ROB ZOMBIE: New Album Title, Release Date Revealed
Rob Zombie has set "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" as the title of his new album, due on April 23 via Zodiac Swan/T-Boy/Ume. T-Boy Records is veteran rock manager Andy Gould's new partnership withUniversal Music Enterprises (UMe) which will serve as an umbrella label releasing new music and albums from established iconic hard-rock bands with major followings. The CD was produced by Bob Marlette, who has previously worked with everyone from BLACK SABBATH and ALICE COOPER to WILSON PHILLIPS and LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
In an interview with the Toledo Free Press, Zombie stated about"Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor": "It seems to happen every couple of years or every 10 years or every five years or whatever, you have a moment when it all comes together. Not that the other records are bad, but not every record can be like the most inspired event in your life. But for some reason, this one feels like it is. The songwriting, the sound of it, the vibe, the production — it's special."
According to Zombie, fans can expect an album that touches quite a few musical bases.
"It's stylistically sort of a little bit of everything," Zombie said. "Fans of my really old stuff will love it because there's a certain aspect of it that's very reminiscent of that. But it also is very looking to the future. It's hard to describe music to somebody if they haven't heard it, but I feel like it's the best of all of the things I've done. I've finally found a perfect match between the old stuff I did and the new stuff. That's the way it sounds to me anyway."
The singer released a collection of remixes of various ZOMBIE tracks on August 7, 2012 called "Mondo Sex Head". The remixes feature some of the hottest names in the growing electronic dance music scene, along with contributions from Jonathan Davis of KORN and Chino Moreno ofDEFTONES.
Gould, who currently heads his own Spectacle Entertainment Group, has managed Rob Zombie since his days in WHITE ZOMBIE. Gould's track record includes sales exceeding fifteen million worldwide and sevenGrammy nominations with Zombie, including securing deals for Zombieto become one of only a handful of people to have unprecedented success for six feature films as the writer and director.
"We have had a great deal of success in the past with Rob Zombie," explains Gould about his decision to take the new venture to UMe. "We want to sign rock bands with brand names that do good business on the road, and have been underserved by the major label system. The idea I had arose out of discussions with the other managers of major hard-rock acts who all felt their artists could benefit from an improved label experience. We're looking to super-serve this niche audience, which is tremendously loyal, and is often even larger internationally than here in the States."
STONE SOUR: 'House Of Gold & Bones - Part 2' Cover Artwork Unveiled
The cover artwork for the second part of STONE SOUR's "House Of Gold & Bones" double album can be seen below. The effort, which is expected to be released in April, will also be made available as a four-issue comic book.
Like the story, the "House Of Gold & Bones" album package comes in two parts. When the two pieces meet, they combine to create the"House Of Gold & Bones".
When asked by ThisIsNotAScene what fans can expect from the second part of "House Of Gold & Bones", singer Corey Taylor said: "Part 2 is much darker [than the first part], if I'm honest. Aside from it being a completely different album, it feels more like a soundtrack to a movie in a lot of ways, man. It's really thematic. There are themes from part 1 that reveal themselves and that come again, musically. There's actually stuff from part 2 that you'll hear that's on part 1 and you'll be like, 'Fucking hell!'"
He continued: "We essentially recorded these, and this is where technology is now, so you could have these in a playlist on your iTunesand play them top to fucking bottom and really get that experience while you read both parts. So it's some of our darkest music, our most intricate and complex music, some of the best fucking lyrics I've ever written, to be honest. Even writing from a narrative like that, it was so challenging. Plus, it's got some of our best songs on it.
"You guys think part one's good? Fuck off. 'Do Me A Favor' alone is going to kick the shit out of people and that's going to be the first single, which comes out in January, that's going to be the first taste that people get of part 2, and people aren't going to know what to do."
