Filed under: Metal, Music News, Steel Panther | Tags: Fancore, Metal, Music News, Myspace, Steel Panther, Webchat
LA cock-rockers Steel Panther will be coming at you via the web today, after announcing a live MySpace Videochat.
Expect profanity and leather galore (and more innuendos than you can handle) today at 5.30pm. For those brave enough, you can still submit your questions to Michael Starr and the band by commenting on This Blog and then tuning in later this evening.
Filed under: Aerosmith, Classic Rock, Fit Men, Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized | Tags: Aerosmith, Classic Rock, Injury, Joe Perry, Metal, Rock, split up, Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler's search for alternative employment didn't start too well.
Mammoth rock gods Aerosmith have announced plans to replace singer Steven Tyler, and quickly. Guitarist Joe Perry confirmed this in an interview with news agency QMI ”We’ll start having some auditions, making some phone calls. Hopefully, we’ll have found a new singer by the summer, and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road”.
In the interview he detailed the problems preventing Tyler from touring with the band at the present time “He [Tyler] has to have leg surgery and foot surgery and it’s basically going to take him out of the picture for about a year, year and a half. So, in the meantime, the rest of the band wants to play. And I want to play with the other guys in Aerosmith. So the four of us are just making our plans. We’re gonna find somebody to get in there and fill that spot”
We here at Fancore are huge Aerosmith fans, and we can’t help but ask what the big rush is? For a band that doesn’t exactly take on a breakneck workload these days, sitting this year out and letting Steven recover wouldn’t end the world would it? What do you guys think? Should Aerosmith have gone the side-project route, or should they not let one man’s absence influence the band? Give us a shout on the comments section.
Filed under: Heaven and Hell, Iron Maiden, Metal, Metallica, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Sonisphere Festival, Tour News | Tags: Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Heaven and Hell, Iron Maiden, Knebworth, Metal, Metallica, Motley Crue, Music, Music News, Rammstein, Rock, Scott Ian, Slayer, Sonisphere Festival, Tour, UK
After bagging ‘Best New Festival’ at the annual festival awards, Sonisphere have announced that the festival will be returning for 2010, extending to a three day event and boasting a mighty impressive line up.
Iron Maiden and Rammstein are confirmed as headliners for the Knebworth festival, with Alice Cooper, Slayer, Anthrax, Iggy and The Stooges, The Cult and Motley Crue also on the bill. With Metallica announcing a headline slot for Sonisphere in Poland, the thrash legends are heavily rumoured to be the third headliner for the UK dates.
The full statement from the festival organisers is as follows:
“Alice Cooper, Anthrax, The Cult, Iggy & The Stooges and Slayer will be making their only UK festival appearances at Sonisphere whilst Motley Crue will perform their only UK show of 2010.Tickets are currently on sale. Other bands heavily rumoured have ranged from Heaven and Hell to Foo Fighters, keep up to date with all your festivals here at FANCORE. Will you be buying tickets?
Slayer will make their welcome return to a festival stage in the UK after a three year absence at Knebworth with fellow ‘big four’ thrash kings Anthrax returning with John Bush back in the fold.
Guitarist Scott Ian says: “God-damn we couldn’t be more thrilled about being a part of Sonisphere 2010!!!! We are still buzzing from our insane show at Knebworth last summer and are drooling over the fact that we are a part of this history making festival!! What an amazing Xmas present for Anthrax and our fans. See you all very soon!!”
Flying in from LA for their only UK show of 2010, Motley Crue will be bringing with them their sleaze-drenched rock with The Cult also making an exclusive UK festival appearance and having marked England’s place on the global rock map, they remain one of the few UK hard-rock bands to have truly broken in the US. Talking of legends, Iggy & The Stooges are also sure to make their presence felt at Knebworth this summer!
Sonisphere is set to be an even bigger monster in 2010, with the extra day of music added. Friday 30th July will see the festivities getting started with a Rocky Horror Show theme, and Alice Cooper – the godfather of theatrical rock – suitably closing the evening on the Saturn stage at his only UK festival performance of 2010.
