In honor of Memorial Day weekend, VICTORY RECORDS and VictoryMetal.com are releasing the perfect soundtrack to your backyard BBQ; a free Memorial Day Metal digital Sampler! Launching today, Thursday, May 27th, a fist full of metal from Victory’s heaviest artists will be available for download throughout the entire weekend.
Leading the sampler’s illustrious mix, metal rockers, SISTER SIN leak their rock anthem “Outrage” from the new, never-before-heard album True Sound Of The Underground, hitting the streets June 22nd. Metal superstars, and freshly-signed ILL NINO debut an unreleased track from their upcoming VICTORY RECORDS debut. This sampler will also include first-listen opportunities from the upcoming releases of ALL OUT WAR, CORPUS CHRISTI, GRAVE MAKER, PATHOLOGY, and WRETCHED, but not forgetting label-favorites OTEP, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, TAPROOT, EMMURE, CARNIFEX, DESTROPY and more!
The newly re-designed and completely updated VictoryMetal, VICTORY RECORDS’ premiere metal outlet, will host this Memorial Day sampler through the weekend only. Download the first half of the sampler now, and check in again tomorrow to access the rest of the tracks. Kick off your day by head-banging and air guitar-ing to the heaviest and grittiest metal you’ll ever find, for free.
TMZ.com are hosting the 911 call which was placed by a hotel employee to report the discovery of the body of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. In the call the employee noted a bottle of pills and a hypodermic needle in Gray’s room. As previously reported, Gray was found dead in an Urbandale, Iowa hotel room earlier this week. He was 38 years old.
According to the Des Moines Register, Urbandale, Iowa police are investigating the death of SLIPKNOT's bass guitarist at a local hotel.
Paul Dedrick Gray, 38, of Johnston was found dead at approximately 10:50 a.m. today by an employee at TownePlace Suites (pictured below), 8800 Northpark Drive, police said.
There was no evidence of foul play, police said.
According to KCCI.com, the Polk County Medical Examiner's Office is assisting in the death investigation and will perform an autopsy on Tuesday. Toxicology testing will be completed to determine if there were any contributing factors in the death of Gray, police said.
Witnesses reported that items from the hotel room were carried out of the hotel around 2 p.m.
Gray was born in Los Angeles, California, and later moved to Des Moines.
Wikipedia shows that Gray has been married for two years to GodsGirls' Brenna Paul and has a tattoo of her name on his knuckles.
In a December 2009 posting on his MySpace page, Gray revealed that his wife was pregnant with the couple's first child. "I am the happiest man on the face of the earth — literally!" he wrote. He added, "This has been the best Christmas I have ever had!"
In April 2010 it was announced that Paul Gray had joined HAIL!, the supergroup featuring mainstays Tim "Ripper" Owens (BEYOND FEAR, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH), David Ellefson (MEGADETH) and Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA). He was replacing the group's original member, David Ellefson, who was unable to take part in HAIL!'s upcoming touring activities due to his renewed collaboration with MEGADETH. At the time, Paul Gray stated about his involvement with HAIL!: "This is going to be amazing! After I heard the news about David reuniting with MEGADETH I touched base with Andreas and everything fell into place pretty immediately. I was excited about what they were doing and their whole attitude is just cool, old school camaraderie and fun and I wanted to share that with them. Fortunately, I had this window of time available as SLIPKNOT are on break so the timing worked perfectly. These guys have been through it all and they represent true metal brotherhood. I like that and I'm glad to now be a part of it. I can't wait, I wish we'd leave tomorrow. These shows are going to kick ass!"
Back in 2003, authorities agreed to drop drug possession charges against Paul Gray in exchange for Gray's acknowledgement that he was on drugs when he was involved in a minor traffic accident (Story#1, Story#2) in the summer of 2003 in Des Moines.
Des Moines police arrested Gray on June 1, 2003 after his car collided with a car at Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Carpenter Avenue.
