Full lineup for Soundwave Festival 2014

Full lineup for Soundwave Festival 2014! 

• GREEN DAY
• AVENGED SEVENFOLD
• STONE TEMPLE PILOTS W/ CHESTER BENNINGTON
• ALICE IN CHAINS
• ROB ZOMBIE
• MEGADETH
• PLACEBO
• AFI
• KORN
• ALTER BRIDGE
• TRIVIUM
• DOWN
• DEVILDRIVER
• NEWSTED
• BIFFY CLYRO
• ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT
• ASKING ALEXANDRIA
• CLUTCH
• ALKALINE TRIO
• BARONESS
• FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
• AUGUST BURNS RED
• TESTAMENT
• LIVING COLOUR
• LETLIVE.
• MOTIONLESS IN WHITE
• GWAR
• THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
• MUSHROOMHEAD
• FINCH
• PULLED APART BY HORSES
• NANCY VANDAL
• BOWLING FOR SOUP
• TRASH TALK
• SKINDRED
• VOLBEAT
• AMON AMARTH
• TERROR
• WHITECHAPEL
• TESSERACT
• THE STORY SO FAR
• 10 YEARS
• ILL NINO
• HARDCORE SUPERSTAR
• WALKING PAPERS
• OUR LAST NIGHT
• COLISEUM
• YOUR DEMISE
• HEAVEN'S BASEMENT
• REAL FRIENDS

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS: 2013 WRAP - MILEY OBSCENE, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AND MACKLEMORE BIG NIGHT

Article : Fuel As Passion...

 How many of you know how to play a musical instrument? And how many of you are still playing? Let me make an assumption. I would say only a handful of 10% of you still play the musical instrument after you've started working and got a family. At least 90% of my friends are in that statistics.

The funny thing is most of them still have a little piece of their dream/passion stucked somewhere between their heart and brains. On one side, there's still the 'concept' of becoming a rockstar and make a living out of doing something they loved. On the other spectrum, there's the 'been there, done that, can't make enough money' group which has a more realistic view in life.

I'm not saying that you can't make a living through music, but its more of what the musicians went through and saw. Imagine that Mr A spends 80% of his time practising and jamming during his teenage years (being a teenager, you don't worry about buying a car or going for fancy dinners), spend 80% of his pocket money on jam studio fees, equipments, accessories, gigs, band merchandise and lets say he spent 5 years doing so. At the same time, his friend, Mr B, got a job, some got promoted within that time frame and Mr A is still playing music at payless gigs, without a line of merchandise to sell and trying to write and sell music for the local market.

Now, in movies and the rockstar dream, usually the musician will hit his big break and make millions and doing awesome tours around the world. How many of us actually make it? Especially in Malaysia. Of course we have celebrities like Amy Search, Hillary Ang, Datin Siti, Awie , Sudirman ,Ajai, M. Nasir and so on, but try taking that and versus the number of rockstar wannabes.....

It's demotivating when we put things into perspective, but it's the truth and everyone knows it including the musicians. There will be a point where majority of the grown up musicians will submit to the ugly truth and move on with their lifes. When this happens, it's like having your dreams shattered by an unseen force. The dissapointment will be doubled because there's no one to blame except yourselves.

Though the dream seems far fetched, having a dream is never a bad thing. And for us, we have a number of role models to look up to for inspiration and it gives us hope that it's achievable.

The most important ingredient to be a musician is passion because passion don't need food or money to survive, just someone who believes in it and passion will be the fuel needed to reach the stars.... with a little luck and a lot of talent.

Don't stop believing in your dreams and make sure passion is your best friend in this journey...

via SOURCE

Drum Tao: Art of Drum Tour 2012

DRUM TAO – ART OF DRUM TOUR 2012
The most anticipated show of the year – DRUM TAO “ART OF DRUM” is set to tour Kuala Lumpur for the first time.