Fancy dress is expected and encouraged. In addition to the acts on Saturn, there will be bands performing on two tented stages from 6pm until 11pm.
Regular campers will have access to the campsite from 12pm on the Friday, but for a mere £5, the festival campsite will open for early campers at 3pm on Thursday 29th July, with Bohemia village open from 6pm Thursday right through until 3am Sunday morning, for non-stop fun with white knuckle rides, dodgems, arcades, comedy, massage, bars, market stalls, and cafes to chill out in.
There is much more to come with dozens more bands to be announced in the new year – metal, rock, hardcore, thrash, classic, indie, punk, you name it, Sonisphere will have it. From well-established rock icons to the hottest new names, if they rock and are worth seeing, they will be playing at Knebworth.”
Filed under: Album News, Anger, Hardcore, Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Punk, Rock and/or Roll, TV, Uncategorized | Tags: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Slayer, Thrash Metal, World Painted Blood
Thrash gods Slayer will be shredding shit up on Wednesday 4 November’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band will be promoting the upcoming release of “World Painted Blood”, is out the day before on American Recordings.
Filed under: Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Punk, Rock and/or Roll | Tags: Big Show, Chris Jericho, Heavy Metal, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Metal, Raw, Smackdown, Smackdown vs Raw 2010, Southern Rock, Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE
Southern metallers Maylene and the Sons of Disaster are venturing between the ropes with a string of collaborations with World Wrestling Entertainment. The band’s single “Step Up (I’m On It)” has been chosen as the theme song for the WWE’s Bragging Right’s pay-per-view. The track will also appear on the Smackdown vs Raw 2010 video game.
As if this isn’t enough chair-swinging, guitar-toting tomfoolery, Maylene have also been commissioned to write a song for the Unified World Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho and the Big Show. Expect to hear the tune “Crank The Walls Down” on Raw and Smackdown soon.
Filed under: Hardcore, Metal, Music, Music News, Punk, Rock and/or Roll, Tour, Tour News, Uncategorized | Tags: Black Flag, Fancore, Hardcore, Henry Rollins, Punk, Rock, Rollins Band, Spoken Word
Former Black Flag singer and Rollins Band leader Henry Rollins has announced an extensive UK spoken word tour early next year. The burly vocalist rarely minces his words so these dates will be a treat.
Catch the wisdom at:
Dublin Vicar Street January 12
Glasgow Academy January 13
Leicester De Montfort Hall January 14
London Royal Festival Hall January 15
Manchester Lowry January 16
Leamington Spa Assembly January 17
Norwich UEA January 18
Bournemouth Opera House January 19
Liverpool Academy January 20
Newcastle Academy January 21
Leeds Academy January 22
Filed under: Album News, KISS, Metal, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized | Tags: Ace Frehley, Bruce Kulick, Eric Carr, Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, KISS, Mr J, New Album, New KISS Album, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Sonic Boom, Tommy Thayer, Vinnice Vincent
by Mr J
Anyone with a pair of ears, and a passion for rock will have heard KISS’ company line on Sonic Boom. For what seems like centuries, self-styled bass-demon Gene Simmons and velvet-voiced love-marksman Paul Stanley have extolled the “meat and potatoes” style of the upcoming album, boasting about it’s natural place in the pantheon of past glories Love Gun and Rock And Roll Over. Well paint me white and call me a Catman because the aging pyrotechnic-enthusiasts have pulled it off.
The newly-refurbished KISS juggernaut rolls into view with Modern Day Delilah. The stomping opener removes any doubt that the band would be forgoing modern bells and whistles, with not a hint of a vocoder disrupting Stanley’s trademark wail. Classic Paul bleeds effortlessly into classic Gene, with Russian Roulette featuring a godzilla-scaled chorus and bombastic if somewhat childish lyrics.
It is in this impressive vein that the album continues. Not everything meets the high watermark, Yes I Know (Nobody’s Perfect) is a serviceable but forgettable mid-pacer for example, but for a band whose form fluctuated so violently during their patchy 1980s run, this release is laudably consistent.
