Weekly Music News 25.06.23
Weekly news roundup for the week beginning June 25, 2023
Wow... Just before opening for Disturbed's wild, moving show yesterday, "SaffeK" treated us to the video for the first single from their next album. True, we have already watched in amazement as they played it live, but it is still exciting, incredible and wild... "LOUD" will blow your ears off, in the best possible way...
The talented multi-instrumentalist Wolfgang Van Halen delivers another powerful new song, "Take a Bow". It is the third single from the next album by "Mammoth WVH", due August 4 and titled "Mammoth II". Wolfgang said it was the last song he finished recording for the album and is officially the longest song he has released so far. He added that the guitar solo feels especially meaningful: he played it on his father's original Frankenstein guitar through an original Marshall head, and was happy to capture a piece of his dad's history in this song forever.
A new single and video from "Greta Van Fleet", this time performed live. "The Falling Sky" comes from their forthcoming album "Starcatcher". Guitarist Jake Kiszka explained that it was written about an uncompromising warrior continuing the endless, eternal and impossible battle for salvation...
Israel's biggest metal festival returns for its third edition!! "Psycho Ward Vol 3" !!
On October 7, 2023, with a wild lineup of 11 (!!!) bands, in an event dedicated entirely to the Israeli metalcore scene.
What is in store?!
The production team is preparing an event that will set expectations sky-high: a stage unlike anything seen at local festivals, pyrotechnics, band merch stalls, alternative-store merch, rest areas, photographers, food stalls, coverage by Israel's leading metal magazines, a full crew creating a "psycho" atmosphere worthy of the event's name, and plenty of surprises from the bands themselves! As before, Vladislav Mazurenko is behind the production!!
Drummer Lee Rauch, one of Megadeth's earliest drummers, has died at 58. Rauch's career began in the early days of the band, which Dave Mustaine formed in 1983. After trying several drummers, the band brought in Rauch. In 1984, Megadeth recorded its first demo, "Last Rites", with three songs: "Last Rites/Loved to Deth", "The Skull Beneath the Skin" and "Mechanix". The lineup on those recordings was Mustaine, bassist David Ellefson and Rauch. All three songs later appeared on the band's debut album, "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good". Rauch also performed with Mustaine, Kerry King and Ellefson, but left in 1984 and was replaced by Gar Samuelson. He later played with thrash bands including Dark Angel and Wargod.
You have never seen a night like this, we guarantee it!!
Two metal bands and a rap/hip-hop act on one bill? You have never seen this before. Do not just stand there watching from the sidelines. It is time to break down boundaries and rock out together with good music! Featuring: Twisted Mind, Canine, Sol
What???? "Colosseum" in Israel? The English prog pioneers, formed in late 1968, who combined rock, jazz and classical music and became known for their members' masterful playing, are coming to Israel... Longtime members guitarist Clem Clempson and bassist Mark Clarke lead the band today, joined by drummer Malcolm Mortimore and singer Chris Farlowe. The band is active on its current "The Return of a Legend" tour, and released "Restoration" last year.
We are on the map again!!! "Paradise Lost" returns to Israel for the umpteenth time, this time celebrating 30 years of the iconic "Icon". The album pushed the band's boundaries, turning the gothic-metal pioneers and doom/death-metal giants into a household name on the global metal scene. To mark the anniversary, they have even re-recorded this mighty album, with a new expanded release on the way.
What a festival it was: more than 200,000 people, an incredible, otherworldly lineup, "Foo Fighters" arriving by train like ordinary festivalgoers and surprising everyone after being listed under the anonymous name "The Churnups", Elton John's final UK show, amazing collaborations between the artists and more...
The band "ONI" releases a new single, this time collaborating with Kellin Quinn of Sleeping With Sirens.
ONI is a young Canadian progressive-metal band with only two albums to its name so far, gaining worldwide attention in recent months through its new singles.
The band "Fall Out Boy", which recently released "So Much (for) Stardust", puts out a cover of Billy Joel's timeless "We Didn't Start the Fire" this week. But it is no ordinary cover: they have rewritten the lyrics with significant events updated through 2023, just as the original did in 1989.
And while we are talking about covers, here is a very special take on another timeless song!
"Falling In Reverse" performs and films a video for Papa Roach's "Last Resort", an undisputed 2000s classic. But this version... Wow, what a moving performance with piano and strings. Ronnie Radke takes the song in a completely different direction, giving it a different meaning!!
This week's events, in collaboration with "Rocking Israel"
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