A police report at the time said Gray "had impaired balance, slurred and dull speech, and extremely sleepy and dull behavior."
In the November 2008 issue of Revolver magazine, Gray spoke openly about his struggle with drug addiction and how it affected SLIPKNOT during the songwriting and recording process for both 2001's "Iowa" and 2004's "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses".
"I was pissed at Corey [Taylor, SLIPKNOT vocalist] and Jim [Root, SLIPKNOT guitarist] for doing [their side project] STONE SOUR," he said. "I thought, 'Fuck, we should be working on SLIPKNOT.' But we really needed that time apart. During the downtime I played with UNIDA and jammed with friends, but mostly I did a lot of drinking and some drugs — some heavy, heavy drugs…lots of heroin. I was shooting speedballs every day. And then pills. I was on everything, man. In the beginning I kind of had my shit under control, but after a while, no. I became an addict."
He added, "I wrote a bunch of stuff [for 'Vol. 3'] — like I do every record — but I would spend half the time in the bathroom [shooting up]. I'd be trying to play, and I'd fall out of my chair a couple times and fall asleep in the middle of tracking a song. There was a lot of depression going on. I wasn't mad at anybody, but everyone else was and I felt, 'Oh, fuck, my family is falling apart.' This has been the best thing that ever happened to me. And once you get to a certain point with drugs it's fuckin' so hard going through withdrawal. It's not that you don't want to quit. You just can't. Halfway through the record, the band had an intervention on me and I ended up going to rehab."
He continued, "Going through rehab in L.A. kept me good for a little while, but then we got back out on the road and I just knew too many people and I started using a lot again on and off. I had some near-death experiences — nothing I'm gonna go into any detail about — but I definitely pushed it to the very end and I'm still here. I have friends, though, who pushed it just the same way, and they are dead. Finally, I got left in rehab at the end of the arena tour with SHADOWS FALL and LAMB OF GOD and I missed the last six shows. Then, afterwards… Well, idle hands do the devil's work. I met my wife and she stayed with me and helped me, but then I'd full on run with it. Finally she said, 'I can't sit around and watch you kill yourself.' I was living in L.A. at the time, which wasn't helping because it was so easy [to get drugs]. So, I moved back to Iowa with her and went to my doctor and got straightened out. And it's been a good couple years now that I've been clean."
Roseville, CA- On June 26, 2010 Aryan Hopkins and Pauly, a piercer from Abstract Ink, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record™ for the most body piercings in one session. The current record is 1200 piercings in 2 hours and 53 minutes, which was set in August 2009.
Donations will be accepted for each needle that is used during the record breaking attempt. Abstract Ink Tattoo adheres to the strictest sterile practices at all times to assure the health and safety of all their ink and piercing customers. Abstract Ink Tattoo follows a carefully monitored code of conduct that includes respect for individual decision-making and requires full customer consent. Eligibility for the record breaking attempt is limited to adults, ages 18 and over. A fixed dollar amount from each procedure will be donated to Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California.
Abstract Ink is a tattoo, piercing, and body modification studio located in Roseville, California. They are a family owned and operated shop under the guidance of owner Ashleigh, a 22 year old student and mother. Since their grand opening in October 2009, Abstract Ink has garnered the reputation of being the cleanest, friendliest, attitude-free shop in the Sacramento region.
Year Of The Sun Release Free Canadian Metal Compilation Featuring Neuraxis, Derelict, The Last Felony, Starring Janet Leigh, Odium, Bloodshoteye, Rusted Dawn, Endast and More For Immediate Release:
Year Of The Sun Release Free Canadian Metal Compilation Featuring Neuraxis, Derelict, The Last Felony, Starring Janet Leigh, Odium, Bloodshoteye, Rusted Dawn, Endast and More!!! ***
Year of the Sun Records has partnered with Galy Records, Diminished Fifth Records, and CDN Records for the release of "The True North Loud and Free" digital album. The free 16 track compilation features some of Canada's best underground metal acts from some of Canada's strongest metal labels. The compilation is being offered as a free download online here.
