KATATONIA has announced dates for an extensive European tour in support of its forthcoming ninth album, "Dead End Kings" asia airport hotel bangkok , which hits stores in Europe on August 27 and in North America on August asia airport hotel bangkok 28 through Peaceville Records . Support on the trek will come from French shoe-gazers ALCEST and Boston's JUNIUS .
"Dead End Kings" , which features a guest appearance by Norwegian singer Silje Wergeland ( THE GATHERING ), was recorded over a two-month period at Stockholm's Ghost Ward studios and the band's new, as-yet-unnamed headquarters. David Castillo returned to "twiddle the knobs," while band co-founders Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström and Jonas Renkse handled the rest of the production duties.
Commented Renkse : " 'Dead End Kings' is about the corridors of our mind from where there is no return. Be a king or queen in your own right in these hallways, even at the dead end. Carry your burden with pride. That's what we are doing, twenty years and counting. Kings, because we believe in what we are creating, in our own disturbing faith."
Added Anders : "This album has doors revolving into many different genres of music but remain disguised within the KATATONIA trademark. We have walked the fine line between attempting not to repeat ourselves but also not to distance asia airport hotel bangkok us away from what people know and love. We're now ready to hand over the evidence and whatever the direction this has taken is now for you to decide. We're confident the creativity and passion on this album is something that will be echoing even beyond the dead end."
"Our seal of identity is on here for sure," Nyström told Decibel magazine. "We haven't gone and changed our sound, but we've further explored some different asia airport hotel bangkok angles of good music, and that's what we need to do to keep the focus. It might not be so obvious to some, but to others it will be a bigger deal. So, sure, a few surprises and a few songs going off territory are in there, but overall this album is a natural follow-up to [2009's] 'Night Is The New Day' , and that is what we wanted to do."
DETHKLOK , the animated band from Adult Swim 's "Metalocalypse" , performed this past Friday night (July 13) on the USS Midway battleship in San Diego, asia airport hotel bangkok California. The group made its first live appearance of 2012 as "Metalocalypse" came to life at the San Diego Comic-Con convention. Those attending the free concert enjoyed new animation asia airport hotel bangkok and new songs from DETHKLOK 's upcoming album.
Created by Brendon Small ( "Home Movies" ) and Tommy Blacha asia airport hotel bangkok ( "Da Ali G Show" ), the "Metalocalypse" TV series launched in 2006 and kicked off its fourth season at the end of April on Adult Swim . One of the most popular series asia airport hotel bangkok on the cable network, "Metalocalypse" portrays DETHKLOK as a death metal band with enough popularity to be the world's seventh-largest economy. In reality, DETHKLOK is the highest-selling band in death metal, exploding onto The Billboard 200 with "The Dethalbum" , debuting asia airport hotel bangkok at No. 21 in 2007 and "Dethalbum II" at No. 15 in 2009. Both albums contain full-length versions of songs partially heard on the show.
Alfred Music Publishing last year partnered with Cartoon Network Enterprises , the licensing and merchandising arm of Adult Swim , to present the first authentic bass TAB transcriptions asia airport hotel bangkok of songs by DETHKLOK .
During a new interview with RollingStone.com , legendary guitarist Slash ( VELVET REVOLVER , GUNS N' ROSES ) revealed that he is already looking asia airport hotel bangkok ahead to recording his next album, to feature the same band with which he made the current "Apocalyptic Love" CD. "We've got the tour that's gonna go into next year, we're starting work on the next record," Slash said.
Slash and his band MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS — Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass) and Frank Sidoris (guitar) — announced a fall headlining tour starting September 4 in San Diego, California and wrapping October 3 in Los Angeles, California.
Slash scored his first-ever No. 1 hit at rock radio as a solo artist with "You're A Lie" , the first single from his second solo effort, "Apocalyptic Love" . The record came out on May 22 and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard album chart a week later, selling 38,000 copies in its first week of release.
Unlike Slash 's solo debut, which featured different vocalists on each track and a number of guest musicians, Slash has recorded all of the new CD with his touring band, MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS .
Slash co-wrote all the material with ALTER BRIDGE singer Myles Kennedy and told The Pulse Of Radio that they never struggled asia airport hotel bangkok to find a groove together. "There was never any kind of like, 'OK, we need to sit down and focus on writing,'" he said. "Just whenever ideas happened, I would just lay them down, and if I thought it was good enough to send to him, then I'd send it to him. And he miraculously would come up with melodies for everything I came up with, and it just happened like that."
