by Zach Shaw | Oct 10, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs, Touring
As you may recall, drummer Paul Bostaph suffered a serious injury a couple of months ago. As a result, Bostaph was forced to sit out of the recording sessions for Testament’s new album Dark Roots Of Evil (due out in early 2012). And unfortunately, it looks as though...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 21, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs
Singer Jizzy Pearl (ex-Love/Hate and Ratt) has announced that after 2 years he was parting ways with the Tracii Guns-led version of 80’s hair metal group L.A. Guns. Pearl released the following statement via his website: “After an amazing two years in L.A. Guns, I...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 20, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs
Those who saw Within Temptation during their string of North American dates this past month may have seen the last of co-founder/guitarist Robert Westerholt on stage. Though he will remain in the band as a song writer and studio performer, the band announced that...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 16, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs
When Evan Seinfeld parted ways with Biohazard out of the blue back in June, many assumed he was giving up on music altogether. After all, he’s become more popular as of late (and probably making more money) for screwing in front of a camera than he has for screwing...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 15, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs
When Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater, it probably wasn’t his intention to be a journeyman drummer, but he’s been tapped to sit behind the throne for another big band – this time Stone Sour. With Roy Mayorga taking some time off for the birth of his...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 8, 2011 | Metal Musical Chairs
As we’ve noted many times before, White Wizzard have gone through more lineup changes in two years than most bands do in their whole careers. And earlier today, the band confirmed that 19 year old virtuoso guitarist Jake Dreyer has joined them as their new second...