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Three Days Grace, The Pretty Reckless, BABYMETAL, Dethklok, Etc. Added To 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Festival

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Three Days Grace, The Pretty Reckless, BABYMETAL, Dethklok, Sleeping With Sirens, Of Mice & Men, and I See Stars have been added to this year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival. That event is scheduled to take place in Alton, Virginia on September 7-10.

Here’s the updated lineup:

  • Pantera
  • Shinedown
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Evanescence
  • Megadeth
  • Three Days Grace
  • Chevelle
  • Pierce The Veil
  • Parkway Drive
  • Motionless In White
  • Coheed And Cambria
  • The Pretty Reckless
  • BABYMETAL
  • Beartooth
  • Highly Suspect
  • Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
  • Coal Chamber
  • Flyleaf (with Lacey Sturm)
  • Bad Omens
  • Black Label Society
  • Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe)
  • Machine Head
  • Blue October
  • Dethklok
  • The Ghost Inside
  • Asking Alexandria
  • Spiritbox
  • VV (aka HIM’s Ville Valo)
  • Tech N9ne
  • Testament
  • Biohazard
  • Job For A Cowboy
  • Cavalera Conspiracy (Sepultura set)
  • Jinjer
  • Scott Stapp (Creed)
  • Avatar
  • Static-X
  • The Amity Affliction
  • Sleeping With Sirens
  • Slaughter To Prevail
  • Of Mice & Men
  • Sleep Token
  • Stephen Pearcy (RATT)
  • The Black Dahlia Murder
  • Exodus
  • Overkill
  • Electric Callboy
  • Atreyu
  • Finger Eleven
  • Taproot
  • Death Angel
  • Drowning Pool
  • Trust Company (original lineup)
  • Memphis May Fire
  • I See Stars
  • Crown The Empire
  • Dayseeker
  • Senses Fail
  • Stabbing Westward
  • 10 Years
  • Nonpoint
  • The Color Morale
  • Cold (“Year Of The Spider” 20th anniversary set)
  • CKY
  • Dope
  • After The Burial
  • Emmure
  • Northlane
  • Bury Tomorrow
  • Escape The Fate
  • Attila (performing “About That Life”)
  • Fit For An Autopsy
  • Gemini Syndrome
  • Adema
  • Alpha Wolf
  • Woe, Is Me
  • Make Them Suffer
  • Holding Absence
  • Born Of Osiris
  • Kublai Khan TX
  • Like Moths To Flames
  • Upon A Burning Body
  • Caskets
  • I Set My Friends On Fire
  • Vended
  • Landmvrks
  • Tantric
  • Psychostick
  • Rain City Drive
  • Bleed From Within
  • Bodysnatcher
  • Stitched Up Heart
  • Eva Under Fire
  • Thousand Below
  • AngelMaker
  • Paleface
  • Catch Your Breath
  • No Resolve
  • Tallah
  • ten56.
  • Hanabie
  • Patient Sixty-Seven
  • Until I Wake
  • Dropout Kings
  • Eternal Frequency
  • Heartsick

Overkill Premiere New Song “Wicked Place”

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Overkill have premiered a new song titled “Wicked Place.” This track is from the band’s new album “Scorched,” which will be released on April 14. Vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth said the following about the song:

“One of my favorite rides on the record, a big thick groove reminiscent of days gone by, with a modern punch in the snoot! Get Wicked!”

Sleep Token, Overkill, And Vended Added To 2023 Blue Ridge Rock Festival

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Sleep Token, Overkill, and Vended have been added to this year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival. That event will be held in Alton, VA on September 7-10.

