Part of the appeal of High on Fire is frontman Matt Pike’s voice, which sounds like he’s been gargling whiskey and razor blades. Looks like he actually has been gargling whiskey a little too much, as High On Fire have been forced to pull out of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, due to Pike entering rehab [...]
Monday, April 30, 2012
Both Machine Head’s Robb Flynn and Mayhem Festival founder Kevin Lyman let it slip that a cruise edition of the metal touring festival was going to take place this December. Today, though, the Mayhem Cruise has been officially announced, and more details have been revealed. In addition to previous announced bands like Lamb Of God, [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
While details are still scant, Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival founder Kevin Lyman confirmed to Metal Insider that the Mayhem Festival cruise that Machine Head mentioned at the Golden Gods Awards is indeed happening. The floating festival will take place from December 7-10.”We are just excited to get to put this together,” he told us. “It has [...]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Most bands make an announcement about a tour or album through their publicists. Every Time I Die chose to announce their Warped Tour appearance the old fashioned way – a YouTube announcement. Since it’s their fourth year playing the festival, they liken themselves to seniors, threatening all ‘freshman bands’ with swirlies and ‘kick me’ signs [...]
Friday, March 25, 2011
Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman had it all set up. With 86 bands already announced, the tour was all set to announce its headliners at a kick-off party for the tour tonight in Brooklyn. They had a tech guy go into YouTube on Wednesday night to set up the announcement, and while it was [...]
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
So we know we already stressed how bad this Summer’s touring season is doing. However, with more tours like the Lilith Fair canceling more shows as of late, we cannot help but reiterate: concerts are not doing well this summer! Don’t believe us? Well in a new report from The Associated Press, a few metal [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
First he conquered punk festivals, then metal. Now Warped Tour and Mayhem Festival founder Kevin Lyman and his production company, 4Fini, are expanding to country. The tour, dubbed “Round-Up”, is planned for Summer 2010. Lyman explained his new venture and drew some parallels with our own scenes in an interview with ThePunkSite.com: I worked on [...]
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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