Nightwish part ways with singer Anette

Today Nightwish announced on their official homepage that they have parted ways with their singer Anette Olzon who replaced Tarja  a few years back. Here is the official statement from the band.

Another chapter of the Nightwish story has ended today. Nightwish and Anette Olzon have decided to part company, in mutual understanding, for the good of all parties involved.

In recent times it has become increasingly obvious that the direction and the needs of the band were in conflict, and this has led to a division from which we cannot recover.

Nightwish has no intention of cancelling any upcoming shows, and as a result we have decided to bring in a substitute vocalist starting in Seattle 1.10.2012. Her name is Floor Jansen from The Netherlands (ex-After Forever, ReVamp), and she has graciously stepped in to help us complete the Imaginaerum world tour. We are all strongly committed to this journey, this vehicle of spirit, and we are sure that this will lead to a brighter future for everyone. We forever remain excited about the adventures to come, and we are extremely proud of the two beautiful albums and the wonderful shows we shared together.
– NIGHTWISH & Anette Olzon

Machine Head to release live album

Machine Head will release their live album Machine Fucking Head Live on November 13. The double album wich have been recorded on various locations will feature the following tracks:
01. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#) 02. Be Still And Know 03. Imperium 04. Beautiful Mourning 05. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears 06. Locust 07. This Is The End 08. Aesthetics Of Hate 09. Old 10. Darkness Within 11. Bulldozer 12. Ten Ton Hammer 13. Who We Are 14. Halo 15. Davidian

Watain vinyl reissue boxset to be released

If anyone have missed this, Watain is set to release their four studioalbums in a really nice and limited vinyl box. The boxset will be out on November 16.

Collector’s box made of solid beech wood with real leather Watain logo imprint on lid, including all four albums on vinyl with Dropcard and 4 hand-crafted silkscreen prints that assemble together as a poster. Contrary to the separately released vinyl editions, these vinyls come in different colours: ”Rabid Death’s Curse” – solid grey with black and white splatters, “Casus Luciferi” – solid grey, “Sworn to the Dark” – transparent red, “Lawless Darkness” – transparent clear and are packed in printed inner sleeves and gatefolds with silver hot foil printing. Limited to 1.000 units worldwide!

Listen to first single from Graveyard’s “Lights Out” album

Billboard.com have just added an exclusive preview of Graveyard‘s first single “Goliath” from their upcoming third album Lights Out on their website. The single will be released on vinyl in four different versions (different artwork) on September 21 and the album Lights Out will be released on September 26 on Nuclear Blast Records.

You can listen to the song on this link: here!

Preview of Metallica “When a blind man cries” audio

Here you can listen to the Metallica version of the Deep Purple song “When a blind man cries”, the song will be featured on the Re-Machined A Tribute To Deep Purple CD due out on September 25

Here is the complete tracklist for the album:
01. Smoke On The Water – CARLOS SANTANA
02. Highway Star – CHICKENFOOT
03. Maybe I’m A Leo – GLENN HUGHES, CHAD SMITH, LUIS MALDONADO
04. Pictures Of Home – BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
05. Never Before – KINGS OF CHAOS (Joe Elliott, Steve Stevens, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, Arlan Schierbaum)
06. Smoke On The Water – THE FLAMING LIPS
07. Lazy – JIMMY BARNES, JOE BONAMASSA
08. Space Truckin’ – IRON MAIDEN
09. When A Blind Man Cries – METALLICA
10. Highway Star – GLENN HUGHES, STEVE VAI, CHAD SMITH, LACHLAN DOLEY (exclusive track)

The Accidents – “Dead Guys” 7″ (2005)

Artist: The Accidents
Title: Dead Guys
Label: Bootleg Booze Records

Yeah i know there havent been so much updated on this blog lately, but it’s been summer so… Anyway i will try to keep it up more frequent from now on and i also have had some really cool vinyls coming home so i will put some of em up here on this blog. This is one of them, Swedish rock n roll band The Accidents and their Dead Guys single, and as the title says, on this single they do covers of three artists wich as now dead, Buddy Holly, Johnny Thunders and Eddie Meduza. The cover is really cool handscreened and coffinshaped. And this single wich was released in only 500 copies have been sold out for a very long time now, and offcourse i missed it completely when it was released. But luckely enough the label hade a clearance sale last week and they had found a few copies of this single hidden away, so i grabbed myself a copy since this was the missing puzzle in my The Accidents discography. Couldnt find any videoclip off YouTube from this single so i took their video to the title track of the bands second studio album instead.

