Judas Priest has been touring and recording for over fifty years with a couple of the core members Halford and bassist Ian Hill still in the lineup. Drummer Scott Travis formerly of the 80’s Angeles based Racer X has been with the group sincePainkiller. Rounding out ...
NW Metalworx Music has announced that it will publish a biography about progressive metal act Queensrÿche that’s due in fall 2021/winter 2022. The first such book to be written about the Seattle-based band will be available onnwmetalworxmusic.comand at such retailers as Amazon.com. Buildin...
Childhood friends Brian Downey and Phil Lynott formed Thin Lizzy in 1969 with two former members of Van Morrison's band Them. Guitarists Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham joined just before the group's 1975 commercial breakthrough. Robertson was eventually replaced by Gary Moore. Lynott also worked...
resulting in plenty of legal headaches for the bandleader. But perhaps the greatest affront to Clinton’s empire came in 1980, when former P-Funkers and original Parliaments members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas releasedConnections & Disconnections...
When tensions mounted between Geoff Tate and the rest of the band, Queensrÿche parted ways with the only singer they’ve ever had. In turn, former Crimson Glory singer Todd La Torre was sought as Tate’s successor. Initially just playing two shows under the moniker Rising West, the band...
the band's lineup was composed of singer Geoff Tate, guitarists Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton, bassist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield. Queensryche, together to this day, still count Wilton and Jackson as members, but with singer Todd La Torre, guitarist Mike Stone and drummer ...