A two-and-a-half-minute video trailer for this summer's Download festival " featuring interview clips with members of SLIPKNOT, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KORN and DEVILDRIVER " can be viewed below.The Download festival continues to take place at Donington Park, which has established itself as the original and "spiritual" home of all things rock...
It’s not that I think that the members of Napalm Death and Dream Theater have a limited musical palette. Quite the contrary; I’d imagine the musicians that make up these particular bands probably have very diverse tastes.Still. If I found out that Alex Webster listened to a lot of Roni Spektor, I wouldn’t expect a [...]
Drummer Mike Portnoy of progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER was recently interviewed by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "The Racket" (based in Australia). Listen to the chat in streaming audio at the Triple J web site: Windows Media, Real Media (NOTE: The first part of the...
New York progressive metal veterans Dream Theater will take their Progressive Nation tour overseas for the first time with a run through Europe and the UK throughout Sept, Oct, and Nov 2009.Progressive Nation founder and mastermind, Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, once again hand-picked the bands based on musicianship, originality and diversity…not necessarily by popularity [...]
DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess has just released a new book called "The Dream Theater Keyboard Experience - Featuring Jordan Rudess". The book is described as follows: "Not just a songbook, but a total experience! Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions of nine keyboard-intense DREAM THEATER songs from 1992 -2007, plus amazing full-color...