Nitro

June 18, 2017

Nitro add Grammy Award winning bassist Wooten to lineup feat: Gillette, Angelo Batio and Adler

LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN Nitro add Grammy Award winning bassist Wooten to lineup feat: Gillette, Angelo Batio and Adler From The Train Tracks — After months of public speculation on who will be playing bass on the new NITRO album, the band releases the following statement: NITRO is proud, humbled and honored to finally tell fans and friends that VICTOR WOOTEN will be the guest bass player on the new NITRO album. A five time GRAMMY Award winner and widely-recognized as[…]

December 18, 2016

OUTFU??INGRAGEOUS … Nitro singer Jim Gillette goes A-Z with Metal Sludge

OUTFU??INGRAGEOUS Nitro singer Jim Gillette goes A-Z with Metal Sludge LOS ANGELES, California — He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s back. Remember early glam purveyors Nitro? Jim Gillette is pulling the band back together again. He wants a comeback story just like the rest of us. He was married to Lita Ford, and now Gillette is happily divorced. In the meantime, he has established himself as a top MMA fighter — on the senior circuit, for god’s[…]

November 30, 2016

LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN … NITRO has reunited with Jim Gillette, Michael Angelo Batio and Chris Adler

LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN NITRO has reunited with Jim Gillette, Michael Angelo Batio and Chris Adler LOS ANGELES, California — It’s official… NITRO has reunited! Joining with founding members: legendary guitar virtuoso, MICHAEL ANGELO BATIO, and glass-shattering vocalist, JIM GILLETTE, is one of today’s most respected and revered metal drummer’s, CHRIS ADLER (Lamb of God). “I’m not sure who keeps giving my phone number to the most talented musicians on the planet but,[…]

January 25, 2015

KILL ME DEADLY ‘The boys stated they were afraid their mother (Lita Ford) would kill them’ according to Broward County Sheriff’s Report

KILL ME DEADLY ‘The boys stated they were afraid their mother (Lita Ford) would kill them’ according to Broward County Sheriff’s Report By: Metal Sludge Los Angeles — Last week we published an article on the widely publicized divorce between Lita Ford and Jim Gillette. Ford was a member of the legendary all-girl rock band The Runaways while Gillette fronted the 80’s headbanger’s ball freaks known as NITRO! The content of that article >HERE< was[…]

June 24, 2014

Hard rock veterans The Hard Way trudge forward on the Sunset Strip with decades of experience behind them.

Singer Eric Jeffrey’s band The Hard Way is among the best rock acts you’ve probably never heard of, but the group is just one big break from striking it big By Gerry Gittelson Metal Sludge Editor at Large HOLLYWOOD — The plan 25 years ago was to be a millionaire rock star by now. After all, young singer Eric Jeffreys had the look, the training (including graduating from Berklee School of Music) and[…]