Bummed that Eric Avery (formerly of Jane’s Addiction) left the reactivated Nine Inch Nails without playing one show? Then you’ll enjoy hearing that former guitarist Robin Finck has rejoined the group. “It just didn’t feel like @NineInchNails without Robin Finck. Now it does,” Trent Reznor himself tweeted along with the picture above of him and [...]
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
It’s been a while since a rock or metal band lent itself to an iconic pinball machine. Let’s see, there was KISS, Guns N’ Roses, Ted Nugent (we won’t talk about that one), and well, that’s about it. Metallica is set to change that, as a trailer has just been released for Metallica Pinball, which [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
In 2011, Pearl Jam released a documentary about the history of the band. Pearl Jam 20 was directed by Cameron Crowe. Perhaps to take the piss out of that film, Alice In Chains have premiered an 11-minute film on Funny or Die called Alice In Chains 23. While PJ20 is a documentary, AIC20 is more of a mockumentary, where [...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Before anyone starts to freak out about the imagine seen off to the side: no, we ARE NOT reporting about My Chemical Romance’s demise. However, the news of the break up got us to thinking about other bands whose disbandment [...]
Monday, March 11, 2013
Turns out that Matt Pike isn’t the only hard rock/metal guitarist in love with Angry Birds. In fact, Slash is such an avid player that the creators hired him to record the theme song to the game’s new version of Angry Birds Space. The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist even received his own Angry Birds avatar [...]
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Festivals outside of the country have all the fun. Case in point, this year’s Soundwave Festival that took place in Perth, Australia this past Sunday. There, Vision of Disorder’s Tim Williams joined Duff McKagan’s Loaded to sing “You’re Crazy” from Appetite For Destruction. He’s definitely got the Axl shriek down, and if it’s not the most [...]
Monday, March 4, 2013
In April, an expanded reissue of the 1995 album Above by Mad Season (which featured members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees) will be released. But now it looks like previously unreleased demos might be rerecorded by a new group featuring guitarist Mike McCready, drummer Barrett Martin and Guns N’ Roses bassist [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Last week, Guns N’ Roses surprised many when announcing an appearance at this year’s Governer’s Ball. Well as it turns out, that wasn’t the only festival performance in the works as Axl Rose and his new gunners have also been confirmed for this year’s Rocklahoma. Taking place on May 24, 25 and 26 at “Catch [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
June New York City music festival The Governer’s Ball had a pretty mainstream/indie-rock lineup – until today. Guns N’ Roses has joined the lineup of the festival, taking place on Randall’s Island on June 7th-9th. They join the likes of Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Kendrick Lamar and many others. In [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Andy Gould is likely best known in the industry as Rob Zombie’s longtime manager. He’s also co-managed such major acts like Pantera, Linkin Park and Guns N’ Roses. Now, Gould is hoping to bring his expertise to a new label he’s launching in conjunction with Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). Going under the name T-Boy Records, [...]
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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