Never Enough is the finest song this band have written since the Revenge album seventeen years ago, a flawless ode to not being held down. The ideal soundtrack to those days spent clicking your pen and wanting to smack your boss and/or lecturer. I’m an Animal sees Simmons milk his Demon character for all it’s considerable worth with a metal-plated cut that sits comfortably in the God of Thunder/Unholy lexicon.
In the grandest KISS tradition, it isn’t just the Demon and the Starchild who step up to the microphone. On All for the Glory, drummer and current Catman Eric Singer turns in a driving rocker, his throaty croon adds an earthier shade to the band’s sound. Meanwhile lead guitarist and studio album debutant Tommy Thayer quietens the whispers accusing him of being simply a hired gun (or axe as the case may be) with an impressive effort. Evoking the 80s glam metal scene of which his own Black ‘N’ Blue were a part, When Lightning Strikes is a creditable piece.
There is only one way to end a KISS album, and that is with an Optimus Prime-sized anthem, in this case Say Yeah. Say yeah? If KISS are your bag you’ll be screaming it. If they aren’t, this album isn’t going to change your mind. If you’re the latter, take solace that it won’t be long before Gene Simmons endorses some earplugs.
Filed under: Metal, Music, Music News, Tour, Tour News | Tags: Metal, Music, Music News, Rock, Slayer, Thrash, Tour, UK Tour, World Painted Blood
Californian thrash metallers Slayer have announced an Autumn tour of the UK in support of album, “World Painted Blood”. Prepare to have your face torn off at the following dates:
NOVEMBER
18 – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
19 – BIRMINGHAM Academy
20 – MANCHESTER Academy
22 – GLASGOW Barrowland
23 – LEEDS Academy
25 – LONDON The HMV Forum
26 – LONDON The HMV Forum
Filed under: Metal, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Steel Panther, Tour News | Tags: Glam, Metal, Music News, Rock, Rock and Roll, Steel Panther, Tour
Lock up your daughters, your mother, grandmother, brothers and sisters. Don your leathers and for god’s sake do not leave the house without half a bottle of hairspray and an appropriately metal-style headband. Steel Panther have announced a mini UK tour for this September, leaving no member of your immediate family safe from their fist-pumping brand of hard-faced glam rock.
You can catch America’s latest love affair before they are strictly confined to playing stadiums, at the following dates:
SEPTEMBER
13 – BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
14 – MANCHESTER Club Academy
15 – GLASGOW G2
16 – LONDON Camden Electric Ballroom
Filed under: Metal, Music, Music News, Tour News, Trivium | Tags: Into The Mouth Of Hell We Tour, Metal, Metalcore, Music News, Rock, Tour, Trivium
Trivium have announced that they will be scouring the UK next March for Into The Mouth Of Hell We Tour, ensured to give your 2010 a bit of a kick up the arse.
Catch the Floridian Metallers at the following dates:
MARCH
05th – CARDIFF University
06th – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
07th – STOKE Victoria Hall
08th – LEEDS Met Uni
10th – NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
11th – INVERNESS Ironworks
12th – GLASGOW Barrowlands
13th – MANCHESTER Academy
14th – NORWICH UEA
16th – PORTSMOUTH Pyramid Centre
17th – LONDON Koko
18th – LONDON Koko
20th – OXFORD O2 Academy
22nd – FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
23rd – WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
24th – BRISTOL O2 Academy
Tickets are now on sale and available from SeeTickets.com.
Filed under: Limp Bizkit, Metal, Music, Sonisphere Festival, Tour News | Tags: Download, Limp Bizkit, Machine Head, Metal, Music, Music News, Nu-Metal, Rock, Sonisphere Festival, Tour
If you’ve been following the fate of the UK leg of Sonisphere Festival, you’ll know that they haven’t had the best luck with bands recently. Adding to the ranks of Thin Lizzy, Fear Factory and Frank Turner, metallers Machine Head are the latest to split from the festival…unbelievably the only reason being citing is Limp Bizkit’s recent addition to the bill.
