Posted by Seth Werkheiser on September 30, 2015
Devin Townsend and his illustrious Devin Townsend Project made their debut at London’s Royal Albert Hall back in April, which included alien characters from their albums, as well as special human guests like Dominique Lenore Persi from Stolen Babies and Chris Jericho from Fozzy. Judging from these photos if you weren’t there you missed out, but thankfully they filmed the whole show […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on July 8, 2015
Team Sleep, set to release Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4 this Friday, has released, “Your Skull Is Red,” which first appeared on the band’s 2005 self-titled debut. The band (Chino Moreno from the Deftones, guitarist Todd Wilkinson, Chuck X from Crosses, CrookOne, Rick Verret, and Gil Sharone of Stolen Babies and Marilyn Manson on drums) is also busy working on a […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on March 16, 2015
Devin Townsend scored a nice win this weekend, with The Devin Townsend Project’s latest album, Z², winning a Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of The Year. The win came against solid Canadian competition; Waiting for the End to Come by Kataklysm, Brotherhood of the Ram by Shooting Guns, Negative Qualities by Single Mothers, and Chasing the Dream by Skull […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on October 22, 2014
With a new Devin Townsend Project double-album coming out, Z², we’ve got the opening track, “Rejoice” to listen to a week before its official release. This track comes the Sky Blue disc, while the second disc is titled Dark Matters. Townsend had this to say about the new track: “Hey guys, here’s the first song from […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 8, 2014
Devin Townsend is nothing if not prolific, even on Twitter. Last night in a series of Tweets, the musician revealed a bunch of information about the forthcoming Z2 double album that was crowd-funded. Among the information were the guests on the albums. Former The Gathering vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen will once again be performing with him, […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 10, 2014
They might not have Jim Root on tour with them, but Stone Sour busted out a Metallica cover while in Denver. Saying “without Metallica, every single band in the last 20 years wouldn’t be here,” Corey Taylor introduced the song. With Root sitting out the tour to work on the next Slipknot album, Christian Martucci is […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 3, 2013
It now looks more probably than ever that there could well be a new Slipknot album in 2014. Stone Sour has announced a headlining tour that will start in January and run through February 15th. The tour, which also features Pop Evil and Stolen Babies, will be taking place without guitarist Jim Root. The reason? […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on September 4, 2013
Chino Moreno has been keeping busy with Deftones and supergroup Palms. But that isn’t stopping the singer from working on his other side project, Crosses †††. In fact, Moreno’s group supposedly found a new label home. During an interview with Noisey, Moreno revealed that Crosses †††is not only working on its third EP, but has […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on April 19, 2013
The chance to get to see Sevendust and Coal Chamber (two metal groups from the ’00s who once had a bit of beef with each other) onstage together seemed like an opportunity too hard to pass on. Add on Lacuna Coil and Stolen Babies, and you got a pretty solid bill. This tour package made […]
Posted by Daniel Cordova on March 1, 2013
Everything has to start somewhere, and this fact is no different for our metal heroes. Over that past few years I have been asking some of my favorite artists the question “What was your first band called and what did it sound like?” and here are their answers. Devin Townsend Well, I guess I was […]
