Gumm have premiered a new video for their new song “All Gone.” This track is from the band’s new album “Beneath The Wheel,” which will be released on October 31.
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Shinedown Perform New Song “Searchlight” During Their Grand Ole Opry Debut
On October 10, Shinedown performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN for the first time. The set was introduced by Carrie Underwood and it saw the band playing three tracks, including a new song titled “Searchlight.” You can see fan-filmed footage of that below:
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Two Men Arrested On Suspicion Of Killing Disgraced Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins In Prison
As previously reported, convicted pedophile Ian Watkins (ex-Lostprophets) recently died after being stabbed in the neck at HMP Wakefield. The West Yorkshire police arrived at the prison following the incident and found the disgraced singer dead at the scene. Now, according to The Sun, two men have been arrested for the murder.
The West Yorkshire Police Department said the following:
“Detectives have launched a murder investigation after the death of a man in HMP Wakefield.
Officers were called by staff at the prison at 9.39am this morning (Saturday 11 October) to reports of a serious assault on a prisoner.
A man aged 48 was found with serious injuries. Despite medical attention he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two men aged 25 and 43 have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are currently in police custody.
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are investigating and enquiries remain ongoing.”
At the time of his death, Watkins was serving a 29-year prison sentence with an additional six years on licence for 13 counts of child sex offences.
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Metal Anarchy’s New Music Showcase: Fatal Switch
Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to bands that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with Fatal Switch.
METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:
FATAL SWITCH: We’re Fatal Switch, a hybrid nu-metal band out of Montreal. We fuse the raw intensity of heavy metal with the rhythm and venom of hip-hop, wrapped in emotional hooks that hit harder than most are ready for.
Every song is born out of tension, built to bleed truth, and designed to connect with anyone who’s ever felt unheard.
The lineup includes Steve Tobin (vocals), Max Rope (guitar), David Vigliotti (bass), Ralph (drums), with Florencio Saint-Thomas contributing synths on recordings. Kevin Jardine produces and co-writes with us, and Ryann Paqueo helped shape some of the early compositions before stepping back.
METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?
FATAL SWITCH: We take from everywhere, but especially from the artists who blurred lines before us.
That means Korn, Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit, Falling in Reverse, Hollywood Undead, Crazy Town, and a ton of underground hip-hop.
METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?
FATAL SWITCH: Our latest track is “Apex”, the lead single from our upcoming EP Black Sky Anthem – Dusk.
We wrote it as the official theme for Apex Wrestling, but it goes way deeper than just the ring. It’s about rising from darkness, reclaiming your voice, and standing tall in a world built to knock you down.
Sonically, it’s loaded with heavy riffs, anthemic choruses, and a mid-tempo bounce that builds into an explosive pit moment live.
We wrote and produced it like pros with a full blueprint, real hooks, and cinematic depth. It’s a statement piece for what’s coming next from Fatal Switch.
METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?
FATAL SWITCH: They can expect me to mosh with them. No seriously that’s a thing and it does happen mid song sometimes. Lots of energy as well. We definitely bring it live and play the album live even better than the record at times. We have truly deconstructed the songs and added different parts to them so that they are a version of their own that you can only hear if you attend one of our shows.
METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?
FATAL SWITCH: I see us heading into a crazy adventure trying to continually push the envelope of our sound and make many more connections with industry leaders and fans. 5 years can go fast so we have a lot work to do! And in the meantime, we will continue to blend hip hop and metal in completely new ways, so it’s hard to say where exactly our songs will land but we promise to keep it interesting and entertaining!
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3 Inches Of Blood To Work On New Music
During a recent interview with Rock News Weekly, 3 Inches Of Blood guitarist Shane Clark confirmed that the band are planning to work on new music. However, they intend to “take [their] time with it” and “not rush it.”
Clark said the following about the band’s plans:
“We’re gonna keep playing some fly-in gigs, but for the rest of the year we’re just gonna write songs and kind of approach it the same way we approached getting back together. And that’s just write some songs, see if it works. We’re not gonna release stuff that we don’t think is up to snuff. So we’re just gonna sort of take our time with it, not rush it. — not be, like, ‘Oh my God. We’ve gotta keep this momentum going.’”
He continued when asked if the band are still signed to Roadrunner Records:
“No… After ‘Fire Up The Blades’ — so this is, I wanna say, 2008 — they wanted to re-negotiate our contract into a deal we were not into at all. Basically, long story short, we asked them, like, ‘If we don’t take this new contract, what’s the deal?’ They’re, like, ‘Well, we’re gonna have to drop you.’ And we were, like, ‘Fucking right. Let’s say no. Then we’ll get dropped.’ And then we had a really successful year being label-less. We toured Europe with EXODUS that year and had a really good, lucrative year. And then we got signed to Century Media. Century Media was really good, and we’re technically still on Century Media. So whatever we decide to do, they have the option to release it for us.”
