3 INCHES OF BLOOD Announces Co-Headlining Tour with GOATWHORE

What’s with all these concert cruises? Does the captain know what a Goatwhore is?

February 8, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA) — Vancouver metal mavens, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD has announced a co-headlining North American tour alongside blackened thrashers GOATWHORE. The tour brings 23 days of menacing metal to the masses and will make a memorable stop in Worcester, MA for the infamous New England Metal & Hardcore Festival on April 20th. Making their triumphant return from defending the traditions of heavy metal at sea on the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD will continue to support their fifth studio album, LONG LIVE HEAVY METAL on this forthcoming tour. The music video for “Metal Woman” from the current release can be seen below along with the complete list of tour dates.

“Metal Woman” Music Video:

Tour Dates with Goatwhore:

04/11/13 – Kelowna, BC @ Level Night Club

04/12/13 – Calgary, AB @ Gateway

04/13/13 – Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Theatre

04/14/13 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange

04/15/13 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo Cabaret

04/16/13 – Eau Claire, WI @ House of Rock

04/17/13 – Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s

04/18/13 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups

04/19/13 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

04/20/13 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium – New England Metal & Hardcore Festival

04/21/13 – Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques

04/22/13 – Quebec, QC @ L’Agitée

04/24/13 – Charlottetown, PE @ Hunters Ale House

04/25/13 – Fredericton, NB @ Lava Vodka Bar

04/26/13 – Moncton, NB @ OC Nightclub

04/27/13 – Halifax, NS @ Michael’s

04/28/13 – Bucksport, ME @ The Kave

04/29/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus

04/30/13 – Burlinton, VT @ Nectar’s

05/01/13 – Middletown, NY @ Sounds Asylum

05/02/13 – Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar

05/03/13 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House

05/04/13 – Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class

For more information on 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, please visit:

http://www.facebook.com/threeinchesofblood

http://www.twitter.com/3iob

GRAMMY® AMBASSADOR AND CURATOR MIKE SHINODA OF LINKIN PARK TO MENTOR FIRST-EVER PROGRAM UNITING EMERGING ARTISTS AND GRAMMY-AWARD®-WINNERS

Some pre-Grammy PR:

LOS ANGELES, CA, February 5, 2013–A catalyst for music innovation in the digital era, CENTERSTAGE Powered By Grammy® Amplifier is the first-ever program uniting emerging artists with GRAMMY-Award®-winners to mentor their career.

Mike Shinoda member of two-time GRAMMY®-winning band Linkin Park and CENTERSTAGE program mentor; Evan Greene (CMO, The Recording Academy); and Jon Budd (Sr. Group Manager, New Media, Hyundai) were on hand today at a press conference in downtown Los Angeles at The Recording Academy’s Social Media Rockstars Summit to announce the online platform designed to provide professional mentoring and exposure for undiscovered musicians discovered through The GRAMMYS’® visionary GRAMMY® Amplifier program. For CENTERSTAGE Powered By GRAMMY® Amplifier, Shinoda will serve as GRAMMY® ambassador and curator.

CENTERSTAGE was developed on the success of GRAMMY® Amplifier which was launched by The Recording Academy® in January. It allows musicians to share their tracks via SoundCloud for a chance to have their music shared on-line by a panel of musical icons. CENTERSTAGE will select three artists based on criteria including “amplification” (shares/likes) and individually award them with a recording session with:

A recording session with a leading GRAMMY® producer.
Production of a music video with a noted producer and/or director.
An opening act performance slot on a major tour or music festival.

The winning artists will be announced at the GRAMMYs® annual SXSW party in March which will take place during SXSW 2013 in Austin, TX. Visit http://www.grammyamplifier.com or http://www.hyundaicenterstag.com for more details and for a chance to enter the program. See official rules at http://www.hyundaicenterstage.com.

As part of a three-year partnership as the “Official Vehicle Partner” of the GRAMMY Awards® Hyundai teamed with The Recording Academy® to create CENTERSTAGE. “Hyundai’s partnership with The Recording Academy ties together music’s biggest brand with Hyundai’s passion for creativity and innovation,” said Steve Shannon, Vice President of Marketing, Hyundai Motor America. “In continuing our successful relationship, CenterStage and GRAMMY Amplifier allow Hyundai to connect with an audience that loves music and to share great music with fans everywhere.”

