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It’s called an open secret. Since he abruptly left SEPULTURA last February, a few weeks before the launch of the thrashers’ farewell world tour, everyone, or almost everyone, had bet thatEloy Casagrande had taken over from Jay Weinberg, who was badly fired from SLIPKNOT last November. Especially since last week, a bug (we can assume) on Youcantkillme.com, the other official website of the Americans celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their eponymous business card, revealed his first name, which was sufficiently rare so that it is a simple homonym.
Incidentally, we also “learned” (unofficially) that the replacement for Craig Jones, programmer/sampler/keyboardist dismissed in June 2023, was a certain Jeff. So, in all likelihood, Jeff Karnowskimember of DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS, the almighty’s other group Shawn “Clown” Crahan, chief percussionist and brains of the troupe. Which makes sense, Tortilla Man – his real name Michael Pfaff – successor to Chris Fehn, pushed towards exit in March 2019 – also being from the same group. You follow ? Yes, there is a certain turnover, even a certain turnover, among the ‘KNOT…
After a warm-up concert in Pioneertown, California, in front of 850 fans and a first official show at the Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas last weekend, the group – whose members returned to their original look for the occasion – therefore soberly announced the incorporation of Casagrande in its ranks. Hopefully his seat won’t be the ejectable kind (or at least not too quickly) like that of his two predecessors, the late Joey Jordison and Weinberg.
THE KNOTFEST Iowa, whose 9 men will obviously headline, will take place in their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, on September 21. On the bill: Till Lindemann, as part of his first solo tour in the USA, KNOCKED LOOSE, HATEBREED, POISON THE WELL, GWAR, VENDED, DYING WISH, ZULU, TWIN TEMPLE, HOLY WARS, SWOLLEN TEETH, SPINE and DOSE .
Remember that the European and British part of the “Here Comes The Pain Tour”, which will take place at the end of the year, will pass through the Accor Arena on December 12.
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Laurence fell into hard rock quite a few years ago. But based on the principle that “If it’s too loud, you’re too old” and that she always listens to music on 11, she thinks she’s living proof that metal in high doses is a real fountain of youth. Or maybe she’s deaf, but let her dream… After having “religiously” read the French press of the heyday, Laurence joined Hard Rock Magazine as a journalist and editorial secretary, before briefly becoming editor-in-chief. Disembarked and determined to change environment, LF now works in the specialized press (motor sports), but as it is really only metal that makes her little heart beat, when HARD FORCE asked her to join the team at the end of 2013 , she arrived “fast as a shark”.
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