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NONPOINT Frontman Says Running Band’s Own Record Label Means ‘Less Anxiety And More Anxiety’
NONPOINT launched its independent record label 361 Degrees Records LLC in January 2021. They filmed the process of starting the label and making new music in a docu-series titled “A Path To Independence” that can be seen on the band’s YouTube and official web site. In a new interview with “HRH Metal With Dan Chan”, NONPOINT singer Elias Soriano said that the group’s decision to go it alone has resulted in “less anxiety and more anxiety,” adding that he has “a team” of “people that are professionals in place” to run the business for him and his bandmates. “I’m not a neophyte when it comes to the overall scope and understanding of the music industry, but I know when to get the hell out of the way and let some...
SABATON Shares Lyric Video For New Single ‘Soldier Of Heaven’
Swedish metallers SABATON have released the official lyric 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...
Tool’s 10 Best Songs
No one crafts equally perverse and philosophical slices of prog metal quite like Tool. Indeed, the quartet (drummer Danny Carey, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, bassist Justin Chancellor, and guitarist Adam Jones) have spent the last 30-odd years fusing the industrial salaciousness of Nine Inch Nails with the mesmeric sophistication of Pink Floyd and King Crimson, yielding a beloved sound all their own. The acclaimed band, set to launch a 2022 US tour (get tickets via Ticketmaster), has evolved significantly without losing sight of its most vital trademarks, ensuring that all of its work feels at home within the same catalog. In a nutshell, 1993’s Undertow and 1995’s Ænima perpetuated rougher and more risqué syntheses of progressive and alternative metal. Then, 2001’s landmark Lateralus off...
Vio-Lence Announce EP, Unleash First New Song in 29 Years “Flesh from Bone”: Stream
Vio-Lence have returned with their first new song in 29 years, “Flesh from Bone,” from the upcoming Let the World Burn EP due out March 4th. The Bay Area thrash band previously inked a record deal with Metal Blade after reuniting in 2019. Although Vio-Lence haven’t released new material since 1993, they’ve lost none of their ferociousness. True to its title, “Flesh from Bone” is a ripper. As founding guitarist Phil Demmel explains, the track faithfully carries old-school riffage while incorporating some of the more modern stylings the guitarist employed as a longtime member of Machine Head. Advertisement Related Video “I wanted to keep some of those early Eternal Nightmare qualities intact but infuse a lot of what I’ve culled into my songwriting arsenal over the decades,” Demmel said in a ...
Saying Goodbye to Both Bob Sagets
In the public eye, for a few decades there, there were two Bob Sagets. There was the Saget known and beloved by an entire generation of kids as Danny Tanner of Full House, the kind and cleaning-obsessed widower raising his three daughters with some help from his closest male friends. And then there was Saget on stage — the real Saget, it could be argued — known for filthy jokes and, at a later point in his career, making fun of his literally squeaky-clean image. This is the sort of dichotomy that frankly doesn’t exist too much these days, and Saget deliberately played with these expectations over the years. Three years after Full House ended (and only a year after his eight-year stint hosting America’s Funniest Home Videos came to a close) came his film-stealing delivery of the line “You e...
Kanye West Documentary jeen-yuhs to Debut in Theaters Ahead of Arrival on Netflix
Kanye West stans will have the opportunity to catch part of the documentary jeen-yuhs in theaters ahead of its arrival on Netflix. Today, the streamer revealed fans will be able to attend a nationwide preview of the project titled Act 1 (Vision) on February 10th for one day only. Netflix also shared a new teaser trailer that opens with Chicago rapper Rhymefest asking Kanye, “Who are you to call yourself a genius?” Watch it below. The three-part documentary is directed by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah, who use behind-the-scenes footage of Kanye ranging from his early career as an in-demand producer, to forcing his way into becoming a solo rapper, to a level of stardom in pop culture as a whole that only Kanye himself could have imagined. Advertisement Related Video “It was like G...
First Week Album Projections for The Weeknd’s ‘Dawn FM’ Are Here
The first week album projections for The Weeknd‘s latest album, Dawn FM, are in. According to HITS Daily Double, the 16-track record is expected to earn somewhere between 150,000 to 170,000 units in its first week without any physical products. In comparison, its predecessor After Hours earned 444,000 album units in its first week including 275,000 in pure album sales. The XO Records head previously confirmed that the release of physical products for Dawn FM were irrelevant to him. He responded to a now-deleted tweet that stated that the lack of CDs, vinyl or cassettes will impact his first week numbers, “this doesn’t matter to me. what matters is getting to experience the album together with the fans during these times.” this doesn’t matter to me. what matters is getting to experience the...