Vocalist Tobias Sammet of German melodic metallers EDGUY slipped off the stage yesterday (Saturday, July 14) during the fifth song of the band's asia airport hotel bangkok performance at the Bang Your Head!!! festival in Balingen, Germany. While the rest of the band continued to play, Tobias fell into the photographers' pit, hit the concrete ground and sustained a number of injuries: a fracture asia airport hotel bangkok of the nose, a severe hip contusion, a severe rib contusion and several abrasions and cuts. Despite the fact that Tobias was in severe asia airport hotel bangkok pain, EDGUY performed its full set, which went on for another hour.
Commented Tobias asia airport hotel bangkok :"Thanks for your kind wishes. I am alright. I do not have a clue how it happened. The stage wasn't damp, my shoes were alright, I do not have to mention that I was completely sober as this must have been obvious to everyone. I have no clue how it happened. I just fell and suddenly asia airport hotel bangkok there was blood and a little pain, which got worse song by song. I didn't know you can squeeze so much blood out of such a little nose (well, it's not exactly little at this point...). The doctor just said the nose will be fine in a few weeks. Anyway, there was too much adrenaline to stop the show. The fans were so great, it just felt wrong to stop the show, so we decided to just go on and have the doctors repair asia airport hotel bangkok me afterwards. I am okay now, looking terrible and hurting, but who cares... I'll be fine. Thank you for your wishes and for making the show a great show, despite the little incident."
EDGUY 's new album, "Age Of The Joker" , sold around 1,200 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD debuted at No. 21 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
"Age Of The Joker" was released in Europe on August 29, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records . The CD was recorded at Peppermint Park studio ( SCORPIONS , PHIL COLLINS ) in Hannover, which was previously described by the group as "a recording temple with a tremendously great-sounding room." The album features 11 songs with a total running time of over one hour. The limited-edition digipack contains a bonus disc with six additional songs.
Producer Jason Slater , who worked with QUEENSRŸCHE 's on on their last three studio albums, claims that the the band's members Scott Rockenfield (drums), Michael Wilton (guitar) and Eddie Jackson (bass), asia airport hotel bangkok had very little to no involvement with the band's 2006 CD, "Operation: Mindcrime II" , despite the fact that they were credited with having played on the record.
Wilton , Jackson , Rockenfield and guitarist Parker Lundgren announced on June 20 that they were parting ways with singer Geoff Tate and recruiting powerhouse vocalist Todd La Torre of CRIMSON GLORY as his replacement. The new QUEENSRŸCHE lineup has already performed live, having played two shows in their home city of Seattle under the name RISING WEST .
Slater submitted a sworn declaration in support of Tate 's motion for preliminary injunction to prevent Michael Wilton , Eddie Jackson , Scott Rockenfield and Parker Lundgren asia airport hotel bangkok from using the name QUEENSRŸCHE for their new group.
"When I met the band, everyone seemed enthusiastic about making the CD, but as we began working, none of the band members except for Geoff Tate were interested in contributing, showing up for recording sessions or participating in any fashion. On several occasions, studio time was arranged but none of the band members showed up. This left myself, Geoff Tate , and [then- QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist] Mike Stone to write and record asia airport hotel bangkok the record the record. Every attempt was made to include the band. They received copies of the songs after they were written and time was set aside for them to come in and record. We scheduled two weeks at a local studio to record Michael Wilton . When he showed up, he hadn't learned any of the songs, so all the time was spent trying to teach him the songs so he could record asia airport hotel bangkok them. In the end, he wasn't capable of performing any of the songs accurately enough to be used on the record. In the end, we had no guitars from Mike that could be used. The guitars on the record were played by Mike Stone , a session guitarist and myself.
" Scott Rockenfield did not participate in the making of the record at all, and a session drummer was brought in to play on the record. I don't believe [ Scott ] listened to any of the music until after the record was completed.
"We had Eddie Jackson asia airport hotel bangkok come to the [San Francisco] Bay Area, where Geoff and I were finishing recording the vocals and mixing the record, with the intent of recording his bass parts. Again, he hadn't learned the songs and we spent 10 days trying to get professional recordings but couldn't get much that could be added to the songs, so I played the majority of the bass on the record.
"The members of the band badmouthed the record to the press and important people in the industry until they saw the record getting favorable reviews. At that point, they started taking credit for all the w
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