Avenged Sevenfold Drummer James Sullivan Dies at 28

Posted December 30, 2009 - 11:31pm by Hardrocker

James Sullivan, the drummer for the Huntington Beach rock band Avenged Sevenfold, died on Monday 28th Dec 2009, according to Orange County authorities. The cause of death is still under investigation. Sullivan, 28, was found unresponsive inside his home. "It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we tell you of the passing today of Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan,” band members posted in a statement on the group’s official Web site. “Jimmy was not only one of the world's best drummers, but more importantly he was our best friend and brother. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jimmy's family and we hope that you will respect their privacy during this difficult time.”

News of Sullivan’s death prompted an outpouring of grief on social media sites as well as on the band’s official Web site. “I cant believe it..The Rev is gone..R.I.P. Jimmy Sullivan..im crying so hard right now. I think Im in complete shock,” a fan with the handle Star888Star posted on Twitter this morning. The group, which blended hard rock with hard-core punk, was named Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006.

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Linkin Park's Vocalist New Side Project

Posted December 26, 2009 - 3:55am by Hardrocker

Linkin Park's vocalist, Chester Bennington has a new side project and its called Dead By Sunrise. The band also features Amir Derakh, Ryan Shuck, Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra from Julien-K and Anthony "Fu" Valcic. Dead by Sunrise's debut album, Out of Ashes, was released worldwide on October 13, 2009. Dead by Sunrise started to form in 2005 while Chester Bennington was writing songs for Linkin Park's album Minutes to Midnight. According to Bennington, "I came up with a few songs that felt and sounded really good, but I knew they weren’t right stylistically for Linkin Park. They were darker and moodier than anything I’d come up with for the band. So I decided to work on them on my own rather than turn them over and have them transformed into Linkin Park tracks."However, the foundation for Dead by Sunrise was laid much earlier, when future bandmate Shuck met Bennington during the recording of Linkin Park's first album Hybrid Theory. In an interview, Shuck states that "I always used to go to his house and hear him play acoustic guitar. And I always thought to myself, 'Oh my God, these are such good songs.

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Breaking Benjamin Releases New Album

Posted November 8, 2009 - 6:17am by Hardrocker

Breaking Benjamin released their latest album, Dear Agony, in stores everywhere now! Dear Agony is the follow-up to the band’s platinum selling album Phobia which had spawned mulitiple hit singles. The first single off of Dear Agony is the chart-topping radio hit, “I Will Not Bow,” which is also the lead track to the major motion picture, Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis. With a new album released Sept 29, Breaking Benjamin, led by vocalist and songwriter Ben Burnley, did not fail to wow the world again.

After years of alcoholism and regrets, Burnley based his new songs and lyrics about starting over and not giving in. Though a cloudy past turned his life into the melodies and lyrics many know, love and respect, Burnley needed a change. He has turned his life around. In the new hit single, "I Will Not Bow," Burnley writes about starting in a new place and not letting darkness overtake his life. He vows to shut the world out so he can take everyone's breath away with what he reveals. Burnley started alone, writing songs about things he saw and things that perplexed him.

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Three Days Grace Releases New Album

Posted November 3, 2009 - 11:22pm by Hardrocker

Life Starts Now, the third studio album by Three Days Grace, was released on September 22, 2009. The first single, "Break," was released to radio stations on September 1, 2009. After being on the road for five years with Three Days Grace, bassist Brad Walst stated, "We all came home and got a hard dose of life," which the band then used to create a more "musically in-depth and personal album." He describes Life Starts Now as a record about "confronting life and how fragile it can be." Pre-production for Life Starts Now began in January of 2009 while the band began recording the actual music in Vancouver beginning in March. The album was then completed in August of the same year. After finalizing all aspects of the album, they officially announced that the album would be released on September 22, 2009.

The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 79,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week, thus becoming the band's highest charting album to date.[4] The album also debuted on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart at number two, along with "Break" at number 7 on the Billboard Rock Songs chart and "The Good Life" at number 85 on the Canadian Hot 100.

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Skillet Releases New Album

Posted November 3, 2009 - 12:21am by Hardrocker

Grammy-nominated alternative outfit, Skillet, have now released their eight album "Awake", the follow up to their 2006 breakthrough project, Comatose. The band, John Cooper (singer/bassist), Korey Cooper (keyboardist/vocalist), Ben Kasica (guitarist), and Jen Ledger (drummer/vocalist) teamed up with all-star producer Howard Benson (Daughtry, My Chemical Romance, The All-American Rejects), to deliver an album that is sure to have plenty of anthems, smash singles, and concert sing-a-longs. This album is quite different from their last LP "Comatose". New drummer Jen Ledger really stepped up and provides a different style of drumming, and sings backup vocals on some tracks which really add a different sound to the album. “Monster,” the first single off the album, is loaded with towering riffs and unbridled rock n’ roll abandon. The band will be on this year’s Alive & Awake Tour which will kick off in late September and run through November.

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