It’s been exactly one month since Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passed away and about 4 1/2 years after a car accident left him in a coma. And while the band has continued forward, recruiting Quicksand’s Sergio Vega as bassist and releasing two albums, the band decided to scrap Eros, the album they’d been working on with [...]
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Deftones have released a new video for “Swerve City,” and it’s an amazingly shot Western. In fact, the majority of the video consists of a girl riding a horse (not a white pony?) through a desert. In fact, towards the end of the video when you see a car, it’s a little bit jarring. Without [...]
Friday, May 3, 2013
Last night’s Revolver Golden Gods wasn’t just about handing out awards to hard rock bands. The evening was jammed packed with one-time-only special performances and its fair share of memorable moments. While we’ll let you scratch your head over who won what award on your own, let’s recap some of the key highlights from this [...]
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tonight, the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show took place in Los Angeles. The night found Anthrax performing with Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown, The Dillinger Escape Plan perform a Depeche Mode cover with Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Halestorm cover Led Zeppelin with David Draiman, Five Finger Death Punch play with Rob Halford and Rob [...]
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Anyone around in the early ’90s remembers Kriss Kross. The Atlanta-area duo, who were 12 and 13, had a massive hit with “Jump Jump” from their debut album, 1992′s Totally Krossed Out, an album that sold 4 million copies. The duo even inspired a mini-trend, with fans wearing their clothes backwards in an imitation of the [...]
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The second annual Orion Music + More festival is slated to feature a pretty diverse lineup. In addition to Metallica, the two day festival will feature performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deftones, Rise Against, Bassnectar, a reunited Infectious Grooves, Dropkick Murphys, The Dillinger Escape Plan, FLAG (one of the Black Flag reunions), Gogol Bordello, [...]
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Last year, Deftones’ frontman Chino Moreno announced plans form a new project with Isis alumni Aaron Harris (drums), Clifford Meyer (guitar/ keyboards) and Jeff Caxide (bass/ keyboards) called Palms. And today, we finally get our first taste of Palms self-titled debut, out on June 25 via Ipecac Recordings. Right now, Pitchfork is streaming a song [...]
Monday, April 22, 2013
With most summer tour packages in the process of being finalized, many bands are already starting to look towards the fall. And now comes word that Avenged Sevenfold might be working on a pretty interesting fall tour. Rumors have started to circulate that Avenged Sevenfold will embark on a fall North American tour with the [...]
Friday, April 19, 2013
Through the heartbreaking tragedy and ultimate loss last week of deftones bassist Chi Cheng, website oneloveforchi was a constant presence. Started and maintained by fan Gina Blackmore and endorsed by Cheng’s mother Jeanne Marie Cheng, it served not only as a charitable site to solicit donations for his medical expenses, but also as a place [...]
Monday, April 15, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. It’s been revealed that Battlecross recruited ex-Black Dahlia Murder drummer Shannon Lucas to record drums on their forthcoming new album. This comes after the group also announced that Kevin Talley (Six Feet Under and formerly of many other great bands) [...]
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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