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'80s Rock

Day 8 of 12 Days of Bands You Have to Know goes to BlackRain

December 16, 2013

Let’s get down and dirty for Day 8 of 12 Days of Bands You Have to Know. How about some French glam rockers, BlackRain for Day 8?? These bad ass rockers first started in 2006 and quickly rose to fame in Europe and have become one of the most noted French rock bands.  You have Swan on Vocals and Guitars, Max on lead guitar and Mat on Bass and Frank on Drums. The first time I heard BlackRain is when my son Rockin Ryan played Overloaded for me and I was instantly transformed back to my nights spent on the Sunset Strip in the ’80s. At first I thought I was listening to an old Motley Crue track!! Swan on vocals just blows you away with his powerful voice and he has perfected the high vocal ranges of the ’80s. They have some shredding guitar with off the hook riffs.   You have to check out  Overloaded here:   Last year, BlackRain showed an excellent display of their risk-taking as they dared to take part in [Read More]

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Bands

Suicide Silence release trailer for Mitch Lucker Memorial Video

December 16, 2013

The moment you have all been waiting for is to hear. Everyone has been wanting to find out more about the Suicide Silence Mitch Lucker Memorial show DVD. Well today Suicide Silence released the following trailer:   The Memorial Show is set for a DVD/BlueRay release on February18th for US and March 17th in Europe. As we reported earlier this year, Eddie Hermida (All Shall Perish) joined Suicide Silence as their new vocallist. Here is that post: Suicide Silence Will Continue…. UPDATE 10/4:  SUICIDE SILENCE HAS RELEASED THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF EDDIE HERMIDA (ALL SHALL PERISH) AS THEIR  NEW VOCALIST. HERE IS THE OFFICIAL POST AND PHOTO: “Suicide Silence is pleased to announce the addition of Eddie Hermida to the family. Many of you may be familiar with Eddie through his work with All Shall Perish. For those of you unfamiliar, our relationship with Eddie goes way back to the Spreading Disease Tour, our first U.S. headlining run, in 2006. Mitch & Eddie remained long-time friends and we felt that if the band were to [Read More]

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Bands

Suicide Silence release trailer for Mitch Lucker Memorial Video

December 16, 2013

The moment you have all been waiting for is to hear. Everyone has been wanting to find out more about the Suicide Silence Mitch Lucker Memorial show DVD. Well today Suicide Silence released the following trailer:   The Memorial Show is set for a DVD/BlueRay release on February18th for US and March 17th in Europe. As we reported earlier this year, Eddie Hermida (All Shall Perish) joined Suicide Silence as their new vocallist. Here is that post: Suicide Silence Will Continue…. UPDATE 10/4:  SUICIDE SILENCE HAS RELEASED THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF EDDIE HERMIDA (ALL SHALL PERISH) AS THEIR  NEW VOCALIST. HERE IS THE OFFICIAL POST AND PHOTO: “Suicide Silence is pleased to announce the addition of Eddie Hermida to the family. Many of you may be familiar with Eddie through his work with All Shall Perish. For those of you unfamiliar, our relationship with Eddie goes way back to the Spreading Disease Tour, our first U.S. headlining run, in 2006. Mitch & Eddie remained long-time friends and we felt that if the band were to [Read More]

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14 Bands that will rule 2014

Countdown of 14 Bands that will rule 2014. #9 goes to Art of Dying

December 16, 2013

Today on our countdown of 14 Bands that will rule in 2014 goes to Art of Dying. Rockers, Art of Dying from Canada have a constant spot on my daily music playlist.  Their music not only kicks ass in rock n roll but also have such emotionally charged lyrics that many can connect and relate to. I don’t think a day goes by where I didn’t listen to an Art of Dying song.  As I mentioned before,  I personally, have experienced the power of healing through music by listening to my favorite Art of Dying songs at one of the hardest times in my life. It truly is music to feed your soul wrapped in blazing rock and roll. It has been great to watch Art of Dying become one of everyone’s favorite bands and their fans all have great stories to share. Art of Dying is Jonny Hetherington on Vocals, Greg Bradley on Guitar, Jeff Brown on Drums, Cale Gontier on Bass/Vocals and Tavis Stanley on Guitar and Vocals. These guys are on fire and [Read More]

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Bands

White Stallion release first single, “Livin High” featuring Brian Tichy on drums

December 15, 2013

White Stallion from Sydney, Australia release their first single “Livin’ High” featuring special guest, Brian Tichy on drums. Their single was mixed by local producer and mix engineer Darren Jenkins of Jenk Music Productions.  White Stallion is KC Venom on Lead Vocals, Blaze on Guitars and Vocals and Randy Roxxx on Bass. “Livin’ High” featuring Brian Tichy on drums is a bad ass that you have to check out. The band says about  having Brian play with them, “Having Brian (Tichy) playing drums on “Livin’ High” is just awesome! We’ve all admired his work for a long time, and to have the opportunity to work with him on our own music has been an excellent experience!”   Brian is an excellent drummer whose work with Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, and I love seeing him at the  Bonzo Bash during NAMM week (highlight of the year)!!  The song starts right off with a killer riff and then those strong, engaging vocals take right over. Brian Tichy’s drumming is precise and exactly what you would want in a rock anthem [Read More]

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Entertainment

Dellacoma Rio releases his first debut single “Dead Will Rise”

December 15, 2013

Earlier this year, I told you about an awesome band that I fell in love with from Australia, Sunset Riot. You can read that post here.  They really caught my eye and couldn’t wait to hear more from them. Of course, I learned about them a little too late since they did disband later in the year. I was excited to hear that singer Dellacoma Rio was still pursing his passion for music in the aftermath of Sunset Riot’s disbanding. Dellacoma has such an amazingly unique voice that draws you in to his musical world.  Dellacoma has recently released his lyric video for his debut single, “Dead Will Rise” and you can check it out here:   Dellacoma explains more about the song, “Dead Will Rise”,  “The song is pretty much an anthem for those who feel like they’ve been written off. Coming off the back of Sunset Riots breakup I felt like a lot of people were expecting that my career was finished musically, that I was effectively dead as an artist. I guess [Read More]

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14 Bands that will rule 2014

Countdown of 14 bands that will rule 2014! #10 goes to Beware of Darkness

December 15, 2013

Here we are at the #10 spot, counting down the 14 bands that we think will rule 2014. Today for hot spot Number 10, we bring you Beware of Darkness. This band just exploded on to the scene this year and there is definitely no slowing them down.  Beware of Darkness was formed in 2010 by singer/guitarist Kyle Nicolaides and drummer Tony Cupito. They added bassist Daniel Curcio and they became a well rounded powerful trio. In 2013, they released their debut album Orthodox and their song Howl seemed to become one of everyone’s favorite new song including mine.  I remember the first time I heard it was when I was listening to the MusicChoice channel on cable. I was writing and the song came on, I almost stumbled out of my chair to race over and make sure I could find out what the song was. From that moment, many months ago,  we were pleased to hear it being played on Octane XM, Sixx Sense, radio and much more. You can pick up Orthodox on Itunes [Read More]