The Adrenaline Mob Rules

Innovative title right there. I’m a awesome, right? Anyways, Adrenaline Mob, the new band featuring ex Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and a mob (haha) of other “well known” musicians (Russell Allen of Symphony X, Mike Orlando of Sonic Stump and Rich Ward of Stuck Mojo and Fozzy), have released a cover of Black Sabbath‘s classic track ‘The Mob Rules’.

The cover sucks. Don’t believe me, listen to it below.

Guitarist Orlando was recently interviewed by MetalSymphony.com , and you can read an excerpt of this interview below.

“This band is not in the vein of Symphony X or Dream Theater. It’s more along the lines of, say, Rob Zombie, Godsmack, Disturbed, Black Label Society, Shinedown…

Source: Blabbermouth

Rob Zombie? Shinedown? Distubed? Godsmack? Oh ok, that explains why the cover’s shit then.

Europe will enter the studio

Swedish legends, Europe, responsible for the greatest song of all time,’ The Final (fucking) Countdown’, apparently still exist (news to me) and will be entering the studio soon to record a brand new album. Can I hear a Hell fucking yes? (I really should stop swearing, I don’t want to sound like Corey Taylor or Fred Durst *shudder*)

In other news, the band are also set to release a coffee-table book in August, whatever one of those is, and it will be release in two different sizes. Honestly, they lost me when they said the word “book”. I tried reading a book once, but I couldn’t find the on button, so gave up.

Anyways, you can view an interview with the band’s vocalist Joey Tempest above.

Who likes live videos?

Everyone should like live videos right? I know it’s bit like comparing porn to real sex, or watching sports to playing sports (actually that last analogy doesn’t work at all), but you can’t always make it to your favorite gigs or festivals, can you?

So luckily, fans of bands like Opeth, Mastodon, Kreator, Amorphis, and many more, can check their live performances at today’s Graspop Metal Meeting festival in Belgium today over at Skynet.be.

The schedule is as follows:

Amorphis 14:00 – 14:45
Kreator 14:50 – 15:40
Moonsorrow 15:45 – 16:30
Mastodon 16:35 – 17:35
Legion of the Damned 17:40 – 18:30
Avenged Sevenfold 18:35 – 19:35
Opeth 19:40 – 20:40
Rob Zombie 20:45 – 22:00
Cavalera Conspiracy 22:05 – 23:05

¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?

Rob Zombie‘s Muppet character bassist, Piggy D, is the victim of a victimless crime. His mask got stolen in Spain, hence the Spanish title. Ole.

Piggy, in true ‘rockstar’ fashion, got some very warm thoughts towards the thief:

“Dear prick who stole my skull mask from the stage in Spain, [I] hope [you] get the black plague, and all your teeth fall out of your head. GFYS.“

Read full article here.

Two things. One: Isn’t GFY enough? Yourself is a single word, why would he need the S? Two: If you do find the mask, make sure you contact him here.

Also, if you’re wondering what the title means, it’s “Where are the thieves?” or something. It’s the title of a Shakira album, not that I’d know anything about that. I swear to God I’m a metalhead. You don’t believe me? Fuck you, I don’t have anything to prove to you…

Photo credit: Digital Circle

Anthrax – Always fighting

In December of 2007, it was announced that Dan Nelson, former vocalist of Devilsize and Inside Hollow, would be the new singer for Anthrax, after the departure of Joey Belladonna and John Bush respectively.

Nelsonthrax started writing the follow-up to We’ve Come For You All — which was ironically called a comeback album — in 2008.

Worship Music is not only the first Anthrax album since 2003, it’s an album that was written three years ago with Dan Nelson (who also wrote a bunch of the music) on vocals and was then completely re-recorded with Joey Belladonna.

Make the jump to read me ranting about one of my favorite bands, their upcoming album Worship Music and their recent online release ‘Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t.’