STONE SOUR will send its new single, "Do Me A Favor", to rock radio stations on February 12. A video is already in the planning stages, with director Phil Mucci tapped to film the clip. Taylor gave The Pulse Of Radio a preview of what to expect from the song. "It's quite aggressive, and actually the label asked me if I would go in and tame stuff down and I was like, 'No.' I'm not doing that," he said. "This is going out the way it is and I'm not gonna touch it up. I'm not gonna have people looking for a song that doesn't exist. This is the way it is on the album, that's the way it's going to be when we put it out to radio."
"House Of Gold & Bones - Part 1" came out last fall.
Taylor recently told Billboard.com recently that the group is planning a world tour in 2014 during which they will spend two nights in each city and perform both halves of its "House Of Gold & Bones" double album in their entirety.
STONE SOUR and PAPA ROACH have teamed up for a co-headlining U.S. tour that kicked off on January 20 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
HALESTORM Performs On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
HALESTORM were the musical guests on last night's (Tuesday, January 29) edition ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" The band performed two songs — "Love Bites (So Do I)" and "Freak Like Me" — on the show's indoor stage in front of a standing-room-only crowd. You can now watch video footage of the group's appearance below.
HALESTORM was nominated for a Grammy Award on December 5, 2012 for "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance," for the song"Love Bites (So Do I)".
HALESTORM is up against ANTHRAX, IRON MAIDEN, LAMB OF GOD,MARILYN MANSON and MEGADETH in the category.
"Love Bites" is taken from HALESTORM's second album, "The Strange Case Of…"
The song hit No. 1, making HALESTORM the first female-fronted act in history to top the Active Rock chart.
The band recently headlined the Jägermeister Presents tour and closed out a very successful 2012 with three special holiday performances billed as "An Evening With" the band. The shows took place on December 27 at Philadelphia's Electric Factory, December 29 at Montclair, New Jersey's Wellmont Theater and December 31 at Soundstage in Baltimore.
ROB ZOMBIE's New Album To Include Cover Of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD's 'We're An American Band'
The eagerly awaited new ROB ZOMBIE album, "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor", will be released on April 23 on Zodiac Swan/T-Boy/Ume. The CD was produced by Bob Marlette, who has previously worked with everyone from BLACK SABBATH and ALICE COOPER toWILSON PHILLIPS and LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
"I think for the first time this new album perfectly merges the old days ofWHITE ZOMBIE with the future of what I am doing now," says Rob. "I think fans of both will agree that this is the perfect combo of both worlds."
A rock icon and auteur filmmaker with insight and unlimited vision, Rob Zombie has continuously challenged audiences as he stretches the boundaries of music, film, and publishing. Now, the seven-time Grammy-nominated recording artist releases his fifth solo album, "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor", which includes the first single, "Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Super Town", along with such tracks as "Ging Gang Gong De Do Gong De Laga Raga", "Lucifer Rising", "Behold! The Pretty Filthy Creatures" and a heavy-duty cover of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD's "We're an American Band".
"Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" is the first release on Rob's new label, Zodiac Swan, through T-Boy Records/UMe.
Zombie told The Pulse Of Radio what goals he set for himself in making the new album. "I wanted someone to hear it and go, 'Wow, I haven't heard that before,'" he said. "I wanted it to be just different. We really went out of our way with the sounds, so every song has a very different sound, a very different guitar sound, drum sound, just everything, where the sound, the actual sound becomes very important. You know, after all these years you want to still try to feel that you can break through new, creative areas in your own mind, and that's really what we're just trying to do, you know."
T-Boy Records is veteran rock manager Andy Gould's new partnership with Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) which will serve as an umbrella label releasing new music and albums from established iconic hard-rock bands with major followings.
Gould, who currently heads his own Spectacle Entertainment Group, has managed Rob Zombie since his days in WHITE ZOMBIE. Gould's track record includes sales exceeding fifteen million worldwide and sevenGrammy nominations with Zombie, including securing deals for Zombieto become one of only a handful of people to have unprecedented success for six feature films as the writer and director.
