The excruciatingly heart-breaking news of Jeff Hanneman’s death wrenched the hearts of metal fans this month. It was spread over every single social media network, news publication, and message throughout the world. Through all of this devastation, the remaining members of the band, plus a new addition found the strength to perform yesterday at Poland’s Impact Festival. Thus, a new era of Slayer was born.
Over Memorial Day Weekend while most people were barbecuing and throwing back beers the Lambesis family broke out is a screaming match. An ABC affiliate has been stalking the Lambesis family in order to get the scoop about what’s going on behind the scenes. The reporter received a very interesting quote regarding the family and what’s been happening out of the court room.
Slayer’s Tom Araya and Kerry King are very pleased to announce that Paul Bostaph has rejoined the band on a full-time basis. Bostaph will be behind the drum kit beginning June 4 when Slayer kicks off the first leg of its 2013 international tour in Warsaw, Poland. Gary Holt will continue to fill in for fallen guitarist Jeff Hanneman.
This weekend My Chemical Romance’s former lead singer Gerard Way took to twitter to reveal some images of a failed pitch to Vertigo for his Batman mini-series. Way of course made famous in the comic world for his series The Umbrella Academy has been popping up more and more in the comic scene as of late with new ideas and potential movie options.
Denver based band Havok have released a single for fans off of their up-coming 3rd studio release Unnatural Selection. The single Give Me Liberty… Or Give Me Death hit radio stations this week. In celebration of the success of this single and new album, Candlelight Records has made the single available for free download today. This single can be found on the companies BandCamp page.
Say Anything’s lead singer Max Bemis recently released his first comic through Boom! Studios. The comic has been such a success amongst fans that it’s already in it’s second printing and variant cover. However, his music fans aren’t the only ones interested in this ironic series. Great art meets a strangely familiar twist of sanity story line, it’s definitely worth picking up.
Following the story of Tim Lambesis’ hit for hire and trial preceding has been the highlight of this month. Lambesis was arrested on May 7th and has been held in court until today. He was released on bail today for $2 million. The bail was originally set at $3 million, however the courts were convinced to lower it.
Detroit, MI’s BATTLECROSS have unveiled the title, cover art, and first single from their upcoming new album. BATTLECROSS triumphantly return as one of the true champions of American Heavy Metal with their devastating sophomore release, War of Will. Co-produced at Audio Hammer Studios with famed producers Mark Lewis and Eyal Levi, the sophomore effort from Detroit’s newest soldiers of steel will soon prove as one of the most impressive follow-up releases, destined to become a heavy metal classic for fans of all sub-genres. “War of Will triggers a strange Déjà Vu while feeling completely brand new” says Levi.
Ukranian metal band Apostate has decided that they have had enough. They split-up in 1998, all members except Yuri Lesnyi formed Forgot Belief. In 1999 Yuri gathered new line-up and continued Apostate, but in 2001 the band finally disbanded and Yuri started pop-rock band called Neon. In January’2009 Oleksandr Kostko resurrected Apostate. However, again they have decided that the long sporadic project just ins’t cutting it.
Last Friday at Gramercy Theater fans had the opportunity to rock out with Nashville band Red. With a mixture of elaborate lights and heavy music fans were pleased throwing up the different hand signals expressing their love for the band. It being that it was my first time hearing of this band, I was pleasantly surprised and came instantly home to download their albums.
