If you watched the live stream of the Revolver Golden Gods last night, then you also saw a few commercials teasing this year’s Gigantour. Those commercials pretty much confirmed the final and long rumored addition to Megadeth’s touring festival: Black Label Society. And now we know when exactly the tour will come to a town [...]
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
And so our top 5 continues to be proven wrong. Megadeth has just confirmed another band that will appear at this year’s Gigantour: Newsted, the new solo project of ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted. “Massive news! Metallica fans get ready! Jason Newsted come on down. Newsted is the next contestant on Gigantour 2013. Tear it up!!!, [...]
Monday, April 29, 2013
As if the lineup that he had record and play on Frequency Unkown wasn’t enough, Geoff Tate’s version of Queensryche has enlisted another high-profile musician to fill in on their tour. John Moyer, bassist of Disturbed and more recently, Adrenaline Mob, will be stepping in for Rudy Sarzo while he goes to Russia to play with [...]
Monday, April 29, 2013
In last week’s top 5, there was one “supergroup” who we forgot as a possible candidate to play Megadeth’s Gigantour this year. That group would be Hellyeah. And as it turns out, they will indeed be onstage with Dave Mustaine as part of the festival tour. Hellyeah revealed this past weekend that they will be [...]
Monday, April 22, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Last week, Dave Mustaine revealed that David Draiman’s Device will be playing Gigantour 2013. Shortly after, the group Death Division (featuring ex- Hellyeah/Nothingface bassist Jerry Montano and Morbid Angel/ex-Divine Heresy drummer Tim Yeung, and who just so happen to be [...]
Thursday, April 18, 2013
In an interview with Syracuse station WAQX, Dave Mustaine opened up a bit about Gigantour, and we now know that a collaborator on their new album will be on the tour. Speaking about the band’s forthcoming album, Super Collider, Mustaine said that there was slated to be another vocalist on the track “Dance in the Rain,” but [...]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Spotify sounds a lot like a Disturbed song title, so perhaps that’s one of the reasons why the band’s frontman David Draiman is such a big fan of the music streaming service. In a recent interview with Examiner, Draiman, who’s side project with Geno Lenardo, Device, was released yesterday, said that he foresaw the popularity [...]
Thursday, April 4, 2013
While it was confirmed earlier this week that Device and Disturbed frontman David Draiman stopped by the studio to help Megadeth out with writing, Draiman went out of his way to say that there were no actual guest vocals on the album. However, Mustaine just disputed that via Twitter: ”David Draiman ended up singing on Super [...]
Monday, April 1, 2013
While Dave Mustaine is hoping that Willie Nelson will contribute to the new Megadeth album in some fashion, there’s already one big time collaborator he can confirm. As it turns out, Disturbed frontman David Draiman actually stopped by the studio to help shape some of the new tunes. While Mustaine first let it slip during [...]
Monday, March 18, 2013
Last Tuesday, Adrenaline Mob released their EP of covers, Covertá. And the following night, the hard rock supergroup (featuring Mike Portnoy, Russell Allen, John Moyer and Mike Orlando…in case you didn’t know) came through New York City to play Webster Hall’s Marlin Room. The night gave fans a chance to see this powerhouse in a [...]
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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