Author Archives: GoldMark

“We Realize That A Rising Tide Raises All Ships”

Creeping Death guitarist Trey Pemberton is here to represent Texas death metal and hardcore. During an interview with Kevin Diers, Pemberton gets asked about his shirt and says it’s for a band called Ozone, adding there’s a “Lotta good hardcore, lotta good metal, lotta good punk coming out of Texas in general. Lotta my homies […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith Honors Taylor Hawkins at VMAs

Chad Smith paid tribute to Taylor Hawkins during Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ appearance at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards. The Chili Peppers were given this year’s Global Icon Award, an honor which was bestowed on Foo Fighters during the 2021 ceremony. As Red Hot Chili Peppers tore through a pair of songs — recent single “Black Summer” […]

Josh Klinghoffer Wishes He’d Told Rick Rubin to Leave RHCP Studio

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer looked back on his first album with the band, and said he wished he’d told producer Rick Rubin to leave the recording sessions. Klinghoffer was hired in 2009 after John Frusciante’s deperature, then fired 10 years later when Frusciante returned to the group. While the parties involved have since […]

KEN MODE Trudges Into The Darkness On New Single “Unresponsive”

KEN Mode is now streaming their slow-as-hell new single “Unresponsive.” Vocalist Jesse Matthewson said the song directly deals with horrible nightmares he began having at the start of the pandemic, all written as a storm slowly rolled in. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “At this phase of the pandemic I had begun having dreams about […]

Ozzy Osbourne Leaving US Because He’s ‘Fed Up’ With Gun Violence

Ozzy Osbourne has explained his reason for moving back to the U.K. after living in America for more than 25 years. “Everything’s fucking ridiculous [in the U.S.A.],” Osbourne declared during an interview with The Guardian. “I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. […]

Velvet Revolver Reveal How Scott Weiland Quit Drugs

Matt Sorum recently spoke about Velvet Revolver and noted how the band had started by taking a lesson from Aerosmith. He went on to talk about holding regrets that the Guns N’ Roses offshoot wasn’t able to stick to their agreement. Matt Sorum opens up on stay-clean pact falling through The group was formed in 2002 by Sorum, Slash, and Duff […]

This Split Between PERILAXE OCCLUSION, FUMES, CELESTIAL SANCTUARY & THORN Is Brutal

There are four names you might not know in the new wave of death metal, but you absolutely need to – Perilaxe Occlusion, Fumes, Celestial Sanctuary, and Thorn. All four have teamed up for a four-way split Absolute Convergence that spans the distances between cavernous death metal and brutality that rockets through the psychedelic cosmos. […]

Paul McCartney Drops Alec Baldwin Bombshell

Beatles legend Paul McCartney has a knack of yoga practice that has kept him going even at the age of eighty. Paul McCartney opens up on yoga practice He revealed in an interview with the “Smartless” podcast  2020, that he maintains a regular practice with[via Yoga Journal] “a couple of mates,” among them Lorne Michaels and […]