Machine Head broke the news to fans via their official website, stating:
“In a turn of events that has left us absolutely baffled, the promoter of the U.K. Sonisphere festival recently placed, unbeknownst to us, Limp Bizkit in our third slot on the festival. Seeing as the running order was a significant part of the negotiation and agreement between us and the promoter, and the fact that we had been advertised in that slot since the festival’s announcement, you can imagine our surprise when we were ‘told’ that we would now be playing in the fourth slot, under Limp Bizkit, and bizarrely, it was actually expected that we would quietly move down the bill without issue. We will not.”
MH also noted that they had turned down an appearance at Download Festival to honour their commitment to Sonisphere, (as well as making it clear that Download had them playing above Limp Bizkit). We’re sure everyone is pretty disappointed as ultimately the only people missing out are the fans. We’ll leave our opinions out of this but needless to say we’re sure everyone would have preferred for both bands to play and let their music prove who should be playing over who…
Sonisphere have also posted a statement, detailing their best efforts to keep Machine Head happy and on the bill:
“We have spent close to two weeks talking to Machine Head to try and keep them on the festival including offering them higher billing on the Saturn Stage, so that they would be performing immediately after Limp Bizkit and before NIN.
They would also get a longer time slot and were offered an increase in fee. Unfortunately the band did not find this agreeable. We have strived to make Sonisphere a great festival in our debut year with one of the strongest line ups out there. Our main priority is to give the fans a great weekend full of awesome bands and it was only recently that Limp Bizkit became available. In the process Machine Head have been upset, and despite our best efforts, they have made the decision to cancel their appearance.”
Machine Head are still set to play the Spanish leg of Sonisphere Festival, where they have been now moved to the main stage. Where you looking forward to seeing them play? We hope Bizkit‘s set more than makes up for the absence and if Download’s performance is anything to go by, they will be one of the best on the bill.
Filed under: Limp Bizkit, Metal, Music, Music News, Tour, Tour News, Uncategorized | Tags: DJ Lethal, Download, Download Festival, Fancore, Fanzine, Fred Durst, John Otto, Limp Bizkit, Nu-Metal, Sam Rivers, Sonisphere, Wes Borland
Nu-metal icons Limp Bizkit have signed on to play the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth, UK. They will play on the Sunday, 2nd August, alongside Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Avenged Sevenfold. After a barnstorming set at this year’s Download Festival, believe us when we tell you that you won’t want to miss the opportunity to see the “redneck fuckers from Jacksonville” in the flesh. See you down the front!
Filed under: Album News, KISS, Metal, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized | Tags: Ace Frehley, Album News, Anomaly, Fancore, Fanzine, Gene Simmons, KISS, KISS news, New Album, Paul Stanley
ex-KISS guitarist/Rock legend Ace Frehley has nailed down a release date for his long-awaited new album entitled “Anomaly” Space Ace’s new record will be released on September 15th. Frehley recently explained the direction the album would be taking to Billboard saying :
“Basically, I’m trying to get back into the mindset I was in when I did my first solo record [1978's 'Ace Frehley']. That record seemed to have all the elements everybody liked — a real cool instrumental, a hit single, some real heavy rockers, a nice variety of different genres of music”
As devoted KISS army soldiers, we here at Fancore can’t wait to hear what Ace can come up with on the new record. And with his former band’s new opus also set to drop in September, it will be a fine month for us black and white paint-wearers indeed.
Filed under: Fit Men, KISS, Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll | Tags: 360, Ace Frehley, Bill Aucoin, Bruce Kulick, Eric Carr, Eric Singer, Fancore, Gene Simmons, KISS, Kiss 360, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Rock, Rock and Roll, Tommy Thayer, Vinnie Vincent
KISS frontman Paul Stanley and bassist Gene Simmons have released some more snatches of info on the band’s first studio album in 11 years. The Starchild had this to say on Kissonline.
