Contemporary extreme metal band Emmure have recruited ex-Bury Your Dead member Mark Costillo to fill the band's vacant drummer slot. The stickman is making his studio debut with the band on their as-yet-untitled fifth album, which producer Joey Sturgis is currently tracking.
Yesterday, the metal community was impacted by the sobering news that that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of a cancer called lymphoma, which causes tumors in lymphoid cells that.
Faith No More's multitalented and eccentric vocalist Mike Patton is scoring the upcoming film 'The Place Beyond the Pines.'
One of the most aggressive and explosive bands to gain popularity through the mid-to-late nineties, El Paso post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In were a herky-jerky thrill ride of angular riffs, plundering rhythms and cryptic lyrics. The interpersonal dynamcs between the band members was just as turbulent and in 2001 the group broke up following a year-long tour for their third album 2000's 'Relationship of Command.'
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has exhibited further evidence of his heavy metal past, and it doesn't have anything to do with members of thrash or doom bands like Motorhead, Venom or St. Vitus.
A new website, Bandhappy, will feature live and pre-taped lessons from members of Lamb of God, Periphery, Protest the Hero, Dillinger Escape Plan and others starting Monday, Jan. 9.
In March 2012, Shadows Fall will release their seventh album, the follow-up to 2009's 'Retribution,' on the band's new label Razor & Tie. The as-yet-untitled disc was produced by Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, who also worked on the band's 1998 full-length debut 'Somber Eyes to the Sky,' as well as discs by Unearth, Underoath, All that Remains, The Devil Wears Prada and others.
The first Black Sabbath studio album to feature vocalist Ozzy Osbourne since 1978's 'Never Say Die!' will likely come out next fall, which leaves even skeptical fans crossing their fingers, hoping to hear Ozzy's trademark howl with Tony Iommi's legendary crunchy, downtuned minor-key riffs.
