Twelve Tribes have been confirmed to support 36 Crazyfists on their UK and Ireland tour this year, at the dates below: April 1st in Birmingham, UK @ Barfly April 2nd in Manchester, UK @ Academy 3 April 3rd in Newcastle, UK @ Northumbria Uni April 4th in Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts April 6th in Dundee, UK @ Reading Rooms April 7th in Aberdeen, UK @ Tunnels April 8th in Edinburgh, UK @ Liquid Rooms April 9th in York, UK @ Fibbers April 10th in Nottingham, UK @ Rock City April 12th in Leeds, UK @ Cockpit April 13th in Sheffield, UK @ Leadmill April 14th in Northampton, UK @ Soundhaus April 15th in Cardiff, UK @ Barfly April 16th in Oxford, UK @ Zodiac April 18th in Colchester, UK @ Arts Centre April 19th in Bristol, UK @ Bierkeller April 20th in Exeter, UK @ Lemon Grove April 21st in Yeovil, UK @ Ski Lodge April 22nd in Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms April 24th in London, UK @ Islington Academy April 25th in Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2 April 26th in Liverpool, UK @ Stanley Theatre April 27th in Dublin, IRE @ Music Centre April 28th in Belfast, IRE @ Spring & Airbrake April 30th in Leicester, UK @ Princess Charlotte May 1st in Stoke, UK @ Sugarmill
The following signing sessions at the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants), which is scheduled to take place January 18-21, 2007 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, where Fear Factory‘s Raymond Herrera will take part: Zildjian: Friday, January 19: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Saturday, January 20: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Pro-Mark (Booth #3056): Saturday, January 20: 3:30 p.m. SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH
Jamey Jasta the awesome frontman of Hatebreed has issued the update below: “Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for a great year. 2007 is looking to be an amazing one for us as well. We are ready to start announcing our world tour plans this month. “As most of you know we are going to Australia in February and March and after that the rest of the world will follow. We have plans to finally return to Ireland, the smaller cities in the U.K., Greece, Spain, Portugal and many more places we have not been to in a long time as well as places we have never been before like Alaska, Iceland, South Africa, Isreal and other countries. “Thanks for your continued belief in what we do! You are the most dedicated, supportive and amazing fans a band could possibly have! You are as diehard as they come!!!” SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH
Dave Mustaine Megadeth mainman has issued an album update as follows: “I am currently in Derbyshire, England with [producer] Andy Sneap finishing the record. Glen [Drover, guitar] is over here doing some last-minute sleeping on the couch, er, uh, just kidding. He is seriously shredding some solos! 🙂 “I, on the other hand, am finishing off the last remaining fixes on songs and last remaining vocal performances. There is a small list of guitars solos and three rhythm parts I need to finish and then we are into mix mode. “I am just back from a walk in the English countryside with [wife] Pam, and I was thinking that I wanted to share with you the exceptional vibes that are taking place out here, but then I thought forget it! Last thing Andy needs is the sheep next door having MEGADETH spray-painted on them, or worse!!! 🙂 “I am sure I will see some of the MEGADETH Fan Club members that Dave McRobb [MEGADETH webmaster] is in a holding pattern on telling ‘when and where’ to come have a drink and a chit-chat with me and Mr. Drover. “More important news, I am going to reveal the guitar company that I am going to endorse going forward in my career on Friday January 19th, 2007 at 1:00 PM at the NAMM show. “Until then, just know that every note on this record is being gone over with a fine tooth comb, like I did on ‘Countdown To Extinction’, and suffice to say, I should have been doing it this way for the last four or five records. I love how I feel about what I have done, what Glen, James [Lomenzo, bass], and Shawn [Drover, drums] have done, and I love the tones on this record. Although it has not been mixed, you kinda get the feeling of the sound of my custom amp’s sound in the rough mix that Andy Sneap did for ‘Gears Of War’. Some of you know about these amps, but I will wait until next week to talk more about that. “Lastly, I look forward to seeing some of you again at NAMM and until then, stay tuned here! I may be able to get Mike Gitter and Roadrunner to allow us to put up another little snippet of new music. I will be finishing up the long overdue calls to the contest winner, and the daily winners that are still outstanding.”
‘From Them, Through Us, To You‘ is the upcoming release by Madina Lake. The confirmed track listing is as follows: Here I Stand In Another Life Adalia House Of Cards Now or Never Pandora Stars River People One Last Kiss Me Vs. The World Morning Sadness True Love
Rock Sound Magazine has published their top 75 albums of 2006. Roadrunner releases such as Trivium, Stone Sour and Killswitch Engage have made it into the top 75! Congratulations! View the full run down here.
Opeth‘s Mikael Àäó_kerfeldt has been hard at work writing material for the band’s latest album. This will be their ninth studio album, which is tentatively due for release in late 2007, keep posted for more details as they arrive! The Opeth Site
Rockworld TV (Sky channel 368) will be running interviews with some of Roadrunner’s most admired artists this month: Trivium are interviewed on 6/1/07 at 8pm Stone Sour are interviewed on 7/1/07 at 8pm Cradle Of Filth are interviewed on 9/1/07 at 8pm Opeth are interviewed on 4/1/07(today) at 6pm Killswitch Engage are interviewed on 4/1/07(today) at 7pm
What a way to bring in the New Year. Just for you guys, we have added Hatebreed‘s track ‘Destroy Everything‘ online for your listening pleasure here!
Matthew Bachand and Jonathan Donais demonstrate why Shadows Fall are so awesome. In a three minute video clip from FPE-TV, they give examples of their warm-up exercises, pinch harmonics and much more. This can only give you a taster of what is to come in the next Shadows Fall album, which is being produced by Nick Raskulinecz at Dave Grohl’s Los Angeles Studio 606. SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH