the US Active Rock charts. The album was produced by David Bottrill (Tool, Muse) and mixed by Jay Ruston (Steel Panther). The band is set to hit the road with Like A Storm next month and will be appearing at Sacramento's Aftershock festival as well as Louisville's Louder Than Life fest.

Rev Theory, formed in 2002, have sold over half a million albums and are currently wrapping up the recording for their next album. The first single, Born 2 Destroy, is making its way to radio soon. A teaser for the song as well as the single's artwork can be seen here. http://youtu.be/6OZ70NAGxYo

New Zealand's Like A Storm are the rock world's 2014 Cinderella story. The band self-released the EP, Chaos Theory: Part I and made their way over to the States touring with the likes of Sick Puppies, Shinedown, Alter Bridge and Creed as well as hit several festivals. The band sent their single, Love The Way You Hate Me,http://youtu.be/4im52LBhWnM to radio and personally called stations to play the track. The song became a hit, soaring up the charts, where it currently is sitting at number 22, making them the US's highest charting rock band ever from New Zealand. The band will have a new full length out on Another Century on October 28th and are currently on tour now, meeting up with Otherwise next month.

The Bloodline was formed by Shaun Glass (Soil) and feature vocalist Travis Neal (Divine Heresy), guitarist Chuck Wepfer and Frankie Harchut on drums. The Bloodlineis currently in the studio recording their debut album and deliver a huge fresh sound in Rock/Metal with massive hooks, soaring melodies and pummeling grooves that will ignite any listeners ears.

“Watching my friend Dave’s costume go up in flames in front of a thousand fans was so much more intense for me than the private memorial for friends and family we had on April Fool’s Day."

"I spoke at both of them and both times were sad.  But watching his alter ego burn tore me up way more than the first memorial.  Maybe because there was Dave, the human and my friend who just left us; and then there was Oderus, who was something else entirely.  To watch his stage gear burn was like watching part of my life go up in flames.  It was a super-intense moment – very beautiful, but overwhelming.  Fly free, Oderus - you are missed.”

Just looking at the pic gives me goosebumps.  To all of Dave Brockie's family, friends and fans, my heart goes out to you.

Bassist Joel Graham tells TeamRock Radio’s Metal Hammer Magazine Show that the band was considering hanging it up following the announcement of Ol Drake’s departure.  Joel says: “We had to step back and ask what do we do from this point.  We thought it would be a shame to stop it right now.  We had to find the right guy, that’s taken time.  I appreciate people have been waiting for the news, but we’ve got to spend time with this guy, get on with him, travel with him and he’s got big shoes to fill.  We’re still good friends with Ol, we can’t not be, he’s Matt’s brother.  He made his decision and we respect that.  We kind of realized that the last four years have been manic for us and we decided to take some time off.  Then we put it out there if anyone wanted to send in an audition tape.  Being a northern band, we wanted someone on our doorstep.”

Touching on the audition process, Joel called the experience “terrible” due to some applicants coming in with the wrong attitude.  He adds: “They were terrible, not so much playing-wise.  It’s just people’s attitude.  People saying ‘I could wipe the floor with Ol Drake, he’s shit compared to me.’  You don’t stand a chance of getting in this band with an attitude like that.  We want a nice guy, someone we can get along with.”

On his addition to the band, Piers says: “We’ve had passing chats and had been talking for a while.  But I got in touch when Ol left and it went from there.  It was time to get on to something else and expand out and Evile was the perfect opportunity.  I’m massively grateful to these guys for letting me come on board.  I’m learning all the tracks.  Ol’s a fantastic guitar player, so it’s not easy trying to work out his solos.  We’ve got something in the pipeline for March.”

Myself and all other Evile fans across the globe are very excited about this announcement and we know that Piers will do amazing!  All the best to them and we look forward to seeing the band live again and hearing some new music in the future!

American tour. Now all four members of COAL CHAMBER (Dez Fafara, Nadja Peulen, Mikey Cox, Meegs) have decided the time was right to begin work on a new COAL CHAMBER album.  The band is currently working on the new material that they hope to release next year.

COAL CHAMBER spoke about their new record and signing with Napalm Records: "How many times do you get a second chance at anything in life? We toured the world, it was insane and crowds came out in force and we had a blast! For this I'm so appreciative!
Now..... It's time to release a NEW COAL CHAMBER RECORD! The Vibe between us all is positive AND we've assembled a killer team around us!