Alternative Music
ANTHRAX’s FRANK BELLO: ‘My First Time Meeting KISS Was So Influential For Me’
In a new interview with Travis Failey of KNAC.COM, ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello, who is currently promoting his memoir, “Fathers, Brothers, And Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, And Anthrax”, spoke about his first time meeting the members of KISS. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “My first time meeting KISS was so influential for me; it was so big. And Steve Harris [IRON MAIDEN bassist], because those guys taught me how to treat fans, ’cause I was such a fan. And how kind they were to me, just talking to me. They made me feel like I was one on one, even though they were elevated in my life — they were the gods; they were the heroes. They brought me to a real human place. And that’s why I’ll always remember that. “I say it in the boo...
SHADOWS FALL’s JASON BITTNER Shares Drum-Cam Video Of ‘Fire From The Sky’ Performance From Reunion Concert
SHADOWS FALL‘s Jason Bittner has uploaded a drum-cam video of the “Fire From The Sky” performance at the band’s one-off show, which took place on December 18 at The Palladium in Worcester in their native Massachusetts. Bittner said in a message accompanying the YouTube release of the video: “This is one of my all-time favorites by us…….here’s the first drum cam video from the SHADOWS FALL sold out Reunion show in Worcester, MA December 18, 2021 – Enjoy!!” In a new interview with the Podioslave Podcast, conducted just days after the reunion gig, SHADOWS FALL singer Brian Fair stated about the comeback performance (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It was insane, man. It couldn’t have gone any better than we could ha...
R.I.P. Calvin Simon, Parliament-Funkadelic Vocalist Dead at 79
Calvin Simon, the former vocalist of George Clinton’s pioneering funk collective Parliament–Funkadelic, has died. He was 79. “Rest in peace to my P-Funk brother Mr. Calvin Simon,” Clinton wrote in a post to Facebook. “Fly on Calvin!” “We lost another original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” bassist Bootsy Collins wrote on Twitter, describing Simon as “a friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy.” Advertisement Related Video Calvin Eugene Simon was born on May 22nd, 1942, in Beckley, West Virginia, where he grew up singing in his local church choir. After relocating to New Jersey, Simon hit it off with Clinton, eventually joining a doo-wop group called The Parliaments in the late 1950s. He sang on many of the band’s early hits like “I Can Feel the Ice Melting,” “Heart Trouble,” and “I Wan...
Scott Pilgrim Anime Series In the Works for Netflix
Sex Bob-omb’s next gig is coming to a small screen near you. An anime series adaptation of the hit graphic novel Scott Pilgrim — which was most famously memorialized with Edgar Wright’s iconic 2010 live-action film — is currently in the works at Netflix. Once they nail down an official series order, the showrunners of the new Pilgrim adaptation will be Bryan Lee O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski, the former of whom wrote and illustrated the original graphic novel series. Animation work will be handled by anime house Science SARU, and Abel Gongora will serve as director. Wright is also attached as an executive producer. The Scott Pilgrim comics were published in six volumes by Oni Press between 2004 and 2010. Wright adapted them into Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which boas...
QUEENSRŸCHE Begins Recording New Album
QUEENSRŸCHE has entered the studio to begin recording its new album for a tentative late 2022 release. Helming the effort once again is Chris “Zeuss” Harris, who previously worked with the band on 2015’s “Condition Hüman” and 2019’s “The Verdict” LPs. Earlier today, Zeuss took to his Instagram to share a photo of QUEENSRŸCHE drummer Casey Grillo‘s drum kit, and he included the following caption: “RŸCHE under way.. @caseyjgrillo” This past November, QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre told Canada’s The Metal Voice about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band’s new album: “We have all the songs that we’re gonna be recording. We’re gonna press record at the very beginning of January....
Hear Snippet Of Title Track Of SCORPIONS’ ‘Rock Believer’ Album
SCORPIONS have shared a snippet of their next single, “Rock Believer”. The full track will be released on Thursday, January 13 at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m. ET. The single’s cover art was designed by Klaus Voormann and can be found below. “Rock Believer” is the title track of SCORPIONS‘ 19th studio album, which will be released on February 25. Two months ago, SCORPIONS released the official music video for “Rock Believer”‘s first single, “Peacemaker”. The track features music courtesy of guitarist Rudolf Schenker and bassist Pawel Maciwoda and lyrics by singer Klaus Meine. Asked in a recent interview with Chile’s Radio Futuro what fans can expect to hear on “Rock Believer”, Meine said: “Well, you can e...
