Category Archives: News
Jamey Jasta announces solo album
Damn, I’m being imagnative with my topic titles today, I must say. So can you guess what this news is about? That’s right, in order to dilute the news of Spineshank finishing work on their comeback album, I thought to myself “why not post something positive?” So here I am, finding Metal news from elsewhere and reposting it for the awesome readers of Dose of Metal, and this time it’s in regards to Jamey Jasta.
The member of such great bands as Hatebreed, Icepick, and Kingdom Of Sorrow, has revealed details of a solo album, possibly to be released at some point this year.
Speaking to UGO.com, Jasta reveals “I just finished the JASTA album. The album is basically songs I’ve written over the last 2-3 years that didn’t fall into any sort of set category as far as genre. I guess you could say it has elements of metal, hard rock, hardcore and punk in it, but it’s kind of a wide variety of tunes. I just had fun with it and I did some collaborations and co-wrote some stuff which was fun. Hopefully it’ll come out in June of this year! I’ll probably leak a song or two at some point on http://www.twitter.com/jameyjasta”
More crap can be found over at Metal Hammer.
Spineshank reveal album details
Man the lifeboats, women and children first, and for God’s sake, cover your ears. Nu/Industrial Metallers from the late 90s/early 00s, Spineshank, have revealed the details of the forthcoming album, Anger Denial Acceptance, now scheduled for a late 2011 release.
I assume from the album’s title, that the band will be returning from where they left off. According to guitarist Mike Sarkisyan though, I’m assuming wrong, as he claims the album will be more mature. Oh joy…
An interview with Mike Sarkisyan can be found here.
Greg Puciato talks about file-sharing
Greg Puciato, otherwise known as the vocalist for The Dillinger Escape Plan, just made our lives easier. Why? Because we had plan of writing an editorial about file-sharing and the state of music industry for quite a while now. Alas, we are lazy, and it’s still on our to-do list.
Replying to a question asked on his blog, Puciato covers topics from the state of the music industry, mp3s, vinyls and CDs, file-sharing and its effect on the people who make a living from making music.
It’s a lengthy and honest opinion piece, and you might or might not agree with everything he says, but coming from someone directly affected by file-sharing, it probably holds more weight than being written by someone who is affected by slow download speeds. Which doesn’t mean we won’t revisit the topic — we will, and it’s going to be amazing. Until that moment comes though, make the jump and read an excerpt from his text.
Hanson like Slipknot
Hanson, the most hated band in 1997, released a video of themselves having some fun, jamming to ‘Wait and Bleed‘ from Slipknot.
Not really sure why I’m posting this. I mean, clearly neither band are metal. Both make poppy music. Both have fruity lead singers. And most importantly, both suck. So, why am I posting this? Your guess is good as mine.
Video after the jump…
Lars and Dave sitting in a tree…
The Big Four dates are approaching fast, so expect more and more press about the relationship between the four bands and especially between Metallica and Megadeth.
In this Lars interview, however, you get to read about what went on between him and Dave in the 80s and 90s. Why would you care? Because it’s pretty surprising how much they hung out, considering their ‘rivalry.’
“Dave would come up and play San Francisco a lot. And I would always go find him, and we would drink and do lots of drugs and sit around. For those years, ’84, ’85, me and him got over our issues really quickly at that time. […] Me and Dave had kind of a friendship and cool thing going at that time, up through most of the ’80s.
It wasn’t until both bands started getting bigger that this whole kind of thing started happening in the press, which was really kind of different than what we had going between us. […] In some way, you could argue that the thing press was doing, about setting our bands up, eventually started kind of transcending itself into our personal relationship and probably became a big part of the fact that over the ’90s, it got a little frosty at times.“
So basically the whole ‘kicking out’ thing was resolved quickly, but Metallica both bands got bigger and Dave the press started stirring the pot? I get it now.
