On the first night of their benefit shows for bassist Chi Cheng (November 19), the Deftones performed with Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Greg Puciato (Dillinger Escape Plan), Mike Shinodo (Linkin Park) and Cypress Hill. The second night (November 20) featured appearances from Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Shavo Odadjian (System Of A Down), Daron Malakian (System Of [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Children Of Bodom frontman/guitarist Alexi Laiho will be playing guitar with Hypocrisy on their upcoming North American tour. More details here.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations that have metal shows, as well as SiriusXM, [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Children Of Bodom has released a new video for “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Children Of Bodom has posted covers of Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell” and Suicide Tendencies’ “War Inside My Head” on their Myspace page.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises have arguably done more to expose people to new music than radio has in the past few years. So it’s pretty cool to see that Rock Band has announced a $29.99 “Rock Band Metal Track Pack” featuring 20 songs, some exclusive to the game. I’m not sure that [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009
Is Brutal Legend going to be the most metal video game ever? Until now, we’d heard more about the endless legal battles over the game than the game itself, but the just-released track listing just gave it even more metal cred. Sure, we know that Jack Black, Lemmy, Ozzy, Rob Halford and more lent their voices [...]
Friday, July 31, 2009
While the initial OMGTHATSAWESOME! reaction has worn off from the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises, the games are still fun to play, and every time the track listing from a game is unveiled, it’s always cool to see what metal makes the list. Activision has just posted the list from Guitar Hero 5, which is actually [...]
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Children Of Bodom’s cover album, Skeletons In The Closet, will see a September 22 release date via Spinefarm.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tour dates have been released for a North American headlining run this fall by Children of Bodom with The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch in support.
Video of Shadows Fall performing their cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Bark At The Moon” with Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick has been posted online.
Down/Crowbar guitarist Kirk Windstein has joined the New Orleans hardcore/thrash super group Suicide War.
Doom metal legends Candlemass will release a new DVD called Ashes To Ashes-Live on June 29 via Nuclear Blast Records.
Ill Nino has signed a new recording deal with Victory Records.
Otep has released a new video for the song “Rise, Rebel, Resist.”
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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