The “tour edition” of Ozzy Osbourne’s latest album Scream will feature three songs left off the original album and live renditions of Ozzy and Black Sabbath classics. The two CD version of the album will be released on October 5 via Epic Records.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s Bram and Zach take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. In a recent interview with The Republic, Ozzy Osbourne added more fuel to the Black Sabbath reunion fire. While [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This past weekend, the remaining members of Heaven & Hell performed a tribute set to late singer Ronnie James Dio at London’s High Voltage Festival. While Glenn Hughes (ex Black Sabbath/Deep Purple) and Jorn Lande took duties swapping vocals throughout the show, Down/Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo joined the group onstage during “Neon Knights.” Supposedly even [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
What a difference a year makes. Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi have resolved their dispute over the Black Sabbath trademark. Ozzy Osbourne had sued Iommi, claiming he’d illegally taken sole ownership of the band’s name after filing it with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He had been seeking 50% of the profits of the [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
While the metal community was mourning the loss of Ronnie James Dio on May 16th, for many in the Bay Area thrash scene, the passing of manager Debbie Abono on the same day was just as important. Abono was a 55 year-old mother whose only connection to metal had been as a mom of teenage [...]
Friday, June 25, 2010
Scream, Ozzy Osbourne’s 10th solo album, is expected to sell between 65 and 70 thousand copies in its first week, which isn’t bad, but is about half of what his last album, Black Rain sold in 2007. While there have been a few weeks slow enough in SoundScan history where that would be the #1 [...]
Monday, June 21, 2010
At this point you might be asking why we don’t just change our name to Ozzy Insider? Well what can we say, the Prince Of Darkness keeps adding on to his already very busy list of accomplishments. Ozzy hit the interview rounds especially hard this past weekend in anticipation of his new album Scream coming out [...]
Monday, June 7, 2010
Remember when the Guitar Hero franchise was fresh and exciting? Activision does too, which is why the recently-announced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, is the only GH game they’re releasing this year. In prior years, they’ve flooded the market, and by the time the awful Guitar Hero: Van Halen was released last year, no one [...]
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
According to Jim Farber at the NY Daily News, heavy metal turned 40 yesterday. He’s got a point, since on June 1, Black Sabbath’s first album was released in the United States (It had come out on February 13 in the UK). There were definitely some other bands and songs that set the stage for [...]
Friday, April 16, 2010
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell guitarist Tony Iommi and Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan are reportedly forming an ad-hoc group called Who Cares specifically to raise funds for reestablishing music schools in America.
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.
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