The following artists have just been confirmed for this year's Download festival, set to take place June 11-13, 2010 at Donington Park, United Kingdom:
STEEL PANTHER HIM SAXON AIRBOURNE COHEED & CAMBRIA 36 CRAZYFISTS THE DILINGER ESCAPE PLAN DOMMIN TAKING DAWN UNEARTH CINDERELLA A DAY TO REMEMBER LAWNMOWER DETH WHITECHAPEL AUGUST BURNS RED RATT THE BLACKOUT WE ARE THE FALLEN HELLYEAH Y&T RISE TO REMAIN JOB FOR A COWBOY
The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:
Friday, June 11
Main Stage:
AC/DC THEM CROOKED VULTURES WOLFMOTHER
Second Stage:
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE COHEED & CAMBRIA A DAY TO REMEMBER 36 CRAZY FISTS JOB FOR A COWBOY UNEARTH LAWNMOWER DETH
Saturday, June 12
Main Stage:
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE DEFTONES MEGADETH LAMB OF GOD FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH HELLYEAH TAKING DAWN
Second Stage:
30 SECONDS TO MARS HIM THE BLACKOUT VOLBEAT WE ARE THE FALLEN RISE TO REMAIN Y&T
Sunday, June 13
Main Stage:
AEROSMITH STONE TEMPLE PILOTS MOTÖRHEAD BILLY IDOL CINDERELLA SAXON RATT DOMMIN
Second Stage:
STONE SOUR AIRBOURNE STEEL PANTHER THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN AUGUST BURNS RED WHITECHAPEL
Soulfly have revealed the cover art for both the standard and deluxe editions of their upcoming new album “Omen“, you can view them here. “Omen” is scheduled for a release through Roadrunner on May 25th.
Godfathers of Swedish modern metal SOILWORK will embark on a North American headlining tour this summer with San Francisco Bay Area thrash legends DEATH ANGEL. Joining them will be Quebec's tech-death masters AUGURY, Roadrunner Records recording artists MUTINY WITHIN, and pirate-themed thrashers SWASHBUCKLE.
Commented SOILWORK vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid: "We are stoked to tour with the most vicious thrashers from the west, famous for their gin drinking and intense live shows. DEATH ANGEL is a classic band that we've wanted to tour with for a long time. A perfect fit for the bill and surely an awesome touring companion. The summer of mosh is upon us. Don't miss out!"
Added DEATH ANGEL frontman Mark Osegueda: "I can't begin to tell you how excited we are about the upcoming tour!
"I first heard SOILWORK on a Nuclear Blast promo compilation and they stood out from the first listen. The riffs, the drumming, and Björn's vocal attack! Then we were fortunate enough to play with them at With Full Force festival a few years back and they killed it live!
"As fate would have it, I was asked to participate in a Nuclear Blast 20-year anniversary compilation album called 'Out of the Dark', which Peter Wichers wrote the music for. I wrote the lyrics and melody for a song on that compilation called 'My Name Is Fate'! Peter actually was also the producer, so I was fortunate enough to get to work with him in the studio!
"What a brilliant guy and and a great musician and now that he is back in the fold SOILWORK is back on top of their game.
"I think the musical styles and live performances of both bands will make every show on this tour a show not to be missed by any true fan of HEAVY music! So don't just hear about the aftermath, experience it for yourself!"
The tour dates are as follows:
Jul. 14 - Jaxx - W. Springfield, VA Jul. 15 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA Jul. 16 - The Gramercy Theatre - New York, NY Jul. 17 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA Jul. 18 - FouFounes Electriques - Montreal, QC Jul. 19 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON Jul. 20 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH Jul. 21 - Blondie's - Detroit, MI Jul. 22 - Reggies Rock Club - Chicago, IL Jul. 23 - The Rave - Milwaukee, WI Jul. 24 - The Rock - Maplewood, MN Jul. 27 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA Jul. 28 - Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC Jul. 29 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR Jul. 30 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA Jul. 31 - The Galaxy Theatre - Santa Ana, CA Aug. 01 - Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA Aug. 02 - The Clubhouse - Tempe, AZ Aug. 03 - The Rock - Tucson, AZ Aug. 05 - Emo's - Austin, TX Aug. 06 - Ridglea Theater - Ft. Worth, TX Aug. 07 - Meridian - Houston, TX Aug. 09 - The Club at Firestone - Orlando, FL Aug. 10 - Volume 11 - Raleigh, NC Aug. 11 - Headliner's Music Hall - Louisville, KY Aug. 12 - Gil's Bar and Grill - Virginia Beach, VA Aug. 13 - Sonar - Baltimore, MD Aug. 14 - Diesel Nightclub - Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 15 - Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
Two years after the release of the band's most recent LP, 2008's 'Ultra Beatdown,' British extreme power metallers DragonForce have revealed they're now down a man, following the recent departure of frontman ZP Theart. The band confirmed rumors of Theart's exodus in a posting to their Web site.
"It is with great regret that DragonForce announce a parting of the ways with singer ZP Theart," the band says in a statement. "This is due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion but the rest of the band sincerely wishes ZP great success with his future projects. While the creative core members have begun writing the fifth album, they have also started a worldwide search for a new vocalist."
