While it’s only been on the air for about 4 1/2 years, VH1 Classic’s That Metal Show will kick off it’s 12th season next Saturday. Among the highlights of this season will be the show’s 100th episode. The show, which is hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine will kick off with Jason Newsted, [...]
Friday, May 3, 2013
Last night’s Revolver Golden Gods wasn’t just about handing out awards to hard rock bands. The evening was jammed packed with one-time-only special performances and its fair share of memorable moments. While we’ll let you scratch your head over who won what award on your own, let’s recap some of the key highlights from this [...]
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tonight, the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show took place in Los Angeles. The night found Anthrax performing with Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown, The Dillinger Escape Plan perform a Depeche Mode cover with Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Halestorm cover Led Zeppelin with David Draiman, Five Finger Death Punch play with Rob Halford and Rob [...]
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Have you heard of Leviathan the Fleeing Serpent yet? No? Maybe that’s because they don’t exist. The black metal band, whose video “Crushing the Ritual” can be seen after the jump, is actually Rob Zombie and John 5, who wrote the song for Lords of Salem. The song is on the soundtrack, and the band, which [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
What do a midget, a dog, a chicken, a money, a break dancer and a belly dancer have in common? They all figure prominently in Rob Zombie’s video for “Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown.” There’s also a sullen looking clown, Sherie Moon Zombie riding a horse, some other weird monsters, some Planet [...]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Nothing says “bummer” quite like a mucisian getting his gear stolen. In this instance, the victim is John 5, whose LA residence was robbed yesterday, March 26th. Judging by the picture posted onto John 5′s Facebook, the items that were stolen include several guitars and apparently a painting of the Creature From the Black Lagoon. That [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Since reuniting with David Lee Roth in 2007, Van Halen has toured the U.S. countless times. They even finally got their act together to release a new album, A Different Kind Of Truth, last year (even though it’s made up of re-recorded demos). However, there’s still one thing that has left many fans disappointed: the [...]
Friday, February 1, 2013
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. The nominees for the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced earlier this week. And keeping with tradition, the nominations are so-so. While [...]
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I’m pretty sure this is the first and last time we’ll be writing about the Rock of Ages soundtrack here on Metal By Numbers. It did have a pretty solid debut, but basically, this bullshit [...]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Chew on this: While Slash has kept himself extremely busy after leaving Guns N’ Roses in 1996, it took him until 2010 to release his first solo album. That’s almost as much time as it took for Axl and friends to record Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. The man legally known as Saul [...]
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
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