He also added the following when asked about formats for the release:
“We don’t know if we’re gonna do an album or a couple of singles. The landscape’s different… It’s super up in the air. I’m 50 years old, so I remember when you’re budgeted for one CD every two weeks on a paycheck, and it’s, like, you listen to the whole damn thing, even if you don’t really like it. I don’t know a whole lot of young people, but I’m not convinced that people listen to the back end of a record anymore — unless you’re a diehard. If it’s OBITUARY or — name your favorite band here — of course I’m gonna listen to the whole damn thing. But when you’re garnering new fans, the musical landscape, how people consume music, it’s singles. It’s kind of back to the ’50s. I think it’s THE BEATLES that started releasing [full-length] records.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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Watch An Unmasked Tobias Forge (Ghost) Join Lars Winnerbäck Onstage In Linköping, Sweden
During his October 10 show in Linköping, Sweden, Lars Winnerbäck was joined onstage by Ghost’s Tobias Forge for a performance of “Dunkla Rum.” You can see fan-filmed footage of that below. Notably, Forge performed unmasked.
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Jay Jay French Says Twisted Sister Might Record One New Song
During a recent interview with 102.3 WBAB, Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French revealed that the band are thinking about tracking a new single. According to him, singer Dee Snider “wrote a song and he presented it to [the band] and [they are] considering recording it.”
French said the following when asked about new music:
“We played [our latest single ’30’ live]. I love the track. We made a video. It’s a great song. And Dee predicted that nobody would care. We played it several times on the tour following the release, and Dee said, ‘This is the bathroom song coming up, everybody.’ People were looking around going, ‘What’s that bathroom song?’ You know the point in the show where someone says, ‘This is a new track,’ and you all get up and go to the bathroom? He goes, ‘We have a bathroom song that’s coming up. I’ll give you plenty of warning.’ And so he made such a point of saying it that nobody would get up and go to the bathroom, ’cause now they were completely humiliated. So he’d say, ‘Coming up in two songs is the bathroom song.’ And we would play it, [and] everyone was there, everybody clapped.
But I guess here’s the important point. If you’re gonna play 15 songs or 16 songs, whatever the amount songs are, and you laid them out on a grid and you said to a fan, a real fan, ‘Okay, we’re gonna play this, this, this, but we’re gonna put this new track in and we’re gonna take this track out.’ How do you think the vote would go? You know the answer to that question would be 95-5 against or maybe 99-1 against. And that’s the truth. That is simply the truth. I don’t care how you wanna cut it, but when you’re a classic band like us who’s had a ton of product out there and we have five albums and everybody knows who they are, and with [returning TWISTED SISTER drummer] Joe Franco on drums, we’re gonna play songs from the album that he played drums on, ’cause he was a bonafide member of the band, it becomes a situation where if we did, what are we taking out to put that in? And that becomes a Dee issue. I trust his vibe as a frontman to control the audience, ’cause he’s great at it, have control of the ebb and flow of the night. Now, having said that, he wrote a song and he presented it to us and we’re considering recording it. We’re considering it, and if we do, then we may play it. But we haven’t done it yet. It could happen. However, like I said, if you asked a hundred fans what they wanna hear, you would get a response of almost zero on a song they didn’t know.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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Watch Pro-Shot Footage Of Queens Of The Stone Age’s Set At The 2008 Pinkpop Festival
Pro-shot footage of Queens Of The Stone Age‘s June 1, 2008 set at the Pinkpop festival in Landgraaf, NET has been uploaded to YouTube. You can check that out below:
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Zakk Wylde On Ozzy Osbourne Dying Shortly After His Final Concert: “I Didn’t Think After We Did The Show, Two Weeks From Now, He Was Gonna Be Gone”
During a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Ozzy Osbourne’s longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde opened up about the singer passing away shortly after his and Black Sabbath’s farewell concert. Wylde says he “didn’t think after [they] did the show, two weeks from now, he was gonna be gone.”
Wylde said the following when asked if Osbourne knew the show was going to be his last:
“No, I don’t think so. The way I always felt, all the things that I’ve gone through with them, it was always — if it was a setback or anything like that — it was more of a speed bump and it was just like, ‘All right, we’ll fix the flat tire on the truck and then we’ll just keep moving.’ So, I think it was more like that, because I knew he still wanted to make records and things like that. But I was just thinking, ‘Who knows, man, hopefully if this thing goes over well, then we might be able to do some other shows or do select shows throughout the year.’ Like these Ozzfest-type things, just so Oz can still keep doing gigs, but maybe not touring in the capacity of doing four shows a week or whatever.”
He continued when asked about Osbourne’s “indestructible” nature:
“It’s just like with the Stones, you just always think they’re going to be there. I felt like that with us. Even when we were doing that show, I didn’t go, ‘Oh, this is the last time I’m ever going to play ‘’Mama, I’m Coming Home‘ with him or ‘Crazy Train‘ with him or anything.’ You’re in the moment anyways. You’re playing, so my concern was making sure he was OK. I wasn’t thinking about any of that, because it’s like you’re playing a game.
You never think it’s your last Super Bowl; you’re playing and you’re playing to win. So, yeah, I didn’t think about it, and like I said, I’ve always been optimistic. I would always tell him, no matter how bummed he got, ‘Just keep doing therapy and keep doing everything you’ve got to do because what’s the option? Then you just quit in the corner, and you whine about it.
Or you could do something about it, with therapy and hitting the weights and doing everything you got to do.’ Like you said, there was no quit in him. So, that’s where we were at. I never thought like, “Oh, yeah, this was the last gig.” I didn’t think after we did the show, two weeks from now, he was gonna be gone. I wasn’t thinking that at all.”
He also added the following when asked what he wants people to remember about Osbourne:
“Like I said, he had a heart of gold, man. It was that he had all the best qualities you’d want in somebody; his heart of gold, and then you couple that with him just being hard as nails and tough, no quit ever.”
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