Here’s the updated lineup:

  • Pantera
  • Shinedown
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Evanescence
  • Megadeth
  • Chevelle
  • Parkway Drive
  • Pierce The Veil
  • Motionless In White
  • Coheed And Cambria
  • Beartooth
  • Highly Suspect
  • Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
  • Coal Chamber
  • Flyleaf (with Lacey Sturm)
  • Bad Omens
  • Black Label Society
  • Machine Head
  • Blue October
  • The Ghost Inside
  • Asking Alexandria
  • Spiritbox
  • VV (aka HIM’s Ville Valo)
  • Tech N9ne
  • Testament
  • Biohazard
  • Job For A Cowboy
  • Cavalera Conspiracy (Sepultura set)
  • Jinjer
  • Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe)
  • Scott Stapp (Creed)
  • Avatar
  • Static-X
  • The Amity Affliction
  • Slaughter To Prevail
  • Stephen Pearcy (RATT)
  • The Black Dahlia Murder
  • Exodus
  • Overkill
  • Electric Callboy
  • Sleep Token
  • Atreyu
  • Finger Eleven
  • Taproot
  • Death Angel
  • Drowning Pool
  • Trust Company (original lineup)
  • Memphis May Fire
  • Crown The Empire
  • Dayseeker
  • Senses Fail
  • Stabbing Westward
  • 10 Years
  • Nonpoint
  • The Color Morale
  • Cold (“Year Of The Spider” 20th anniversary set)
  • CKY
  • Dope
  • After The Burial
  • Emmure
  • Northlane
  • Bury Tomorrow
  • Escape The Fate
  • Attila (performing “About That Life”)
  • Fit For An Autopsy
  • Gemini Syndrome
  • Adema
  • Alpha Wolf
  • Woe, Is Me
  • Make Them Suffer
  • Holding Absence
  • Born Of Osiris
  • Kublai Khan TX
  • Like Moths To Flames
  • Upon A Burning Body
  • Caskets
  • Vended
  • Landmvrks
  • Tantric
  • Psychostick
  • Rain City Drive
  • I Set My Friends On Fire
  • Bleed From Within
  • Bodysnatcher
  • Stitched Up Heart
  • Eva Under Fire
  • Thousand Below
  • AngelMaker
  • Paleface
  • No Resolve
  • Tallah
  • Catch Your Breath
  • ten56.
  • Hanabie
  • Patient Sixty-Seven
  • Until I Wake
  • Dropout Kings
  • Eternal Frequency
  • Heartsick

Overkill To Release New Album “Scorched” in April, Premiere New Song “The Surgeon”

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Overkill have announced that their new album, “Scorched,” will be released on April 14. You can check out the effort’s first single, “The Surgeon,” below:

“Scorched” Track Listing:

01. “Scorched”
02. “Goin’ Home”
03. “The Surgeon”
04. “Twist Of The Wick”
05. “Wicked Place”
06. “Won’t Be Comin Back”
07. “Fever”
08. “Harder They Fall”
09. “Know Her Name”
10. “Bag O’ Bones”

Frontman Bobby Blitz commented:

“Man, it seems like for F-in ever since we chatted!!!! Ha! I tell you what, this is the longest ever between Overkill releases, Feb ’19 to April ’23.

For me, it became my ‘peterpandemic’ go-to. I wrote my part, tore it down, then again and again. I found myself still changing parts while Colin was mixing! It became the normal in a very abnormal time, sanity amongst the insanity.

Somewhere in ‘Scorched‘ that is all reflected, a common thread, it is the place I went to get what I needed, maybe what “we” needed. It’s different, that’s for sure an old-school approach/mix in a modern world….was it worth the wait? You tell me…….see ya on the road! Horns up!”

The band currently have the following European dates booked with Exhorder and Heathen:

04/13 Bochum, GER – Zeche
04/14 Zwolle, NET – Hedon
04/15 Osnabrück, GER – Hyde Park
04/16 Berlin, GER – Huxleys
04/17 München, GER – Backstage
04/18 Stuttgart, GER – LKA
04/19 Zürich, SWI – Komplex
04/21 Parma, ITA – Campus Industry
04/22 Fontaneto, ITA – Phenomenon Club
04/23 Saarbrücken, GER – Garage
04/24 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof
04/25 Vorselaar, BEL – De Dreef
04/26 Paris, FRA – Trabendo
04/28 Pamplona, SPA – Totem
04/29 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz 2

Former Overkill & Anvil Guitarist Sebastian Marino Passes Away

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Former Overkill and Anvil guitarist Sebastian Marino has sadly passed away. He was 57 years old.

