Back in 1999 Powerman 5000 released their commercial break through album in “Tonight The Starts Revolt!” with huge singles “Nobody’s Real” and “When Worlds Collide” helping it achieve the success of over one million records sold Worldwide. Vocalist Michael Cummings aka Spider One had been somewhat under the shadow of his older brother Rob Zombie
Having spent time in the Black Metal Underground scene in South Africa with Scathanna Wept, Daniel Botha became inspired by the work of Septicflesh, Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails to create his own Industrial Metal project as a solo artist, taking the name Aois Innealan (Age of Machinery) as his own and since then he’s
From the minds of Zebadiah Crowe, the creators of last summers “Host Rider” comes the first of two EPs that promise a further test to your sanity in the bleak mid winter in “The Cloven Hand“. How much of a part Forrrthen and The Horrid played in the creation of these tracks with the exception
Another unearthed by Liberated Tape Archive sees Industrial Metal legends Static-X in Toronto Ontario Canada at The Warehouse on 22nd July 1999. These were the “Wisconsin Death Trip” days with the original line up raising Evil Disco Hell across the Globe and joined by Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares for set closer “Push It“. May Wayne
They could have saved the music video for “Dead Souls” for Halloween but for some, including the late Wayne Static, it’s Halloween every day. His love of horror films no doubt inspired some of the lyrics on “Project Regeneration“, with the remaining members of Static-X working with Xer0, Edsel Dope and Ulrich Wild to bring
While Tripp Eisen and Edsel Dope continue to fire shots at each other in a war of words you can read about here and here, Static-X have allowed the music to do the talking with a music video for “Bring You Down“. It’s another one from the bands now week old “Project Regeneration“, which has
“Project Regeneration” probably has to stand up as one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2020 with original members of Static-X in Tony Campos (bass, backing vocals), Koichi Fukuda (guitars, keyboards programming) and Ken Jay (drums) creating new music around the vocals from unused demos from the much missed and dearly departed Wayne Static.
As the highly anticipated new Static-X album “Project Regeneration” finally surfaced from the black depths yesterday, drummer Ken Jay spoke to Heavy New York about memories, “Wisconsin Death Trip“, Wayne Static and more. It’s an interesting move as bassist Tony Campos had been the voice of the band in the press up until now. We
As today marks the 25th Anniversary of seminal Fear Factory album “Demanufacture“, here’s the band playing the album in full at Bloodstock in 2016. Static-X bassist Tony Campos and Malignancy drummer Mike Heller are both in the band at this point and while a 10th studio album at this point seems unlikely, this remains a
A new single in “All These Years” has surfaced from Static-X alongside the news that the album “Project Regeneration” is being bumped back to 1st July. The video is directed by Xer0 (Edsel Dope) and co-directed by Matt Zane, a campy narrative set in the bedroom of a young Wayne Static back in the 1970’s