DragonForce, whose digit-straining tracks often stumble players of 'Guitar Hero,' have experienced something of a mercurial rise since forming in 1999. The band played Ozzfest's main stage in 2006, where their onstage antics won them scores of new fans. 'Ultra Beatdown' sold more than 24,000 units during its initial week of release, to open at 18 on the Billboard Top 200.
"We are looking for a powerful, melodic singer to write a new chapter of DragonForce with us," says guitarist Herman Li. Those interested in auditioning for the vacant opening can get more information through the band's Web site.
Bleeding Through is one of the most important bands to take the mixture of metal and hardcore to international prominence in the last decade, touring with Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Bullet For My Valentine, AFI, HIM, Cradle Of Filth, Ozzfest, Vans Warped Tour and MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball: The Tour.
After wrapping up a Japan/Australian tour with Machine Head and Hatebreed, Bleeding Through will embark on a US headlining tour in support of their upcoming release. Their ominously self-titled new album, their first for Rise Records, is the perfect distillation of their past with a solid look forward to the future: dark, aggressive, full of rage and sorrow.
Catch Bleeding Through on "The Spring Breakdown Tour: 2010" with support from Born of Osiris, Sleeping Giant, Oceano and fellow Rise Records band Legend, at your favorite venue this spring!
Bleeding Through, Born of Osiris, Sleeping Giant, Oceano and Legend
4/09-San Diego, CA @ Soma 4/10-Fresno, CA @ Club Retro 4/12-Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven 4/13-Boise, ID @ The Venue 4/14-Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue 4/15-Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre 4/16-Tulsa, OK @ Marquee Theatre 4/17-St. Louis, MO @ Fubar 4/18-St. Paul, MN @ Barfly 4/19-Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave 4/20-Indianapolis, IN @ Emerson Theatre 4/21-Chicago, IL @ House of Blues 4/22-Dayton, OH @ The Attic 4/23-Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's 4/24-Detroit, MI @ Harpos 4/25-Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theatre 4/26-Toronto, ON @ Opera House 4/27-Montreal, QC @ Tulipe 4/29-Long Island, NY @ Crazy Donkey 4/30-Baltimore, MD @ Sonar 5/01-Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock 5/02-Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11 5/04-Orlando, FL @ Club Firestone 5/05-Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade 5/06-Pensacola, FL @ The Ready Room 5/07-Houston, TX @ Meridian 5/08-San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit 5/09-McAllen, TX @ Incubator 5/10-Ft. Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theatre 5/12-El Paso, TX @ Club 101 5/13-Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad 5/14-Phoenix, AZ @ The Clubhouse 5/15-Las Vegas, NV @ 702 Skatepark 5/16-Pomona, CA @ Fox Theatre (CALIFORNIA METALFEST IV)
New York, NY- Hard rock band Bullet For My Valentine returns with its third Jive album, Fever, on April 27. The official first single, the blistering “Your Betrayal” impacts at radio on March 9, with a video to follow shortly.
Fever pairs Bullet For My Valentine with producer Don Gilmore, best known for his work with Linkin Park and Good Charlotte. The Welsh band—vocalist/guitarist Matt Tuck, guitarist Michael Paget, bassist Jason James and drummer Michael Thomas--recorded Fever in studios both in its native Wales and Los Angeles The album follows 2008’s Scream Aim Fire, which debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, a career high for the group, whom Kerrang! named Best British Band in both 2008 and 2009. Worldwide Scream Aim Fire has sold one million copies and debuted in the Top 5 in Germany, Austria, Australia and #1 in Japan and reached gold status in the UK and Canada. Their 2006 debut, The Poison, has sold a million copies worldwide and certified gold status in America, the UK, Canada and Germany. Since those releases BFMV have rocked audiences on the Taste of Chaos, Mayhem, and No Fear festivals.
Eager to get new music into their fans’ hands as quickly as possible, BFMV is offering album track “Begging For Mercy” as a free download for a limited time at BulletForMyValentine.com.
The electrifying live band starts a headlining U.S. tour on April 30th. Stops for the festival veterans include New Jersey’s Bamboozle Festival and Columbus, Ohio’s Rock on the Range. Upcoming international festival highlights include the Download Festival in the United Kingdom, Germany’s massive Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Sweden’s Metal Town, Belgium’s Graspop, Austria’s Nova Rock and Italy’s famed Gods Of Metal. The international release of Fever is April 26th.
California Metalfest IV is set to take place on May 15th and 16th at the Fox Theater and The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA. Tickets go on sale next week and the following bands have been confirmed thus far (with more to come):
Day One: Fear Factory Job For A Cowboy Whitechapel Dying Fetus Arsis Decrepit Birth Cattle Decapitation Misery Index Annotations Of An Autopsy Gaza
Day Two: Bleeding Through The Faceless Born Of Osiris Sleeping Giant Earth Crisis Oceano Arsonists Get All The Girls Thick As Blood Enfold Darkness Upon A Burning Body
PHILIP ANSELMO SPEAKS ABOUT THE CREATION AND MISSION OF HOUSECORE RECORDS
HOUSECORE RECORDS (HCR) is the definitive collection of Philip H. Anselmo’s side projects from past to present, and the advancement and release of projects he believes in creatively. The idea of HOUSECORE records was first concocted in the early to mid 90’s at Philip’s earliest address by the lake (AKA Colbert Street) after leaving Texas to return to his hometown of New Orleans, LA. Philip’s house was a primary catalyst for the entire project.
