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Exodus Latest Victim Of Disney’s Metal Ban?

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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Over the past few years, Walt Disney has shown their distaste for metal by banning multiple groups from performing their House Of Blues venues in Florida. Machine Head have been the most notable metal band that Disney has banned. However, now it looks like Exodus are their latest victim. Exodus recently announced will be playing in [...]

Machine Head Take Calm, Measured Response To Disney Ban

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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For five years now, Disney has been intimidated enough by Machine Head to ban them from performing at the venues in their parks. In 2007, they were banned from performing in Anaheim and Orlando. And earlier this week, they were told that they couldn’t play Tuesday’s show (4) in Orlando. The reasons cited five years [...]

Mastodon Go Disney, Contributing Song To Monsters, Inc. Sequel

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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While we don’t have any more information that what Mastodon said on their Facebook page, it looks like they’ll be writing and recording a new song for the forthcoming sequel to the Pixar film Monsters, Inc., which is titled Monsters University. The film is slated to be released on June 21, 2013. If you would have [...]

Machine Head Get Banned From Performing By Disney…Again

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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Machine Head has announced that they will not be joining tourmates Dethklok, All That Remains, and The Black Dahlia Murder  at the House Of Blues in Orlando, FL on December 4. Why? Well as it turns out, Machine Head are still banned by Walt Disney from performing on their venue properties (including the House Of [...]

In Honor of Friday, Here’s a Guy Shredding the Star Wars Soundtrack

Friday, November 2, 2012

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As we read earlier in the week, Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion and announced a 2015 release for Star Wars: Episode 7.  While that’s both cause for celebration (the saga continues! Disney did Avengers!) and concern (cash grab risks, Darth Mickey, epic nerd rage), it also means that we have a reason to revisit a [...]

Rodrigo y Gabriela To Score New Pirates Of The Caribbean Film

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Metal’s favorite flamenco acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela has just landed themselves a pretty big gig. The duo will team up with composer Hans Zimmer (who has worked on Inception and Dark Knight previously) to score the soundtrack for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment of the Johny Depp/pirate franchise. [...]

  • 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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