Alternative Music
Original BLACK SABBATH Drummer BILL WARD Is No Longer Angry At His Former Bandmates
Original BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward has told Metal Hammer in a new interview that he no longer holds a grudge against his bandmates over the circumstances that led to him bowing out of the group’s reunion a decade ago. “I love the you-know-what out of those guys,” he said. “I’ve come through the angry bits that happened in 2012 and arrived in a place of being at peace with myself and with them. I’m glad we did what we did and often go down memory lane with the early work we did in Copenhagen and the Reeperbahn in Hamburg. I love those guys and all the imperfections that go with that. It’s a great feeling, having come as far as we have, and I’m happy just being able to write or talk to them if I want to.” Bill was on board for the S...
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Singer Looks Back On His Near-Death Experience: ‘All These Memories Started Flashing Before My Eyes’
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH‘s Ivan Moody has once again opened up about his struggles with alcohol addiction. The singer, who celebrated his third year of sobriety last March, previously said that he nearly died due to an alcohol-related seizure and woke up surrounded by EMTs and his daughter holding him while crying. He also admitted that he went to rehab five times before the last time finally stuck. Moody‘s near-death experience was recounted in FIVE FINGER‘s music video for the song “The Tragic Truth” which was released last week to coincide with Ivan‘s 42nd birthday. Earlier today, Ivan released an Instagram video in which he answered a couple of fan-submitted questions regarding “The Tragic Truth” clip. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOU...
It Came From The Void – KING BASTARD
RATING: 8/10 Reality is all well and good, but you can hardly blame bands like KING BASTARD from diving enthusiastically into the grand lysergic sludge tsunami and letting the tides of time and doom take control. “It Came from the Void” is the New Yorkers’ debut, but it sounds like a snapshot of something ongoing: a never-ending, whacked-out, post-SABBATH-ian jam, chuntering inexorably away in the swirling shadows, as the mortal realm disintegrates into dust. KING BASTARD call it “psychedelic filth” and that’s just about perfect. Audibly informed as much by free-form noise and syrupy ambience as they are by ELECTRIC WIZARD or CONAN, KING BASTARD are not just a cool, young band with a brilliant name. They are a cool, young band with a brilliant name, but ...
NIGHTWISH’s FLOOR JANSEN To Release ‘Pop’ Solo Single In March
NIGHTWISH‘s Floor Jansen has revealed plans to release a new single in the coming weeks. The 40-year-old Dutch-born singer, who made her live debut with NIGHTWISH nearly a decade ago, shared a timeline for the arrival of her new solo music during a YouTube livestream earlier today. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “As you know, I’ve been writing music; I’ve been telling you about this for months and months. Thus far, I’ve only been saying, ‘A new song will come. A new song will come.’ And so I’ve been writing. There’s a lot of songs ready, and now there’s actually one song ready to be released. And so the thing I can tell you today is that the first song will come on the 25th of March. So now we can finally count dow...
Inventing Anna Trailer: Shonda Rhimes Brings the Notorious Con Artist Tale to Netflix
Everyone loves a good con artist story, and the upcoming limited series Inventing Anna promises a doozy, as teased by the new trailer released by Netflix today. Shonda Rhimes created this adaptation of the New York Magazine article “How an Aspiring ‘It’ Girl Tricked New York’s Party People — and its Banks” by Jessica Pressler, with Julia Garner (Ozark, The Assistant) starring as Anna Delvey, whose larger-than-life exploits led her to the inner circles of New York elite, and then eventually jail. Anna Chlumsky (Veep) stars as the journalist trying to tell Anna’s story, with reasons of her own for trying to get Anna on the record. Here’s the official Netflix description: In Inventing Anna, a journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German h...
Sinead O’Connor Hospitalized Days After Son Found Dead
Sinead O’Connor has been hospitalized just days after her 17-year-old son Shane was found dead. As CNN reports, O’Connor told fans she was seeking help Thursday evening following a series of since-deleted tweets. “I’ve decided to follow my son,” she wrote from an unverified Twitter account with ties to her official account. “There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone.” She also blamed herself for her son’s death, writing that she felt “lost.” About an hour later, she tweeted again: “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. I am with cops now on way to hospital,” she posted. “I’m sorry I upset everyone. I am lost without my kid and I hate myself. Hospital will help a while. But I’m going to find Shane. This is just...