“The Truth North Loud and Free” features cuts from The Last Felony, Derelict, Bloodshoteye, Rusted Dawn, and Odium as well as a live Neuraxis track, the previously unreleased Drudgery song entitled “The Uprising”, and contributions from Toronto’s Starring Janet Leigh and Montreal’s Endast.
“A lot of people think Canada is just this giant land mass with a really sparse population,” states Year of the Sun Records founder C. Benner, “but the truth is, there are so many talented metal bands up here that we can’t even fit them all on one label. We got four labels, and some long time friends, to come together to show metal fans worldwide what Canadian metal is all about. This is just an awesome collection of tracks and digital gives us the opportunity and freedom to offer it up to as many people as possible. We hope you like what you hear.”
"The True North Loud and Free" Track Listing:
1. Derelict - "Summoning The Firestorm" 2. Neuraxis - "The Apex" (Live) 3. Bloodshoteye - "Killing Time" 4. Odium - "The Frailty" 5. We the Undersigned - "Pangaea Mind" 6. Starring Janet Leigh – “Ex You” 7. The Last Felony – “Quandary” 8. Misguided Aggression - "Mustard Gas and Roses" 9. Reanimator - "Standards of Failure" 10. Rusted Dawn – “Where Turns the Tide" 11. Deadwalk - "Conqueror" 12. Vatican - "Dysangile" 13. Thy Flesh Consumed - "Devout Heathen" 14. Drudgery – “The Uprising” (Previously Unreleased) 15. The Daisy Anthesis - "m.m.b.m.m.b." 16. Endast - “Pray For Rain”
The Westboro Baptist Church (aka the God Hates Fags people) have been batshit crazy for years now. The hate group, led by Fred Phelps, have been picketing events since 1955, with an estimated 41,000 protests since 1991. They’ve also protested funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq, gays, Jewish people and even a local store in their hometown of Topeka KS because it sold Swedish vacuum cleaners. They’re not officially affiliated with any Baptist churches. And it’s not that they haven’t gone too far before, but now they’re going to be protesting Ronnie James Dio’s funeral. These guys don’t deserve a link, but the following is listed on their schedule for Sunday, May 30.
WBC to picket this public memorial to remind you who worship that old Serpent, Satan, that your time is very short. You know 67 year old, Satan-worshiping (or at least one of their enablers) Ronnie James Dio (of showing his devil horns to the world each time he goes in public) Black Sabbath fame is dead, right? We’ll be there! Just because the chances of any of God’s elect being amongst this group of heavy metal sycophants is slim to none does not mean they should not get some good words. Yes, it is true that Ozzy Osbourne did “accidentally” bite off the head of a bat, but THAT is the least of their sins (little nasties!), they currently do not do that, but they throw raw meat to the audience and encourage violence of EVERY FORM! Here you have the list of admitted sins of this now dead and in hell pervert: 1) He hates his neighbor(s) starting with Ozzy Osbourne, and continuing down to his pornography star niece Gen Padova! 2) He hates God. Pay especial attention to the fact that he changed his original sir name from Padova to Dio, which means God in Italian. 3)Ronnie the simpleton enabled, and encouraged Sorceries: everything he was about including the little finger horn thing (he got this from his mother which is an incantation to ward off the “evil eye”) to the drugs, bloody raw meat and his fellowship with those pentagram necklace wearing freakish band members. Yes, Ronnie James Padova (NOT DIO) is currently residing in hell. When all those who worship him and his false gods meet him in hell it will be just like this: Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. Praise God all ye, His people. The Great Day of the Lord draws nigh. AMEN!
Capital Chaos doesn’t advocate violence, but if there’s anyone that might be able to give these assholes what they deserve, it would be enraged Dio fans. Dio wasn’t a satanist or a preacher, but there’s no talking sense to people that spend up to a quarter of a million dollars annually protesting stuff.
