Today, it was announced that STONE SOUR, the band featuring SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor (vocals) and Jim Root (guitar), has parted ways with bassist Shawn Economaki. Here is Corey Taylor's Tweet regarding this matter:
"As some of you might have heard but I'll confirm it: Shawn Economaki is no longer with STONE SOUR. We wish him luck in the future."
As previously reported, Economaki left STONE SOUR in April 2011 during the "Avalanche Tour" to handle some "personal issues." He was temporarily replaced by Jason Christopher, who has since joined Sebastian Bach's touring band. While his replacement hasn't been announced yet, James Root posted the picture below on his Instagram account. Is this the bands NEW bassist?
The album is expected in the Fall of 2012, two years after the band's most recent longplayer 'Audio Secrecy', which debuted at position No. 6 on the Billboard chart and No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes Rock Album chart. It scored the highest international debuts of the band’s career, including Top 5 charts in Germany, Japan and Austria, and Top 10 in the U.K. and Australia. Taylor tweeted the fall release plan, adding that the album has a title but that he "won't give it away yet."
TRESPASS AMERICA is a newly minted music festival set on revitalizing the Metal scene with some of the most current and credible bands in Hard Rock/Metal. A co-production with Trespass America and Metal Hammer, the biggest Metal magazine in the U.K., the tour kicks off July 13 at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado, and will cover 31 cities in two months between July and August across the United States. Ticket are on sale now! Visit TrespassAmerica.com for complete details.
With more to be announced, confirmed dates for the Metal Hammer Trespass America Festival are as follows:
Jul. 13 - Broomfield, CO @ 1st Bank Center Jul. 15 - Billings, MT @ MetraPark Arena Jul. 16 - Bismarck, ND @ Bismarck Civic Center Jul. 17 - Sioux Falls, SD @ Sioux Falls Arena Jul. 19 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom Jul. 21 - Fort Wayne, IN @ Allen County Expo Center Jul. 24 - Lubbock, TX @ Lonestar Amphitheater Jul. 25 - Belton, TX @ Bell County Expo Center Jul. 27 - San Antonio, TX @ Freeman Coliseum Jul. 28 - Beaumont, TX @ Ford Pavilion Jul. 30 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena Aug. 03 - Battle Creek, MI @ Kellogg Arena Aug. 07 - Syracuse, NY @ SRC Arena Aug. 08 - Glens Falls, NY @ Glens Falls Civic Center Aug. 10 - Scarborough, ME @ Scarborough Downs Aug. 14 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Aug. 15 - Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre Aug. 17 - Worcester, MA @ DCU Center Aug. 18 - Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center Aug. 19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Penn's Landing Aug. 22 - Knoxville, TN @ Knoxville Civic Coliseum Aug. 25 - Rio Rancho, NM @ Santa Ana Star Center Aug. 26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre Aug. 28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
METAL BLADE RECORDS is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year. In celebration of their third decade as Heavy Music visionaries, the label is holding the ultimate switchblade contest. Here are the contents for the METAL BLADE prize package for May 2012:
- Metal Blade Records 30th Anniversary Collector's Pint Glass - Cannibal Corpse 'Torture' Limited Edition Figurine - Cannibal Corpse 'Torture' CD - The Black Dahlia Murder 'Ritual' Vinyl LP - Allegaeon 'Formshifter' CD - Goatwhore 'Blood For The Master' CD - Arch/Matheos 'Sympathetic Resonance' CD - Six Feet Under 'Undead' CD - Job For A Cowboy 'Demonocracy' CD - OSI 'Fire Make Thunder' CD
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his 17th birthday party that would later become known the world over as Beastie Boys.
With fellow members Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Beastie Boys would go on to sell over 40 million records, release four #1 albums–including the first hip hop album ever to top the Billboard 200, the band's 1986 debut full length, Licensed To Ill–win three Grammys, and the MTV Video Vanguard Lifetime Achievement award. Last month Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with Diamond and Horovitz reading an acceptance speech on behalf of Yauch, who was unable to attend.
In addition to his hand in creating such historic Beastie Boys albums as 'Paul's Boutique', 'Check Your Head', 'Ill Communication', 'Hello Nasty' and more, Yauch was a founder of the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness and activism regarding the injustices perpetrated on native Tibetans by Chinese occupational government and military forces. In 1996, Milarepa produced the first Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which was attended by 100,000 people, making it the biggest benefit concert on U.S. soil since 1985's Live Aid. The Tibetan Freedom Concert series would continue to stage some of the most significant benefit shows in the world for nearly a decade following in New York City, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, Taipei and other cities.
In the wake of September 11, 2001, Milarepa organized New Yorkers Against Violence, a benefit headlined by Beastie Boys at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, with net proceeds disbursed to the New York Women's Foundation Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA) September 11th Fund for New Americans–each chosen for their efforts on behalf of 9/11 victims least likely to receive help from other sources.
Under the alias of Nathanial Hörnblowér, Yauch directed iconic Beastie Boys videos including "So Whatcha Want," "Intergalactic," "Body Movin" and "Ch-Check It Out." Under his own name, Yauch directed last year's Fight For Your Right Revisited, an extended video for "Make Some Noise" from Beastie Boys' Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, starring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride and Seth Rogen as the 1986 Beastie Boys, making their way through a half hour of cameo-studded misadventures before squaring off against Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as Beastie Boys of the future.