"We have had a great deal of success in the past with Rob Zombie," explains Gould about his decision to take the new venture to UMe. "We want to sign rock bands with brand names that do good business on the road, and have been underserved by the major label system. The idea I had arose out of discussions with the other managers of major hard-rock acts who all felt their artists could benefit from an improved label experience. We're looking to super-serve this niche audience, which is tremendously loyal, and is often even larger internationally than here in the States."
As a musician, Rob Zombie has sold over fifteen million albums worldwide to date. His last studio album was "Hellbilly Deluxe 2". The CD came a decade after its predecessor, "Hellbilly Deluxe", the album that established Zombie as a solo artist after the breakup of multi-platinum group WHITE ZOMBIE. That triple-platinum album also yielded a string of successful radio singles, namely "Dragula", "Superbeast" and "Living Dead Girl", which dominated the airwaves.
The rocker-turned-film director is the only artist to experience unprecedented success in both music and film as the writer/director of five feature films, with a worldwide gross totaling more than $100 million dollars. The week of his album release, Zombie will premiere his sixth motion picture, "The Lords Of Salem", that he wrote, directed and produced in tandem with the producers of the "Paranormal Activity"franchise, on April 26, with Anchor Bay Films.
Last year, in addition to working on his film, Zombie also dominated the touring world in 2012, blowing away audiences on the road withMEGADETH, then with MARILYN MANSON for the "Twins Of Evil Tour".Zombie and his band of maniacs — John 5 on guitar, Piggy D on bass and Ginger Fish on drums — brought their elaborate, multi-media production, complete with hair-raising theatrics, animatronic robots, oversized LED screens, a non-stop collage of psychotronic monster film clips, a spectacular light show, a gigantic robot with flames shooting out of its body, pyrotechnics, insane guitar riffs and vicious beats to audiences and festivals around the world.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Stone Sour's Corey Taylor Says House of Gold and BonesWas “Tailor-Made” for Comic Book Adaptation
Fans don’t have too much longer to wait to get their hands on Stone Sour’s comic book adaptation of their double concept album, House of Gold and Bones. Frontman Corey Taylor, who’s an avid comic book fan, says that creating the four-issue mini-series was an easy decision.
“I wanted to do it with this because it honestly felt, no pun intended, kind of tailor-made for it,” he tells ABC News Radio. “I wrote the short story [that House of Gold and Bones is based on] so it could be very visual. I wanted it to evoke a kind of imaginative projection in people’s heads, so I think it was a really short jump to comics, so it made sense to do that.”
Taylor adds that while he enjoyed the experience of making his first comic book series, he doesn’t expect to produce more of them in the future. “Stuff like that…it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of effort and a lot of hard work,” he notes. “Just from a four-issue mini-series standpoint, it’s been kicking my butt the whole time, so I don’t know. I hate to say never, but you never know.”
The first issue of the House of Gold and Bones comic book mini-series will be available on April 17. House of Gold and Bones Part 2, which doesn’t have a firm release date yet, is expected to be released in April as well.
The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes, CAKE to Perform at Inaugural Bottle Rock Music & Arts Festival
The producers of the Bottle Rock Music & Arts Festival have locked down an impressive list of artists to perform at their inaugural event. The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes and CAKE have signed on for the first edition of the fest, which runs May 9-12 in Napa Valley, California. Other bands set to take the stage at the event include The Flaming Lips, The Shins, Ben Harper and Rodrigo y Gabriella.
More acts will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the fest will go on sale on Sunday. Visit BottleRockNapaValley.com for more information.
Metallica to Perform and Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at 2103 Revolver Golden Gods Awards
Metallica will be presented with the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fifth Annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards ceremony, set to take place May 2 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. The metals mavens also will perform during the gala, along withStone Sour, Anthrax, Five Finger Death Punch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Halestorm and other as-yet-unannounced bands.
