Alternative Music
ICE NINE KILLS Drops Animated Video For ‘Take Your Pick’ Feat. CANNIBAL CORPSE’s CORPSEGRINDER
The overlords of slashercore ICE NINE KILLS are celebrating the most romantic day of the year by delivering a special Valentine’s treat to their fans in the form of a gore-filled animated music video for their track “Take Your Pick” featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher and inspired by infamous horror movie “My Bloody Valentine”. Speaking about the clip, ICE NINE KILLS frontman and creative visionary Spencer Charnas shares: “To pay tribute to one of the most vicious slashers of the 1980s, we knew we had to cook up a video and musical number with only two things in mind: brutality and poor taste. We are honored to have the legendary Corpsegrinder providing his signature vocal assault which will hopefully disembowel t...
AMON AMARTH Teases New Single/Video ‘Put Your Back Into The Oar’
Sweden’s celebrated Viking overlords and undisputed modern masters of epic heavy metal AMON AMARTH will release a new single and video, “Put Your Back Into The Oar”, this Thursday, February 17. A teaser for the clip is available below. AMON AMARTH will team up with MACHINE HEAD for the “Vikings And Lionhearts” co-headlining European arena tour in September and October. AMON AMARTH‘s latest album, “Berserker”, was released in May 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The disc was recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California with producer Jay Ruston, who has previously worked with ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER, URIAH HEEP and STONE SOUR. AMON AMARTH enlisted a session drummer, Tobias Gustafsson (VOMITORY, CUT UP), during the recording sessions fo...
JUDAS PRIEST’s RICHIE FAULKNER Says His Heart Surgeons Saved His Life: ‘I Honestly Shouldn’t Be Here’
JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner opened up about the life-saving surgery he underwent less than five months ago. On September 26, 2021, the 42-year-old British-born musican suffered an acute cardiac aortic dissection during a performance at the Louder Than Life festival, just a short distance from Rudd Heart and Lung Center at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. It took the hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery team, led by Dr. Siddharth Pahwa and also including Drs. Brian Ganzel and Mark Slaughter, approximately 10 hours to complete the surgery, an aortic valve and ascending aorta replacement with hemiarch replacement. Faulkner, who has spent the last few months recovering at home in Nashville, reflected on the episode during an appearance on the “In...
Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg Announce Eurovision-Inspired American Song Contest
The Super Bowl gave way to America’s next big game with a primetime commercial spot starring Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg announcing American Song Contest, the United States-based rendition of the long-running Eurovision Song Contest. The series gains some immediate legitimacy from its hosts Clarkson, the original American Idol and current coach on The Voice, and Snoop, who was probably, ahem, getting ready for the Super Bowl Halftime Show when the announcement aired. In the commercial, the pair appear together on a digital map of the country as it gets populated by local musicians. They jointly declare, “America’s next great hit could come from your hometown.” Watch it below. The latest import from the international reality talent competition pipeline follows the stru...
Silk Sonic Share Smooth Cover of “Love’s Train” for Valentine’s Day: Stream
Not content with releasing an album’s worth of Valentine’s Day jams last year, Silk Sonic have returned with their new single “Love’s Train.” Stream it below. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s latest soundtrack for… ahem, adult activities is the dynamic duo’s rendition of a 1983 classic by R&B and funk band Con Funk Shun. “We love this song so much we wanted to sing it for y’all,” they wrote on Twitter. Staying true to the original version, Mars and .Paak easily slip into their seductive roles. “I’m down on my knee, I wanna please you, baby,” Mars sings. “Ooh, I’ll be your righteous lover.” Interestingly, “Love’s Train” was inspired by a situation in which two members of Con Funk Shun were unknowingly chasing the same woman. Advertisement Related Video “A tall pretty young lady...
Kurt Cobain’s Daughter Is Dating Tony Hawk’s Son
In the counterculture pairing we didn’t know we needed, Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, has revealed she’s in a relationship with Riley Hawk, the son of Tony Hawk and Cindy Dunbar. Cool attracts cool, clearly. Cobain made the relationship Instagram official back in January, when she returned from a year-long break with a New Year’s post full of life updates. “I took a year long break from posting on Instagram which was exceptionally good for my mental, emotional & spiritual health,” Cobain wrote. “2021 brought me more into the present moment than I’ve ever been, which I’m deeply grateful for. I wanted to share a few moments that were captured / created this past year that brought me a great amount of joy. Here’s to hoping everyone’s 2022 is filled wi...
