Lair of the Asp

Chris Vrenna is a hell of a producer, I remixed one of his songs a couple of years ago and he's definitely got talent. More than Trent Reznor? Probably not, but who knows what would have been? I'm sure either way it'll be a quality product, umm, I mean good song... Producer Chris Vrenna has teamed with Clint Walsh to compose the theme song for the video game "Doom 3" expected to hit stores on August 3 (and available below). Vrenna's past video game credits include "Quake" while as a member of Nine Inch Nails, "Enter the Matrix" and the upcoming titles "Tabula Rasa" and "Area 51". The "Doom 3" theme song was originally going to be composed by Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor. According to Reznor the project was aborted when time, money and bad management came into play.

  u2.com  has announced that a rough-cut of U2's new album, due out this November, went missing during a photo shoot in France this week. U2 now fears that the unfinished recordings will turn up on the internet before the album's official releasedate. It would not be the first time the band sees its material leaked prematurely, months before the official release of "Achtung Baby" the pre-mixed recordings were already widely available in the bootleg circuit. Speaking to U2.Com, Edge said: "A large slice of two years work lifted via a piece of round plastic. It doesn't seem credible but that's what's just happened to us...and it was my CD." The band recently completed much of the recording of the highly anticipated new album in Dublin and have been involved in post-production work in France. French police is now investigating the theft. The album, which has not yet been named, is the first new studio album from U2 since 2000's "All T

More news on the upcoming NIN album.  Ok, so Trent is doing the production himself and has Dave Grohl doing the drumming on a lot of the songs, that sounds like a decent combination, but will it ever come out if he is behind the helm?  Will it ever be perfect enough for him to release?  I guess time will tell...   While NIN is searching its way through 20 tracks that are considered for possible inclusion on the record, Trent Reznor has announced during a chat with fans on his member only area of his website that he will be producing the record, entitled "Bleed Through", himself. Trent: "I feel very inspired right now and I want this record to be what's in my head, for better or worse." Alan Moulder will be on board as a sounding board / co-producer / mixer as well as James Brown for some tracking. And the list doesn't finish there: "Atticus Ross is my right-hand man and programmer and has been from the start of this record, Leo Herrera is engineering,

Ya know, I'm still wondering if this album will ever see the light of day, but it does have some interesting contributors... Former NIRVANA/QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE drummer Dave Grohl recorded a guest appearance on drums for the new NINE INCH NAILS album, "Bleedthrough", during a session at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Ca. this past Friday (July 9). As previously reported, the follow-up to NINE INCH NAILS' 1999 double album, "The Fragile", is set to feature production contributions from Rick Rubin (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, AUDIOSLAVE, SLAYER), Atticus Ross (12 ROUNDS, TAPEWORM), Jerome Dillon, Leo Herrera, and mix engineer Rich Costey. Among the songtitles set to appear on the CD are "The Line Begins To Blur", "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" and "My Dead Friend". No release date has yet been scheduled.

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Ok, this article is a couple of years old, but I think the author's point are still valid... Industrial music suffers from an inability to get anywhere in the world. Is this because it’s just not a style that is accessible for the masses? Or is there something in the very nature of what’s being heard that prevents it from gaining any further popularity? When Nine Inch Nails “broke”, it never dragged industrial into the spotlight. Nor did any of the other artists, such as Stabbing Westward or Gravity Kills, that had mainstream success shed any light onto the underground… It’s hard to try to tell yourself that industrial just isn’t palatable to the masses, because every GNC commercial for weight-gainer is fraught with badly constructed industrial made with the “Methods Of Mayhem” sample disc and every car commercial on TV is backed by jagged hard-electro beats. So why isn’t industrial finding any acceptance? I personally find industrial a hard genre to get into these day