Marino’s friend Bruce Pilato issued the following statement:

“FAREWELL to my dear friend Sebastian Marino, who died suddenly in the early hours of today after being rushed to a hospital while doing a sound job on New Year’s Eve in Florida. Sebastian owned and operated AUDIO IMAGES one of the most acclaimed audio & video production companies in the country. He and I go back to the 1980s and in the mid 1990s we worked together with Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire, which featured his first wife. It was Sebastian who I approached for a road crew when I first started working with Carl Palmer in 2005. Sebastian essentially brought a slew of top quality production people who made up the road crews of Carl Palmer’s band; ASIA; YES and other platinum level acts around the globe. A brilliant musician in his own right (he played guitar for OVERKILL and ANVIL among others)- he was like a best friend to any working musician or road tech’s who interacted with him. He always treated them fairly and often working for less than he should have just so the music could survive. Sebastian… you were a diamond whose legacy will shine on forever. RIP, pal.”

Overkill commented as well:

“It is with heavy hearts that we morn the passing of our good friend and great musician, Sebastian Marino.

Seb was an asset in the studio as well as on the stage for the three releases he did with us.

Most importantly, he was a great friend, who remained a great friend beyond the band.

The music world has lost one of the good ones.”

Anvil’s Steve “Lips” Kudlow also paid tribute to Marino:

“Condolences to my friend Sebastian Marino’s family and friends. Seby was a dear friend and I will miss him profoundly!! Worth the Weight was an extremely special Anvil album and it will keep Seby alive through our history forever! RIP SEBASTIAN MARINO”

Anthrax, Overkill, Ex-Dream Theater, Etc. Members To Pay Tribute To Late Rush Drummer Neil Peart During Charity Concert

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Rush tribute band, YYNOT will be paying tribute to the late great Neil Peart during “Bubba Bash 2023.” The charity concert will take place at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA on January 7 and it will feature a number of special guests including: Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), Frank Bello (Anthrax), Jason Bittner (Overkill), Jon Dinklage, Joe Bergamini, John Wesley (ex-Porcupine Tree), and Seven Antonopoulos (ex-Opiate For The Masses). Proceeds from the event will benefit Cedars Sinai Hospital.

Watch Overkill Perform New Song “Wicked Place” In Oberhausen, Germany

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During Overkill’s December 9 set at the Ruhrpott Metal Meeting festival in Oberhausen, Germany, the band performed a new song titled “Wicked Place.” You can see fan-filmed footage of that below. The track will appear on the group’s upcoming album “Scorched.”

Prong Recruit Overkill Drummer Jason Bittner For Upcoming European Tour

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Prong have recruited Jason Bittner (Overkill) to handle drums on their European tour with Life Of Agony. He will be filling in for Griffin McCarthy.

Bittner issued the following statement:

“Soooooooo like I said the other day, getting back from the last Overkill show was not the end of my musical weekend – straight off the plane in New Jersey to drive to Long Island the next morning to jam with my longtime friend Tommy Victor, to get ready for the upcoming Prong tour with Life of Agony in Europe this coming January 2023.

Griffin McCarthy wasn’t able to do this tour due to some other commitments so leave it to yours truly to yet again play with another of my all -time favorite bands, and we will be playing a lot of material off my favorite album – “Cleansing”. And not to mention I get to hear another one of my favorite albums of all time being played every night too – and that’s “River Runs Red”. Should be an awesome time, I look forward to it and we will see you out there!”

Overkill Announce April European Tour

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Overkill have announced an April European tour. The band will be touring in support of their new album “Scorched.”

Tour Dates:

04/13 Bochum, GER – Zeche
04/14 Zwolle, NET – Hedon
04/15 Osnabrück, GER – Hyde Park
04/16 Berlin, GER – Huxleys
04/17 München, GER – Backstage
04/18 Stuttgart, GER – LKA
04/19 Zürich, SWI – Komplex
04/21 Parma, ITA – Campus Industry
04/22 Fontaneto d’Agogna – Phenomenon Club
04/23 Saarbrücken, GER – Garage
04/24 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof
04/25 Vorselaar, BEL – De Dreef
04/26 Paris, FRA – Trabendo
04/28 Pamplona, SPA – Totem
04/29 Barcelona, SPA – Razzmatazz 2
04/30 Madrid, SPA – BUT