If you’re really metal, you’ve already booked a flight to Europe for Sonisphere to see the big four (that would be Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and, er, Anthrax) play for the first time together . For the rest of us, there’s your local multiplex. 450 theaters across the country and 350 theaters in the rest of the world will be simulcasting the Sofia, Bulgaria show on June 22. We’ll let Metallica explain the rest:
Now the nitty gritty details: Tickets for the one night only event are available at the local theater box offices and online at thebigfourlive.com where you can see a complete list of presenting theaters. They will start to go on sale Friday, May 21 in the U.S and Friday, May 28 internationally. Please note that ticket on sale times and even days will vary by theatre, so check with your friendly neighborhood participating movie theatre for exact days and times tickets will be available and keep watching thebigfourlive.com for theatre additions/changes. For our friends in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, delayed screenings will be coming your way. Again, keep watching here and thebigfourlive.com for updates.
A few more tidbits you might find helpful: Ticket prices in the U.S. will be around $20 plus whatever service charges your local theater may add. No, unfortunately each band’s entire set will not be shown, but trust us, you’ll see most of the action. $20 for a once in a lifetime event? $20 for a bunch of metal fans to take over a movie theater, probably smuggle in flasks, and commune in the most metal event at a theater since Anvil: The Story of Anvil (or Rock Star)? $20 to watch Anthrax play in potentially the same movie theater as John Bush, Dan Nelson or Neil Turbin are watching it in? We’re in!
Going hand in hand with Bram’s recent article over the state of music industry are the startling statistics that have come out of this weekend’s NARM convention. Digital Music News is reporting that on top of the staggering statistics revealed was the fact that a total of 98,000 albums were released in 2009. Of these albums, only a few crossed the million-mark and just 2.1% managed to cross the 5,000-mark. These records also accounted for 91% of total record sales, which altogether makes it increasingly obvious that DIY marketing for up-and coming bands is getting harder everyday. NARM president Jim Donio did have some ‘positive’ stats, which included the fact that 75% of albums sold in the US are still physical and are mostly CDs although vinyl is becoming more and more popular among consumers.
NARM 2010 may be coming to a close, but the picture it has painted about the state of physical sales in the music industry has many industry officials baffled. The fact that CD sales have been declining is nothing new to anyone that knows what Pirate Bay is. The fact that people are listening to and engaging in music more than ever before is the issue that hasn’t been solved since the RIAA started its witchhunt against downloading. And it doesn’t look like it’s going to be solved anytime soon.
The metal world was dealt another devastating blow this past weekend with the passing of legendary front-man Ronnie James Dio after a brave fight against stomach cancer. Fronting some of metal’s most influential bands, Dio got his start in the late 60’s as the lead singer of Elf. From there Dio went on to be the lead vocalist in Rainbow and Black Sabbath. After singing on some of Sabbath’s best-selling records including Heaven and Hell, Dio went on to form his own band after his namesake. Recording a number of hits including ‘Holy Diver,’ ‘The Last In Line,’ and ‘Scared Heart,’ Dio cemented his status as one of metal’s greatest vocalists and went on to reuinte with his former Black Sabbath bandmates as Heaven and Hell in 2006. At one of his last public appearances, Dio was recently honored with the 2009 Revolver Golden God Awards as vocalist of the year.
After rumors began circulating about the singers’ battle with stomach cancer, his wife Wendy eventually confirmed the bad news:
Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7:45am 16th May. Many, many friends and family were able to say their private good-byes before he peacefully passed away. Ronnie knew how much he was loved by all. We so appreciate the love and support that you have all given us. Please give us a few days of privacy to deal… with this terrible loss. Please know he loved you all and his music will live on forever. Wendy
Metal Insider, while at the NARM music convention, initially got the news of Dio’s passing from a very close friend of his late Saturday night. We reported it as fact, and were later elated (and slightly embarrased) to see Wendy Dio’s update that he was still alive. Our joy turned to extreme sadness upon hearing the confirmation yesterday of his passing.