“We’re about four days from finishing the new KISS album. Eleven tracks, and it IS everything I’ve told you. It IS classic. It IS all written within the band. And IT ROCKS BIG TIME! Tommy and Eric both handle lead vocals. The songs, sound and playing will knock your socks off. You will all be as proud and excited as we all are. Oh…and WAIT till you see the cover! We ARE just getting started!”
Demon and reality TV star Gene added this today
headed off to the recording studio to do some vocals on the new KISS STUDIO ALBUM (we’ll tell you the title later).
Gene Simmons
Exciting stuff, this just might be Fancore’s most anticipated release of the year, tell us what you think!
Filed under: Metal, Tour, Tour News | Tags: Beholder, Benediction, Bolt Thrower, Heavy Metal, Metal Blade
Coventry Metal legends Bolt Thrower will play Birmingham Asylum on 29th August with fellow Brit-Metal mainstays Benediction and heavy duty up and comers Beholder. This show is not to be missed, the Metal icons haven’t graced a UK stage in three years. See you down the front!
Filed under: Album News, Metal, Music, Music News, Uncategorized | Tags: Album News, Death Metal, Deathcore, Heavy Metal, Job For A Cowboy, Metal Blade, Ruination
Arizona Death Metallers Job For A Cowboy are streaming a new track from upcoming album “Ruination”. You can check out “Unfurling A Darkened Gospel” HERE and also flick through the new album’s insert booklet, to get yourself in the mood for having your ears pummeled. The track is intense, so get yourselves over there now!
Filed under: Album News, Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Video | Tags: Album News, Heavy Metal, It's All Happening, iwrestledabearonce, Metal, Metalcore, Music News, Prog, Progressive, You Ain't No Family
Progressive Metalcore nutcases iwrestledabearonce have released a new video for single “You Ain’t No Family” You can view the clip HERE. The track is the first to be released off new album “It’s All Happening”, which is available now.
Filed under: Enter Shikari, Metal, Music, Music News, Punk, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized | Tags: Blue Bear, Common Dreads, Enter Shikari, Juggernauts, Nero, Rou Reynolds, True Tiger
Dancecore heroes Enter Shikari have released two remixes of their upcoming single Juggernauts, to publicise it’s 1st June release.
Frontman Rou Reynolds talks us through the remixes:
BLUE BEAR – TRUE TIGER REMIX – http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid17823878001?bctid=24014430001
‘A Local label to us and good mates who we thought could give Juggers a tidy dubstep mix; and that’s exactly what they’ve done! They’ve kept the feel good vibe of the track which isn’t really heard much in the dubstep world but I think it really works and sounds gorgeous.’
NERO REMIX: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid13590588001?bctid=24014432001
‘We’ve always really looked up to Nero as drum and bass producers, and felt they could do a great job with Juggers. He really accentuates the euphoria of the tune and rivals any big dance floor club banger with this!’
The St Albans boys’ new album Common Dreads is out on 15th June. An interview with the band will appear in the first issue of Fancore fanzine, which will be available on this site worldwide, and at various venues, record stockists and clubs across the UK.
Filed under: Alt-Rock, Download Festival, Metal, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Tour, Tour News | Tags: Attack! Attack!, Download Festival, Fei Comodo, Festival News, Hardcore Superstar, In Case of Fire, Logan, Sabbat, Suicide Silence, The Crave, The Ghost of a Thousand
The Download Festival lineup is complete. After months of nervous hypothesising, salacious rumour-mongering and sweaty-palmed anticipation, the lineup for Donington is here. The nifty 120 band soiree is completed by:
BLEED FROM WITHIN
SLEEPERCURVE
NEW DEVICE
THE OUTCRY COLLECTIVE
TRIPSWITCH
THE INSTIGATORS
IN CASE OF FIRE
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR
SYMPHONY CULT
THE CRAVE
BILLY BOY ON POISON
THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND
PEOPLE IN PLANES
THE AUTEUR
13 RIOTS
FOREVER NEVER
THE COMPUTERS
SERPICO
SABBAT
SUICIDE SILENCE
FLOOD OF RED
ATTACK! ATTACK!
