In his monthly Food Coma column posted in December 2008, Scott Ian wrote that he had “been in the studio working on the new Anthrax album”, promising to be “giving birth to a really pissed off, loud, fast and heavy child.” He later wrote that the album was being mixed…
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R&B singer Ne-Yo claimed in early December that he would hold writing sessions with the band’s frontman on new material, although Manson denied it, saying that he had “never even met Ne-Yo. I can assure him that he would not want to be associated with something this godless.”
In December 2008, Morello said his Nightwatchman project would be his “principal musical focus, as I see it, for the remainder of my life”. He repeated this point in an interview with the Los Angeles Times .
In December 2008, Scream Aim Fire was re-released with four bonus tracks that were recorded during the album’s studio sessions, but with re-recorded vocal-lines.
In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II . Players can receive the “Yngwie Malmsteen” award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession. February 2008 saw the replacement of singer Doogie White with former Iced Earth and Judas Priest and current Beyond Fear…
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The band was a featured musical guest at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008 on November 13. They performed a cover of ” The Girl from Ipanema “, and “We’ve Lost You” from the album A-Lex . The 9th annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the Toyota Center…
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On November 7, the French ticketing website Avos announced that the planned ticket sale for the show in Paris would be canceled.
Later that day, X Japan released a press statement through their French language website apologizing for the second postponement and announced that the planned Christmas shows would likely suffer a similar fate.
On November 4, 2008, Cheng was seriously injured in a car accident in Santa Clara, California . As a result of the injuries sustained in the crash, he remained in a minimally conscious state . Following the accident, Cheng’s bandmates and his mother, Jeanne, began using the Deftones blog to…
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The Way of the Fist was released through Spinefarm Records in Canada on November 4, 2008