Ronnie James Dio was a gentleman whose civil tone informed his audience instead of talking down to them. From “Man on the Silver Mountain” in Rainbow to his worthy succession to Ozzy’s throne as the singer of Black Sabbath, to his rewarding solo career, Dio was a gentleman, a phenomenal singer, and a cornerstone of heavy metal.
Minus The Bear’s new video for their track “My Time” has been posted online and can be viewed over at MTVU.com. The song serves as the first single from the bands new album “Omni“, which arrived in stores earlier this month.
Black Tide are currently holed up in New York working on their new album with the production team of Garth “GGGarth” Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Mudvayne) and Josh Wilbur (Lamb Of God, Avenged Sevenfold). A late 2010 release date is expected.
In the meantime, the group will be doing an acoustic performance and interview on Rich Russo’s “Anything, Anything” radio show in New York City on WRXP 101.9 this coming Sunday, May 16th at 9pm EST. The performance will also be streamed online here.
Some new details have been revealed for The Sword’s forthcoming album “Warp Riders” via an official press release, which can be found below:
“One of the foundations of the metal revival of the past ten years, Austin TX’s The Sword have released two flawless slabs of vintage heaviness on Kemado Records, toured the world with Metallica, and were honored to grace the past three editions of Guitar Hero. This summer, the band casts its gaze to the stars for Warp Riders, their third full-length and their most ambitious effort to date. Hitting stores on August 24th via Kemado Records, it is the band’s first concept album and is fittingly grand in scope both lyrically and in terms of musical craftsmanship.
This also marks the first release where the group has worked with an outside producer. Helmed by Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, Isis), Warp Riders is anchored by an epic science-fiction narrative. The storyline is a psychedelic space opera that explores temporal themes of death and rebirth.
The album also finds The Sword expanding their range from pure metal to include bone-crunching hard rock at large. Rather than dampening their sound, the band actually sounds more amplified than ever, spewing out some of their most scalding riffs to date and channeling an unearthly bellow from their low end.
Opening track “Acheron/Unearthing The Orb” begins with ominous, fog-drenched atmosphere before a flurry of nimble fretwork and galloping drums storm out of the gate. The energy doesn’t let up once and by the final moments of closing track “(The Night Sky Cried) Tears of Fire,” an intensely satisfying resolution sets in.
Guitarists Kyle Shutt and JD Cronise execute punishing acrobatics while injecting melody at every turn. Bryan Richie’s warm bass lays down the foundation and ripples with menace. Trivett Wingo’s drumming explodes with the perfect balance of both precision and dexterity. Each member of The Sword is an individual force to be reckoned with, but when united they come together like the four horsemen of the apocalypse to wreak havoc like no other.”
Periphery guitarist/mastermind Misha “Bulb” Mansoor recently spoke to MetalSucks about the release of their self-titled (and recorded) debut album. What started as an interview to get to know the promising experimental band quickly became an analysis of the music industry. Recording Periphery’s debut in his basement, Mansoor owns the bands’ masters and licenses them to five different labels Periphery is on worldwide (the album is out on Sumerian in the States). While it took over four years for them to record their debut album, the only cost they had to lay out was a computer and the equipment it took them to record the album. Mansoor says that technology and the Internet are pretty much the great equalizer:
At the same time, I think it’s pretty cool that all these people are able to put out quality music with cheap recording technology and the internet to spread it around.
