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Emmure

Emmure Co-Founder Threatens Lawsuit

Ben Lionetti, a founding member of Emmure, is threatening to sue the band, Victory Records, and management. He has also called Emmure “disgusting” for titling a new song on their upcoming album “Bring A Gun To School”. Read a statement from Lionetti below: I feel a little need to speak out. Let’s get this straight … Emmure is MY blood sweat and tears ..MY band born from my thoughts and my hard work and writing (I’m sure you can see the change from early Emmure to now so if they say they wrote it you know it’s a lie; I was[Read More…]

Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil Guitarist And Drummer Announce Retirement From The Band

Lacuna Coil have announced that longtime guitarist Cris “Pizza” Migliore and drummer Cristiano ‘Criz’ Mozzati are stepping down from the band. Dear friends, It is with a heavy heart that we share this news with you today: Our two brothers Cris ‘Pizza’ Migliore and Cristiano ‘CriZ’ Mozzati have decided to retire from LACUNA COIL. Both Pizza and CriZ have had big changes impact their lives recently – we know how stressful and difficult it can be to balance both real life and the life of a professional touring musician, and we have nothing but total respect for their decisions to[Read More…]

City Lights

City Lights Break Up

City Lights have announced that they are breaking up. We are going to keep this short and sweet. We have decided to call it quits because we’ve all come to a time in our lives when we’re ready to take on new opportunities. For some of us, that involves continuing to play music, and for others it involves working behind the scenes in the industry. We firmly believe that we can contribute to not only our own musical growth, but to the growth of our music scene in general by taking on these new opportunities, and continuing without City Lights. We[Read More…]

Upon This Dawning

Upon This Dawning Sign To Artery Recordings

Artery Recordings have announced the signing of Upon This Dawning to their label. The band will release their label debut ‘We Are All Sinners’ on April 29. “We’re so proud to be part of this family,” the band said. “It feels good to work with such great people that really believe in this band. 2014 is going to be a year full of surprises. This new record is such a big step for us and we’re pretty sure people will be shocked!”

Pure Love

Pure Love Going On Indefinite Hiatus

Pure Love are going on an indefinite hiatus due to continual struggles in getting their band off the ground. Read below: Ok. It's been long enough. Time for some news………………………… — PURE LOVE (@therealpurelove) February 7, 2014 After what can only be described as a "hard year" Jim and I have decided to hit the brakes and place Pure Love into the phantom zone.. — PURE LOVE (@therealpurelove) February 7, 2014 It's not an easy decision, and we both hate the term "indefinite hiatus" but that's exactly where we are at….. — PURE LOVE (@therealpurelove) February 7, 2014 Please join[Read More…]

Meridian

Meridian Sign To Victory Records

Victory Records have announced they signed Meridian. The band will begin work on their debut album, which will be out later this year. We’re very excited to join the Victory roster. We’re honored to be share the same home as so many legendary bands. We are excited to get to work on our full length debut, which will be out later this year. We want to thank anyone who has come out to a show and supported us to get to this point. We couldn’t have done it without you. We also want to thank anyone who took the time[Read More…]

In This Moment

In This Moment Signed To Atlantic Records

In This Moment‘s guitarist Chris Howorth reveals in a interview that the band is ready to hit the studio later this month to start work on their new album. “We have a bunch of ideas,” Howorth tells Billboard; “and the way we did ‘Blood’ was different than we’d done any album before. We brought ideas and pieces and parts into the studio and wrote each song in the studio, one at a time. All the other albums we had the songs formatted and together already.” “So we’re going to do the same thing again. We’re gonna try to replicate the[Read More…]

Shinedown

Shinedown To Release Film Documenting Band’s History

Shinedown is shooting a film to tell the story of Shinedown’s history, according to frontman Brent Smith, the movie will be much different than what you’d expect. “It’s a little bit of a difficult thing to describe, because it’s such a unique concept, the way that we’re shooting it and the way that we’re putting together the life of the band over the past 15 years,” says Smith. “But we’re doing it in a very impactful way, especially with how we’re gonna edit it and how we’re gonna release it.” (via Blabbermouth)

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers Bassist Responds To Super Bowl Controversy

Red Hot Chili Peppers performed at Super Bowl halftime show alongside Bruno Mars on Sunday. But the performance has drawn criticism as it was visibly noticeable that bassist Flea and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer were performing without their instruments plugged in. Bassist Flea released an open letter to fans explaining the situation. Dear everybody, When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded. I understand the NFL’s stance on[Read More…]

Black Flag

Black Flag Announce New Vocalist

Mike Vallely is now taking over on vocals for Black Flag following the firing of Ron Reyes. Read below: “We feel that, generally, the band fell short in 2013 because of a difference in the philosophies of Ron and Greg – it just led to dysfunction,” says Mike Vallely, a pro skateboarder who spent 2013 managing Black Flag and singing with Ginn in another, similarly aggressive group, Good for You. The skater says he is granting only one interview on the state of Black Flag and that he speaks for Ginn. He also says that as of Reyes’ ouster, he has officially stepped[Read More…]

Silverstein

Silverstein Guitarist Hospitalized

Silverstein guitarist Paul Marc Rousseau is in the hospital in Cornwall, Ontario after receiving emergency surgery. As a result, the band’s shows in Windsor, Kitchener and Hamilton will be rescheduled. Read a full statement below: Hi everyone, we have some bad news. Paul Marc is in a hospital in Cornwall, ON after having to have emergency abdominal surgery last night. He started feeling severe pain right before our show in Sherbrooke and it got so bad we had to stop at a hospital on the way back to Toronto. Right now our shows in Windsor, Kitchener and Hamilton are being rescheduled. Paul[Read More…]

Basement

Basement End Hiatus, Announce Summer Shows

Basement have announced that they are returning from hiatus and will be playing shows this summer. Read below: In the autumn of 2012 we made a decision as a band to put things on hold, as many of us had other commitments in our lives that needed to take priority. Almost two years on, for the most part now settled in where we want to be, it feels like there is space for change. When we put out the hiatus statement, we genuinely thought we were going to be away for quite a while, and we didn’t see any chance of[Read More…]

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots Cancel All Upcoming Shows

Stone Temple Pilots have cancelled all of their upcoming shows due to the recording process of their new album. The Living End will replace the band on Soundwave. Check out a statement from promoters below: STONE TEMPLE PILOTS regretfully cancel all upcoming shows The recording of the new album has now gone beyond schedule and sadly the availability of the recording studio, engineers and the producer or lack thereof dictates that the band have had to cancel their upcoming engagements. In line with our commitment to bring you great replacements, we are pleased to announce that Australia’s finest live rock band, THE LIVING END ,[Read More…]