Idols Of Apathy premiere Bipolar video

Watch the new video from Idols Of Apathy

Essex metal mobsters Idols Of Apathy are debuting their new video for Bipolar exclusively with Metal Hammer.
"The track was written and fuelled on my bipolar disorder," says vocalist Jack Dervish. "It's something that during the writing process of this track, before it was named, had me writing things that I haven't said for a long time. I was hurting people I didn't want to hurt and I was having the full effect of bad luck, bad timing with bad thoughts, all at once. The music itself contains our most angriest and positive parts of the EP and in all honesty when writing it I didn't notice but everything in this track is purely me at my best and worst.

Scorpion Child issue She Sings, I Kill lyric video News / Stef Lach / 09 Nov 2015

Track taken from upcoming 2nd album and is available on 7-inch vinyl at live shows

Scorpion Child have released a lyric video for their track She Sings, I Kill.

The song is taken from the band's upcoming second album, due for release in early 2016.
Singer Aryn Jonathan Black says: "Rather than viewing She Sings, I Kill as a first single off of our upcoming album, it serves more as a window into its creation. It offers a mix unique to this release but also previews one direction taken on this next record that we're excited to finally bring into fruition."
The track is available on 7-inch vinyl at the group's November and December live dates. It includes B-side (Enter The) Twilight Coven.
Scorpion Child released their self-titled debut album in 2013.

Milk Teeth release Brickwork promo

View video for track taken from upcoming debut album

Milk Teeth have released a video for their track Brickwork.

It's taken from the British punk rockers' upcoming debut album Vile Child, out on January 29, 2016, via Hopeless Records. It follows their two EPs – 2013's Smiling Politely and this year's Sad Sack.
Singer and bassist Becky Blomfield says: "With Vile Child, we didn't set out with any grand idea we just wanted to make something that crossed over. This record encompasses everything we do well as a band."
The album was recorded at The Ranch Production House in the New Forest with producer Neil Kennedy.
Guitarist and co-vocalist Josh Bannister adds: "Vile Child is a culmination of all the things we have learnt from being in this band over the last two years all the experiences we have had personally and as a group all in one place."

Ghost, Undead in Los Angeles

Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood April 27, 2014

Occult-loving Swedish rockers Ghost (aka Ghost BC) stopped off in Tinsel Town for a sell-out show on their month long US tour. Here's five things we learned while Ghost hunting...
A GOOD VENUE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Los Angeles seems to have more than it's fair share of dismal venues (we're looking at you Club Nokia and The Wiltern, or would be if we could see more than the back of someone's head), but thankfully the Fonda is not among them. Aside from great acoustics and the added 'bonus' of being able to see the band, the entire place is decorated with the Hieronymous Bosch painting of Hell, floor to ceiling! It may be foolish to review a venue, but, come on, Ghost playing in Hell on a Sunday! How cool is that? If Satan doesn't show up tonight then he's never showing up.
KING DUDE MIGHT BE WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON
King Dude is the tattooed fella who fronts the opening trio, “a folk singer turned rock 'n' roll Lucifer” according to his bio, and while it would be blasphemy to utter the name Johnny Cash in the same sentence, you'd be heading in roughly the right direction. There's a fair amount of Nick Cave in those mournful howls, too, and a vague feeling of the Reverend Horton Heat on heroin. Which is a good thing, for the most part, and at least half the set is quite mesmerizing while the rest is slightly grating. London's Miraculous Mule do it better, but a nice find nonetheless.
WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHO'S ACTUALLY IN GHOST
It's probably for the best that Ghost have gone for more of a Darth Vader look on this tour than the unfortunate Klan-like outfits they've previously sported, but, to give them their due, the band have honed the anonymity thing down to a fine art. There are strong rumours that Dave Grohl is playing drums tonight, which would make sense as he produced their If You Have Ghost EP and lives here in LA, but since all that can be seen of the drummer is his hands we'll probably never know. Hell, we could be watching an all-star line-up or a bunch of plumbers, who knows? That's kinda cool, too.
SOMETIMES YOU'LL BE THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM WHO DOESN'T GET IT
It would be preposterous to suggest that this is anything other than the gig of a lifetime to the faithful who are gathered here. They hang on every word and sing to every song, as rapt an audience as it's possible to wish for. If, on the other hand, you've never seen Ghost before, you might find yourself, around mid-set, wondering what all the fuss is about. Certainly it's excellent musicianship, but isn't it also just Blue Oyster Cult in funny costumes, with a bit of Mercyful Fate thrown in? Maybe a dash of the classics here and there, like a whiff of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana?
YES, IT'S DEFINITELY BLUE OYSTER CULT
Seriously, they've even got a similar Hook and Cross logo to the one made famous by BOC in the 70s. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing that with everything from Infestissumam onwards Ghost manage to evoke a bygone age, and their surprising Beatles cover, Here Comes The Sun, is oddly haunting, but, still, there's a minority of one who doesn't get it. Should George RR Martin's The Armageddon Rag ever get made into a movie then Ghost would supply the perfect soundtrack, but until then... Just because you've seen a ghost doesn't mean you have to believe in them.