Hyundai will also play a starring role at the GRAMMYs® as both the “Official Vehicle Partner” of the GRAMMY Awards® and GRAMMY® Week. As part of GRAMMY Week, Hyundai Equus and Genesis vehicles will grace the red carpet, chauffeur VIPs to the awards ceremony, and be on display at the official GRAMMY Celebration® after-party. The 55thAnnual GRAMMY Awards® will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 10, at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround-sound on the CBS Television Network from 8-11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

For more information, please visit:

http://www.grammyamplifier.com
http://www.hyundaicenterstage.com

Sunflower Dead groups experienced musicians

Jamie Teissere, guitarist of defunct metal band Droid, has announced the launch of his new project, SUNFLOWER DEAD. After multiple U.S. tours with bands such as Korn, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch and Hell Yeah supporting Droid’s debut on Munky from Korn’s Emotional Syphon Recordings, the guitarist was by no means ready to quit the music game after Droid’s sudden demise.

Wasting no time, he assembled a new outfit consisting of Michael (vocals, piano, accordion), Jaboo (guitar) formerly of Two Hit Creeper, Luis Gascon (bass) touring member of Buckethead, and Jimmy Schultz (drums) touring drummer of In This Moment.

The group dubbed themselves SUNFLOWER DEAD and went into Temple Studios (owned by Raymond Herrera of Fear Factory and B Real of Cyrpress Hill) with Christian Olde Wolbers (Fear Factory) to produce their 11- track self-titled debut record, set to release on August 21, 2012 with Bloody Bat Records LLC. Co-produced and mixed by Jeremy Blair (Guns N’ Roses, DevilDriver) at Temple and House of Blues Studios, and mastered by Robert Hadley (Korn) at The Mastering Lab.

“SUNFLOWER DEAD are a refreshing sound with a great vocal range, not like your average current metal/rock band,” commented producer Christian Olde Wolbers. “This is just the debut, but SUNFLOWER DEAD have tremendous potential to break in a bigger market and they have proved it with this strong debut.”

“This album is fucking dope,” added co-producer Jeremy Blair. “This band came in with the record they wanted to make and it was a pleasure to help them accomplish their goal without any outside negative influences. The songs, the playing, and hooks are sick. I believe this record will be huge.”

SUNFLOWER DEAD plans to release a new music video for the single ‘Make Me Drown’ in the coming months.

For more information on SUNFLOWER DEAD, please visit these websites:

www.sunflowerdead.com

Lars Ulrich as Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens

No one would have guessed back in 1981 that Lars Ulrich, a dorky metalhead from Denmark who formed a small band named Metallica, would one day play a significant character in a major cable network movie. In HBO’s biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn, Ulrich gets the opportunity to play Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens.

It’s no coincidence that girlfriend, Danish beauty/actress Connie Nielsen, had been cast in the movie. She probably got Lars the gig. Nonetheless, the drummer does a pretty good job. At first he doesn’t say much and walks aimlessly through the camera shots. But when the camera does center on Lars, he really does an admirable job.

The movie itself is absolutely horrible — stylistically schizophrenic,  a cartoonish approach to an era of Ernest Hemingway’s life. Nicole Kidman plays Martha Gellhorn opposite Clive Owen’s Hemingway. Not their best work. It’s not their fault that the script turns them into nothing more than caricatures. The truth is, with its sweeping, campy vision centered around the Spanish Civil War, it would have made more sense to turn this work into a Broadway musical, or a Baz Luhrmann film.

Practically the entire cast comes out as a casualty. Ironically, it’s the non-thespian, Lars Ulrich, that comes out okay. Not bad for a kid who survived his first cross-country, Metallica club tour on the likes of nasty bologna sandwiches and substandard beer.

The band 10 YEARS to release new album

Via MSO PR: As 10 YEARS gear up for the release of their new album MINUS THE MACHINE, the group have premiered their first single “Backlash” on Monster Energy. On June 19, the hard-driving track will head to radio and be available on iTunes. Due out July 31, MINUS THE MACHINE marks the band’s first release on their own label Palehorse Records, a partnership with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group (ILG).

“We wanted to create an album that has no boundaries,” 10 YEARS frontman JESSE HASEK explains the decision to release MINUS THE MACHINE independently. “When you feel like you’re being told to go through motions and jump through hoops, it takes the heart out of it. It’s better to do what comes naturally and then figure out the after-effect.”

