Dark Divine have premiered a new video for their new song “Half Past Dead (Unbury Me).” You can check that out below. The track will appear on the band’s new album, “Undead Melody,” which will be released on May 29. Vocalist Anthony Martinez commented:
“’Half Past Dead’ is a song about the concept of fleeting time. There are times we put ourselves in the very places that keep us from truly living. We sit and rot away while life passes us by. This song is meant to say that while we may feel past the point of no return, as long as we still bleed, we are still of the living.”
During her March 27 solo show at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA, Hayley Williams (Paramore) was joined onstage by Josh Scogin (’68, ex-The Chariot) for a performance of “Parachute.” You can see some fan-filmed footage of that below:
San Diego Padres pitcher Mason Miller recently adopted Korn’s “Blind” as his new entrance song. You can see footage of him walking out to the track during a March 28 game against the Detroit Tigers at Petco Park in San Diego, California below:
During a recent interview with Hot Metal, Pantera’s current drummer Charlie Benante was asked about the possibility of a live album from the group. He says he “would love to release a live album of this lineup.”
Benante said the following when asked about the possibility of new music from the band:
“There was some talk — but nothing, really. I would love to release a live album of this lineup so we can document what we did and just have it. I think that would be a great thing.”
He also futher addressed controversy surrounding the band’s decision to tour under the Pantera name following the deaths of the Abbott brothers:
“I feel I was put in this Pantera situation for a reason and that’s why I embraced it so much and that’s why I love it so much, because it’s something bigger than the band. And I wish people nowadays would be more caring and loving towards us all, you know? Not just musicians, but to each other. Stop being so rotten about things, because I’ll tell you this much: [in] 10 years’ time, a lot of this stuff is gone. So if you don’t enjoy it now, that’s it: it’s done.
I think in the beginning of the whole thing there were naysayers and all I would say is ‘just come [to one of the shows].’ If you like it, great. If you don’t like it, okay. You never have to come again. But the thing is, the people who were coming were bringing their kids who never saw Pantera before. This isn’t the same. Dime and Vinnie are not there, but we are just playing these songs that need to be played again, and it’s giving people smiles on their faces again and it’s a great thing.”
He also discussed their future plans:
“I don’t really know. I know we have a few shows this summer and then maybe some shows next year, but that’s as far as it goes.”
During an interview with Bandcamp, Neurosis discussed their decision to recruit Aaron Turner (SUMAC, Old Man Gloom, Isis, etc.) as their new guitarist/vocalist. According to guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till, the idea “seemed so obvious.”
Von Till said the following:
“We were thinking about how we could reinvent ourselves with the same energy that we reinvented ourselves with when I first joined, when we went from ‘The Word As Law‘ [1990] to ‘Souls At Zero‘ [1992]. But we’re no longer young men. What kind of puzzles could we put in front of us to create that level of reinvention when time doesn’t move the same way it used to? It came down to finding the right energy.
Honestly, the only hesitation about Aaron at first was that it seemed so obvious. And we weren’t convinced that he wasn’t too busy with his own work to just want to drop everything and join our dysfunctional old man band.”
Turner also commented:
“It’s not like Steve and I had never spoken, and he all of a sudden asked me to join. Our paths became interwoven a long time ago. Numerous projects of mine released stuff on [Neurosis’s label] Neurot. I did some artwork for Neurosis. Neurosis took my old band [ISIS] on tour. I don’t know if Steve remembers this, but in the early 2000s, he proposed that I come up to the Bay Area and do some stuff with him and one of the guys from Enablers.
This is a relationship of community where everybody is doing stuff with each other constantly, and there are always ideas flowing back and forth. In that way, it wasn’t surprising to me. I’d had an open dialogue with Steve for many years. At the same time, it was definitely a what-the-fuck moment for me because this is a band that I had been deeply influenced by in many ways, both musically and ideologically.”
Von Till continued when asked if they wanted someone who can contribute new ideas:
“We’ve always been a collective, and we need the energy. As much as people may think they understand what happens behind the scenes in certain bands, Neurosis has always been collaborative. This album being a reinvention, we didn’t want the same old shit. We wanted somebody to come up with new ideas and a fresh approach—to make not only the old stuff their own, but to bring new stuff. All “Neur-Isis” jokes aside, it’s really been what Aaron has done with SUMAC, the really unhinged sonic dynamics and mastery of raw emotion, and his unique approach to guitar, that we felt was really going to click with our energy.”
Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Art Of Anarchy, ex-Guns N’ Roses, etc.) has premiered a new video for his song “The Thread.” That track appears on the guitarist’s latest instrumental album “Bumblefoot …Returns!.”
