On Sunday, February 26th, Jerry Gaskill suffered a heart attack. He was rushed to hospital and placed in intensive care, where he is still in an unstable condition.
As a result, King’s X’s upcoming tour dates have been cancelled. The band were due to embark on a three week tour on the US at the end of March, beginning in Austin, Texas. Details of the proposed dates can be found here.
REAL GONE wishes Mr Gaskill a speedy recovery.
Pantera’s “second” album, ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ will be released in a deluxe/expanded edition in May 2012.
The album – a firm favourite among Pantera’s fan base – was the second release by the band for a major label and features two signature tunes: ‘Mouth For War’ and ‘Walk’, the latter used as the theme tune for late night metal video show ‘Noisy Mothers’.
The release marks to 20th anniversary of ‘Vulgar’s original release. The band’s breakthrough record ‘Cowboys From Hell’ was released as a deluxe 3CD edition in 2010, featuring the original album backed by a live disc plus a wealth of previously unheard demo takes.
In addition to a remastered version of the album, the deluxe version of ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ features a bonus track, ‘Piss’, which is previously unreleased. The DVD features unreleased footage of Pantera’s appearance at the Italian 1992 Monsters of Rock Festival, plus three promo clips for the singles.
CD
“Mouth For War”
“A New Level”
“Walk”
“Fucking Hostile”
“This Love”
“Rise”
“No Good (Attack The Radical)”
“Live In A Hole”
“Regular People (Conceit)”
“By Demons Be Driven”
“Hollow”
“Piss” – Previously Unreleased
DVD
“Mouth For War” – Live In Italy
“Domination/Hollow” – Live In Italy
“Rise” – Live In Italy
“This Love” – Live In Italy
“Cowboys From Hell” – Live In Italy
“Mouth For War” – Video
“This Love” – Video
“Walk” – Video
Just a couple of weeks ahead of his 2012 album ‘Damage Control’ AOR/melodic rock vocal legend Jeff Scott Soto has released a video for one of the new tracks. You can view the video for ‘Look Inside Your Heart Below’.
‘Damage Control’ is released via Frontiers Records on March 23rd in Europe, the 26th in the UK and the 27th in the US.
According to JSS himself, he intends to embark on a extensive tour to promote the new album. The dates have yet to be confirmed.
It has been announced that britpop heroes Blur will headline the Swedish Way Out West Festival.
The festival, held in Gothenburg between August 9th-11th will also feature The Black Keys, Refused, Florence + The Machine, Billy Bragg, Bon Iver and Feist.
Blur’s record sales in the UK, meanwhile, have rocketed since the band made an appearance at the 2012 edition of The Brits awards ceremony, where they were given the “Outstanding Contribution to Music” award, which is industry back-slapping parlance for “We wanted to give you something, but you haven’t released any new music for over a decade…” PARKLIFE!
Canadian electronic pop/rock outfit Metric have announced the arrival of their fifth full length album.
‘Synthetica’ will be released offiicially on June 11th, although no tracklisting has been revealed at this time. The band’s previous release, 2009’s ‘Fantasies’ was well received. Teaming up with Spotify, Metric promoted ‘Fantasies’ with a campaighn of heavy advertising which culminated in a limited offer of allowing fans to purchase a full album download for ninety nine pence.
Physical copies of the album were also released, beginning with a lavish special edition (available only via the Metric website) followed by a 2CD retail edition featuring some of the special edition content, a couple of acoustic tracks and a couple otherwise unavailable numbers.
It is not yet known whether the band intends to take a similar route to promote ‘Synthetica’.