Legendary drummer Carmine Appice (KING KOBRA, VANILLA FUDGE, OZZY OSBOURNE, BLUE MURDER) has released the following update:

“Year of CACTUS - Cactus is having a great year with many cool concerts on the way. The week of April 16th Cactus has an East Coast run. Beginning in May Cactus hits the Mid-West, and July Cactus is in Europe, including gigs in Germany and a big music festival in Polland! Ending the year in style, Cactus makes their first appearance in Japan in December!

Drum Wars! - Carmine and Vinny's Drum Wars is also having a great year. Having already performed multiple drum wars shows in the US, the boys did two great Drum Events headlining both the Adams Drum Fest in Belgium and the International drum festival in Gyor, Hungary.

Next is the Connecticut Drum Show April 22nd, The M3 Festival May 12th in Corona CA, MarQue 15 June 1st, Vamps Las Vegas June 2nd, Riverbend Festival June 15th, then a full blown European tour from October 4th to November 4th. Drum wars is rocking! Visit DrumWars.com for more details.

Drum Wars is great fun. Me and Vinny have the best times together, it's like drum camp I Love It.”

Carmine's Realistic Rock Cymbals by Istanbul Mehmet is starting to pick up speed. At the Frankfurt Music Messe (NAMM of Europe) The reaction to the cymbals were fantastic. "These are by far, the best cymbals I've ever played. The sound, look attack everything about them is fantastic.

Everyone that hears them loves them ... Check them out at the Connecticut Drum Show April 22nd or at any of Carmine's shows coming up. They were a big hit on the Euro Vargas Shortino and Appice tour!

Vargas Shortino and Appice - watch for the CarmineAppice.com video premier of the new VSA single, a redo of ‘Do Ya think I'm Sexy’. The video rocks.

Last in the news: KING KOBRA has sign on to do another King Kobra CD for Frontiers Record for 2012 ...Maybe we'll call it King Kobra II since the last one was King Kobra and we already had KK III!”