximately 30 minutes away from Pittsburgh) can be viewed below (courtesy of “digitallive”).
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On The Road With GUNS N’ ROSES Bassist TOMMY STINSON
GUNS N’ ROSES bassist Tommy Stinson has posted the first in a series of video clips featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the band’s “Chinese Democracy” world tour.
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METAL HAMMER To Unleash AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH And JUDAS PRIEST Tribute Albums
To celebrate the 30th anniversaries of AC/DC’s classic “Back In Black” album and the 40th anniversary of BLACK SABBATH’s inception, U.K.’s Metal Hammer is lining up some “ultra-awesome” tribute albums to be given away with future copies of the magazine.
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BLEEDING THROUGH Drummer To Sit Out Tour
Orange County, California’s BLEEDING THROUGH has tapped drummer Mark Garza (THE FAMINE) to fill in for Derek Youngsma for the band’s upcoming shows in Japan and Australia while Youngsma awaits the birth of his second child.
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