Monthly Archives: December 2010

Avenged Sevenfold Pull Out Of Australia’s Soundwave Festival

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Avenged Sevenfold has pulled out of the Australian festival series Soundwave, which is taking place in February/March.

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Win An Alice In Chains Prize Pack!

Posted by on December 16, 2010

How would you like to win an amazing Alice In Chains prize pack?? VelvetHammer.net and MetalInsider.net have partnered to give away the following pack of commemorative gear from the band’s historic BLACKDIAMONDSKYE tour to one lucky winner: 1. Alice In Chains set list from BLACKDIAMONDSKYE Vancouver, signed by the whole band 2. Limited Edition Jermaine […]

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Haste The Day Announces Dates For Farewell Tour

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Haste The Day has announced dates for their upcoming farewell tour. The Winter tour will also feature Mychildren Mybride, The Chariot and A Plea For Purging on the bill.

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Preview Of New Pantera Song To Debut On Headbangers Ball

Posted by on December 16, 2010

It’s being reported that the first fifteen seconds of a previously unreleased Pantera song called “Piss” will open the upcoming episode of Headbangers Ball. The special, called Headbangers Ball: The Year In Metal, will air this Saturday (December 18) at midnight on MTV2. The unreleased track is also expected to be included in the Vulgar […]

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Arson Anthem Announces Mini-Tour

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Arson Anthem, the hardcore punk supergroup featuring Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual), Hank Williams III (Superjoint Ritual, Assjack), Mike IX Williams (Outlaw Order, Eyehategod), and Collin Yeo (Ponykiller), has announced dates for a Southern mini-tour in January. Support on the tour will come from haarp and Warbeast.

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Metal By Numbers 12/15: Give The Gift Of Music? Not So Much

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Continuing a trend we saw last week, there’s not a ton of metal being sold. In fact, with only five albums notching sales of over 100,000, there’s not a ton of music being sold […]

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Megadeth, Hellyeah To Perform At Dean Guitar NAMM Concert

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Megadeth and Hellyeah will be performing at the Dean Guitars NAMM Jam on Friday, January 14 at the Grove of Anaheim in Anaheim, California.

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More Bands Added To Warped Tour Lineup

Posted by on December 16, 2010

Winds Of Plague, Miss May I, and Woe, Is Me have been added to the lineup of Warped Tour 2011.

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Times Of Grace Announces Debut Tour

Posted by on December 15, 2010

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj9wXQa4E5Y&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Times Of Grace, the new group featuring Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz and former KSE frontman Jesse Leach, has announced plans to partake in their first ever tour. Leach had the following to say about the group’s debut tour, which kicks off in the beginning of February: “We are excited after all of these years to […]

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Lazarus A.D. Streaming New Song Online

Posted by on December 15, 2010

Lazarus A.D. is streaming a new song called “The Ultimate Sacrifice” on Metal Blade Record’s official website.

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