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BETWEEN
THE BURIED AND ME'S THE GREAT MISDIRECT TOUR:
FULL CONCERT REPORT FROM BALTIMORE INCLUDING
SET LISTS
Posted February
6, 2010 |
Riding
the current success of their latest album,
The Great Misdirect, BETWEEN
THE BURIED AND ME is all the buzz
right now in the rock music world. Still very
much an underground act, the band's fan base
is steadily growing with every album. Now
in 2010, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
has climbed to headliner status with their
own tour of seemingly handpicked support acts,
CYNIC, DEVIN TOWNSEND
PROJECT and SCALE THE SUMMIT.
When "The Great Misdirect tour"
rolled through Sonar in Baltimore, Md., Live-Metal.net
was there
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THE
RETURN OF PURE EVIL: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARCH
ENEMY'S CHRISTOPHER AMOTT
Posted
January 29, 2010 |
| Apart
from an absence from the band in 2005-2007,
guitarist Christopher Amott
has been at the “root of all evil”
since the 1996 inception of Sweden’s
ARCH ENEMY. Together with
his brother Michael, they form one of the
most formidable guitar tandems in extreme
metal. Following the recent release of re-recorded
songs from their first three albums, aptly
titled The
Root of All Evil, ARCH
ENEMY embarked on the “Tyrants
of Evil” tour in January 2010 across
the United States with EXODUS
and ARSIS in support.
On the first night of tour,
Live-Metal.net’s Jeff Maki and Ryan
Mavity talked with Christopher backstage
at the Recher Theatre in Towson, Md. Chris
talked about the tour, his time away from
the band, The Root of All Evil
and a solo album he plans to release in
2010 ... Read
Interview here |
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INTERVIEW
WITH NEW ALL-FEMALE ROCK ACT THE RIOT BRIDES
FEATURING ABBY GENNET
Posted
January 28, 2010 |
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OK, so by now everyone's heard about the
new movie, The
Runaways, due out in March
2010 starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen
Stewart. Well, to gear you up for that,
check out a current, real-life RUNAWAYS,
the new all-female rock band, RIOT
BRIDES, featuring Abby
Gennet (former SLUNT
vocalist).
Following a trail blazed by THE
RUNAWAYS in the 1970s, the RIOT
BRIDES are out to show that girls
can rock just as hard and with as much attitude
as the guys who still dominate the rock
‘n’ roll world. Put together
by RATT frontman Stephen
Pearcy and guitarist Abby
Gennet, who previously fronted
the New York City-based band SLUNT,
RIOT BRIDES have a four-song
EP—released through Pearcy’s
Top
Fuel Records—available
at live shows starting in February. They’re
set to spend 2010 writing, recording and
looking for the right opportunity to unleash
their act on the national stage. Not bad
for a band that has only existed since May
2009. Gennet recently checked in with Live
Metal’s Greg Maki to talk about the
band, whiskey and dive bars ... Read
Interview here |
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CONCERT
REPORT: ARCH ENEMY'S TYRANTS OF EVIL TOUR
FEATURING EXODUS, ARSIS
Posted
January 25, 2010 |
In
Jan-Feb 2010, ARCH ENEMY
takes the road on the "Tyrants of Evil"
tour, in support of their album of re-recorded
classics, The Root of All Evil,
no doubt eager to play many of these songs
that have been absent from their live set
for years. Support on the tour comes from
legendary Bay Area-thrashers EXODUS,
the thrash/ technical death band ARSIS
and upstarts MUTINY WITHIN.
Could EXODUS
actually give ARCH ENEMY
a run for their money? How would the turnout
be given that the band is not really touring
with new material? Well, the answers are
revealed in this report of the very first
show of the tour, complete with setlists
from all bands ... Read
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ROB
ZOMBIE: CONCERT REPORT, LIVE PHOTOS ONLINE
FROM FIRST TOUR SUPPORTING HELLBILLY DELUXE
2
Posted
January 23, 2010 |
A
label change from his longtime home at Geffen
Records to Roadrunner’s Loud &
Proud imprint delayed the release of ROB
ZOMBIE’s new album for nearly
three months—but, as always, the show
must go on. Zombie’s fall tour, his
first jaunt supporting Hellbilly Deluxe
2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the
Systematic Dehumanization of Cool,
went on as scheduled ending on a December
night with a treacherous mix of snow, sleet
and rain at the famous 9:30 Club in Washington,
D.C. ... Read
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Also check out over 30 live
photos of ROB ZOMBIE from the
9:30 Club In Washington D.C.
