Up at 5:16. Yawn. Big day. Yep.
First, I am proud to announce All That Remains, We Came As Romans, Emmure, Red Sun Rising and Failure Anthem will be heading out on the hardDrive Live Fallout Tour! It kicks off on Oct 14th in Grand Rapids, MI, wraps up on Nov 07th in Worcester, MA (my old stomping grounds back in the 80’s.) So damned psyched and we’re tying in with local stations along the way to invite listeners to win cool VIP experiences. At noon, you can head over to www.hardDriveLiveFalllout.com for all the info. Tickets are on sale tomorrow at 10 AM local time.
Meanwhile, THIS happened in Burbank, CA yesterday. Disturbed‘s album artwork plastered to a giant Warner Bros building. Nice! I was on the phone yesterday briefly with David Draiman. He and his family are on a nice vacation right now. He told me what it was like returning to the stage on Friday night at the House of Blues in the band’s original hometown of Chicago. “Ah, the show was amazing. It was great to be back in front of the disturbed ones, and playing for two hours was just bliss (laughs). Everybody was firing on all cylinders. It was magic that night. That was a beautiful, beautiful moment.” Meanwhile, Disturbed is on course to debut at Number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart tomorrow. Mazel Tov!
The Pulse Of Radio reporting today Metallica frontman James Hetfield and Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows are among the celebrities who are seen ‘auditioning’ in a new promotional clip to play zombies in the upcoming video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3. The clip is part of a contest for players and fans to win a chance to become a zombie in the game, which will be released on Nov 06th. (Watch the audition here.)
The contest also has a charitable component, with proceeds helping veterans find work. Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold are no strangers to showing up in video games and Shadows told us a while back about the experience of being digitally captured for an appearance in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2: “We had two full days of motion capture, so the band went in there, put on silly outfits and we danced around and pretended like we were playing in front of an audience. Hopefully none of those pictures will leak. But we did that, and then we went in there and for vocals I had to sit there and put my head in this vise, and they did motion capture of me singing the words a bunch of times. Between acting and pretending that you’re playing onstage when there’s nobody there, it was a pretty fun experience.”
We heard from Lemmy about his participation in this film, now comes this news. The members of Volbeat are the latest musicians to join the cast of Gutterdammerung, the self-proclaimed “loudest silent movie on Earth.” According to Loudwire, the silent film also boasts appearances from Motorhead‘s Lemmy Kilmister, ex-Queens Of The Stone Age singer Mark Lanegan, Henry Rollins, Slayer‘s Tom Araya, Iggy Pop, Grace Jones among others. (Trailer here)
The film, created by Swedish visual artist Bjorn Tagemose, is set in a world where God has abolished sin by taking from mankind the Devil’s “Grail of Sin”– the Evil Guitar. Earth has now turned into a puritan world where there is no room for sex, drugs or rock ‘n’ roll. But a “punk-angel” named Vicious, played by Iggy Pop, secretly sends the Evil Guitar back to Earth and unleashes sin again in all its forms. The rest of the film follows a naive young girl who is manipulated by an evil priest played by Rollins to obtain and destroy the guitar, while a “rock chick” aims to stop her from her quest. An apocalyptic battle follows. The film is almost completely silent, but a score will be provided by a live rock band that will tour with the movie. The tour, which will also feature a narrator, will commence in early 2016. Volbeat is currently writing the music for its sixth album, with plans to enter the studio in Nov.
I love this! With bruising songs like “Whore” and “Sex Metal Barbie,” plus singer Maria Brink‘s image as a rock sex goddess, you might think that turning the music of In This Moment into lullabies might be a challenge. But that hasn’t stopped the makers of the Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star series, whose new album, titled Lullaby Versions Of In This Moment, features gentle instrumental versions of tunes like “Beautiful Tragedy,” “Blood,” “Big Bad Wolf” and “Sick Like Me.” Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star has released more than 200 lullaby albums from many different genres. Some of the rock and metal artist albums include Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Metallica, Motorhead, Pantera and Slipknot. In This Moment will hit the road early next month as special guests of Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach, with the trek kicking off on Sep 4th in Lexington, KY.
And now your daily Dave Grohl item: It wouldn’t be a Foo Fighters show without something unexpected happening, so on Monday night (Aug 24th) at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, MI, frontman Dave Grohl invited a fan named Griffin onstage after he saw Griffin holding up a sign that said, “It’s My 50th Let’s Have A Beer.” Grohl said, “I know it’s your 50th birthday. We’ve got a lot of songs we’ve got to play tonight. I’m going to share this beer with you, and then I’ve got to do my job.” Grohl then told Griffin, “Come on Griffin let’s do this. We got to do this fast!” before the two of them chugged their brews. (Alternative Nation)
OK Marvel comics geeks! Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman is now apparently a pop culture commentator as well. Taylor is a huge comic book fan and sat down to deliver his thoughts on the upcoming movie version of the Marvel Comics book Deadpool, which comes out in early 2016 and starts Ryan Reynolds as a raunchy superhero. (Brave Words)
And lastly, Ex-White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult is presenting her first solo art and photography exhibition in New York City. The show, called “Retrospective,” is described as a “love letter” to New Orleans and features work from 2004, 2012, 2013 and the present. Yseult, who co-founded White Zombie while living in New York from 1982 to 1991, moved to New Orleans in 1996. (Blabbermouth)
Gotta dash! Hit the hardDrive Live Fallout tour site at Noon ET. Set your clocks!