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Brooklyn jazz-metallers Candiria narrowly escaped death when their tour van was forced off the road on Monday morning. A statement released by the band reads: "The five members of the pioneering metal-fusion band Candiria and their tour manager escaped life-threatening injury when their van was rear-en»
Due to unavoidable promotional commitments in Japan, the Raging Speedhorn boys have put back the start of their forthcoming tour by a month. They have also added a gig in Leeds and shuffled the rest of the dates around a bit. So forget what you already know, here's what happens now: Octo»
After three albums of hip-hop experiments and water treading, Korn have decided to stop arsing about and just get back to doing what they do best. 'Thoughtless' is the highlight of new album Untouchables'. It's an archetypal Korn song, with a simple seven string riff and bouncing bassline bu»
Three years might not be a long time in the grand scheme of things, but it seems like I've been waiting forever for this one. Possibly because Filter's last effort, Title Of Record, was so instant that a week after I bought it, it felt like my oldest friend. Or possibly because the band haven't filled the»
Gentle Giant... One of those bands you either love or aren't aware of. One of those bands your Dad might have listened to at some point between coming of age and his midlife crisis. Equal parts rock, prog, jazz, Baroque, Elizabethan madrigal, and a million other things that you'd never listen to in a million yea»
I've been looking forward to this one, the return of local boys Six Months On. A more varied selection this time, but the same positivity that made 'Smile' so pleasurable. The title track is a bit special, easing us in wi»
Is anyone else getting slightly bored with System of a Down? A year ago they were fresh and exciting, an escape from the generic nu metal that was clogging up rock clubs and radio stations. We were all glad to see 'Chop Suey' topping MTV2's Most Wanted chart, and preventing the Kerrang! channel from becom»
As a student, I have an awful lot of free time. Which I like to spend watching Button Moon DVDs, reading my Alias The Jester annuals and otherwise reliving my innocent childhood. And it was an innocent childhood. But there are nasty people out there trying to convince me that it was't. Not content w»
In 1971, my Dad was an excessively hairy hippy student-type who spent most of his free time (and most of the time that wasn't meant to be free) indulging in certain smokeable substances and listening to music that would make the average head explode. This led to him being thrown out of university and into the real w»
It's been a while since we last had a great British rock album. Six years ago, you couldn't move for the buggers, but they dried up fairly quickly. In the last couple of years we've had... what? Silver Ginger 5, Sunna, and a couple of Miocene EPs. But that's all about to change, hopefully. Cyclefly come ac»
I like tribute albums. They're fun. And I like Iron Maiden. So an Iron Maiden tribute seemed like a worthy thing to spend fifteen quid on. Oh no, hang on, it's by a bunch of black metal bands... The tracks are mostly obvious choices: we get 'Hallowed Be Thy Name', 'Number Of The Beast'»
The title is a fair description of the album, I think. More cheap keyboard punk from the fantastically funny Tim "-=ShoEboX=-" Crist, following pretty closely in the footsteps of his debut album, "Sumophobia", but with more tracks, more diversity and more amusing interludes. It's very juvenile but, as a very int»
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have reportedly finished recording the instrumental parts for their new album. The as-yet-untitled album is set for release through Warner Bros. in April. Tentative song titles include: 'Universally Speaking', 'Fortune Faded' and 'Don't For»
Death vocalist/guitarist Chuck Schuldiner passed away on 13th December. The 33-year-old frontman had been suffering from a brain tumour for some time, and bands including Slipknot, Staind, and (hed)p.e. raised money to fund his treatment. A memorial, with an online book of condol»
Fear Factory and Machine Head have confirmed UK dates in the near future.