Tracklist:
Side A: Oboy
Side B: I wanna be loved, Tonight

The Stooges – “Raw Power” Lp (1973)

Artist: The Stooges
Title: Raw Power
Label: CBS

I don’t consider myself a huge The Stooges fan, sure i have seen them live a few times and i have the albums and yeah i think that they have done some really badass songs but it’s nothing more than that.. except when it comes to the song that opens up this album; “Search and destroy” there you have three and a half minutes of pure magic! When the needle hits the wax and you hear that classic guitar riff wich seconds later rips up in a solo its like heaven and then Iggy comes in with the words “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm” … still in heaven… and than the classic words in the chorus “I am a world’s forgotten boy the one who searches and destroys” you just wanna rip and tear stuff when you listen to this song!

So what about the rest of the album then? It never gets as good as the opening track, but still it’s one hell of an album, sure you have some really blend tracks such as “Penetration” and “Death trip” but it doesen’t really matter when you look at some of the other songs on the album like “Search and destroy”, “Gimme danger”, “Your pretty face…”, “Raw power” and “Shake appeal” all classic garage rock /punk songs. If you haven’t checked out The Stooges yet this is the album to start with.

Tracklist:
Side A: Search and destroy, Gimme danger, Youre pretty face is going to hell, Penetration
Side B: Raw power, I need somebody, Shake appeal, Death trip

New Crashdiet album up for pre-order at reduced price!

From today, August 10 and to October 31 you can pre-order the yet untitled upcoming Crashdiet album at a reduced price (50% off) thru the bands official homepage. The first 300 who pre-order will also recieved handsigned copies of the album. The album will be released January 2013, check out the pre-order options here: Crashdiet Official

Social Distortion – Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden 120808

So last night it was time for me to witness Social Distortion live for the very first time, a band i have been listening to a very long time but never really had the chance to see before. I had an image of the band to be a pretty tired live act, a fact based on a few liveshows i have seen on DVD and VHS in the past, it turned out that image was completely wrong, the band was very much alive this night.

Social Distortion also had two opening acts, the first one was Alonzo & Fas 3 wich i was looking forward to see just as much as the main band because Alonzo used to play in what according to me was one of the best punkbands ever KSMB. The band did a really good and intense show, too bad it was such a short set. They played a couple of songs from KSMB opened up with a Stockholms Negrer track and also included three of their own songs, two brand new ones and also the single “Dansa som en fjäril”.

Then it was time for support act no 2, a band called Royal Republic, this was pure fucking shit. I hated it from start to finnish. But aftet that it was time for Social Distortion to enter the stage. The show startet out a bit slow i think but after the first couple of songs it was just pure joy. They had a really good setlist and played most of the songs i wanted to hear like “Ball and chain”, “Don’t drag me down”, “Mommys little monster”, “Machine gun blues” and “The story of my life” just to name a few.

I am very pleased with my first Social Distortion concert and i hope to get the chance to see them more in the future.

Spiders to release single in September

Okej, so it’s alot of Spiders on the blog right now, but it’s one of my favourite new bands so get used to it 🙂

Spiders just announced a single release prior to the album, it will be the track Weekend Nights and B-side will be the song “Lies” (The Strollers cover). The single will be out on September 7 and is limited to 500 copies on vinyl (will also be available as digital download). Must also say that i just love the simple but very cool coverart, can’t wait!