READ
ROB ZOMBIE CONCERT REPORT (with setlist)
VIEW
ROB ZOMBIE LIVE PHOTOS
Zombie's recent "Hellbilly Deluxe
2" tour marked his return to the road
after moderate box office success as the
writer and director of Halloween II
(Dimension). His R-rated, animated feature,
The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto,
was made available everywhere on DVD and
Blu-ray September 22.
ROB ZOMBIE's Hellbilly
Deluxe 2 is scheduled for release on
Feb. 2, 2010.
KORN and ROB ZOMBIE
will top the bill on this summer's Rockstar
Energy Drink Mayhem Festival tour,
which is scheduled to kick off on July 10
in San Bernardino, California. For complete
tour dates and full lineup, visit here. |
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INTERVIEW
WITH FORMER KISS GUITARIST BRUCE KULICK: BRUCE
TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW SOLO ALBUM BK3, KISS,
AND MORE
Posted
January 18, 2010 |
| Ace
Frehley was first and Tommy
Thayer wears the makeup now, but
no KISS guitarist has had
a longer tenure than Bruce Kulick.
His years (1984 to 1996) yielded several hit
albums and one of the best records of the
band’s 35-year career, 1992’s
Revenge. Kulick went his own way
when the original lineup reunited in 1996,
forming UNION with former
MOTLEY CRUE singer John
Corabi and releasing two criminally
overlooked albums (Union, 1998, and
The Blue Room, 2000). Solo releases
followed in 2001 (Audio Dog) and
2003 (Transformer), and since 2001,
Kulick has been a member of GRAND
FUNK RAILROAD. On Feb. 2, Bruce unleashes
his third solo album, BK3. With guest
appearances by Gene Simmons,
Gene’s son Nick, Corabi, KISS
drummer Eric Singer, TOTO
guitarist Steve Lukather,
EDGUY singer Tobias
Sammet and THE KNACK
frontman Doug Fieger, along
with Kulick’s always solid playing,
it’s an album KISS
fans won’t want to miss. Bruce recently
talked to Live-Metal.net’s Greg Maki
about BK3 and more ... Read
Interview Here |
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INTERVIEW
WITH AM CONSPIRACY/FORMER DROWNING POOL SINGER
JASON 'GONG' JONES
Posted
January 10, 2010 |
| Jason
“Gong” Jones came to
the attention of the music world when he became
the singer of DROWNING POOL
following the 2002 death of Dave Williams.
He’s spent more time, though, in his
new band, AM CONSPIRACY,
whose self-titled debut comes your way Jan.
12 via Burnhill Union Records. The record
stands out from the pack due to its surprising
diversity, while always remaining firmly in
the realm of hard rock and metal. In a recent
interview with Live-Metal.net’s Greg
Maki, Jones, who makes his living as a tattoo
artist in Orlando, Fla., discussed the band’s
formation, the new album, why his previous
band was not a good match, touring with Dimebag
Darrell Abbott and more ... Read
Interview here |
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INTERVIEW
WITH NONPOINT VOCALIST ELIAS SORIANO. ELIAS
TALKS ABOUT THE BAND'S NEW EP, CUT THE
CORD
Posted January
5, 2010 |
| It’s
been almost 13 years since NONPOINT
formed in South Florida, and suddenly everything
is new again. New management, new label, new
guitarist, one new release available and another
in the can. First up: the digital-only acoustic
EP Cut the Cord, featuring new takes
on five songs from the first three NONPOINT
albums and released through the band’s
own 954 Records imprint in partnership with
Rocket Science Ventures/RED/Sony. Up next:
a new full-length, possibly self-titled studio
album recently recorded at the Belle City
Sound studios in Racine, Wis., with MUDVAYNE/HELLYEAH’s
Chad Gray and Greg
Tribbett producing. That should be
coming our way in the spring, while summer
could see the release of a second acoustic
EP. As if that wasn’t enough, touring
plans for the new year should be finalized
soon. Frontman Elias Soriano
checked in with Live-Metal.net’s Greg
Maki to give us the details on all of the
latest NONPOINT happenings
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BLACK
ROBOT
'Black Robot'
Formosa/Rocket
Science |
| How
has AC/DC never written a
song called “Girls Kissing Girls”?