Following their highly successful and critically acclaimed sell out World Tours and No.1 box office smash hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Japan’s most celebrated and elite company of martial drummers, DRUM TAO, are set to tour in KL bringing with them their breathtaking blend of ancient and modern percussion artistry in their new awe inspiring and innovative production.
Seen by over 5 million people worldwide, amassing an unsurpassed reputation for their stunningly executed performances. The incomparable quality and pure unadulterated power and spectacle of their work perfectly blends the ancient traditions of the Taiko Drumming and martial arts mastery with the innovative and flawlessly choreographed production values of contemporary Japanese excellence. Be moved by the powerful, intensely physical and thrilling Taiko drumming and the softer voices of the Japanese flute and horizontal harp that are Drum Tao. They will transport you in a single and unforgettable universe with their stunning performances.
"Undoubtedly one of the finest shows on offer this has to be seen to be believed"
The Herald
"Spectacular percussive, visually compelling, and elementally energising.....precisely choreographed and athletically executed....as strange and beautiful as a dream".UK Independent
"Extraordinarily talented…" Chicago Tribune


Address: Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
Tel: 03 7880 7999

Website: http://www.ticketpro.com.my

From: Aug 24, 2012  To: Aug 25, 2012
Time: Fri, 8pm; Sat, 3pm & 8pm.
Price: RM88-RM308

MGMT LIVE IN KUALA LUMPUR - 25 March 2011.

Kuala Lumpur – Get ready to paint the town a kaleidoscope of reds when hot-wired US rockers MGMT hits KL Live on March 25th for their first ever Malaysian concert. Crossing psychedelic rock with pure adrenaline electro-pop, MGMT is the band behind massive international radio hits Time to Pretend, Kids, Electric Feel and It’s Working and the albums Oracular Spectacular [2008] and Congratulations [2010].

MGMT LIVE IN KUALA LUMPUR is brought to you by FUTURE SOUND ASIA (FSA), the highly regarded organizers of successful shows like Thirst featuring Godskitchen Boombox, The Rapture, 2manydjs, Boysnoize and many more.

Led by duo Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, MGMT emerged in 2008 and immediately took the critics, the music fans and the pop charts by storm, creating a mass of public support around the globe. And with the rapid success of their debut album Oracular Spectacular, the band cut their teeth on the live festival circuit before graduating to their own large-scale headline shows with the release of second album Congratulations in 2010.


***Concert Info***

MGMT LIVE IN KUALA LUMPUR
Date: Friday, 25 March 2011.
Time: 8pm onwards
Venue: KL Live, 20 Jalan Sultan Ismail, 50250 KL
Web: www.futuresoundasia.com & www.whoismgmt.com
Tickets: Will be announce on 3 January.
Enquiries: info@futuresoundasia.com
Facebook Event : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168021923233876

Paramore "a manufactured product of a major label," - Zac Farro

"The band was in the dark the whole time. After many meetings between Hayley, her manager and the labels they decided to sign her to Atlantic Records. We didn't understand why Hayley was the only one signing the contract since we were told this was a 'band,' but we were too young to grasp all of this. ... Next thing we knew we were having a signing party for Hayley."


"Hayley's father ... would constantly threaten to 'pull the plug' on the whole band if we complained about anything, suggesting that we were hired guns and Hayley was the real artist, when in reality we were also part of the band. We've always been treated as less important than Hayley. It's been obvious how her family views things."


"Hayley claimed that this record reunited us as band and made us grow closer together, when in reality we were all growing further apart," he writes. "Suddenly the band had spilt into two sides. Touring became more difficult since we couldn't agree on anything. The friendships our band once had were no longer existent."


Via http://www.mtv.com


I guess it sucks to be in a band like this anyway right?? well, we wish that all parties from Paramore have a bright future in this music industry... The Farro brothers can always form a new band... and Hayley can always be the 'rock star' she's meant to be... :D

Rihanna's Concert in Malaysia Postponed !!!

The “Rihanna Live In Kuala Lumpur” concert scheduled for this Friday at the Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil has been postponed.

Concert organiser Pineapple Concerts Sdn Bhd said it has received an official statement from William Morris Agency in Los Angeles that the show will be rescheduled to a future date.

In a statement released Tuesday, the company stressed that this was not a cancellation but a mere postponement.

Rihanna’s management will confirm within two weeks, a replacement date to be mutually agreed by Pineapple Concerts and the artiste, Pineapple Concerts managing director Razman Razali said in the statement....

Source

This is due to THIS!!!! .... why chris?? WHY????

Bands that'll be playing in the upcoming Legacy Fest in Germany!!!!

This is gonna be an awesome metal fest!!

