Tag: Classic Metal

Thrash Metal meets late-night TV – making some headlines this week are Slayer, who are set to make a late-night appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week. On tour now, the legendary thrashers are covering some East Coast ground with a few current and upcoming dates, and they’ll make a stop to play “Raining Blood” at The Tonight Show daytime taping on Thursday, July 27th. The show will air for viewers at 11:35PM ET/PT and 10:35PM CT, but by that time, Slayer will already be at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for their headlining date that […]

Renowned solo artist and Japanese Heritage Ambassador Marty Friedman has a new record on the way, and the instrumental Wall of Sound is set for an August 4th release on Prosthetic Records. Two tracks, “Self Pollution” and “Whiteworm” have already been revealed, and now the third single is available to stream via Billboard Magazine, who has the exclusive first listen. The article also features an interview with the former Megadeth guitarist, discussing details of his new solo album, the players on it, life in Japan, and more. Marty Friedman will head out on the Wall of Sound Tour just before the record’s […]

August 4th marks the date that Accept is set to have their fourth album, entitled The Rise of Chaos, released on Nuclear Blast Records, and the first single has already been revealed. The title track is available to stream in music video form on the Nuclear Blast Records YouTube Channel. The band has also recently released the second in a series of album trailers, featuring Wolf Hoffman of Accept discussing the making of the record, which you can find right here. Here’s some of what Hoffman has to say about the record: “The sound is always a combination of several different elements, it’s […]

Legendary Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell’s new band Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons (consisting of Phil’s three actual sons) is no secret, as the group has an EP out and has kept busy touring with the likes of Saxon, but what does come as news is their official signing to a worldwide record deal with Nuclear Blast. A full-length album and dates alongside Guns N’ Roses are up next, but in the meantime, in honor of the announcement, they’ve released a digital live EP this week. Live At Solothurn features several Motörhead covers in addition to the band’s originals. You can find the EP, as well as all their current […]

Cavalera Conspiracy is back, with new music from the Sepultura legends Max and Igor Cavalera in the form of a fourth album. The yet-to-be-titled record is set for a Fall 2017 Napalm Records release, and the making-of will be documented by Horns Up Rocks along the way in a series called “The Conspiracy Diaries”. The first one has already been revealed, with a teaser and greetings from the studio from the Cavalera brothers: https://youtu.be/34NK3AdtWiI. Further details and future episodes will be on the way via: http://www.cavaleraconspiracy.net/.

New Jersey’s very own legendary thrashers Overkill have just announced a lineup change. Jason “Sticks” Bittner, best known for his work with Shadows Fall and Flotsam and Jetsam, will be taking his place behind the kit and into the history books of Overkill while he joins the band as their new drummer. On the member switch, frontman Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth says, “We wholeheartedly would like to thank Eddy “The Mexicutioner” Garcia for holding down the ship and keeping the momentum up for the band over this past year plus. Eddy has and always will be part of the Overkill machine. Jason is a […]

Megadeth, Meshuggah, TesseracT and Lillake – that’s the lineup most of North America will be getting in June and July when the tour takes off from NY and finishes up in PA while hitting Canada a few times along the way. Some are festival dates, some are at popular venues and a few feature just Megadeth and Meshuggah alone. Tickets are already on sale – the full tour date listing can be seen in the above poster and found at Meshuggah’s official website: https://www.meshuggah.net/tour.