Metallica's Lars Ulrich says in a statement, "Since the Revolver Golden Gods Awards is fast becoming THE most rocking awards ceremony in the hard rock world, we are beyond psyched to be at the receiving end of this shout-out and in the distinguished company ofRush, [Motörhead's] Lemmy [Kilmister], Ozzy [Osbourne] and Mötley Crüe."
This year's other honorees include Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who will be recognized with the Riff Lord Award; and Rob Zombie, who will receive the Golden God Award.
Among the other awards that will be handed out throughout the evening are Best Guitarist, Best Drummer, Paul Gray Best Bassist, Best Vocalist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Talent, Best Live Band and Comeback of the Year. Visit Revolvermagazine's website to cast your vote for who you think should win. Voting will be open until April 15.
For the first time ever, the Revolver Golden Gods Awards will be broadcast live on U.S. television on the AXS network. The show also will be viewable on Xbox LIVE, as well as on the Xbox and Revolver Facebook pages.
In conjunction with the awards, Stone Sour and In This Moment will embark on the inaugural Revolver Road to the Golden Gods Tour in March. The 30-city trek will wind its way around the U.S. before finishing up at the 2013 Revolver Golden Gods Awards Show.
Here is the list of nominees for this year's Golden Gods Awards: Best Guitarist:
John 5 (Rob Zombie & solo)
Stephen Carpenter (Deftones)
Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Misha Mansoor (Periphery)
Brendon Small (Dethklok)
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
Best Drummer:
Abe Cunningham (Deftones)
Mario Duplantier (Gojira)
Arejay Hale (Halestorm)
Gene Hoglan (Dethklok & Testament)
Roy Mayorga (Stone Sour)
Neil Peart (Rush) Paul Gray Best Bassist:
Rex Brown (Kill Devil Hill)
Steve Harris (Iron Maiden & solo)
Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Jason Newsted (Newsted)
Sergio Vega (Deftones) Best Vocalist:
Phil Anselmo (Down & solo)
Maria Brink (In This Moment)
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Chino Moreno (Deftones)
Corey Taylor (Stone Sour & Slipknot) Best New Talent:
Device
Ghost
Kvelertak
Miss May I
Of Mice & Men
Young Guns Best Live Band:
Anthrax
Five Finger Death Punch
Hatebreed
Lamb of God
Slipknot
Volbeat Comeback of the Year:
Aerosmith
The Darkness
Quicksand
Refused
Soundgarden
Tenacious D Song of the Year:
Asking Alexandria, "Run Free"
Avenged Sevenfold, "Carry On"
Black Veil Brides, "In the End"
Dethklok, "I Ejaculate Fire"
Halestorm, "Love Bites (So Do I)"
In This Moment, "Blood" Most Dedicated Fans:
Black Label Society
Black Veil Brides
A Day to Remember
HIM
Rammstein
Slipknot Album of the Year:
Deftones, Koi No Yokan
Gojira, L’Enfant Sauvage
Halestorm, The Strange Case of…
Marilyn Manson, Born Villain
Soundgarden, King Animal
Stone Sour, House of Gold & Bones Part 1
Killswitch Engage Offer Stream of “In Due Time”; Reveals Track List for Disarm the Descent
Killswitch Engage is giving you the chance to check out the first single from their upcoming album, Disarm the Descent. The band has just posted a stream of “In Due Time,” which will be available at all digital retailers on Tuesday.
The band also recently revealed the track list for Disarm the Descent, which features 12 new songs. The new album features vocals from original frontman Jesse Leach, who reunited with the band last year.
"It is with a grateful spirit that we prepare for this record's release,” said the singer in a statement. “To me this is by far my best vocal performance…I am very grateful to be where I am in life, back in an amazing band with a record we are all excited for the world to hear.” Disarm the Descent is due in stores on April 2. Here is the track list:
“The Hell In Me”
“Beyond the Flames”
“New Awakening”
“In Due Time”
“A Tribute to the Fallen”
“The Turning Point”
“All That We Have”
“You Don't Bleed for Me”
“The Call”
“No End in Sight”
“Always”
“Time Will Not Remain”
