David DeFeis (keyboards and backing vocals) appears as special guest on the first two Immortally Committed albums in the tracks “Epic” and “Council in Hell”. He, Edward Pursino , Josh Block and Exorcist’s drummer Geoff Fontaine played some live dates with the New York cover band Carnival of Souls. Between…
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In 2002, Jonathan Davis of Korn invited Marilyn Manson to record vocals on a track titled “Redeemer”, which was released on his soundtrack to Queen of the Damned .
The new lineup played on the Road Rage tour in Europe in 2002 with 36 Crazyfists and Five Pointe O .
2002 also saw the featuring of “I Wanna Rock” as one of the gameplay radio songs on the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City . The song features in the playlist of the fictional radio station “V Rock”.
There were no new releases by Vicious Rumors in 2002 or 2003. During this period, band leader Thorpe was asked by longtime friend Daniel Jones of rock & roll band 7th Order to take part in recording sessions, alongside veteran British guitarist Martin Pugh (of Steamhammer , the first Rod…
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In 2002, Manson created an original score for the Resident Evil film with former KMFDM multi-instrumentalist Tim Skold .
By late 2002, following a relatively unsuccessful change in music direction with his second solo album, Jack Russell contacted Kendall, who was struggling with irrelevancy. Kendall agreed to play some dates with Russell’s band. Billed as “Jack Russell’s Great White”, the tour was to consist primarily of classic songs from…
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Sepultura’s eighth album, Nation (2001), sold poorly. It would be their last with Roadrunner Records. AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and said, “As Green scrapes the lining of his vocal chords through the brash, impassioned tracks, he’s singing about more than just ‘one nation, Sepulnation’; he’s…
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his 2002 solo album, Degradation Trip , released two months after Staley’s death
In late 2002, Trivium went into the recording studio to record its first high-quality demo disc.