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 blood [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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.”
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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