Oh yeah, absolutely. That’s sort of one of the revolutions that half the people would say is destroying the recording industry, and half the people would say is reviving it. Because you can do what I do, which is bypass the need for advances on records because we recorded our album for free. It cost us nothing. I just did it in my apartment. Hey, anyone can do that if they put the time into it. 20 years ago that would have been impossible. If you wanted a pro-sounding recording, you had to turn out some real cash. We’re talking like 100-200 grand, and you have to use your album as collateral so owning your masters was out of the question as well. It’s just that all of this is affecting the industry in ways that we can’t even predict because of the ripples that it causes. It really opened up new kinds of deals that you can do. It allowed us to sign the kind of deal that we signed. We’re signed to 5 labels. What kind of deal is that? Do you guys own your masters?
Yeah, we do.
That’s great.
We have a licensing deal. We basically license our album out to labels, and it’s based on territories. So we’re signed to Sumerian in the States, Distort in Canada, Roadrunner in Australia, Roadrunner in the UK and Europe, and Roadrunner in Japan – which are all separate but equal entities that have the same resources of Roadrunner. It’s really cool because we have all these territories that are pulling for us separately rather than having one label that’s based out of our area that happens to have offices in other areas or whatever or not even have offices but distribution in other areas. For example if we were on Sumerian, there might not be so much of a push to get us out of the country because we sell a ton of albums in the States and not so much in the rest of the world. However, now that we’re signed with Roadrunner Australia, they’re pulling for us now that the album is out to come there immediately. That’s why we have an Australian tour so fast. Hopefully that will continue to happen.
Yeah, that’s excellent, man. Do you see the industry going that way with bands keeping their masters, doing things on the cheap, and licensing . . .
Yeah, because the thing is that it used to be that you needed to take out a huge loan. Labels, for all intents and purposes other than having a lot of cred and marketing tools, they’re really just banks. The banks are willing to give you a loan, but your equity is really just your talent. They would give you these huge, big deals. Let’s say they’ll do a million dollar deal or whatever; they’ve got to get something back, so that would be the masters. That’s how they would get their money back is through the masters, and they would own your material. If you try to get $100,000 from a bank as a musician working at RadioShack the bank will laugh at you. So you get this one person who would actually be willing to invest in you at the cost of your material. Now that CDs don’t cost that much to make, you can go to a studio and get an album made for (even if you go to a really nice one) you can get it made for under 20 grand. Those are the kinds of loans that are accessible to people through banks. So now the necessity for a label in the old fashioned sense isn’t really the same. You can get away without needing them so you have more clout when you’re negotiating with a label now. You can say “well, I don’t really need that money.” In my case it was like “look, you guys aren’t risking anything, and I’m basically delivering a completed album to you which is going to cost you nothing.” It became very easy to make the case for why I should own my masters.
In the past it would be like “well we should own it because we’re giving you 100 grand.” Now it’s like “well don’t give me anything, and I’ll own my music.” So you can work out different deals these days. Obviously this isn’t for everyone, and Sumerian is also a very forward-thinking label. They’re very new school because a lot of old school labels would be like “fuck no. There’s no way you can do that.” It’s just the way things are changing, and it is very unpredictable. That is both a good and bad thing because: it’s bad because you don’t know what your career is going to look like, but it’s a great time for experimentation. It’s a great time to try these new kinds of deals, and that’s exactly what we did. We’re like “well, this sort of makes sense on paper. Let’s see if we can pull it off.”
Forward-thinking musicians like Mansoor are the types of people that keep music quality good while the industry is struggling to stay a float. As solid as Periphery’s music is, their business model is even better. There’s an old model and a new model, and Mansoor, like the No Label Needed contest, are proving that there are ways to get things done outside of the big label system.
According to DOUBLE NEGATIVE/ex-SCARED STRAIGHT drummer Brian Walsby (via his official blog), the classic "Animosity" lineup of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY — Mike Dean (bass, vocals), Woody Weatherman (guitar) and Reed Mullin (drums) — has reformed and is working on a new album. There are even some summertime shows lined up for the West Coast already, although they have not yet been officially announced.