Foos Grohl ensnared by rogue stage curtain

Band’s show in Amsterdam disrupted after frontman is trapped by falling screen

Foo Fighters’ recent show in Amsterdam was temporarily disrupted when frontman Dave Grohl became ensnared in a falling stage curtain.

The band opened their set in the Netherlands with Everlong – but as the track kicked in and the screen fell, it landed on top of the singer. It left him and the custom-made throne he’s been using because of his broken leg trapped under cover.
Grohl continued to play and sing but was forced to call a halt to proceedings while the curtain was slowly removed.
He said to the crowd: “Sometimes it’s the fucked up things that make you remember the show for the rest of your life.” The band then started the track from scratch.
The group recently kept their promise to play in Cesena, Italy after 1000 fans staged a mass performance of Learn To Fly to temp the band to their town.
The Foos are currently teasing fans with a countdown clock on their website, which is due to reach zero on November 23.

Black Sabbath kick off US tour

Ozzy and fo got the latest stint of their 13 world tour underway in New York earlier this week

Black Sabbath got the latest stint of their 13 world tour underway in New York earlier this week.
The shows mark Sabbath's first of 2014 and will likely be a decent indicator of what we can expect when the metal legends return to London for that mammoth British Summertime Festival in July.
Check out the setlist and some fan-filmed footage below:
Black Sabbath New York Barclays Center Setlist

1. War Pigs
2. Into The Void
3. Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes
4. Snowblind
5. Age Of Reason
6. Black Sabbath
7. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
8. N.I.B.
9. End Of The Beginning
10. Fairies Wear Boots
11. Rat Salad (with "Supernaut" instrumental and Drum Solo)
12. Iron Man
13. God Is Dead?
14. Dirty Women
15. Children Of The Grave

Encore:

1. Paranoid

Black Sabbath headline the British Summertime Festival on July 4. The full lineup is as follows:
Great Oak Stage
Black Sabbath Soundgarden Faith No More Motorhead Soulfly
The Barclaycard Theatre
Hell Kobra and The Lotus Broken Hands The Bots
Village Hall
Gallows Bo Ningen The Gravel Tones Hang The Bastard
A Plastic Rose
Summer Stage Rise To Remain Blitz Kids The Struts The First
Tickets go onsale tomorrow, Friday April 4.

The last days of Black Sabbath: only in the new issue of Metal Hammer

It's a day we all knew would come, but none of us wanted to see: Black Sabbath are over. Well, not just yet, there's a small matter of a farewell tour to take care of. But ahead of the worldwide celebrations, we talk exclusively to Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and estranged drummer Bill Ward about the legacy the Birmingham band are leaving behind...

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The inventors of heavy metal are leaving behind almost 50 years of riffs, horror and doom that helped shape our world. We ask why now is the time to step out of the limelight from the four men that made it happen and look back at the defining moments in their incredible career.

Before the biggest metal tour of the year hits the UK, we sit down with the two frontmen leading the charge as they face off... Randy Blythe and Dave Mustaine discuss their friendships, the competition on the road, Chris Adler pulling double-duty and what it's like touring as a giant metal monster!

We catch up with the LA industrial titans Fear Factory to get the full inside story on their iconic Demanufacture record 20 years on. From tales of guns on the streets of LA to drug ridden studios, the band's 1995 magnum opus is still regarded as the cornerstone of industrial. This is why.

WWE Superstar, bona fide rockstar, podcaster extraordinaire and so much more – Chris Jericho is the busiest man in music, but how does it keep it all together? We catch up with Y2J to find out just how he keeps his hectic life in check and keeping Brand Jericho moving all the way into Hollywood.

Beartooth have gone from strength to strength since they exploded onto the scene last year with debut album Disgusting. Now, 18 months later, we find out where frontman Caleb Shomo is personally and coping with life back on the road after quitting music three years ago.

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Dave Mustaine performing in Russia earlier this month

Mustaine reveals he's lining up 3 support acts for North American trek – but none of them are LOG

Lamb Of God won't join Megadeth on their 2016 North American tour dates, Dave Mustaine has confirmed.

Randy Blythe and co are currently on tour with Mustaine's band in the UK, with drummer Chris Adler pulling double duty. But the Megadeth mainman told fans in a Periscope Q&A that the two bands won't join up for Megadeth's North America shows – the dates for which have yet to be confirmed.
Mustaine says: "I'm really excited about coming back to the States and doing our North American tour there. The dates are coming along pretty well. And we've got three bands we're gonna be taking out with us there.
"Not completely sure about confirming all of them, but if they do confirm, the guys that I'm thinking about — no, it's not Lamb Of God for North America — if those guys are on it, I think it's gonna be a cool lineup."
Adler – who appears on Megadeth's upcoming 15th album, Dystopia – previously hinted that the two bands might join up on the US dates.