Fear Factory have put together a stunning line-up in support of their current Roadrunner album Digimortal and forthcoming single Linchpin, released on 12th November. Dates in full:
31st Oct »
The message board on the official Rage Against The Machine website has been removed by the hosts, due to "repeated phone calls they have received from the Secret Service with regards to inflammatory posts on several of the forums", according to guitarist Tom Morello. These "inflammotory posts" were reacti»
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme is teaming up with Amen's bad-example-to-the-kids Casey Chaos to, in Homme's own words, "scratch the heaviest itch I got". Also involved in the as-yet unnamed project are QOTSA bassist Nick Oliveri and Casey's bandmate Shannon Larkin on drums. An a»
The Essex Chronicle describes Six Months On as "The Mid Essex area's finest purveyors of Mucker Rock". Now, I'm not a hundred percent certain what "mucker rock" is, but I'd say the rest of the statement is pretty accurate. In my time, I've seen and heard many bands trying to pull off the mature/sen»
As well as the usual hyperbole and useful information, the press release that comes with "Dentro" features a thought provoking mini-rant about decribing bands in terms of their peers. Apparently, Skunk D.F. are here to show us that it is still possible to be different, because they are more interesting th»
24/8/98: ex-Wildhearts frontman Ginger, now with the Wildhearts and Silver Ginger 5, takes the stage for his first acoustic gig. Providing musical and comedic support is Willie Dowling (Ex-Honeycrack, ex-Wildhearts). Providing further noise are approximately one hundred drunken fans, and assorted other ex-Wildhe»
God Forbid seem to be very excited about the fact that four-fifths of the band are black. You'd never know from listening to them, though, because they sound just like any number of sub-Slayer thrash metal bands. Granted, they are saved from complete anonymity by some nice bass work, and Byron Davis' tendency»
Don't be fooled by the oh-so-hard title - 300 Percent Density isn't a one-dimensional shouty Biohazard-type thing. That's part of it, yes, but there's also the jazz bits, and the brief atmospheric interludes, and the melody and intelligence. You've never heard anything quite like this. Candiria tear th»
Rising Welsh stars Lost Prophets will support Deftones at their low-key headline show at the London Forum this Sunday (24th June). Tickets are priced £15. Call Ticketmaster: 020 7344 0044 or book online at www.meanfiddler.com.»
Slipnot have confirmed the full tracklisting for their forthcoming Iowa album:
1 515
2 People = Shit
3 Disaster Piece
4 My Plague
5 Everything Ends
6 Heretic Song
7 Gently
8 Lust Disease
9 The Shape
10 Skin Ticket
11 New Abortion
12 Metabo»
Wildhearts bassist Danny McCormack has left the band's reunion tour due to "a huge problem with heroin". Says frontman Ginger, "It's beyond music, it's beyond The Wildhearts. Unless he gets himself sorted, unless he gets himself off the filth someone I know and love is gonna die. He needs tre»
I'm struggling to think of something to say about ...And Oceans that hasn't been said about a million other bands before. Allotropic/Metamorphic - Genesis of Dismorphism (or AMGOD, to use the advised acronym) wants to be profoud and innovative (just look at the title...), but comes across as une»
One-man electro-riot Schizoid - the brainchild of Canadian headbanger and anarchist J. Smith - is a brutal combination of techno, punk and grindcore. Unfortunately, it rarely combines the three, choosing instead to switch suddenly from a pounding hardcore beat to thrashy guitars, then onto something more mell»
Bad Religion drummer Bobby Schayer has been forced to quit the band and retire from drumming due to a serious shoulder injury. The band's forthcoming European tour has been postponed as a result. Say the band, "His doctor tells us that he has lost a very significant amount of motion in his shoulder a»
A few years ago, ManBREAK almost set my little world on fire. "Ready or Not" was a pop-metal anthem, and debut album "Come and See" offered more of the same hook-laden Rage Agaist the Machine impressions. A tour with Live and American radio attention promised huge things, but it wasn't to be.»
Gimmicks are all well and good, but if you don't have the musical talent to back up your attention-seeking... <insert Hear'Say joke here>. When your website is under investigation by the federal authorities for being... well, just plain nasty, you know you're going to have to deliver. And Cadaver Inc»
