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Tag Archive | "Alice In Chains"

More Dates Added To BlackDiamondSkye Tour, Something To Rejoice For

Monday, June 14, 2010

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More dates have been added to Alice In Chains, Deftones and Mastodon’s BlackDiamondSkye tour.

Metal By Numbers 6/10: Lamb Of God Have A Nice Box

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Unless you’re Jack Johnson or on a TV show about glee clubs, it was a pretty weak week for music sales once again. On the plus side, Lamb of God have the biggest metal debut of the week, and that’s not counting the 20 or so super deluxe box sets they sold. And next week, [...]

Metal By Numbers 6/3: A Good Omen For Soulfly

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The top 10 this week looks a lot like last week except with Stone Temple Pilots’ first album in almost a decade coming in at #2. With the #1 album having sold only 63,000, [...]

Metal By Numbers 5/26: Exodus In Good Condition

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s an indie rock kinda week on Billboard’s charts, as Black Keys, Band of Horses, and LCD Soundsystem debut inside the top ten. As far as metal, you’ve got to go all the way [...]

Mastodon Cancel Summer Tour

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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While Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher’s pancreatitis forced the band to postpone a date and play one with Baroness members filling in for him last month, the show has, for the most part, gone on. The guitarist has been healthy enough to finish out the remainder of the tour, with reports from concertgoers saying the band [...]

Metal By Numbers 5/19: As I Lay Dying Continue Their Rise

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As I Lay Dying have released what many are calling their best album yet. While The Powerless Rise might be their best album, it’s not their highest-debuting, as An Ocean Between Us notched a #8 debut [...]

Metal By Numbers 5/12: Deftones Eye Up Sales

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You’ve gotta hand it to Deftones. Not only did they create one of the best albums of their career with Diamond Eyes, they also got the word out to 62,000 of their fans to [...]

Metal By Numbers 5/5: 666, The Number Of…Bullet For My Valentine!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Though this week only saw a few metal debuts, Bullet For My Valentine made it a little more metal than usual. The Welsh metalcore band not only had the highest rock ranking of the [...]

Alice In Chains To Tour With The Deftones, Mastodon. No Longer A Rumor!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Granted, it was pretty much a sure thing that the three would tour together once a Youtube teaser (seen above) and website called blackdiamondskye.com hit the internet (seriously, the name is pretty obvious). But nothing was officially confirmed … until now. After weeks of speculation, it has been confirmed that Alice In Chains, The Deftones [...]

Metal By Numbers 4/28: AC/DC Back In Black … and On The Charts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week saw a lot of metal and rock debuts hitting the charts. But it’s the AC/DC Iron Man 2 soundtrack that had the biggest debut. While Bram’s prediction that it wouldn’t rank number [...]

  • Taddy Porter is giving fans a chance to win two tickets to see them open for Slash this Fall.

  • CKY has added more dates to their previously announced Fall tour.

  • Audio samples from Lordi’s new album Babez For Breakfast can be heard at Amazon.de.

  • 36 Crazyfists has announced dates for a headlining tour, with Straight Line Stitch and Taking Dawn providing support.

  • Stone Sour is streaming their new album Audio Secrecy in its entirety at NME.com.