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KILLING
WITH KINDNESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB ZOMBIE
GUITARIST JOHN 5
Posted September
8, 2010 |
| Most
music fans know JOHN 5 from
his current gig as ROB ZOMBIE’s
guitarist or his previous stint filling the
same position for MARILYN MANSON.
But he has worked with a seemingly endless
list of musicians and is building an impressive
body of work as a solo artist. The Art
of Malice, his fifth album of instrumental,
guitar-driven music, was released earlier
this year. While winding down from Zombie’s
co-headlining run on this summer’s Rockstar
Energy Drink Mayhem Festival and gearing up
for this fall’s Halloween Hootenanny
tour with ALICE COOPER and
the special-edition release of Zombie’s
Hellbilly Deluxe 2 album, John checked
in with Live-Metal.net’s Greg Maki ...
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FULL
COVERAGE NOW ONLINE OF THE 2010 ROCKSTAR ENERGY
DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL FROM CAMDEN, NJ AND
BRISTOW, VA.: LIVE PHOTOS, INTERVIEWS, CONCERT
REPORT
Posted
August 22, 2010 |
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Coverage from the Susquehanna
Bank Center in Camden, N.J. and Jiffy Lube
Live in Bristow, VA. includes dozens of
live photos, interviews with WEDNESDAY
13, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH,
Ray Luzier of KORN
and Piggy D. of ROB
ZOMBIE.
Now in its
third year, the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival
officially has replaced the downsized Ozzfest
as the summer metal festival.
In the U.S.,
it’s not like there’s much competition—this
is it. Veering away from 2009’s more
extreme metal lineup, which featured the
likes of SLAYER, CANNIBAL
CORPSE and BEHEMOTH,
among others, the 2010 bill aimed to be
the festival’s biggest mainstream
draw yet with headliners KORN
and ROB ZOMBIE ... Read
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INTERVIEW:
NO PLACE TO HIDE - RAY LUZIER FINALLY OFFICIALLY
RECOGNIZED AS KORN'S DRUMMER
Posted
August 22, 2010 |
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have some news—good or bad, depending
on how you look at it—for longtime fans
of KORN anxiously waiting
for the band’s original lineup to reunite.
It’s taken roughly three years for the
band to recognize drummer Ray Luzier
as a full-time member, but on their new album,
Korn III: Remember Who You Are, it’s
finally happened. No more playing behind curtains
or being left out of photo shoots and press.
No place to hide—Luzier is now an official
member of the band.
Summer 2010 saw KORN headlining
the third installment of the Rockstar Energy
Mayhem Festival with Ray pounding out the
band’s infectious rhythms night in and
night out right in the middle of the band’s
elaborate oil rig stage setup. Hours before
the band’s bring-down-the-house performance
at the venue formerly known as Nissan Pavilion
in Bristow, Va., Luzier talked with Jeff and
Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net about the new
album, the personalities in the band and being
the new guy in KORN ... Read
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INTERVIEW:
LIVE ON MARS WITH ROB ZOMBIE BASSIST PIGGY
D.
Posted
August 22, 2010 |
| Bassist,
guitarist, songwriter, artist. Matt
“Piggy D.” Montgomery
is a man of many talents, and those skills
led him in 2006 to becoming the bassist for
ROB ZOMBIE. With him onboard,
along with guitarist John 5
and SLIPKNOT drummer Joey
Jordison, Zombie now has arguably
the best band he’s ever had behind him.
After soldiering through the summer heat as
a co-headliner of the Rockstar Mayhem Festival,
Zombie and his band are looking to the special-edition
release of Hellbilly Deluxe II in
September and an October run, the "Halloween
Hootenanny Tour," with ALICE
COOPER. When the Mayhem Festival
came to Bristow, Va., Greg Maki and Jeff Maki
of Live-Metal.net sat down with Piggy to discuss
both versions of the latest album, the upcoming
tour and more ... Read
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INTERVIEW:
WEDNESDAY 13 - MURDERDOLLS, MICK MARS AND
FRESCA
Posted
August 22, 2010 |
| Eight
years after the MURDERDOLLS’
debut album, Beyond the Valley of the
Murderdolls, Wednesday 13
and Joey Jordison, better
known as the drummer for SLIPKNOT
and now ROB ZOMBIE, are back
with their sophomore effort, Women and
Children Last. The songs this time come
not from horror movies, but a darker, scarier,
more personal place, and Roadrunner Records
is so excited that it sent Wednesday out on
the Rockstar Mayhem Festival to do nothing
but meet fans and talk to press. Proper touring
will start soon, with European dates with
GUNS N’ ROSES and Ozzfest,
and the opening slot on the "Halloween
Hootenanny Tour" featuring ROB
ZOMBIE and ALICE
COOPER. At the Mayhem Festival’s
stop in Bristow, Va., Greg Maki and Jeff Maki
of Live-Metal.net met up with Wednesday to
talk about the new album and more ... Read
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INTERVIEW:
KEEPING BAD COMPANY WITH FIVE FINGER DEATH
PUNCH
Posted
August 17, 2010 |
| Not
to toot our own horn, but Live-Metal.net has
covered and supported FIVE FINGER
DEATH PUNCH since before the band
even signed with a label to release their
debut album. Along with the rest of the music
world, we’ve watched them quickly grow
from MySpace favorites, to playing the second
stage on festivals such as Family Values in
2007 and the inaugural Rockstar Mayhem Festival
in 2008, to headlining their own tours, to
playing the main stage at the 2010 Mayhem
Festival. At the Mayhem Festival’s recent
stop in Bristow, Va., Live-Metal.net’s
Greg Maki sat down with Death Punch drummer
Jeremy Spencer to talk about
the tour and all things 5FDP
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INTERVIEW:
FILTER'S RICHARD PATRICK FINDS TROUBLE WITH
ANGELS
Posted
August 17, 2010 |
| A
clean and sober Richard Patrick
is also a productive Richard Patrick.
