But he says he still faces some cynicism from people who try to "discredit" him as an artist. He tells TeamRock: "There are a lot of people out there who would discredit me as a singer because I've been on a show like that. But it's not something I really think about or care about, because The Voice is one part of 12 years of me doing music. I don't care."
Drummer Dhani Mansworth agrees that Emms' background isn't important, saying: "You always get people who are rock purists who believe going on talent shows isn't a good thing. But as long as the talent's there, it shouldn't matter." Read more
here.
The former frontman split with Asking Alexandria last year to focus on We Are Harlot. He's since turned his attention on to his solo career, with debut album The Prozac Sessions expected in the near future.
Worsnop tells AltPress: "I ended up leaving because it lost the art to me - it lost its artistic integrity in my eyes. I was just selling out, and that's not what I do."
Instead, he says, "People are wondering if there's going to be a second Harlot record, and there will be. The band still exists. Since getting to Nashville I wrote 17 songs for my solo record. The idea of doing a double disc with 30 songs really appeals to me. How many years have I talked about this solo album - four years? I want to give it to the world." Read more
here.
Weinman conceived the network in 2009 for musicians, photographers, illustrators and designers to share ideas and encourage innovation. He launched an online portal in 2014.
Weinman told Metal Hammer: "It's a place to put up articles by my friends who are doing things differently and saying, 'This is how we did it.' It's not necessarily a do-it-yourself thing - it's more like decide-it-yourself. One thing I really want to do is inspire people to do whatever they're doing for the right reasons." Read more
here.
Carpenter's current band includes his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies and they have recorded updated versions of many of his movie soundtrack for release on limited 12-inch vinyl.
Each double A-sided will be available in deluxe limited edition mylar mirrorboard sleeves and as picture discs. The live studio video for Escape From New York - also directed by Carpenter - was filmed at The Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles. Read more and watch the video
here.
They will perform the classic album in full at the concert along with other classics from their back catalogue. The 1976 record spawned the band's classic track (Don't Fear) The Reaper.
The lineup on the night will feature Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser, Eric Bloom, Richie Castellano, Kasim Sulton and Jules Radino. Co-founding member Albert Bouchard, who was instrumental in writing the group's early material, will also be in attendance as a special guest of the band. Read more including their U.S. dates
here.
Singer Johannes Eckerstrom said: "The album we're making is an epic. Each song powerfully stands on it's own, but is only a piece of a larger story. This album is the project I've been dreaming about for years.
"Avatar is growing higher and deeper and I am proud to say we are outdoing ourselves again. If we didn't make sure to feel like this every time, we wouldn't bother at all. I'm very excited, and you should be too." Watch the video
here.
They hit the road in Europe and the UK to promote it next February. Cellist Eicca Toppinen previously said: "I think with people who have heard about us and they heard stories about Apocalyptica who play cellos, when they see us live, the people are usually like 'Woah! What the f*** is going on? What's happened?'
"I'm happy that it's mainly positive feedback from what I have heard and what I get." Apocalyptica are currently on tour in support of their 2014 album Shadowmaker. See all of the dates
here.
Singer Jonas Renske tells Billboard: "Serein is one of the more straightforward songs on the album - very guitar-driven, quite upbeat but still packed with emotion. Looking forward to trying this one out live."
Katatonia previously released a lyric video for Old Heart Falls. The band play a number of shows in the coming months. See the dates and stream the new song
here.
Comedian Aisling Bea posted an image of the guests and host on her Twitter page, along with the caption: "Dear SlipKnot fans, we've taken your leader and removed his mask."
She followed it up with a picture of herself and Toksvig doing the 'devil horns', captioned: "So Sandi Toksvig and I are totally joining Slipknot now, as long as they do a few Beyonce and Vivaldi covers." Read more
here.
The trio consisting of John Myung of Dream Theater, Ty Tabor of King's X and Rod Morgenstein of Winger, previously launched the tracks Care and Stain On The Sun from the follow-up to 2011's Shall We Descend.
Tabor tells Prog: "In humanity's race for progress, we have poisoned huge amounts of our earthly water supply. Water is life. Nothing grows without it. No one lives without it, yet our greed has caused us to look the other way as we jeopardize our remaining water supplies.
"This is the current general state of things on Earth. This song warns of what is coming in the not so distant future... the time of the prophet." Watch the video
here.
And asked why the band's sound is always evolving, Fallon tells New Noise: "We certainly don't go into any record saying that we want to reinvent the wheel. It's important to be realistic. We consider ourselves students, I mean, I just got back from my guitar lesson 15 minutes ago and it's important for me to always challenge myself.
"I can understand there are artists who see a success on the charts with a song and then try different versions of that song for the rest of their career - and that sounds very depressing."
He continues: "I would rather take a risk and fail at it. There are fans that are more into our hardcore side and don't care for the blues phase of this band. Then there are fans who got into our blues phase and don't care for our older stuff. At the end of the day, it's just music and we as artists want to define something new - we're still trying to do that." Read more
here.
Tyler tells DuJour: "I knew I wanted to do a solo record. It's like that Foreigner song Feels Like The First Time. I had never written with folks like the ones down here - to walk into a room, drink some coffee and eight hours later you have a song. It was like me coming here was the start-over. My own personal musical Bethlehem."
He goes on to describe Nashville as a "music mecca" and a place where picking up a hitchhiker with a guitar can reveal "a song that's better than most of the sh*t you've written." Read more
here.
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