ARCH ENEMY, BELPHEGOR, MISERATION and ANIMA have been confirmed for next year's Legacy Fest, set to take place May 21-23 in Dessau, Germany.

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

ABORTED
ANIMA
ARCH ENEMY
BELPHEGOR
BEHEMOTH
BURNING SKIES
CALLEJON
DEMONICAL
DESASTER
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
DISBELIEF
EISREGEN
ELUVEITIE
ENDSTILLE
EQUILIBRIUM
EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS
FACEBREAKER
GRAVEWORM
KATAKLYSM
KEEP OF KALESSIN
KREATOR
LAY DOWN ROTTEN
MISERATION
NEAERA
SATYRICON
SODOM
SONIC SYNDICATE
TORTURE KILLER
WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH
WINTERSUN

For more information, visit www.legacyfest.de.

Ablaze in Hatred's New Album - The Quietude Plains

Finnish atmospheric and melodic death/doom metal band ABLAZE IN HATRED has completed work on its second album, "The Quietude Plains", at Noisecamp Studios with producer Kari Nieminen. The follow-up to 2006's "Deceptive Awareness" will be released in February 2009 throughFiredoom Music.

"The Quietude Plains" track listing:

01. A Walk Through The Silence
02. Perfection Of Waves
03. The Wandering Path
04. Beyond The Trails Of Torment
05. The Quietude Plains
06. My Dearest End
07. Therefore I Suffer

The song "The Wandering Path" is available for streaming on the band'sMySpace page.

For more information, visit www.ablazeinhatred.com.

Facedown Records signs Hands

Facedown Records has announced the signing of Fargo, North Dakota's HANDS.

Since forming in 2007, the members of HANDS have desired to present a passionate and intense live show. Now, a year later, they offer a performance that is characterized by what drummer Josh Silbernagel calls "beautiful chaos."

HANDS unfurls hugely anthemic prog-rock ballads bearing the influence ofISIS while at the same time laying out solidly progressive hardcore tracks inspired by bands such as LIFE IN YOUR WAY and MISERY SIGNALS.

HANDS will be working with Mike Dresch at Cathouse Studios (NODES OF RANVIER, THE SPILL CANVAS, WAR OF AGES) for its Facedown debut, which will see a July 2009 release.

HANDS is:

Shane Ochsner - Guitar/Vocals
Josh Silbernagel - Drums
Chris Schwartz - Bass
Jerik Hendrickson - Guitar

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/wearehands

Rudra's Upcoming Video and New Album

Singaporean metallers RUDRA have issued the following update:

"We are currently preparing for the shooting of our first professional music video for the upcoming 'yet-to-be-titled' album. This epic video will be for a track titled 'Hymns From The Blazing Chariot', directed by Jacen Tan.

"We are working with Hosaywood & Apsara Asia Pte Ltd. It will be filmed over a period of two months, using some cool 'green-screen' effects. The concept is based on the ancient battle of Kurukshetra, focusing on the dialogue between two warriors, Arjuna and Krishna. The first shoot will take place this weekend and all of us are looking forward to it."

RUDRA's forthcoming album is the second instalment to the 'Brahmavidya'trilogy. Joshua and Sean of Black Isle Studios mixed the CD, which was mastered by Alan Douches (who has worked on NILE, MASTODON andSEPULTURA albums). An early 2009 release via Trinity Records is expected. 

RUDRA last year inked a six-album deal with Hong Kong's Trinity Records. The group's first release for the label was a reissue of their fourth album,"Brahmavidya: Primordial I" (the first part of a triology), which originally came out in 2005.

RUDRA in 2006 severed ties with Demonzend Records (a.k.a. Demonzend Enterprise), the label that originally issued the group's last album,"Brahmavidya: Primordial I", and re-released their debut CD.

Darkest Hour new album updates..

Washington D.C. metallers DARKEST HOUR are about to enter Baltimore, Maryland's Salad Days Studio with producer Brian McTernan to begin recording their new album for a spring 2009 release via Victory Records. Things have come full circle for the band, which recorded its 2000 seminal debut "Mark Of The Judas" with McTernan.