After a blistering performance at last weekend’s Rocklahoma, the Knoxville, TN-based band has also announced they’ll join the Rockfest Festival (July 20)–as well as the “Minus the Machine” summer headlining tour which kicks off June 27 in New Orleans with Fair to Midland and KYNG supporting. The four-week tour will take the band to Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and more, and includes a hometown show in Knoxville on July 6 (dates below).

After a hugely successful year and a half tour to support their previous record Feeding The Wolves–which broke into the Billboard Top 200 at #12–the rock quartet is ready to get back on the road and see the fans. “We live and die by the loyalty of the club audiences. Our fans are loyal. They travel with us, and they want us to be loyal to ourselves” says HASEK. “What we tried to do on this album is really give them what they want because they’ve been so good to us through the ups and downs of our career.”

10 YEARS TOUR DATES:

“Minus the Machine” Tour w/ Fair to Midland & Kyng:

^Wed 6/27 Jefferson, LA Southport Hall
^Fri 6/29 Dallas, TX Trees
Sat 6/30 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Sun 7/1 Corpus Christi, TX Brewster Street Ice House
Tue 7/3 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall
Thu 7/5 Tallahassee, FL The Coliseum Tallahassee
Fri 7/6 Knoxville, TN The Valarium
Sat 7/7 Chattanooga, TN Track 29
Sun 7/8 Nashville, TN Marathon Music Works
Tue 7/10 Baltimore, MD Ram’s Head Live
Wed 7/11 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Fri 7/13 Portland, ME Asylum
Sat 7/14 Hampton Beach, NH Wally’s Pub
Sun 7/15 Bristol, CT Bleachers
Wed 7/18 Flint, MI The Machine Shop
Thu 7/19 Ft Wayne, IN Piere’s
Rockfest w/ Godsmack, Five Finger Death Punch, Hollywood Undead & Halestorm
Fri 7/20 Cadott, WI Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds
“Minus the Machine” Tour w/ Fair to Midland & Kyng:
Sat 7/21 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
Sun 7/22 Sauget, IL Pop’s
Tue 7/24 Fayetteville, AR George’s Majestic Lounge
Summerjam
Sat 8/4 Summerville, VA Summerjam

^ denotes no Fair to Midland.

www.10yearsmusic.com

Death Wolf to enter studio soon

According to Century Media Records, DEATH WOLF (led by Morgan of MARDUK) has entered the Endarker Studio in Östergötland, Sweden to begin recording their currently untitled second album, which is set to be released via Blooddawn Productions/Century Media Records in late summer 2012. More details about this upcoming album will be announced soon.

New live photos of Guns N’ Roses in New Jersey

Check out some of these classic picks from the Guns N’ Roses New Jersey show. IZOD Center, Nov 17, 2011. Photos by Frank White

Check out the set list too by clicking here. (BTW, why is AXL performing so many covers?)

New Anthrax, Testament, Death Angel photos on Powerline site

Frank White was in Philadelphia when Anthrax brought their Worship Music headlining tour to the Electric Factory on November 10. Go check the photos here.

Live photos of ‘the one true Mayhem’ in NYC

Whoever remembers Mayhem — the notorious Norwegian Black Metal band — this is what’s left of them (above). On Powerline’s main site we posted photos of Mayhem’s appearance in New York City on November 3 (at Gramercy Theater). For a band that is perfectly suited for Halloween, they were a few days late in NYC, but still giving out their ghoulish atmosphere. Check out the photos by clicking here.

Also included are photo galleries of the support acts: Abigail Williams from Arizona, Hate and Keep of Kalessin from Europe.

Vintage interview with Sebastian Bach posted on main Powerline site

An interview of Sebastian Back from the Powerline’s newsstand edition back in March 1990 is posted on the main Powerline site: www.powerlinemag.com

Here’s a little snippet:

“You know what I think about? I think about all the teachers and people that tried to tell me what to do with my life. And I said ‘f*ck you.’ And now I’m doing what they want to do. And their daughters are in line to f*ckin buy my album. All these f*ckin’ assholes who told me I could never do anything — screw you! I’m f*ckin’ doing it!”

Click here to read the entire Powerline interview/article