I'm not sure when this was announced, but I just found out that two metal legends are once again headlining the Rockstar Energy Drink's Mayhem Tour this summer. Last time I went, it was Korn, Rob Zombie, and Lamb Of God. This year it's Slipknot and Slayer that have the double headlining gig. Mayhem will come to Camden's Susquehanna Bank Center on July 27th and also features Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, White Chapel, and High On Fire. Should be a brutal evening. Tickets go on sale April 6th.
HELLO WORLD! So I decided to throw this post together for a number of reasons. First of all, I love metal (and other harder-edged music) and I've been trying to sneak it into my post queue here or there in an attempt to brainwash my readers into liking it too (even though some have violently protested). And second, I figured that I would occasionally cull a bunch of releases into one mega post and ironically title it "I Hate Metal." That way any of those who wish to remain untainted can know exactly what they are getting into when they [...]
Gli organizzatori del Gods of Metal hanno confermato che Slash sarà presente al Gods of Metal, il prossimo 23 giugno. L'ex chitarrista dei Guns N' Roses si esibirà sul palco con Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, per poi lasciare la scena agli headliner Motley Crue di Tommy Lee e Nikki Sixx. Insomma, un tocco di hard rock in mezzo a metal più o meno estremo. Di seguito riportiamo il calendario del Gods of Metal 2012 aggiornato: 21 Giugno: MANOWAR - confermati anche: Unisonic, il grande ritorno di Michael Kiske e Kai [...]
Some artists do everything better than the rest. This is Feist 's new music video off of Metals . Martin De Thurah , the director of the music video, also directed James Blake's Lindisfarne .
Gli Slipknot non entreranno in studio di registrazione fino al 2013, nella migliore delle ipotesi. Dalle pagine di Kerrang!, Shawn Crahan ha spiegato che la band vuole prenderesi un periodo di vacanza dopo il tour statunitense del 2012: «Dopo il tour ci prenderemo un po' di tempo libero. Potrebbe essere un mese, motrebbe essere un paio di mesi, potrebbe addirittura essere un anno» Inoltre, il periodo di pausa servirà per riprendersi dal dolore per la morte del bassista Paul Gray , avvenuta per sospetta overdose nel 2010: [...]
The Dillinger Escape plan have released a new video for their song "Parasitic Twins" from their album Option Paralysis . The band is currently on tour with Mastodon. Watch the new video below. Read more »
A trent'anni dalla morte, Tsunami Edizioni ha presentato l'edizione italiana della prima biografia di Randy Rhoads , intitolata "Randy: Vita e Morte di Randy Rhoads. Dai Quiet Riot a Ozzy" e scritta da Joel McIver. Randy Rhoads è stato il leggendario chitarrista che Ozzy Osbourne aveva scelto per lanciare la sua carriera solista dopo essere stato cacciato dai Black Sabbath . Vero e proprio "bambino prodigio", Rhoads esibiva un talento fuori dal comune e con i soli due dischi Blizzard Of Ozz e Diary Of A Madman , nei quali ha [...]
Metallica have seen better days. That's for sure. But their announcement today of a two day festival being held in Atlantic City this summer is pretty exciting stuff. The metal legends will headline both nights, June 23rd and 24th, at Bader Field in A.C. They have also hand selected the 22 bands that will play along side them for the festival. Metallica will be playing both Ride The Lightning and The Black Album in their entirety. I'd have rather heard ...And Justice For All [...]
Let's get one thing straight. Lamb of God have always been a formulaic band. With each record, they've made the smallest evolutionary steps, but none that could be discerned by an onlooker's ear. Despite, or rather because of that, they could ram their way out the underground and become such a massive centripetal force in the metal community. This unlikely rise could be attributed to a lone fact - the template set by Pantera was aped by a million bands at the time, but nobody did it like these guys. Lamb of God were more spiritual successors than clones. They [...]
"One, two, three. Fuck off Mikael" In its first edition in 2010, Overture's Summer Storm booked American metal giants Lamb of God to play Palace Grounds , Bangalore. Late last year, the organizers announced that Swedish prog metallers Opeth would be headlining the festival in its second edition, supported by two other bands - German metallers SuidAkrA (read our interview with them here ) and Maldivian metal act Nothnegal - with local acts , Eccentric Pendulum and Theorized . Summer Storm 2012 [...]
Ever since one of my all-time favorite rock bands, Earth, dropped the album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I , I've been anxiously waiting for the album's sequel to be released. As you might remember from my review of that album . I was a fan of the songs, but somewhat on the fence with the addition of cello in Earth's music. The mix, in my opinion, wasn't exactly complementing this new instrument, making the overall sound of the record somewhat muddy. From what I'm hearing, that issue seems to be cleared up a bit. [...]
[Photos by acidjack] In a north Brooklyn scene that has both thriving indie rock and metal scenes, Grandfather are one of the few bands that bridges that divide. The band plays intelligent, aggressive hard rock (not quite metal) that capitalizes on the outstanding guitar work of Michael Kirsch and the focused, balls-out vocals of Josh Hoffman, already a consummate rock frontman even in his rookie years. The closest reference point sound-wise for the band is probably the mighty Tool , but these guys clearly listened to plenty of Nirvana and other Seattle bands in their [...]
STALLONE by Stallone When guitarist Juan Montoya left the stoner metal group Torche, my heart sank a bit. His playing is part of what attracted me to the group, and I've been wondering if I'd ever come across it again. Well, I can now praise the stoner/sludge/doom metal gods, because Montoya has assembled a new group, Stallone, and they've got a new, free self-titled EP out on their Bandcamp . The recording on these three tracks isn't stellar, but the message and the heaviness comes across pretty well. The monstrous [...]
Watch Portland Oregon's Portugal The Man perform in Melbourne Australia for this year's Laneway Festival. Below Feist is performs "How Come You Never Go There" from her latest release, Metals .
A couple of Friday nights ago we demolished every character-staining suspicion that we were having a "Sober January" in the Unicorn in Camden. There were also a couple of bands playing - Carpathia and Bleeding Oath - so we wrote about them. Six things we learned while trying to get our noggins round this noodling prog metal extravaganza 1. Bleeding Oath are young. Like... really, REALLY young. Like... statutory rape young. Which makes them very [...]
La reunion dei Black Sabbath continua a essere messa a dura prova da continui problemi: dopo la malattia di Tony Iommi , che si sta curando un tumore, arriva il malcontento del batterista Bill Ward, che minaccia di lasciare la band per cause contrattuali. Dalla pagina Facebook ufficiale arriva però da Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi e Geezer Butler un comunicato per rassicurare i fan: qualsiasi attività della band continuerà anche se Ward dovesse effettivamente andarsene: «Siamo rattristati di aver saputo attraverso Facebook che Bill ha pubblicamente rifiutato di partecipare ai progetti [...]
Nee, dit is geen beknopte samenvatting van mijn eerdere bericht , in augustus vorig jaar. Richard Youngs is écht een artiest die meerdere platen per jaar kan uitbrengen en daarnaast telkens weer iets bijzonders weet te creëren, bijzonder genoeg om er opnieuw over te typen. Core To The Brave en Amaranthine zijn mijn laatste aanwinsten met Youngs' naam erop. Core To The Brave komt uit bij Root Strata en valt vrijwel direct op door zijn agressiviteit. [...]
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