After relaunching FILTER
a couple years ago with Anthems for the
Damned, he’s back with his band’s
fifth album, The Trouble with Angels.
Much of the 10-song collection is a return
to the industrial-flavored sound of early
FILTER but enhanced by Patrick’s
greater proficiency as both a songwriter and
singer. Patrick, never at a loss for words
during an interview, recently called in to
discuss the new album with Live-Metal.net’s
Greg Maki ... Read
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ZAKK
WYLDE TALKS BLACK LABEL SOCIETY'S ORDER
OF THE BLACK WITH LIVEMETAL
Posted August
11, 2010 |
| Since
being replaced earlier this year as OZZY
OSBOURNE’s guitarist by Gus
G., Zakk Wylde has
been able to focus on his own band, BLACK
LABEL SOCIETY, full-time or, as he
puts it, “25/8.” “I like
working,” he says, and boy does he mean
it. The latest BLS album,
Order of the Black, recorded in Zakk’s
new home studio (the “Black Label Bunker”),
hit stores Aug. 10, and he’s planning
nearly two years on the road supporting it,
starting this month with Ozzfest and continuing
into the fall with the Black Label Bezerkus,
also featuring CHILDREN OF BODOM,
CLUTCH and 2CENTS.
But that’s not all. Zakk also is planning
to write and direct a movie, writing two books
and has his eyes set on opening a few Black
Label pubs. One week before the new album’s
release, Wylde answered questions from a handful
of journalists, including Live-Metal’s
Greg Maki, in a conference call. Highlights
from the 40-plus-minute session follow ...
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SILENT
CIVILIAN
'Ghost Stories'
Mediaskare |
| A
lot can happen in four years. Just ask Jonny
Santos, vocalist and guitarist of
SILENT CIVILIAN. Since the
2006 release of his band’s debut album,
Rebirth of the Temple, he’s
gone through about a dozen bandmates, and
rejoined, toured and started to a record a
new album with SPINESHANK,
the band he left in 2004. So it’s almost
miraculous that he made it to Ghost Stories,
SILENT CIVILIAN’s second
album ... Read
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WHITECHAPEL
'A New Era of Corruption'
Metal Blade |
| Sharing
stages with SLAYER, BEHEMOTH,
CANNIBAL CORPSE and THE
BLACK DAHLIA MURDER clearly has been
beneficial to the extreme deathcore outfit
WHITECHAPEL. A New Era
of Corruption, the band’s third
album, is a refined, futuristic, murderous
venture with an edge as sharp as freshly cut
steel. It’s the sound of a merciless
band of killers, delivering an all-out assault
on the senses and it's tiers above 2008’s
This Is Exile ... Read
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EXODUS
'Exhibit B: The Human Condition'
Nuclear Blast |
| Exhibit
B: The Human Condition is everything
you’d expect from one of the classic
thrash metal bands of all time, except with
a newfound level of confidence and power that’s
been missing from the band for the last few
years. From start to finish, it may be their
most complete and heaviest recording to date
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DEFTONES
'Diamond Eyes'
Warner
Bros./Reprise |
| The
last decade was a crazy one for the DEFTONES.
After the commercial breakthrough of 2000’s
White Pony, the band nearly broke
up during the recording of 2003’s self-titled
album and then took three more years to release
the uneven Saturday Night Wrist.
The band planned a quick follow-up called
Eros, but the recording was scrapped
after a car accident left bassist Chi
Cheng in a coma. Combine that with
frontman Chino Moreno’s
battles with substance abuse and work on side
project TEAM SLEEP, and the
band’s future seemed up in the air ...
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JUDAS
PRIEST
'British Steel - 30 Anniversary Edition'
Sony |
| Three
decades later, what more can be said about
JUDAS PRIEST’s landmark
album? It is one of the true classics that
quite simply changed the game for metal, infiltrating
the mainstream and establishing Priest as
international superstars. With nine songs
running 36 minutes, it is a powerful, concise
musical statement. It might seem simple now,
but metal as it is today wasn’t around
in 1980 ... Read
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ROCK
ON THE RANGE 2010
Crew Stadium
Columbus, OH |
| With
its fourth year now in the books, Rock on
the Range is firmly established THE place
for hard rock fans to assemble in late May.
Two days, three stages, 38 bands, 30,000-plus
people (each day) to take it all in—it
all added up to one unforgettable weekend
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| SEVENDUST
received a shot of new life two years ago
when guitarist Clint Lowery
returned to the fold. Onstage at Jaxx, a small
venue in a strip mall in the Washington, D.C.,
suburb of Springfield, Va., the band seemed
even more energized, having just released
Cold Day Memory, the first studio
album written and recorded by the original
lineup since 2003 ...
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