Despised Icon’s “Shadow Work“ was crowned as the “Metal/Hard Music Album Of The Year” at this year’s Juno Awards. That event is being held today (March 29) at TD Coliseum in Hamilton, ON.
Boysetsfire founding drummer Matt Krupanski has sadly passed away. The band confirmed the news via social media. A cause of death was not revealed.
The group said the following:
“We hate to write this. Today the BSF family lost one of our founding members, our drummer Matt Krupanski.
Words are failing us. Snapshots of memories skitter through our mind.
Picking him up for our first tour from high school which his parents had to give permission to leave early.
Writing ATE and Rookie in his parents’ basement.
Smoking cigars on the beach in North Carolina after playing a very misleading Bed and Breakfast (no bed no breakfast).
His weird ass drummer gang with Tucker from Thursday, Mike from the Souls and Brandon from Rise Against.
Abusing Tony Victorys open bar tab in Chicago
Our intense madden games which often led to near violence (not even kidding).
Matt playing guitar in Pussy Tim and the Mother Fuckers; a side project that wasn’t real at what we thought was a sparsely attending festival but when the lights came up there were 25000 people there.
There is so much more.
We are so fucking sorry George. We are so sorry Carla. We are so sorry Marc and Melissa. And our heart breaks for his daughter Georgie. We are so sorry.
We are gutted. Our hearts are shredded. We lost a brother today.
We are planning on a fund raiser for Georgie maybe for college or whatever the family decides.
Prior to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final show in Birmingham, England, Sharon Osbourne revealed that one band was removed from the event. Now, during an appearance on Jamie Kennedy‘s “Hate To Break It To Ya Podcast,” Jack Osbourne further discussed the incident, saying the booted act demanded “high hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Jack said the following:
“Here’s what I will say, ’cause a lot of stuff online was about ‘Oh, it’s um…’ I cannot say the band. I cannot. I cannot. But what I will say is this. Everyone’s online speculating who it is, and I have not seen a single accurate [guess,] Not even close. Like I saw something that it was Wolfgang Van Halen and it was absof*ckingutely not.
Like Wolf wanted to be there so badly and it was just a clash in schedule [Wolfgang Van Halen withdrew due to a scheduling conflict with his tour with Creed] and hey, he was getting a paid gig versus an unpaid gig. Go do the paid gig. You know?”
“Here’s the caveat [about ‘Back To The Beginning‘,] it was like listen, we’ll pay for your crew, we’ll pay your hard costs, but no one is, no one’s getting paid, like individually, like the band. But what ended up happening was a lot of crew donated their time. So, they were like, ‘No, we’re not charging for this.’ Because you know, a lot of the crews we’d all worked with for years anyway.”
“And the one band, I will say at this point, it’s like it was in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars what they said their hard costs would be… For them just to show up without any talent fee. It was… It was very frustrating.”
“…But here’s the thing, it was like, ‘Are you f*cking serious?’ And then you know and then you start… Here’s what, I will give the band the benefit of the doubt, and I will say it was probably the manager, but I don’t know, you know? I don’t know.”
He continued when asked if the band or manager wanted to pocket the money:
“Yeah, ’cause there’s no way… My mom has worked in touring since the 1960s. So like since the 60s she’s worked, you know, in some capacity in the music industry. She knows what hard costs are and what things… what the real is. And when you start saying… they were like, ‘well, all our crew flies business class’. And you’re like, ‘excuse me?’
And so this person was just like saying all this sh*t and like I was just like, ‘You f*ckin… like you motherf*cker.’”
He also commented on the show as a whole:
“It was just, it was amazing. It was like the most perfect. And here’s the cool thing about it. Some people were like only playing for like 10 or 15 minutes. But at first I was like, ‘Are people going to be bummed at only seeing like three songs from a certain artist?’ But we had the spinning stage, so the longest you were waiting between music was like five minutes. So it was just like this epic playlist all day long.”
He then circled back when pressed about the band that was removed from the concert:
“I can’t [reveal the band] because there’s like the fallout.”
He also confirmed that Ozzy helped or toured with band. He also ruled out a number of artists including Mötley Crüe, Foo Fighters, etc. He went on to say he won’t name the band “because the fallout from it would like, I don’t think would be helpful to anyone.”
Jack also revealed that the group later apologized:
“They were like, ‘Please tell us what happened, we want to know the whole story.”
Black Label Society have premiered a new video for their Ozzy Osbourne tribute track “Ozzy’s Song.” You can check that out below. The song is taken from the band‘s latest album “Engines Of Demolition.”
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