LOGAN
FEI COMODO
JETT BLACK
MILLION$ RELOAD
RAUCOUS JAYS
Some quality stuff in there, and not long now til the fest! Download runs from 12th-14th June at Donington Park.
Filed under: Album News, Alt-Rock, Marilyn Manson, Metal, MTV, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized | Tags: Dita von Teese, Evan Rachel Wood, Industrial, Marilyn Manson, Metal, Punk, Rock, The High End of Low, Twiggy Ramirez, Wes Borland
If you’re a try before you buy kinda cat, you’ll be pleased to know Industrial Everyone-Botherer Marilyn Manson has put his new album The High End of Low on MySpace for all the world to hear.
The God of Fuck probably doesn’t care if you like it, but we do so drop us a line and let us know your thoughts. Listen to the album HERE and tell FANCORE what you think.
Filed under: KISS, Metal, Rock and/or Roll, Uncategorized, Video | Tags: Ace Frehley, Anton Fig, Bob Kulick, Bruce Kulick, Creatures of the Night, Eliteworks, Eric Carr, Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, KISS, Mark St John, Memorabilia, Music From the Elder, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, The Elder, Tommy Thayer, Vinnie Vincent
More unseen footage of The Hottest Band in the World; KISS, has surfaced. You may remember we brought you the story of rare Elder-era footage surfacing in support of a series of KISS memorabilia auctions. If you don’t remember then catch-up to the rest of the world HERE
Once again the footage has been released by eBayer eliteworks in support of more exciting KISS auctions, including letters signed by Gene Simmons, Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer. The videos include a “Creatures of the Night”-era news piece and two more gems plucked from the “Music From the Elder” press junket. Check out the clips ON YOUTUBE.
Filed under: Metal, Tour, Tour News | Tags: Cavalera, Cavalera Conspiracy, Gig News, Heavy Metal, Max Cavalera, Metal, Sepultura, Show News, Soulfly, Tour News, Tribal Metal
Tribal Metal favourites Soulfly have announced a pair of UK shows this June. The Cavalera-fronted riff-mongers will be playing:
Mon 15th Jun 2009
Tue 16th Jun 2009
This is hardly enough to fly over here for is it? Maybe our Brazilian chum Max will be venturing to a few other UK dives for some Rock ‘n’ Roll ruckus? Here’s hoping. Keep checking Fancore and you’ll know when we do.
Filed under: Children Of Bodom, Metal, Music News, Tour News | Tags: Alexi Laiho, As I Lay Dying, Children Of Bodom, God Forbid, Heavy Metal, Lamb Of God, Metal, Municipal Waste, Music News, No Fear Energy Tour, Tour News
Finland’s Children Of Bodom have officially departed from the “No Fear Energy Tour” with Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, Municipal Waste and God Forbid.
Frontman Alexi Laiho broke his shoulder last month when the tourbus took an irregularly sharp turn, causing the singer to fall from his bunk. Doctors today ordered Laiho to refrain from performing to avoid causing permanent damage, Bodom soundman Kal “K-Man” Kreacher posted on his Twitter account confirming the news: “Going home. Sorry. Doctor said [Alexi] should not play. It is better than fucking himself up for good. Three-week break; all should be good then.”
The dates that Children Of Bodom will have to miss are as follows:
Affected dates are as follows:
May 09 – Philadelphia, PA – The Electric Factory
May 11 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
May 12 – Boston, MA – House Of Blues
May 13 – Albany, NY – Washington St. Armory
May 14 – Richmond, VA – The National
May 15 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House Of Blues
The band performed a shortened three-song set last night (Friday 8th) in New York, having to say farewell only a fraction into their set due to Alexi’s shoulder giving in.
