Killswitch Engage will enter the studio to begin work on the follow-up
to 2006's "As Daylight Dies" in October. A spring 2009 release
is expected.
Papa Roach is putting the finishing touches on their fifth album, "Metamorphosis",
which is expected to hit the shelves before the end of the year.
Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's
founding members and a key part of its eclectic Jazz-infused sound,
died August 19 from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle
accident in June. He was 46.
Mudvayne has set "The New Game" as the tentative title of
its new album and is hoping for a late November release. A second full-length
record is tentatively due next year.
Lamb Of God will release its next, as-yet-untitled, album in February
2009 via Epic Records.
Everclear has added drummer Tommy Stewart to their line-up replacing
previous drummer, Brett Snyder. The band will be releasing a new single,
"Jesus Was A Democrat", in September.
Thievery Corporation's fifth album, "Radio Retaliation",
will emerge September 23 on CD via the duo's own ESL Music, with a digital
release scheduled for two weeks earlier.
Isaac Hayes, the iconic soul man whose sexy baritone earned him the
nickname “The Black Moses” and who became the first black
composer to snag an Oscar, has been found dead at his home in Memphis.
He was 65.
Scott Stapp announced in an interview recently that his upcoming second
solo album, should be released this October.
Sepultura have titled their new album "A-Lex"; the disc is
due out in November.
Keyboardist+bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett have exited
Australian Rock act Wolfmother after “longstanding frictions”,
but frontman Andrew Stockdale says he will continue the group with new
members.
Morrissey's next album, "Years Of Refusal", has been postponed
until early 2009, according to the artist's publicist. The disc, was
originally scheduled to be issued in September.
Snow Patrol's fifth studio album has been christened "A Hundred
Million Suns" and will be released in October, according to an
online post from frontman Gary Lightbody.
The Killers as-yet-untitled third album will be released this November,
according to sources at their record label, Island. They are currently
finishing recording in their new studio in Las Vegas.
Switchfoot is eyeballing a spring 2009 release for its next album,
the San Diego rockers first since 2006's "Oh! Gravity" and
since leaving Columbia to start its own label, the ATO-distributed Lowercase
People Records.
The original members of Cold will reunite in 2009 to record a new studio
album which is slated for a fall 2009 release.
American Idol winner David Cook is hard at work on his debut album,
which he hopes to release in November via 19 Recordings/Arista. Cook
has been writing material for the set with collaborators such as Collective
Soul's Ed Roland and Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida.
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