Mike and Reed were most recently members of RIGHTEOUS FOOL, which also featured guitarist Jason Browning (from HR of BAD BRAINS' solo band). That group will apparently stay together and will coexist with the newly reformed CORROSION OF CONFORMITY.
Video footage of RIGHTEOUS FOOL performing the C.O.C. track "Hungry Child" on June 3, 2009 at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh, North Carolina can be viewed below.
Mullin co-founded CORROSION OF CONFORMITY in 1982 as a hardcore punk act alongside guitarist Woody Weatherman and bassist Mike Dean before leaving the band in 2001 amidst health concerns.
As previously reported, Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division, has set a June 1 release date for a new CORROSION OF CONFORMITY best-of collection in the "Playlist" compilation albums series. Entitled "Playlist: The Very Best Of Corrosion Of Conformity", the CD will contain remastered versions of the following songs:
01. Heaven's Not Overflowing 02. Vote With A Bullet 03. Drowning In A Daydream 04. Albatross 05. Clean My Wounds 06. The Land Of Free Disease 07. Buried 08. King Of The Rotten 09. Big Problems 10. Fuel (Jam-Box Tape) 11. Long Whip / Big America 12. Wishbone (Some Tomorrow) 13. The Door 14. My Grain
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's latest album, "In the Arms of God", came out in 2005 on Sanctuary Records. The group's first collection of new material since 2000's "America's Volume Dealer" was produced by C.O.C.'s longtime collaborator John Custer. Besides working on four of the band's previous albums, Custer also produced C.O.C. bassist Mike Dean's track on Dave Grohl's PROBOT project and C.O.C.'s contribution to "Nativity In Black", the BLACK SABBATH tribute compilation. Playing drums was New Orleans' Stanton Moore, skinsman for the renowned jazz-funk combo GALACTIC.
Otep, The Birthday Massacre, Beneath The Sky and The Agonist will be touring together later this summer, dates for the trek run as follows:
July 19th Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep July 20th Billings, MT – The Railyard July 21st Rapid City, SD – Pennington Fairgrounds July 24th Seattle, WA – El Corazon July 25th Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater July 26th Bend, OR – Bend Event Center July 28th Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue July 30th Orangevale, CA – The Boardwalk August 01st San Diego, CA – Brick By Brick August 02nd Riverside, CA – The Lab August 05th Santa Ana, CA – Galaxy Theatre August 06th Tempe, AZ – Club Red August 07th Farmington, NM – Gators August 08th Amarillo, TX – Club Khaos August 09th Little Rock, AR – The Village August 12th Laredo, TX – Bottoms Up August 14th San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit August 15th El Paso, TX – Club 101 August 17th West Hollywood, CA – Key Club
The first annual Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival will begin in late summer and feature headliners Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed, along with Halestorm and Stone Sour.
Set for the Jägermeister second stage are headliners Hellyeah, as well as Airbourne, Hail The Villain, New Medicine and the Jägermeister Battle of The Bands Winner in each city. The 36-date tour launches Aug. 17 in Minneapolis and will play primarily Live Nation amphitheaters before wrapping Oct. 4 in Madison, Wis.
Uproar is produced by John Reese, John Oakes, along with Darryl Eaton and Ryan Harlacher at Creative Artists Agency, and Live Nation's Perry Lavoisne. This team co-founded and continues to co-produce the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos and the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem festivals. All of the amphitheater dates are being produced in conjunction with Live Nation.
Uproar will be a multi-activity festival tour, offering additional attractions like a concourse midway filled with vendors and a daily wrestling tournament featuring the Detroit-based Blue Collar Wrestling Alliance. The 36-event tournament will encompass 245 matches over seven weeks throughout North America. The athlete that perseveres will be named King of the Tournament.
The national on sale for the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival is Saturday, June 12, and tickets will be available via RockstarUproar.com and LiveNation.com. A special pre-sale will commence Tuesday, June 8. Ticket prices range from $10 to $69.
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.