Commented guitarist Mike Schleibaum: "DARKEST HOUR is hard at work now writing and recording demos that will soon birth our follow up to'Deliver Us'. The DARKEST HOUR sound is evolving once again — it will have all the melody, guitar wizardry, and overall epicness that one has come to expect form a great DARKEST HOUR record but this time that sound will be married with something much darker and sinister.

"We are taking extra time to craft every song and make sure each one is a balls the walls jammer! McTernan is pushing us extra hard to ensure that when these songs make it to you ears they start bleeding!

"We live in dark times and the world needs a soundtrack for them."

DARKEST HOUR will take a break from working on the next album to play a few select dates later this month. Joining the band on the outing will be THE RED CHORD, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD, SKELETONWITCH andROSE FUNERAL.

The details are as follows:

Dec. 18 - Wilmington, NC - The Soapbox (no THE RED CHORD)
Dec. 19 - Philadelphia, PA - The Church
Dec. 20 - Pompton Lakes, NJ - Mainstage
Dec. 21 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club

Regarding the band's collaboration with producer Brian McTernan, Mike Schleibaum previously said, "We are excited to work with Brian again. He has been a longtime friend and supporter of the band ever since its very first shows in 1995. When we recorded 'Mark of the Judas' with him in 2000, it helped solidify our sound and define us as a band. Eight years later, it's time to do it again. With all the scars of our past to guide us, we look towards a new future." 

Look for a DARKEST HOUR European headlining tour in January.

DARKEST HOUR recently parted ways with guitarist Kris Norris and replaced him with Houston's Mike "Lonestar" Carrigan, who filled in forKris during the Thrash and Burn tour. 

DARKEST HOUR's latest album, "Deliver Us", was released in July 2007 viaVictory Records. The follow-up to 2005's "Undoing Ruin" was recorded at the Warehouse in Vancouver, Canada.

Shout - Tears for Fears (Transient Vortex Remix Unofficial)

This is a remix version of Tears for Fear's Shout by Transient Vortex . Why i posted this up?? that's because Transient Vortex is from Malaysia . And I know they've been in the industry for a long long time.. i first heard about them when i was in secondary school.. and that's like at least 10 years back.. ahaha.. anyway , enjoy !!!

here's Transient Vortex's MySpace page..

Queen's 'We Are The Champions and We Will Rock You" is Finally in The Grammy Hall of Fame

Queen's 1977 single We are the Champions/We Will Rock You is among 28 classic recordings that have been newly inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Others include the Police's 1983 album Synchronicity, Stevie Wonder's For Once in My Life and the soundtrack for the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

The Hall Of Fame will form part of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles which opens on 6 December.

Created in 1973, the collection now includes 826 titles.

New submissions are chosen annually by a special member committee of experts and historians drawn from all branches of the recording arts.

Source

Opeth's Tour Dates Updates

Swedish progressive metallers OPETH have scheduled the following dates in their home country:

Feb. 12 - Close-Up Båten's Metal Cruise 2009
Feb. 18 - Malmö, Sweden - KB
Feb. 19 - Linköping, Sweden - Platens Bar
Feb. 25 - Örebro, Sweden - Club 700
Feb. 26 - Falun, Sweden - Arena
Feb. 27 - Gävle, Sweden - O Learys
Feb. 28 - Umeå, Sweden - House of Metal Fest

Deathstars has a new song called "Death Dies Hard"

Swedish industrial goth metal band DEATHSTARS has posted a new song called "Death Dies Hard" on its MySpace page. The track comes off the group's third album, "Night Electric Night", which will be released on January 30, 2009 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD, which was mixed atToytown studios in Stockholm, Sweden with Stefan Glaumann, will be released in a deluxe package called "Gold Edition" featuring bonus tracks as well as a bonus DVD featuring six video clips, "making-of" footage and more. The "Gold Edition" will be released as a digibook with new cover artwork (see below).

Commented guitarist, songwriter and producer Emil "Nightmare Industries" Nödtveidt: "This album is the very mirror of our last years and our struggle through this time up until now. It deals with a whole spectrum of emotions, but without losing that straightforward nerve of raw dark feverish rock music a la DEATHSTARS. Even though the songs vary more now, from the ripping 'Night Electric Night' to the seriousness in 'Via the End', which I wrote the very night I found out about my brother's suicide [Emil's brother was DISSECTION frontman Jon Nödtveidt — Ed.], it holds an honest consequence right through the album."

