by Bram Teitelman | Jun 20, 2013 | Label Moves
Monte Pittman, probably best known as Madonna’s guitar player, has signed a deal with Metal Blade Records. The release date for his third solo album will be announced shortly. It will be produced by Flemming Rasmussen, who produced Metallica’s Ride the...
by Metal Insider | Jun 17, 2013 | Label Moves, Updates
Unearth has been shaking things up recently. Guitarist Ken Susi is in a (surprisingly good) pop-punk band, and now the metal heavyweights have left longtime label Metal Blade and joined new label eOne in North America. News of their new label home was hinted at back...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 14, 2013 | Label Moves
While working on album number eight, Darkest Hour has gone through lineup changes and been touring with Killswitch Engage. And as it turns out, they also found a new label home in Sumerian Records during that time as well. Darkest Hour announced today that they’ve...
by Zach Shaw | May 28, 2013 | Label Moves, Releases
While they continue to finalize its lineup, the reformed Nine Inch Nails now have a new label home. In fact, not only has NIN confirmed that they’ve signed to Columbia Records, but also that a new album will likely come out later this year. This is somewhat of a...
by Zach Shaw | May 23, 2013 | Label Moves
The reformed Carcass has been teasing Surgical Steel, the group’s first album since 1996’s Swan Song, since the beginning of the year. And even last Monday the UK extreme metal icons were teasing their new label deals via Facebook. Now it’s official: Carcass’ new...
by Bram Teitelman | May 23, 2013 | Label Moves
Fans of long-defunct desert stoner rock band Kyuss have a lot to listen to these days. Not only is the band’s original guitarist Josh Homme about to release another Queens of the Stone Age album, but Kyuss vocalist John Garcia and drummer Brant Bjork have...