HOUSECORE RECORDS is most definitely an outlet for heavy music, but they a have a lot more to offer from their diverse roster of musicians. This is showcased on the second disc of their HOUSECORE RECORDS compilation which is available now.
2008 and 2009 saw the initial releases from HOUSECORE RECORDS including ARSON ANTHEM’S self-titled EP, CHRIST INVERSION’S self-titled LP, VALHALL’S Red Planet and the aforementioned
2-disc HOUSECORE RECORDS COMPILATION, spotlighting some of the other artists on and/or enthused by HOUSECORE RECORDS.
Label head and founder Philip Anselmo commented on HOUSECORE: “HOUSECORE RECORDS (HCR) is something I've needed to do. In 1993, the day after the sound proofing was completed and the gear was loaded into the downstairs practice room on Colbert St, the "HOUSECORE Sound" was birthed.
It was an extremely important thing that DOWN, SUPERJOINT RITUAL, SOILENT GREEN, CHRIST INVERSION, BODY AND BLOOD, THE DISEMBODIED, SPIRIT IN THE ROOM etc all jammed, practiced, wrote, and/or demoed there. Out of those bands came several spin-off groups, even more side bands and prospect projects to be."
"The creativity in that house was amazing, and soon thereafter, when I'd head back out on tour with PANTERA throughout the rest of the '90's, all that could be heard pouring out of my dressing room was HC music. Too many people liked the stuff. They'd beg for copies, but alas, if they hadn't brought a cassette tape with 'em, they were shit out of luck...
Fast forward to the present, well, the HCR idea has grown. The '90's stuff I'd done still stands the test of time, so people deserve to hear it."
"As far as the new bands are concerned, the fact that I'm investing in them speaks the obvious. Do I think these bands are gonna be swimming in cash, or the next big thing? Not necessarily. But do I think they're offering-up something fresh and different to the existing, vast music scene? Yep. That's the important thing for me.”
April 27th will see the first two releases from HOUSECORE RECORDS for 2010. Texas thrashers WARBEAST will be releasing Krush The Enemy. When asked to describe WARBEAST Philip said, “WARBEAST is pure, relentlessly executed Thrash at its best. Absolutely Ripping! I know that sounds generic, but WARBEAST isn't. Don't get me wrong, they're influenced by great bands from years gone by, but what sets them apart is the execution and variety of styles explored. The end result is original sounding, and "Void Filling" to my 'Thrash-keen' ears! Plus, I've grown up with these cats, so I know they're the real deal."
The other release will be from THE SURSIKS entitled I Didn’t Know I Was Singing. Let's get this straight, THE SURSIKS are NOT METAL nor HARDCORE, but they're undeniably just as extreme.
THE SURSIKS have been dubbed "The masters of musical reverse engineering", and on this album they've taken 16 phone messages from the answering machines of family and friends and set them to music. The result is a truly brilliant, hilarious and mind-altering concept album that will change the way that you listen to the human voice out in the real world. Says Philip: "Each 'song/message' is it's own musical adventure. From Detroit style Rhythm and Blues, to dramatic strings and timpani drum driven pieces, with hilarious and tragic topics abound, THE SURSIKS are the epitome of 'different', and a stark reminder to any band out there, that all the notes haven't been played yet, so to speak. Totally original. Completely brilliant."
HOUSECORE has many more sonic, eclectic releases planned for 2010 including:
ARSON ANTHEM’S first full length (17-songs of vicious HARDCORE!), a new full-length from haarp (Crushing, resolute and epic), THE MANSON FAMILY SOUNDTRACK (Featuring tracks from BODY & BLOOD, THE DISEMBODIED, and the original version of 'Creepy Crawl' from the 1995 SUPERJOINT demo), the debut release from the entrancing SKY HIGH, and an extremely heavy live album from CROWBAR. Stay tuned for more upcoming releases from HOUSECORE RECORDS.
Capital Chaos, founded & created by Zoran Theodorovic was originally created as music video television show to be aired on public access in Sacramento, California. Our first show aired May of 1998 and still runs weekly to this day. In the middle of 2005 Mr Theodorovic invited Clint A. & William P. to participate in the show and a Youtube channel and a website were created. At some point in 2006 Clint went on his way leaving William & Zoran to soldier on, which they did together until January 2012 where William was let go due to irreconcilable differences. Capital Chaos currently enjoys the company of Amb Pirate and Kevin Champ. A new Youtube Channel was created & the website switched to Facebook(because let's face it everybody is on Facebook all the time now and who wants to go to some silly website and miss out on very important Facebook stuff. LOL!!!) and Capital Chaos continues on.
