by Bram Teitelman | Nov 18, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News, Touring
First the bad news: Just three dates into the Swamp Leper Stomp tour, Death (DTA) and Cynic drummer Sean Reinert has been forced to exit the tour due to health reasons. Now the good news: they’ve replaced him with another original member of Death, Gene Hoglan....
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 17, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News
It’s been a completely insane year of lineup changes for Arch Enemy, what with Angela Gossow stepping aside for Alissa White-Gluz, but they’ve just upped the ante, because now Nevermore guitarist Jeff Loomis is in the band! He replaces Nick Cordle, who...
by Seth Werkheiser | Nov 17, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News, Touring
Richmond, VA stalwarts Cannabis Corpse have officially welcomed a new guitar player to the band – Brandon Ellis of Arsis! The band made the announcement on their Facebook page: “Cannabis corpse would like to officially welcome Brandon Ellis of ARSIS as our...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 13, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News, Touring
It’s been a long, strange trip for Ministry. Al Jourgensen broke up the band up in 2007, then reformed them to put out another album, Relapse, in 2012. Then, in 2013, the band released From Beer to Eternity, but before then, guitarist Mike Scaccia died onstage...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 11, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News, Updates
2014 has been a pretty big year for Ihsahn. Emperor played some 20th anniversary shows in support of In the Nightside Eclipse, shortly after last year’s Ihsahn album Das Seelenbrechen was released. And the singer is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact,...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 31, 2014 | Metal Musical Chairs, News
Today on their Facebook page, Refused guitarist Jon Brännström, released a statement saying that he’s been fired from the band. Yes, that Refused, the hardcore band that put out The Shape of Punk to Come in 1998, then broke up, reformed and went dormant again....