It’s a shame for the dates affected, hopefully Alexi will be good as new in a few weeks, wishing him a speedy recovery!|
Filed under: Album News, Metal, Music, Music News, Tour, Tour News, Uncategorized | Tags: Album News, Hardcore, Heavy Metal, Metal, Metalcore, The Devil Wears Prada, With Roots Above and Branches Below
Metalcore merchants The Devil Wears Prada have been forced to miss a pair of shows in Russia planned for next week. In a statement, the band they explain the cancellations:
“Unfortuntely the band have had to postpone two shows in Russia scheduled for next week but are now planning a longer visit as soon as their schedule allows:
The Devil Wears Prada deeply regret for the Russian tour reschedule that have rapidly occurred due to personal reasons of the band members.
We would like to assure you that nothing went wrong, everything was on schedule and the tour was properly planned by our Russian promoters.
We both would love to come to Russia as soon as possible and our Russian promoters together with our management are currently working on this to happen. More to say – the list of the cities that we will visit will be larger!”
The Devil Wears Prada released their new album “With Roots Above and Branches Below” on Tuesday. You will be able to read a full review in the first issue of Fancore magazine. Get a sneaky taster of the new record in the the form of new cut “Sassafras” over on their Myspace
Filed under: Album News, Download Festival, Metal, Music, Music News, Rock and/or Roll, Tour, Tour News, Uncategorized | Tags: Album News, Def Leppard, Download Festival, Girl, Man Raze, Music News, NWOBHM, Paul Cook, Phil Collen, Rock, Sex Pistols, Simon Laffy, Tour News
Rock supergroup Man Raze, fronted by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and completed by founding Sex Pistol, Paul Cook and ex-Girl bassist Simon Laffy, have announced the UK release date for their critically acclaimed debut “Surreal” The UK version of the album, that is already making waves Stateside, comes complete with a bonus disc of unreleased material featuring ” ‘You’re So Wrong’, ‘Low (Live in Burbank 08), ‘Turn It Up (Deep Dub)’, ‘Runnin’ Me Up (Instrumental Dub)’ and ‘Can’t Find My Own Way’ Live Acoustic (Gary Crowley show).
You can see Man Raze in the UK at the Download Festival on Saturday 13th June, with Collen’s other band Def Leppard headlining the main stage on Sunday 14th June. Man Raze will be playing a one-off headlining show at Dublin Academy 2 in Eire on Wednesday 10th June.
Check these boys out, they combine their legendary pasts into a fresh-sounding, Rock ‘n Roll racket. Fancore approves.
Filed under: Album News, KISS, Metal, Music News, Rock and/or Roll | Tags: Ace Frehley, Album, Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Interview, KISS, Metal, New Album, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Rock and Roll, Tommy Thayer
KISS frontman Paul Stanley graced Danny Bonaduce’s radio show this morning, where he spoke about the upcoming fan-routed KISS tour, his art gallery appearances and briefly about the newest KISS album.
The as-of-yet untitled new album has already been self-confirmed for a September release by Paul Stanley himself, who said in the new interview that the band are close to finished it. He also noted that the band’s recent effort is “as good [as], if not better than, some of the vintage” KISS records.
It’s certainly a bold claim! Not beyond them though. Do you have high hopes for the new album?
The full interview can be downloaded as an mp3 from This Location.
Filed under: Metal, Music, Music News | Tags: Benji Webbe, Ragga, Skindred, Tour News, UK Tour
Ragga-metal heroes Skindred will embark on a supersized UK tour this Autumn, and Fancore has got the dates!
See Benji Webbe’s roots-rock assault at:
SEPTEMBER
30 – NORWICH Waterfront
OCTOBER
01 – NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
02 – MANCHESTER Club Academy
03 – LEEDS Cockpit
04 – NEWCASTLE Academy 2
05 – GLASGOW ABC 2
07 – STOKE Sugarmill
08 – SHEFFIELD Corporation
09 – NORTHAMPTON Roadmender
10 – WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
11 – OXFORD Academy 2
13 – CARDIFF Solus
14 – BRISTOL Academy 2
15 – FALMOUTH Pavillions
16 – EXETER Phoenix
17 – SOUTHAMPTON University
19 – BRIGHTON Concorde 2
20 – LONDON Electric Ballroom
If you see Fancore, buy us a beer!
