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
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
It’s been almost two years since bassist Joe Payne left Divine Heresy, a band he’d played in for four years. What’s he been up to since then? Apparently no good. Charlotte, NC station WSOC reports that Payne, who also played with Nile from 2005-2007, was arrested in connection with distributing more than 2,900 grams of [...]
Monday, November 12, 2012
Since Fear Factory released 2010’s Mechanize, Dino Cazares’ focus has primarily been shifted away from his other group, Divine Heresy. And while most fans are happy enough with new Fear Factory material, there are still those wondering what will become of Divine Heresy. After all, it’s been three years since Bringer Of Plagues came out. [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2012
As you may have heard, Dirge Within recently went through a rather public and less than friendly split with singer Jeremy “Jerms” Genske. And yesterday, the Chicago based metal group announced that Divine Heresy’s Travis Neal is their new singer. Dirge Within revealed Genske’s replacement via the following statement, along with rehearsal video seen above: [...]
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Jerry Montano has been in the press lately for… incidents outside of music. But it would appear that the former Hellyeah, Nothingface and Danzig bassist is working on a new project with a top notch drummer. According to a recently launched Facebook page, Montano is working with drummer Tim Yeung (Morbid Angel, Divine Heresy, ex-Hate [...]
Friday, January 6, 2012
In a statement on Killswitch Engage’s website, the band’s now-former vocalist Howard Jones has explained why he left the band. His answer is humble, and it shows a degree of maturity from both the band and Jones. After all, if it wasn’t amicable, he wouldn’t be posting it from the band’s site. Well, I guess [...]
Monday, June 13, 2011
Back in November of last year, No Label Needed contest finalists Falling To Pieces experienced a personal tragedy. Their singer, Nicci DeSoto (Nicci D.), died in a motorcycle accident. The band was in the middle of preproduction for their new record before the accident occurred. Though Nicci had recorded some scratch records beforehand, there were [...]
Did you love hearing Anvil’s new song “Mankind Machine”? Then stream the Canadian thrashers’ new album Hope In Hell in its entirety before it’s released on May 28 over at Loudwire.
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.
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