Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Update 8/5/2006

[Deathstroke]

Welcome to the 31st edition of the 2006 HR/HM Update.

ROCK & ROLL INTERVIEWS

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen
Hatebreed guitarist Frank Novinec
Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman
Slipknot/Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor
Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda
Big Cock guitarist David Henzerling
Queensryche singer Geoff Tate

FIVE QUESTIONS WITH...

Divided By Zero

ONLINE CD REVIEWS

Sammy Hagar - Livin' It Up
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
Cattle Decapitation - Karma.Bloody.Karma
Leaves' Eyes - Legend Land
Slayer - Christ Illusion

COMINGS AND GOINGS

Bloodbath has parted ways with Dan Swano. Band Statement, Dan Swano Statement

Eagle Rock has sold off Spitfire Records. News Link

Here's news on the new lineup for Cradle To Grave. Story Details

Quiet Riot has reunited with guitarist Alex Grossi and bassist Chuck Wright

CD & DVD NEWS OF THE WEEK PART I

The new album from Symphony X is due out before the end of 2006 and will be called Paradise Lost.

Catamenia will have a live DVD, Bringing The Cold To Poland, out in November from Metal Mind Productions

A 2 CD compilation of unreleased tracks from Danzig's career will be out in November. It's being released as Lost Tracks Of Danzig.

MTM Music will release the TNT DVD Live In Madrid on September 22nd. The concert was recorded on April 1st, 2006. The DVD will include an 82 minute audio version of the concert and a booklet with liner notes from the now former vocalist Tony Harnell. More Details

The track listing is:

01. Invisible Noise
02. As Far As The Eye Can See
03. Downhill Racer
04. A Fix
05. She Needs Me
06. Give Me A Sign
07. Guitar Solo
08. Caught Between The Tigers
09. Listen To Your Heart
10. Black Butterfly
11. Seven Seas
12. Forever Shine On
13. Fantasia Espanola
14. My Religion
15. 10,000 Lovers (In One)
16. Intuition


The new live DVD from Grave is due in November from Metal Mind Productions and will be entitled Enraptured.

Here's a bunch of Manowar news! The band will release the new single "The Sons Of Odin" in October. A DVD of their performance at the Earthshaker Fest concert in 2005 will be released in November. The band's forthcoming (no date yet) CD will be called Gods Of War.

Metallica For Babies! Baby Rock Records is releasing Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions Of Metallica. Details


Whitesnake has signed a European record deal with SPV Records. A 2 disc live CD, Live...In The Shadow Of The Blues, will be released November 3rd in Germany and November 6th in the rest of Europe. There will be four brand new studio tracks on the disc. The full details and tracklisting can be found here.

The third album from Trivium is due out October 10th. It's being called The Crusade. The track listing is below.

01. Ignition
02. Detonation
03. Entrance Of The Conflagration
04. Unrepentant
05. Anthem (We Are The Fire)
06. And Sadness Will Sear
07. Becoming The Dragon
08. To The Rats
09. This World Can't Tear Us Apart
10. Tread The Floods
11. Contempt Breeds Contamination
12. The Rising
13. The Crusade


The German melodic metal band Mob Rules will release their 5th studio album Ethnolution A.D. October 23rd in Europe (October 20th in Germany).

Sauron's The Channeling Void is due from Carnal Records in late 2006/early 2007. Details and Track Listing

The new Talisman CD 7 is due out October 20th on Frontiers Records. The lineup of the band is:

Jeff Scott Soto (vocals)
Marcel Jacob (bass)
Jamie Borger (drums)
Fredrik Akesson (guitars)

You can see a picture of the lineup HERE.

The track listing for the album contains 3 MP3 audio samples.

01. Falling
02. Nowhere Fast
03. Rhyme Or Reason
04. End Of The Line
05. The 1 I'm Living 4
06. On My Way
07. Forevermorre
08. Succumb 2 My Desire
09. Shed A Tear Goodbye
10. Troubled Water
11. Back 2 The Feeling

[Deathstroke]

CD & DVD NEWS OF THE WEEK PART II

Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell: The Monster Is Loose album is due out October 31st. Here's the artwork!


Here's the details on the brand new Winger album IV.

The album will be release via Frontiers Records on October 20th.

The track listing below contains 3 samples.

