Metal Bullets: Clips From the Front
Rockstar Energy Drink is getting ready to corner the metal touring market. On July 10 in San Bernardino, California they’ll launch this year’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, which features Korn, Rob Zombie, Lamb of God, Five Finger Death Punch, Atreyu and others. And three days after the tour ends in Aug 14 in Oklahoma City, [...]
Rockstar Energy Drink is getting ready to corner the metal touring market. On July 10 in San Bernardino, California they’ll launch this year’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, which features Korn, Rob Zombie, Lamb of God, Five Finger Death Punch, Atreyu and others. And three days after the tour ends in Aug 14 in Oklahoma City, Rockstar Energy Drink will launch the Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a lineup that includes Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, HaleStorm, Hellyeah, Airborne and others. Dates run through October 4 in Madison, Wisconsin. Take that wimpy, wing-flapping Red Bull drinkers.
It's not exactly on the scale of Rob Halford rejoining Judas Priest or Bruce Dickinson coming back to Iron Maiden, but squealy-voiced original Agent Steel singer John Cyriis has returned to the band following a 22-year absence. The teary reunion was made possible by the departure of Bruce Hall, who waved the Steel for the past 12 years before landing a job that pays.
Now that SPV Records has started up again like a rusty lawnmower, German thrash pioneers Sodom are back in action -- which officially makes the German label renewed Sodomites. The band members are currently looking for a studio to record their next album, the follow-up to 2006's original full-length 'Sodom.' "There has never been a Sodom album which is so wide-ranged, as powerful and as typically Sodom as this one," says frontman Tom Angelripper." The band plans to start recording this summer so they can get the yet-untitled album out by Christmas. Hey, it beats a lump of coal.
'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage," the illuminating rockumentary of Canadian power trio Rush has won the Heineken Audience Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Good job and all guys, but shouldn't a movie about a Canadian band at least win an award sponsored by a Canadian brewery?
Ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera and his brother and former Sepultura drummer Igor have finished recording the second album by their band Cavalera Conspiracy. The disc, the follow-up to 2008's 'Inflikted,' was produced with Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head, Soulfly) and is scheduled for late 2010. All we have to say is Roooooots, bloody roooots!
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