Dre London Claims Record Labels Are Stopping Post Malone From Releasing “BIG Album”
Dre London took to social media to claim that Republic Records and Universal Music Group are forbidding Post Malone from dropping a “BIG” album. Posty’s longtime manager shared a photo of them on Instagram and wrote, “Our sync & energy always on a Insane level!! Album has been done!! We Ready!! But seems @republicrecords @universalmusicgroup isn’t.” He continued, “Posty fans no more need to press me anymore we did our part!! Now it’s time for the label to get the business right before we drop BIG Album! Hit them up! We been ready like u are! #DreVision #2022 It’s Time!!!” London did not divulge other details, leaving fans to wonder why the labels are barring the release of the record. Malone’s last full-length album dates back to 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, which debuted at No. 1 on t...
Kanye West and The Game Reportedly Link Up for Upcoming Project
It looks like Kanye West is potentially back in the studio cooking up a new project with Hit-Boy and The Game. This is not the first time that Ye has worked with Hit-Boy. In the past decade, Hit-Boy has been responsible for some of hip-hop’s biggest hits, including the famous “N***as in Paris” from Kanye West and JAY-Z. Despite previous reports of Hit-Boy and The Game’s frustrations with Ye, it seems that the three have reconciled for the upcoming project. In the past, a leaked verse heard The Game negatively call out Ye’s then-wife Kim Kardashian. The Game is currently working on a new project with Hit-Boy and seemingly taking to social media to build the hype. The Game shared a photo of himself with Ye on his Instagram. Later, photographer Kevin Wong posted a Boomerang to his own feed, s...
Lil Wayne’s ‘Sorry 4 The Wait’ Mixtape to Arrive on Streaming Services This Year
Lil Wayne‘s 2011 mixtape Sorry 4 The Wait is set to officially release on streaming services this 2022. Tunechi took to social media to tease the project’s arrival that featured his take on Gunplay and Waka Flocka Flame’s “Rollin.” Despite not sharing an actual release date, he noted that the project will be “on all platforms soon” and that a pre-save link is on his Instagram bio — hinting that the release is just around the corner. Sorry 4 The Wait dropped in July 2022 in anticipation of Tha Carter IV, which at that point had been delayed. The original 12-track mixtape heard Wheezy hop on cuts like Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls),” Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” and Drake’s “Marvin’s Room” among others. He released the sequel, Sorry 4 The Wait 2, in 2015 due to the delay of Tha Carter V. ...
Here Is A Video Tour Of GENE SIMMONS’s Las Vegas Mansion
Real estate broker Ryan Serhant has shared a 17-minute video tour of Gene Simmons‘s nearly 11,000-square-foot estate in Henderson, Nevada’s Ascaya luxury community which is currently on the market for $13.5 million. Check it out below. After the KISS bassist/vocalist bought the property and an adjacent half-acre lot for $10.8 million in May 2021, he planted 137 trees on the parcel. Five months after buying the Southern Nevada estate, he put it on the market in October for $14.95 million, but that price was slashed by $1.5 million on November 17. Among the improvements Simmons made to the Las Vegas house is installing all new floors and ripping up wall-to-wall carpeting in some of the rooms. Speaking to TMZ about his decision to sell the home only five months after buying it, Ge...
Maule – MAULE
RATING: 7.5/10 A new year has begun and, like clockwork, a flood of bands paying homage to yesteryear’s NWOBHM sound has emerged. A few of those bands may breakout from the rest of the pack like HAUNT and NIGHT DEMON have in recent years. However, dozens more will generate records evoking the warm and fuzzies from heavy metal’s building blocks, but their record’s will not be reached for after an initial listen. Vancouver’s MAULE is the latest band to throw their hat into the traditional-metal pool. The group isn’t quite ready for breakout status yet, but there are plenty of puzzle pieces within their self-titled debut indicating more to come than mere idol worship. “Evil Eye”‘s opening moments make it clear that the hallmarks of old-school me...
