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After the hilarious Steel Panda debacle @ Download Festival 2009, many, many of us have felt the steel. The joke hasn't worn off but that's because Steel Panther aren't a joke. Or are they? Or was it never funny to talk about shagging your mum? Cue: "My mum's dead," etc. Thrash Hits TV: Steel Panther (again) [...]

Where were you on the night before the dawn of the New Millennium? Jon Kerr was getting a pit going in Jilly's Rockworld, Manchester. We've asked him to summarise the ten years since then in all things metal in a handy A to Z S layer No Slayer, no thrash. Right? Following their four classic '80s albums, Slayer's four '90s albums received a varied reception as the band branched out in style. During this last decade, Slayer have succeeded in cementing [...]

With Swedish metallers Opeth recently touring with prog overlords Dream Theater, Chris Cope caught up with axeman Fredrik Akesson to talk about his role in the band and why Scandinavia creates so many big, bad metalheads. It's nearly show-time at the final UK show of the tour, and we're enlisted with the task of taking the burly, hairy man out of his cosy dressing room for a chat. Thankfully Fredrik doesn't mind standing about in the cold wasteland of boxes and gear behind the stage. It's [...]

When progressive metal godfathers Dream Theater landed in Glasgow to wow the wits out of far-from-innocent people with 113/19 time signatures, Chris Cope sat down for a quick chinwag with keyboard wizard Jordan Rudess In a few hours he'll be onstage, headlining the Glasgow SECC, but just now Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is pretending to be a normal human being and lounging in a hotel bar. There's a red carpet outside, but that's for the Indian wedding guests congregating behind us, not for Jordan, or [...]

Our man on the ground in Atlanta, USA checks in and chats about September. Metal Mark had a quieter month than normal but still saw DOWN, Gojira and had a chat to Max Cavalera. Nice. What's up my metal people! September was a rather slow month when it comes to shows in Atlanta, but there were two great ones. The first day of the month, DOWN rolled into town with a killer lineup of bands, which included Evil Army , Weedeater , and The Melvins [...]

Lacuna Coil - Spellbound @ Download 2009 This is what you missed when you decided to catch Limp Bizkit's return that day: I know I would rather be in this crowd than watch the return of Shitty Bizkits past their expiry date.

Lacuna Coil @ Download Festival 2009 Spent the whole day searching on youtube for videos of their performance. Found the following 3: you can say what you want about the band, but there's no denying that Cristina Scabbia can sing.

More Festival News Download Festival 2009 Slipknot, The Prodigy, Dragonforce, Korn, Motley Crue, Pendulum and DevilDriver were the first bands to be announced for the festival to be held on Friday 12 June - Sunday 14 June at Donington Park. [ Download Festiv a l ] Graspop Festival 2009 Lacuna Coil, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Heaven and Hell are just some of the bands who have confirmed their attendance for Belgium's [...]

Bamboozle Left 09 tickets on sale Since it's the season to get festival tickets, just wanted to give you a heads up on The Bamboozle , happening in NJ on May 2nd- 3rd or Bamboozle Left on April 4th and 5th at Irvine CA. Tickets for Bamboozle Left are available now . Full line up below. --- TASTE OF CHAOS 2009 [...]

2009 Festival News 1) Download Festival 2009 The 7th year of Download Festival will be back at Donington Park after much speculation and will take place over the weekend of 12, 13, 14 June 2009 . Visit http://www.downloadfestival.co .uk for updates on sales and line-up announcements. 2) Wacken 2009 The premier metal festival will be celebrating their 20th anniversary next year and it will be taking place from 30 July [...]