The popularity of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has long been met by musicians and people that don’t like fun complaining that “if you’re going to spend all that time playing a fake guitar, you might as well learn how to play a real one.” Well, with the release of Rock Band 3, you [...]
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
I like Ryan Adams. He is a musical madman, prolific to such a near-psychotic degree that I can’t help but admire. His music was the soundtrack to several failed college romances, never failing to make me smile when they pop up on my iPod’s shuffle even now. “Come Pick Me Up” still kills me. Today, [...]
Sunday, May 16, 2010
According to sources close to Metal Insider, Ronnie James Dio has passed away following a battle with stomach cancer. More details as we get them.
Monday, April 5, 2010
You guys like dinosaur rock? No, not Aerosmith and KISS, we’re talking about real dinosaurs. Hevisaurus is a Finnish metal band for children that dress up in dinosaur costumes. Members of Dio (Jens Johannsen) and Sonata Arctica (Henrik Klingenberg) are among those appearing on the album. According to their bio, “Among several Finnish children’s metal [...]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The metal community was saddened last year to find out that legendary vocalist and inventor of the metal horns (sorry Gene) Ronnie James Dio was suffering from stomach cancer. Thankfully, the 67 year-old seems as spry as ever. Currently receiving chemotherapy in Houston, Dio and his wife sat down for an interview with local TV [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
As most metal fans know, Heaven and Hell/Black Sabbath/Dio vocalist and national treasure Ronnie James Dio has been sidelined since last year with stomach cancer. His wife and manager Wendy has issued an update as to his condition on Dio’s official Web site: After a few hiccups between Christmas and New Year’s, such as a [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
To all of Metal Insider’s international readers and world travelers, this is a public service announcement: don’t throw up your metal unless you’re prepared to go to jail for it. The Irish Times reports that five metal fans in town for the Rock N’ Coke Festival (that sounds like a party!) last weekend saluted a convoy [...]
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Brutal Legend, the heavy metal video game has released the above trailer which leaves a good first impression. The game starring Jack Black as Eddie Riggs, a heavy metal roadie. Eddie somehow gets transported to mythical lands only found in metal album covers that namely involve lightning shooting out of guitars and giant amplifiers. According [...]
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Heaven & Hell’s The Devil You Know inspired some fan hysteria at a San Bernardino in-store. This guy’s actually an amalgamation of Chris Farley, Wayne and Garth. Party on, dude!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top sellers 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, Music Choice, and [...]
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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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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