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Amy Lee "doesn't have an opinion" on We Are The Fallen

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has told US magazine Billboard that she "doesn't have an opinion" on We Are The Fallen, the new band featuring former Evanescence guitarists Ben Moody and John LeCompt, drummer Rocky Gray, ex-Disturbed bassist Marty O'Brien and former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson. "It just doesn't have anything to do with me or Evanescence," said Lee. "The only thing that bothers me about it, really, is I keep hearing about 'the original members.' The only original membe

Published: 2010-03-29 Provider: Kerrang!

Indestructible by Disturbed

This is the fourth album for the Chicago-based metal band. [Rock, Metal]

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Metacritic

Tour Preview: Disturbed Promise New Songs on Intimate Tour Before “Mayhem”

David Draiman and the rest of his Disturbed band mates are eager to play songs from their recently completed fourth album Indestructible to live audiences. Unfortunately, they can’t, as contractual obligations are preventing the band from playing the majority of their new material live before the album’s June 3rd release date. “Isn’t that horrible, how things have become,” Draiman tells Rock Daily from his home in Chicago, just hours before Disturbed piled into a tour bus for the long ride down to Little Rock, Arkansas, for the tour opening show. “It would really nice to see how a crowd reacts to the new songs early on, but there’s too much dependency on that first week sales number and you can’t sacrifice any of the impact of that.” Fortunately for fans, the band does have a few surprises planned, including two already-released Indestructible songs they’re allowed to play, “Perfect Insanity” and “Inside the Fire,” a never-before-played-live b-side titled “Hell” and the live debut of the their contribution to the Transformers soundtrack “This Moment.” Plus, the smaller venues and smaller markets the current tour touches upon invigorate the band. “It’s going to be very intimate. We’re going to try to make it special,” Draiman says. “It also enables us to get back to grassroots. This is who we are. We started as a small club band. It’s a different type of energy.” It won’t be until the launch of the Rock Star Mayhem tour that Disturbed can finally unleash Indestructible in all its live glory. Draiman has long professed that the band’s songs take on a second life in the live setting, and is looking forward to see the Indestructible material’s metamorphosis. The traveling festival also features Slipknot, Mastodon, Machinehead and more. “It’s a very, very talented bill, and being around that m

Published: 2008-04-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Interview: Dan Donegan of Disturbed

Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan is taking a short break right now, back home in Chicago. The band's gearing up for their appearance at Operation MySpace, a show for the troops in Kuwait that sees

Published: 2008-03-10 Provider: Artist Direct

Festival News: Stone Temple Pilots and Linkin Park in Toronto; Ozzfest Docked in Dallas?

The reunited Stone Temple Pilots have added another concert to their summer tour, picking up headlining duties at this year’s Edgefest in Toronto on July 12th with Linkin Park, the Sam Roberts Band and the Bravery also on the bill. Edgefest becomes the second festival to book STP, joining Columbus, Ohio’s Rock on the Range fest on May 17th. Last month, Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash predicted Weiland would leave VR to reunite with the group that gave him his big break. The reunion seemed to be up in the air after Weiland made a trip to rehab in late January, but it was eventually confirmed with the announcement of the Ohio gig. In other festival news, reports suggest that the heavy metal road show that is Ozzfest will potentially morph into a two day non-touring event in Dallas, TX, with the titular Ozzy Osbourne as the main attraction. The going-on-thirteen-summers-old portable festival is facing additional competition this summer from the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour, which touts Disturbed as its headliner. In 2007, Ozzfest offered free admission, with concertgoers procuring tickets through sponsors’ websites. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-02-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Lacuna Coil name new album

Italian goth metal megastars, Lacuna Coil, will release the much anticipated follow-up to their 2006 album, Karmacode, on April 20 through Century Media. The new album will be entitled Shallow Life, and it was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne). "Shallow Life is a natural metamorphosis from within the band," says frontwoman Cristina Scabbia. "We explored different musical territories while maintaining our own style. A mix of old and new, fast and slow, light and dark. "The album production is incredibly powerful and has a beautiful purity to it," she continues. "Hopefully listeners will feel the same sort of connection that we have to these songs. It would be great to think that we have produced songs that will make anybody either think, smile or cry. Shallow Life has forced us to challenge ourselves. It represents the way we see ourselves in the days we live in through truth, love and lies." The band will tour the US with Disturbed and Killswitch Engage on Music As A Weapon from March to May before hitting the European festival circuit.

Published: 2009-02-12 Provider: Kerrang!

Disturbed complete work on new album

Disturbed have completed work on the follow-up to 2008's Indestructible. The album, which was produced by the band, will be titled Asylum. "It's still identifiably Disturbed, but showing more maturation," says frotnman David Draiman. "We feel this is one of the strongest bodies of work we've ever put together. It definitely goes in familiar areas, but with new levels of precision and skill." "The lyrical themes range from very personal and introspective, to the political and provocative," he add

Published: 2010-04-22 Provider: Kerrang!

We Are The Fallen announce debut UK gig!

Former Evanescence members Ben Moody, John LeCompt and Rocky Gray will play their first official show with their new outfit We Are The Fallen in London next month. The band, who also feature former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson and ex-Disturbed bassist Marty O’Brien, will play London’s Kings College on March 23. Tickets go on sale this Friday (February 5) at 9AM from www.aloud.com.

Published: 2010-02-02 Provider: Kerrang!

Meet the new Evanescence!