SKILLET’s JOHN COOPER: ‘Pandemic Of Fear’ Is ‘Much More Alarming And Deadlier’ Than COVID-19 Pandemic
John Cooper, the frontman for the Grammy-nominated Christian rock band SKILLET, spoke to Brutal Planet Magazine about the lyrical inspiration for the group’s upcoming album, “Dominion”. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “So much of what the album is about is facing the challenges that are inside. In other words, there are challenges from outward. Me and you and everybody listening, we do not have the power to end COVID. Me and you don’t have the power to end the economic stuff that’s happening or inflation or the fact that some people — I don’t know — may be losing their jobs, for whatever reason that may be; we don’t have the power to do anything about that. But we do have the power to control what happens in our hearts and in ou...
DEVIN TOWNSEND Recalls ‘Screaming In A Wall Of Chicken’ While Working At Restaurant
In a recent interview with the “Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian” podcast, Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Devin Townsend was asked if he ever had any formal training to help him effortlessly flip between orthodox choral singing techniques and guttural screaming. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I never wanted to be a singer — ever. When I was younger, I just wanted to play guitar. And then when we looked for singers, when we went hire singers as kids — when we were teens — they were just the worst of us; almost without fail, they were just terrible people. And I remember thinking, ‘Okay, well, I’ll just sing until I can find somebody.’ And I had many jobs as a teen too — I worked in dozens of restaurants or stainless st...
Why Violence Fits So Well Into the World of The Righteous Gemstones
Comedies don’t typically include a body count. But right from the beginning, The Righteous Gemstones has defied a lot of expectations. Not only has the HBO series, created by Danny McBride, taken on the often tricky topic of religion, specifically Christianity as preached by a megachurch family, but it’s done so with its own unique blend of pitch-black comedy and serious stakes. “I wouldn’t say we are like Game of Thrones, where someone dies every week,” Edi Patterson, who plays Gemstone daughter Judy, tells Consequence in a recent Zoom interview. “But anything can happen, that’s for sure,” “Wealth and power give these bigger stakes to a family drama, a family comedy,” adds Tim Baltz, who plays Judy’s ever-loyal partner. Advertisement “I’d be so upset if Judy ever died,” says Patterson. No...
SABATON Shares Music Video For New Single ‘Soldier Of Heaven’
Swedish metallers SABATON have released the official music video for their new single, “Soldier Of Heaven”. The track is taken from the band’s tenth studio album, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4 via Nuclear Blast Records. Written and recorded during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the concept album of 11 brand-new songs once again dives deep into the atrocities, miracles, and events tied to the early 20th century’s World War I. The tenth album of the Falun-based five-piece will be available in an impressive variety of exclusive formats, including CD, vinyl, and cassette, with most available in limited editions. Between the several battlegrounds of WWI, there was no scene as hostile as the feared alpine front that involved a seri...
Drummer CASEY GRILLO Confirms He Will Play On Upcoming QUEENSRŸCHE Album
QUEENSRŸCHE‘s Casey Grillo has confirmed to SW Wall Music in a new interview that he will be the featured drummer on the band’s upcoming album, which is scheduled to be recorded later this month. “We’ve actually been doing writing sessions here in Florida,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We’ll get together and do the writing and stuff. Over the last year, year and a half, Michael [Wilton, guitar] started sending me tracks, back during COVID, and I would just do some tracks to whatever he did. Some of those songs became what’s gonna be on some of the record.” According to Grillo, the upcoming QUEENSRŸCHE LP won’t be the first time he has recorded with the group. “I did do a couple of songs on their last record...
CARCASS’s BILL STEER: ‘I Didn’t Experience The World Of Real Work Until My Mid-20s’
Bill Steer of British extreme metal pioneers CARCASS spoke to the “Everblack” podcast about the various non-music related jobs he has held over the years in order to support himself when he wasn’t on tour. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I left school at 16. I was already playing in bands around that time, and I guess by the time I was 17, I was doing NAPALM [DEATH] and CARCASS. I didn’t experience the world of real work until my mid-20s once CARCASS had broken up. That was quite an education. Looking back, it was long overdue ’cause I just didn’t have enough experience of the real world and people. ‘Cause if you’d just been in your little music bubble, only kind of hanging out with and dealing with people who like simila...