South Park Season 25 Coming to Comedy Central in February
South Park will return to Comedy Central for its 25th season starting February 2nd. The new season will consist of six episodes airing Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Following their broadcast premiere on Comedy Central, episodes will be available to stream on SouthPark.cc.com, CC.com and the Comedy Central App. Season 25 will mark South Park’s first full season of episodes since 2019. Due to production challenges caused by the pandemic, Season 24 consisted of two extended specials which aired separately in 2020 and 2021. Related Video Last year, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone struck a massive deal with ViacomCBS for six more seasons of South Park on Comedy Central, as well as 14 made-for-TV films exclusive to Paramount+. The first two films, South Park: Post Covid and Sout...
Watch St. Vincent Perform “Down” on Austin City Limits: Exclusive
St. Vincent will join the Three-Timers Club of Austin City Limits when she appears on the program this Saturday (January 15th) to kick off the second half of Season 47. Ahead of the episode, Consequence is exclusively premiering her performance of “Down.” Watch it below. While playing the ’70s glam-inspired number, the indie rock savant commands the stage while flanked by her band and a trio of fierce backup singers: Navonnah Holley, Stephanie Alexander, and Danielle Withers. The performance is just a taste of the ultra-stylized stage show Annie Clark put together behind her excellent 2021 full-length, Daddy’s Home (one of the best albums released last year.) St. Vincent’s latest ACL TV appearance was taped in September ahead of her ACL Fest gig. Entering the elite Thre...
COHEED AND CAMBRIA Announces New Album ‘Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind’
COHEED AND CAMBRIA has announced details of its widely anticipated new album, “Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind”. The ambitious 13-track epic was produced by the band’s own Claudio Sanchez and Zakk Cervini, and will be released worldwide on May 27. Today the band has launched pre-orders for the album on DSPs and for the collection’s deeply immersive “Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind” limited-edition deluxe box set. “Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind” welcomes us back to “The Amory Wars” as the second installment of the five-part “Vaxis” arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition. The album’s limited-edition deluxe box set includes the exclusive 96-page ill...
KING DIAMOND And MERCYFUL FATE Classics Turned Into Sweet Lullabies
Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, the company which creates “beautiful lullaby versions of your favorite artists,” has just released “Lullaby Versions Of King Diamond & Mercyful Fate” via Roma Music Group. “Lullaby Versions Of King Diamond & Mercyful Fate” track listing: 01. Abigail (KING DIAMOND) 02. Welcome Home (KING DIAMOND) 03. Halloween (KING DIAMOND) 04. Sleepless Nights (KING DIAMOND) 05. Eye Of The Witch (KING DIAMOND) 06. Dreams (KING DIAMOND) 07. The Family Ghost (KING DIAMOND) 08. Evil (MERCYFUL FATE) 09. A Dangerous Meeting (MERCYFUL FATE) 10. Curse Of The Pharaohs (MERCYFUL FATE) 11. Come To The Sabbath (MERCYFUL FATE) 12. Melissa (MERCYFUL FATE) The song “Abigail” can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. Twinkle Twink...
ANNIHILATOR Shares Cover Of VAN HALEN’s ‘Romeo Delight’ Featuring DAVE LOMBARDO, STU BLOCK
earMUSIC has released the latest single from ANNIHILATOR‘s upcoming “Metal II” album, a cover of VAN HALEN‘s “Romeo Delight”. “Metal II”, which arrives February 18, kicks off this long-term campaign, which will include special configurations, additional bonus material, exclusive and previously unheard new tunes from the band. “There was something about ‘Women And Children First’,” muses ANNIHILATOR‘s Jeff Waters. “It was massively brutal attitude meeting aggression — meets a David Lee Roth-fronted party. You have to remember when this came out. ‘Romeo Delight’ is the most ‘heavy’ song from VAN HALEN, in my (and Kerry King‘s!) opinion. The photos on the cover/back cover of ̵...
JOE SATRIANI Discusses His Fine Art Gallery Shows At Wentworth Gallery (Video)
Joe Satriani, the legendary world-renowned guitarist, is planning his first foray as a touring visual artist with showings debuting at two Wentworth Gallery locations in January 2022 — Friday January 28, 7-10 p.m. at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and Saturday January 29, 5-8 p.m. at the Boca Raton location. Satriani has prepared one-of-a-kind pieces for the exhibit, including original canvases and hand painted guitars. Joe says: “Music and art are my passions. I like making the invisible, visible, and the unimaginable real. The image on a canvas, or an electric guitar for that matter, can make you feel something unexpected and revealing, something that is the beginning of a greater personal insight. Challenging the straight line and the concepts of what belongs w...
