Bassist Shawn Econonaki has left Stone Sour. Vocalist Corey Taylor confirmed the split via his Twitter: "As some of you might have heard but I'll confirm it: Shawn Economaki is no longer with Stone Sour. We wish him luck in the future."
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Metal and hardcore fans know Trustkill Records as one of the defining independent labels of the previous decade, having introduced the scene to bands like Poison the Well, Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, Throwdown and Bullet for My Valentine, to name a select few...
Trustkill Records owner Josh Grabelle isn't new to the hardcore and metalcore party. He's got roots and cred that he earned putting on shows in his parents' basement after attending his first hardcore show at the Jersey shore in the summer of '88...
Poison the Well's first studio album, 'The Opposite of December,' is celebrating its 10th birthday, and the band has been receiving much attention for it. Still together, since 1997, the band has reached a landmark status for surviving in a genre where many bands break up and make up all too often...
A wall of girls held onto the barricade Oct. 8. Were they waiting for headliners Billy Talent or just scared of the melodic metalcore men in Poison the Well? Maybe it was a bit of both as frontman Jeffrey Moreira quickly shifted the mood from clean singing to raging hardcore screaming in true PTW style...
Most critics and metal fans agree that many of today's metalcore bands were undoubtedly influenced by a handful of albums that reared their heads in the late '90s and early '00s. They are as follows: Converge's 'Petitioning the Empty Sky'; Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity'; Shai Hulud's 'Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion'; Cave In's 'Until Your Heart Stops'; and Poison th