Yauch's passion and talent for filmmaking led to his founding of Oscilloscope Laboratories, which in 2008 released his directorial film debut, the basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot and has since become a major force in independent video distribution, amassing a catalogue of such acclaimed titles as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop, Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze's Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak, and many more.
Yauch is survived by his wife Dechen and his daughter Tenzin Losel, as well as his parents Frances and Noel Yauch.
DYING FETUS have posted the second video in a series of in-studio videos taken during the recording sessions of their NEW album 'Reign Supreme', which is scheduled for a June 19th release via Relapse Records. The second installment covers laying down some of the vocal tracks as well as bass parts.
The band has released a full album teaser for 'Reign Supreme'. 'Reign Supreme' features nine tracks and is a "return to roots" with production focused slightly more on slam than in the band's last few works. Thematically, the album is set to be a good old-fashioned piece of social and political commentary in the style of DYING FETUS as we have come to know. View the album teaser HERE.
Check out an exclusive lyric video for the first new song from Reign Supreme entitled "Subjected to a Beating" HERE.
DYING FETUS will be on tour all summer long including an appearance at Maryland Death Fest as well as the "18 Nights of Blood Tour" in North America with label mates REVOCATION and Six Feet Under. They will also be on a headlining tour of Europe which includes appearances at the "Copenhell Festival" in Copenhagen, Denmark, "Hell Fest" in Clisson, France, the "With Full Force" festival in Roitzschjora, Germany, "Sevilla Rock Festival" in Sevilla, Spain and the "Getaway Rock Fest" in Gävle, Sweden.
The first video in the series which focuses on the drum tracking process can be viewed HERE.
DYING FETUS 18 Nights Of Blood Tour 2012 with Six Feet Under and Revocation:
This just in: the death of Adam Nathaniel Yauch (A.K.A. MCA) has been confirmed by music mogul Russel Simmons. The co-founder of crossover heavyweights the BEASTIE BOYS leaves behind his wife Dechen Wangdu, and his daughter Tenzin Losel Yauch. Yauch was 47 years old. Our condolences go out to his MCA's family, friends, the BEASTIE BOYS camp, and all of his fans.
In 2009 Yauch announced that he was being treated for a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. In 2011, Yauch posted an update on the Beastie Boys' website telling friends and fans he was not cancer-free as reportedly, but was "staying optimistic and hoping to be cancer free in the near future."
the BEASTIE BOYS were recently inducted into the Rock N' Roll Half Of Fame, but Yauch was absent.
Fresh off the latest six-week orgy of blood, booze, and missing children that was the second half of GWAR's "Return of the World Maggot/Farewell, Flattus Maximus" North American tour, the members of rock and roll's hardest working band have returned to the vastness of their Antarctica fortress to begin work on "a shitload of projects, all destined to rule...", said lead-singer Oderus Urungus. It all adds up to a summer of debauched excess for GWAR fans.
The band capped off the latest tour in grand fashion as they stuck to the four-piece line-up that was thrust upon our plucky barbarian overlords after the tragic exodus of guitarist FLATTUS MAXIMUS' from this mudball planet to the eternity of the cosmos, which occurred in November of last year as the band was just getting rolling on their huge two-part tour of North America. The band elected to stick it out not just for the remainder of the fall tour, but retain the line-up with Balsac, the Jaws of Death, as sole guitar player. Every night the band would end the set with a special tribute to Cory Smoot, a musician whose talent was so immense that no one could ever fill his giant rubber feet, thus compelling GWAR to officially retire the character of Flattus Maximus. Faced with the daunting task of finding a new Scumdog who can match the standard of excellence the band demands, GWAR has activated certain contingency plans, and the process that will hopefully lead to a new and hellish alignment with some kind of hideous creature, one capable of slaying thousands with JUST ONE NOTE. Needless to say, auditions are not "open". GWAR is also writing material for their new album, which could be out as early as several thousand years from now. Look for updates at Oderus' twitter feed, @therealoderus...NOW!
Despite being in an intense studio phase, GWAR will appear for some very special events of supreme carnage this spring and summer. First up, GWAR will be playing at the "New York Zombie Prom", a special event put on by Abracadabra NYC , Zombies Can't Love and Zombies Worldwide for the undead of New York City, to be held at Irving Plaza on Saturday June 9th. Then GWAR travels to Montreal on June 16th to take part in the D-Tox Rock Fest, along with other heavyweights As I Lay Dying, Bad Religion and Voivod to name a few. But undoubtedly the social event for bohabs world-wide will be the third annual GWAR-B-Q, to be held in Richmond, Va., Aug. 18th, 2012.
"We are not announcing any details regarding the GWAR-B-Q until we are 110% sure they are firmly grounded in reality", said Slave Pit spokesman Dave Brockie, "but the GWAR-B-Q is definitely ON, it's gonna be on Saturday, August 18th, and GWAR will headline. It's going to be everything we hoped it would be last year and much, MUCH more. We have amazing support acts and an incredible venue that we will be announcing very soon...it's going to be the greatest GWAR-B-Q ever!"
So get ready for more music, murder, and MAYHEM from our Lords and Masters, the mighty GWAR!!!!
GWAR LIVE: - 6/9: New York, NY @ Irving Plaza (Zombie Prom) - 6/15: Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel - 6/16: Montebello, QC @ Montebello Marina (D-TOX Rockfest) - 6/17: London, ON @ London Concert Theater
