Showing posts with label Black Sabbath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Sabbath. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Heavy Metal News of the Week 12th Nov 2011


A couple of exciting Download 2012 Annoucements this week...

Metallica will play their Black Album in it’s entireity as the first headliner announced this week, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that it is not Lulu... speaking of which check out my review link at the end of this post






The second headliner announced yesterday after a flurry of internet speculation is the original line up of Black Sabbath. The world of metal has reacted well to the news lets see if they can live up to the hype

French band Gojira have signed to RoadRunner records this week, having seen these guys live would definitely recommend you check them out if you haven’t already and will release their fifth album through the label





German Power Metallers Blind Guardian are putting together a compilation album “Memories of A Time to Come” representing the first 25 years of their career





And on Heavy Metal Bullet this week if you haven’t already checked it out:

Heavy Metal New Blood Band Profile: Ampora – Find out more about the LA Based Metallers

Another Negative Heavy Metal Study – more psychological analysis from yet another doctor who just doesn’t get it

Heavy Metal Album Review: Metallica and Lou Reed – Lulu – Experimentation in music is always to be encouraged but...

Friday, 4 November 2011

Heavy Metal News From the Week Gone By

Below are a few snippets that caught my attention this week, some light hearted news, some good news and some terrible news...

Starting with the bad GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot aka Flattus Maximus found dead yesterday and will be sadly missed. Read the bands statement here

Lou Reed says Metallica fans have threatened to shoot him and also talks about possible further collaborations?! I shall be finally forcing myself to listen to and review "Lulu" over the weekend and still somewhat optimistically hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Megadeath release the new video for "Public Enemy No 1" check it out on their website here

Black Sabbath have sparked rumours on a reunion all over the net with the appearance of "11.11.11" on their website will have to wait until then to see what it means I guess

Bloodstock Open Air Festival announce Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed, Corrosion of Conformity and Anaal Nathrakh for the 2012 line-up, full details on the BOA website

And finally you can check out the video for the Korpiklaani song that didn't make it through to the Eurovision contest, it might actually have been worth watching if they had...