01. Right Up Ahead
02. Blue Suede Shoes
03. Four Leaf Clover
04. M16
05. Your Great Escape
06. Disappear
07. On A Day Like Today
08. Livin' Just To Die
09. Short Flight To Mexico
10. Generica
11. Can't Take It Back

I liked "Right Up Ahead" and "Your Great Escape". I wasn't crazy about (it's not a cover) "Blue Suede Shoes."

Here's the artwork from noted comic book artist ETHAN VAN SCIVER!

[Headhunter]

Metallica For Babies...?? My eyes, they burn!

That cover by Van Scriver is pretty badass.

[Hiromi]

Metallica For Babies! Baby Rock Records is releasing Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions Of Metallica. Details

I honestly have no idea how to react to this. New Man-o-War and Quiet Riot make me happy however.

[Deathstroke]

Metallica For Babies...?? My eyes, they burn!

That cover by Van Scriver is pretty badass.

Come on, what better way to raise a little headbanger?

And the art by Van SCIVER is damn fine. It was all I could do to hold off posting the art until yesterday.

[Deathstroke]

I honestly have no idea how to react to this. New Man-o-War and Quiet Riot make me happy however.

I'm actually interested in hearing this for shits and giggles.

[Deathstroke]

Here's some extra stuff to check out!

Europe will release a DVD on October 4th. It's called The Final Countdown Tour 1986 - Live In Sweden. Details

Here's an interview with ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke.

Ex-Evergrey bassist Michael Hakansson has joined the new (and unsigned) band Engel. You can check out the band via Myspace page.

Here's the video of the new Poisonblack single "Rush."

Here's the video for the new Evanescence single "Call Me When You're Sober."

[Deathstroke]

The Vicious Rumors album Warball is due out in October via Mascot Records.

Here's the artwork:

[DonC]

Here's the video for the new Evanescence single "Call Me When You're Sober."

That wasn't bad. It just also wasn't good. If that's the best they can do without Ben Moody, I foresee a mediocre future for Evanescence.

[Deathstroke]

That wasn't bad. It just also wasn't good. If that's the best they can do without Ben Moody, I foresee a mediocre future for Evanescence.

Maybe. I thought the song was decent. However, it's not like Moody is doing anything worth mentioning either.

[PanzerMega]

That Trivium album cover sucks.

I liked their last album though.

[Hiromi]

Here's the video for the new Evanescence single "Call Me When You're Sober."

"This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner RIAA because its content was used without permission"

Oh great, they're going after youtube now. Douchebags in suits the lot of them.

[Deathstroke]

"This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner RIAA because its content was used without permission"

Oh great, they're going after youtube now. Douchebags in suits the lot of them.

That sucks. Dammit all! I'm glad I saw it before it was removed.

[Deathstroke]

That Trivium album cover sucks.

I liked their last album though.

I thought it looked pretty good myself.

[TinMan]

I just read the Corey Taylor interview and this was a pretty cool excerpt:

Q: Is there something about Corey Taylor that we don't know?

Corey: I collect comics. I'm a total comic geek. I collect DVDs. I've got a huge DVD collection. I used to collect action figures heavily. I've kind of stopped that, though. I'm looking for the next thing and I haven't really found it yet. I still collect comics and I read them voraciously, though. My collection is so big I have to keep it in a storage space now. I have separate storage units for my action figures and my comics.

Q: Which comics would you recommend?

Corey: I've been a Spiderman fan since I was a little kid. Ever since I was five years old I've been a Spiderman fan. I grew up a Marvel kid. I love Batman obviously, but for the most part I grew up a Marvel fan, and it was really cool because I got the tail end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s, and I was there when the comics renaissance happened in the early '90s.

Now there are great writers out there like Garth Ennis. His series "Preacher" is amazing. He does the Punisher comics, which are just so sick. The thing with Garth Ennis is he's funny, he's disgusting, he's violent, he's smart. And those are the four things I look for in comics. I love the darker, more cynical, more adult comics now. I look for that in my movies as well. If it's smart, funny and crazy-violent and gross, those are my comics.

Thats cool as shit, the dude is definitely one of my musical idles and knowing he's a comic nerd like myself makes it all that much cooler!

I can't wait for Trivim's new album, Ascendancy was great shit, hopefully this one tops that. I do know "Detonation" is a wicked song though, for anyone who wants to hear it, check out Trivium's myspace page.