Archive for the Rock and Metal Category
Filed under: News
If you're looking to kill time on some impossibly inconvenient layover at New York City's ever-bustling JFK Airport, then you should mosey on over to Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill, which is owned by Chickenfoot singer and Sammy Hagar, and satisfy your hunger pangs.
The Red Rocke
09.6.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: News, Tours
Fresh off one headlining tour, why would Los Angeles rockers Black Veil Brides take a break? You give the fans what they want -- and they want more. The Entertainment or Death Tour will be a month-long trek that begins in Southern California in October and will bring the b
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: InterviewJesse Leach, singer of new band called Times of Grace, isn't big into metal cliches. He says he's just a normal guy that likes to spend time with his family. Of course, as the former vocalist for Killswitch Engage and current singer of several metal acts, Leach gets to see his
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: News
Randy Rhoads, the beloved, late guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne who was killed in a plane crash in 1982 at the tender age of 25, will be memorialized with a custom guitar created by Gibson. The guitar manufacturer will craft a replica of the 1974 Les Paul Custom guitar that Rhoads sh
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: News, New Music
Finnish heavy metal warriors Children of Bodom, led by guitar genius Alexi Laiho, have entered Petrax Studios in their native land to begin work on their currently-untitled seventh album. Producer Matt Hyde, who has worked with Slayer, has been tapped with the task of
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: 'Creep Show
Mississippi's ever so charming Saving Abel -- it's the accents -- willingly submitted to a ''Creep Show' interrogation. Vocalist Jared Weeks and guitarist Jason Null were in high spirits, even after a long day of promoting their new album, 'Miss America.'
The duo discusse
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: Video, Exclusive Video
When a band brings the rock, there's no need for Hollywood glitz and glamor in a video. Play to your strength some say, and that's exactly what Los Angeles' Night Horse do. This is classic rock for the modern times.
'Rollin' On,' sees the band -- who were once
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: New Music
Modern American extreme metallers Abigail Williams have posted the song 'Final Destiny of the Gods,' the first song from their anticipated second album, 'In the Absence of Light.' But if you've got a weak stomach, then consider yourself fairly warned. The song is so incredib
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: Interview, New Music
Helmet's last effort, 2006's 'Monochrome,' didn't exactly hold its weight against the band's hefty catalog. In fact, the most disappointed person by far was Helmet frontman Page Hamilton. "I thought it would be cool on our last record to go back to New York, and i
09.4.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion
Filed under: News
On Aug. 25, Behemoth's label delivered a bombshell. Metal Blade said the band's frontman, Adam 'Nergal' Darski, suffers from leukemia, a form of cancer affecting blood-forming tissues in the bone marrow, and is in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant.
In a bone marrow tran
09.3.2010| Rock and Metal | Vague Illusion