Former Evanescence members Ben Moody (guitar), John LeCompt (guitar) and Rocky Gray (drums) have teamed up with former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson and ex-Disturbed bassist Marty O'Brian to form a new band, The Fallen. The five piece will make their first single, Bury Me Alive, available for free download on Monday (June 22) from www.wearethefallen.com.

Published: 2009-06-19 Provider: Kerrang!

Album Preview: Mudvayne Reinvents Itself, Says Nu-Metal Will Be Back

When Mudvayne releases its fourth studio album The New Game in November, the record will be new to fans but a year and a half old for the band. Having the tour for its previous record and with vocalist Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett joining forces with Pantera’s Vinnie Paul in Hellyeah, the band opted to sit on the album as opposed to rushing it out to the market — a good choice, considering the set’s shift towards bigger choruses and more accessible melodies. “There’s a bit of pop mentality to the way we like to write together, and maybe we’ve gravitated towards that over the years,” bassist Ryan Martinie tells Rock Daily. “There’s friendlier songs, where we’re not alienating the listener. Maybe we didn’t want to alienate ourselves either.” When the band decided the time wasn’t right to release The New Game, they reconvened and cranked out another batch of songs — a whole new album’s worth. While those songs won’t make it into the live show yet, the next record could see the light of day as early as spring 2009. As one of the last bands standing from the nu-metal pack at the turn of the millennium, the band survived by not overplaying its initially cartoonish visual component and discouraging members to grow dreadlocks. Martinie isn’t sure why some bands failed and others can still release platinum albums, but warns about one of the least-likely nostalgia movements in music. “You have a band like Disturbed that’s still around and writing great music,” he said. “The ‘nu-metal’ genre was the uncool thing to listen to for a while, and I think it will come back around. People will say, ‘I forget that I loved that song so much.’ People will come back to it, maybe like they do with Eighties songs or bad Nineties pop.” Related Stories: • “Dimebag” Darrell Honored at Ozzfest • Mudvayne Tour Dates • Mudvayne Unmask For Lost and Found

Published: 2008-10-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Smoking Section: AC/DC, Bob Dylan, The Stills

Sweet vindication! Last year in this column, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson promised that they’d tour in 2008. Well, he wasn’t kidding. Soon they’ll begin rehearsals in a secret location, before hitting U.S. arenas in late fall. We heard this news at the Sony HQ on New York’s Madison Avenue, before hearing all 15 tracks of the band’s earthshaking new Black Ice, recorded in Vancouver in just eight weeks with Brendan O’Brien. On it, Brian wails about skies on fire, blood in his eyes, storms raging, lightning flashes, hard rain and pretty women. Angus Young shreds throughout (we dig his slide work on “Decibel”), and the rhythm cats — Malcom Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd — are solid as a rock. The first single is “Rock ‘N Roll Train”; “She Likes Rock ‘N Roll” will be a stripper anthem; and “War Machine” (our favorite) will tear you to pieces. ***** In Chronicles Vol. 1, Bob Dylan tells about a trip to Princeton, New Jersey, where, accompanied by his “obstreperous” buddy David Crosby, he received an honorary degree. The ceremony was a bummer — the speaker pissed off Bob by introducing him as “the authentic expression of the disturbed and concerned conscience of young America.” Dylan ended up writing “Day of the Locusts” about the trip. The S.S. recently had the pleasure of meeting Crosby and asked him for his side of the story. “I did something that I do to people: I got him really high,” said Crosby. “When we got there, there was an altercation between Bob and the Princeton people, who insisted that he wear a robe. I had to convince Bob to stay and do it.” In return, Crosby made it into “Day of the Locusts.” “There’s a line that goes, ‘The man standing next to me, his head was exploding,’ ” said Crosby proudly. “That’s me!” Crosby also told us that CSN are working on a new album with Rick Rubin, featuring covers of their favorite songs. “James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, people that we love,” says Crosby. “And Dylan, of course.” ***** We loved the Stills

Published: 2008-08-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Smoking Section

Stone Temple Pilots Roll Out the Hits for Return at Rock on the Range Festival

“Good to see you again,” said a casual Scott Weiland on Saturday, as if delivering a greeting to an intimate cocktail party rather than 30,000 people in a soccer stadium. Luckily, the feeling was mutual as the newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots headlined the first night of the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio Saturday night, their first full-scale show together in nearly eight years. Opening with the sleepy Purple single “Big Empty,” the tone of the show was more subdued than most of the previous bands on the bill, especially Disturbed, who went on just before STP and whipped the crowd into a mosh-happy frenzy. The crowd surfing, at least, made a late night come back at STP followed the opener with harder rocking fare like Core’s “Wicked Garden” and Tiny Music…’s “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart.” With a cigarette in his mouth and a dapper three-piece suit hanging off his slight frame, Weiland, joined by bassist Robert DeLeo, guitarist Dean DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz, led the crowd on a tour of the band’s greatest hits, including “Creep,” “Plush,” “Interstate Love Song” and “Sour Girl,” each providing enough of a sing-along to compensate for the relative lack of edge that most of the crowd seemed to crave and reminded everybody within earshot that this band was built for massive arena-ready singles. By the time the night was over and the band launched into an encore of “Dead and Bloated,” Weiland had ditched his jacket, vest, tie, hat and the buttons on his shirt, propelling him into full rock-god mode, a return to form just in time for the 60-some shows yet to come. He was clearly glad to be back, and the crowd was happy to have him. [Photo: Brecheisen/WireImage]

Published: 2008-05-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows