Rewinding the tape back to 1997 and Roadrunner Records Monte Conner taking a chance on a Nu-Metal quartet from Los Angeles California by the name of Coal Chamber. The band had been around 5 years at the point where their self-titled debut was ready and were something of a known entity having performed on the
Widely recognised as the heaviest and most aggressive album from Los Angeles Californian Nu-Metal quartet Coal Chamber, “Dark Days” was produced by Ross Hogarth and appeared via Roadrunner Records in May 2002. It was the album that sowed the seeds for vocalist Dez Fafara’s next project, Groove Metallers Devildriver after tensions within the band that boiled
Having announced Industrial Metallers Skold as the first of the support acts for their European Tour in November, Motionless In White have spent some of Roadrunner Records cash on a video for “Brand New Numb” from their new album “Disguise”. Having worked together before, most notably on the industrial tracks on sophomore album “Infamous” it
As KoRn now officially have a new album on the way in the form of “The Nothing” which will arrive in 13th September and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon, Deftones), it seems like a fitting time to have a band influenced by the Bakersfield California Nu-Metallers in the dock. When we reviewed the new Motionless In White
Switching from the sadly departed and much missed Mitch Lucker to former All Shall Perish frontman Eddie Hermida for their latest official bootleg offering around the freshly released “Rare Ass Sh*t” 2002-2006 era compilation of output, Riverside California Deathcore heavyweights Suicide Silence have let us have a version of “Sacred Words”. Filmed at Summer Breeze
Deathcore heavyweights Suicide Silence have continued their bootleg releases of live footage around their new rarities album “Rare Ass Sh*t” that documents the 2002-2006 era of the band with a trio of releases. Filmed live at the Showcase in Corona are “Destruction of a Statue” and “Distorted Thought of Addiction” while from Robot Mosh Fest
To be honest, we’re still confused as to why “All Out Life” isn’t on the upcoming new Slipknot album when it’s being played in the bands live set at the minute and contains the album title in its lyrics. Maybe it will be one that makes way when their album “We Are Not Your Kind”
It’s still a couple of months before we get our hands on the new album from Slipknot but that hasn’t stopped the gears of their touring machine getting into motion once again. There appears to be the suggestion with some posters appearing at Download Festival with a hidden meaning that Knot Fest will take place the
Immediately after their at this year’s incarnation of Download Festival, the Mike James Rock Show caught up with Trivium Guitarist Corey Beaulieu. Talking about the bands ups and downs and having to play Nova Rock Festival without production. “The Sin And The Sentence” is out now via Roadrunner Records.
At some point after their debut album “Creatures” appeared on the scene there was an interview with Motionless In White frontman Chris Motionless in which he said his band were not going to be another chuga-chuga-metal band like Of Mice & Men. What followed that was a style shift from the bands Metalcore with Gothic
