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New Animals As Leaders album gets a name
Now that we’re done with the Corey Taylor drama, let’s talk about people with actual talent. Animals As Leaders have revealed the name for their new album, and the name is Weightless. The album will be out some time before the end of the year or some time in the fall. The sooner the better.
Slipknot’s US tour is on. So is a new Stone Sour album.
Corey Taylor fans are gonna love this: He’s confirmed via Twitter that the Slipknot US tour is currently being booked. The reason Slipknot fans ultimately won’t be happy, is that it’s also been reported that he’s making an album — only with his other band, Stone Sour.
Let’s take a quick look at Corey’s priorities over the past year: a Stone Sour album, a solo single, a book, auditions for the spot of Velvet Revolver singer, a Slipknot tour, a side-project with Duff McKagan, solo tours, audiobook, Stone Sour covers EP, Stone Sour live DVD, his hit rendition of the SpongeBob theme song, another Stone Sour studio album. Look for Slipknot in the previous sentence, I’m sure it’s there somewhere. Ten bucks he gets kicked out of the band the moment the tour is done.
New batch of BS rumors
What you see above is a video interview of Jack and Kelly Osbourne, conducted by Artisan News, which they claim fuels more rumors of the Black Sabbath reunion and new material happening, despite Tony Iommi’s last week’s comments.
To be honest, all I got from Kelly is that Ozzy “is doing something that is very, very exciting,” therefore he couldn’t make the premiere of the documentary film “God Bless Ozzy Osbourne,” which to me can be anything from “actually woke up this morning” to “managed to get up and go to the toilet before taking a crap.”
Either way, somehow this made me a bit more excited about the prospect of the reunion happening, so let’s cross our fingers and wish them at least another decade of a good and healthy life, because that’s how long I presume this whole thing will need to take off.
Visions of horror
It’s a sad day when I can’t think of a good Bring Me The Horizon joke. I mean, musically at least. I’ve been through so much shitcore in the past week, that basically anything written with more than two-note riffing and less than 432 breakdowns fills the criteria for good. So, there, I (kind of) said it, their new video for Visions is good. I mean, I could probably squeeze in a few mall/Hot Topic jokes in here, but I won’t, this one’s on me.
TesseracT officially announce new singer, bass player comments
The rumors are true: TesseracT have parted ways with their singer Dan Tompkins, and recruited Elliot Coleman instead (pictured above with the rest of the band). I’ll be honest, I thought the whole thing might have been just temporary, because at one point, rumors were going on that Dan was leaving to join a pop band. Apparently, he is gone fo’ shaw, and personally, I’m not really sure what to think. Dan’s voice was (despite my earlier jokes) kinda unique (at least compared to the average djent vocalist), and I’m not sure how I feel about the new guy, but let’s not judge things based on a shitty iPhone clip we saw yesterday.
You can read the official announcement here, and Metal Sucks has conducted an interview with band’s bass player, Amos Williams, which I recommend reading (btw, just how fucked up does the new guy look on that photo they posted?). Oh, and if you make the jump, you can listen to a song with their now former singer, Dan Tompkins.
