The mighty Fozzy return with their seventh studio album Judas on Friday October 13, via Century Media records. Fozzy are such a unique story. They started as a metal cover band before morphing into a true band with original material. It would be easy to see them as just a vanity project for wrestler Chris Jericho but if you’ve ever seen these guys live you would know there’s nothing fake or forced about them. Jericho is a massive metalhead from way back, and it doesn’t hurt to have Rich Ward kicking ass on guitar. Australia has always been very receptive to Fozzy and it looks like they’ll be back soon. “We’ve been waiting to come back to Australia since 2013,” Jericho says. “We were lucky enough to tour there twice in 2013 on the Soundwave tour with Metallica and then with Steel Panther. Australia is one of our favourite places to go. We haven’t been there since the Do You Want To Start A War Record came out, which is 2014….Hopefully in 2018 for sure.”
Have you heard Last Podcast On The Left? These guys – Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks and Ben Kissel – cover ‘all the horrors our world has to offer, both imagined and real,’ and every now and then they touch on metal-related topics. They’re currently doing a series on Norwegian Black Metal which is informative and hilarious, and I highly recommend you check it out. There are also a few episodes on the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ with some pretty solid metal content.
The mighty Whoretopsy are about to head back into the studio to work on the follow-up to their album Never Tear Us Apart. Over the past few years they’ve toured Europe, New Zealand and Australia several times with bands such as Psycroptic, Goatwhore, Cryptopsy, Nile, Unearth, Condemned, King Parrot, Revocation, Disentomb, Vader, Hate Eternal, Gorgasm, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Putrid Pile. Before they hole themselves up in the studio, they’re hitting the Bendigo Hotel for one last frenzied live show. Supporting are Hollow World (who recently released their new album Examinate), Splatterpuss, Annihilist and Ame Noire.
Longtime favourites of this column Coffin Carousel will release their new album Between Death & Dead on Friday October 13. Featuring 18 tracks, this album is a spooky, adrenaline-infused horror-punk rock masterpiece that Eclipse Records promises will make Elvis Presley rise from the dead. So be ready for that, I guess. The album was produced by Howard Von Noise and mixed by Neil Kernon (Queensryche, Cannibal Corpse, Hall & Oates).