According to a press release, "Night Electric Night" is about DEATHSTARS' "lives and their experiences, their personal issues and the action/horror drama which represents the manic environment that the band exists within. It deals a lot with reflections of situations right then and there."

"Night Electric Night" track listing:

CD:

01. Chertograd
02. Night Electric Night
03. Death Dies Hard
04. Mark Of The Gun
05. Via The End
06. Blood Stains Blondes
07. Babylon
08. The Fuel Ignites
09. Arclight
10. Venus In Arms
11. Opium

Bonus Tracks: (only on limited gold edition)

12. Night Electric Night (Skinny remix)
13. Via The End (piano version)
14. Night Electric Night (feat. Adrian Erlandsson)

DVD:

Clip Selection:

* Death Dies Hard
* Virtue To Vice
* Blitzkrieg
* Cyanide
* Syndrome
* Synthetic Generation

Bonus Material:

* Making of "Death Dies Hard"
* Making of "Virtue to Vice"
* Making of "Blitzkrieg"
* Making of "Cyanide"

Includes screensaver and wallpapers

Picture LP in gatefold:

Side A:

01. Chertograd
02. Night Electric Night
03. Death Dies Hard
04. The Mark Of The Gun
05. Via The End
06. Blood Stains Blondes

Side B:

01. Babylon
02. The Fuel Ignites
03. Arclight
04. Venus In Arms
05. Opium

The first single, "Death Dies Hard", will be released as a digital download only on January 2.

GUNS N' ROSES' new album, "Chinese Democracy" Updates

GUNS N' ROSES' new album, "Chinese Democracy", has registered the following first-week chart positions so far (Note: The album wasn't available a full week in most of these territories when the charts were compiled):

Finland: #1
Ireland: #3
Netherlands: #4
Sweden: #4

Early U.S. sales reports suggest that "Chinese Democracy", which was released through an exclusive deal with the Best Buy chain, might not be the blockbuster the industry had hoped for, according to The New York Times. Sales figures will not be available until next week, but early estimates put the first-week total at 300,000 copies (including a reported 25,000 downloads at iTunes on November 23 not counted towards the opening week for the Sunday release) — roughly 50,000 more than the opening number registered by "Contraband", the 2004 debut from VELVET REVOLVER, which features in its ranks Rose's former GUNS N' ROSESbandmates Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. KANYE WEST's new album, "808s and Heartbreak", will be No. 1 on next week's Billboard chart with a total that looks to be between 450,000 and 500,000.

Mastodon - Crack The Skye (coming soon...)

MASTODON have set "Crack the Skye" as the title of their new album, due in early 2009. The seven-song, 50-minute effort was recorded at Southern Tracks Studios in Atlanta and was produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien....

"Crack the Skye" track listing:

01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
I. Usurper
II. Escape
III. Martyr
IV. Spiral
05. Ghost of Karelia
06. Crack The Skye
07. The Last Baron

Read a couple articles about the new album:
http://spin.com/articles/mastodon-unveil-new-album-details

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=107875
http://www.revolvermag.com/content/mastodon-reveal-new-album-title-and-track-list-metallica-tourdates

Nigel Sia's Music Video of Estrella's Stay

Estrella - Stay (2008) from nigelais on Vimeo.

This is a fun and cute video of Estrella's Stay. More info about the director here...

Estrella here...

Mastodon will be touring with Metallica

Mastodon are extremely honored to announce that they will be supporting the great Metallica next summer in Europe. Here are the confirmed dates so far....

06/14/2009 Helsinki, FIN Hartwall Arena
06/15/2009 Helsinki, FIN Hartwall Arena
06/17/2009 Oslo, NOR Spektrum
06/22/2009 Milan, ITA Datch Forum
06/24/2009 Rome, ITA Palalottomatica
07/13/2009 Madrid, ESP Palacio de Deportes
07/16/2009 Zurich, CHE Hallenstadion
07/20/2009 Copenhagen, DEN Copenhagen Forum
07/22/2009 Copenhagen, DEN Copenhagen Forum
07/23/2009 Copenhagen, DEN Copenhagen Forum
07/27/2009 Copenhagen, DEN Copenhagen Forum