Rage Against the Machine Announce Rescheduled North American Dates for 2023
Rage Against the Machine have unveiled a fully revised North American tour itinerary after multiple postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After recently postponing the first leg of their 2022 tour, the band has rescheduled those dates for 2023. As previously reported, the band’s Summer 2022 dates will remain intact. The 2023 leg kicks off February 22nd in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and run through a two-night stand in Detroit on April 1st and 2nd. Those shows are in addition to the summer 2022 run, which launches July 7th in East Troy, Wisconsin, and wraps up with a five-night stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden in August. Tickets for all shows are available via Ticketmaster. RATM were slated to embark on their highly anticipated reunion tour in spring 2020, but those plans were s...
Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer PAUL DI’ANNO: ‘Sepsis Almost Killed Me’
Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di’Anno, who has been receiving lymphatic drainage treatments in Zagreb, Croatia in preparation for his upcoming knee surgery, spoke to the “Još Jedan” podcast about his health condition, relationship with the fans, depression and how it affected his songwriting process. He also discussed his time in IRON MAIDEN, BATTLEZONE and ARCHITECTS OF CHAOZ, and his upcoming free concert in Zagreb, which will take place one day before IRON MAIDEN‘s show in Croatia in May. Speaking about his health, Di’Anno said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET) that he is doing “better” but noted that he still “a lot of work to do — a lot of physio and stuff like that.” Paul went on to blast the U.K.’s free-at-the-point-of-...
AARON LEWIS Welcomes Far-Right Republican Congressman MADISON CAWTHORN To Stage At North Carolina Concert (Video)
STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis welcomed North Carolina Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn to the stage during his concert Saturday night (February 12) at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in Cherokee, North Carolina. Lewis introduced Cawthorn, who has developed a national following as one of the most far-right members of Congress, as his “dear friend.” He added (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Not only is he the youngest congressman ever, he’s doing some fucking shit that I’ve never seen a congressman have the balls to do. He’s putting through legislature to limit term limits. He fucking cleans his guns while on a Zoom call with other fucking liberal congressmen. He’s from your fucking district.” After Cawthorn gave a brief speech...
Guitarist MARZI MONTAZERI Quits EXHORDER
Guitarist Marzi Montazeri has left thrash metal pioneers EXHORDER. The Houston-based musician, who joined EXHORDER in 2017, shared the news of his exit in a social media post earlier today. He wrote: “With all my love to the boys in EXHORDER I have decided to no longer be a part of it! “I have a lot going on and it’s beautiful!” he added. “I’ll soon let y’all know!” In the 1990s, Marzi hooked up with SUPERJOINT RITUAL, with PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo as lead vocalist, and appeared on the band’s first two demos. By March of 2010, Marzi rejoined forces with Anselmo to work on what became Philip‘s first solo project since PANTERA, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS. Marzi recorded THE ILLEGALS‘ debut album, “Walk Thr...
COREY TAYLOR Shares ‘Home’ And ‘Zzyzx Rd.’ Performance Video From ‘CMFB…Sides’ Collection
SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor has shared video of his live performance of “Home” from his solo album “CMFT” and “Zzyzx Rd.” from STONE SOUR‘s second album “Come What(ever) May”. The performance is taken from his solo album of covers and acoustic recordings, titled “CMFB…Sides”, which will be released on February 25 via Roadrunner Records. “CMFB…Sides” comprises nine unreleased B-sides, covers of tunes that inspired Taylor, acoustic renditions, and live versions. Corey preserves the windows-down and arena-ready spirit of “On The Dark Side” made famous by JOHN CAFFERTY & THE BEAVER BROWN BAND in the 1983 film “Eddie And The Cruisers”, and strips the 1981 classic “Lu...
Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law” Soundtracks Liquid Death Super Bowl Commercial: Watch
A rendition of Judas Priest’s classic song “Breaking the Law” was featured in a Super Bowl commercial for Liquid Death canned water. The humorous ad plays with the idea of the canned water resembling a tall boy of beer, as a gang of kids proceed to go nuts as they pound the hydrating H2O. Some beer-commercial style close-ups of the spinning can drive home the parody, which ends with a pregnant mother sipping some Liquid Death herself. The only thing that could have made the ad better is use of the actual Judas Priest recording (as opposed to the watered-down version featuring commercial session singers), but we’re not complaining. Advertisement Related Video Liquid Death went full-on with the heavy-metal theme for their Super Bowl campaign. The brand’s separate pre-game spot saw the compan...