You’d think it would’ve been a
no-brainer for them at some point. I had never
thought about it before, but now that I’m
considering it, it’s almost unfathomable.
Fortunately, BLACK ROBOT
is here to pick up the slack.
The new band
is the brainchild of bassist Jonathan “JB”
Brightman, a founding member of BUCKCHERRY
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AM
CONSPIRACY
'AM Conspiracy'
Burnhill
Union |
Despite
being aware of the band since its formation
in 2005, I had not heard anything by them
before receiving an advance copy of this disc,
which is the first release from Burnhill Union
Records. But I was familiar with frontman
Jason “Gong” Jones
from his DROWNING POOL days
(he was the singer on their 2004 album Desensitized),
so I had expectations whether I wanted them
or not
... Read
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ROB
ZOMBIE
'Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny
Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization
of Cool'
Roadrunner/Loud
& Proud |
| I
don’t believe a reason has been given
on Geffen Records’ end for allowing
ROB ZOMBIE to walk before
the release of his fourth solo studio album,
the sequel to his 1998 solo debut. If the
decision was linked somehow to the quality
of the material, someone at Geffen, Zombie’s
longtime home dating back to the WHITE
ZOMBIE days, has some explaining
to do. Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is easily
Zombie’s best since his first Hellbilly
offering ... Read
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SUICIDE
SILENCE
'No Time To Bleed'
Century
Media |
SUICIDE
SILENCE is to "The New Wave
of American Heavy Metal" as SLIPKNOT
was to nü-metal in the late ‘90s.
They aimed to take away the commercial appeal,
silliness and predictable song,s and overwhelm
it with chaos from all sides. Things needed
to get dangerous again, and they succeeded.
SUICIDE SILENCE combines
death metal, hardcore and grind with ferocious
breakdowns that conjure visions of broken
bones and blood splattering in mosh pits worldwide
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MNEMIC
'Sons of the System'
Nuclear
Blast |
| A
decaying industrial world set in a future
where machines and government have formed
an alliance to enslave man. Smog and steam
fill polluted city streets now hiding in the
shadows of a once prosperous world. Sound
like Blade Runner? The Terminator?
Hosts of other sci-fi films depicting an apocalyptic
future? This is the vision and feel the listener
gets from MNEMIC’s
Sons of the System ... Read
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| SEPULTURA'S
CHAOS A.D. REVISITED |
SEPULTURA
turned Chaos A.D. and extreme
music into a modern metal battlefield—a
wasteland of which no one knows who or
why they are even fighting. Tanks roll
through protestors and clouds of tear
gas on streets, while religion causes
people to violently kill in the name of
their faith. Innocent people are being
killed, suffering and going hungry. Barren
deserts and crumbling cities are fought
for as if they were golden temples and
SEPULTURA is at the heart
of this third-world hell. These are the
images that were provoked during my first
few listens and they've remained with
me to this day ... Read
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SOULFLY
PRONG, CATTLE DECAPITATION,
THE MUTINY WITHIN
Recher Theatre
Towson, MD |
I
had never seen a crowd almost completely shun
the opening bands before, but that seemed
to be the case here. Whether it's because
of his metal legacy or spirituality, Max
Cavalera has an aura that surrounds
him when performing on stage. Maybe he really
is “the Bob Marley of metal”—a
metal messiah. Dressed in his trademark camouflage
with his dreadlocked head, the heavy metal
prophet led his band through a best-of-SOULFLY
set with some classic SEPULTURA
tracks thrown in
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FIVE
FINGER DEATH PUNCH
SHADOWS FALL, OTEP, 2CENTS
Bourbon Street Ballroom
Baltimore, MD |
| In
many ways FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
belongs in the WWE. Vocalist Ivan
Moody bears a strong resemblance
to WWE superstar John Cena, and the rowdy
crowd at Bourbon Street Ballroom in Baltimore,
Md. easily could have been one attending a
Monday night Raw event ... Read
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