There’s a performer that’s somewhat androgynous, yet mostly feminine, wears ridiculous costumes and makeup, and somehow still remains popular. But enough about Paul Stanley. Lady Gaga, who we already suspected of liking metal after she tweeted Saxon lyrics, made it down to the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel NJ on Friday (20) to see the [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
You’ve got the t-shirts, the toys, the pinball machine, the condoms and maybe even the coffin. What other KISS product could you possibly want? If you respond saying a KISS themed LED HD TV, well first I’d have to ask you why? Then I’d reveal that your dreams, as weird as they may be, have [...]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Let Me In, the English language remake of creepy Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, is being released on October 1. So why are we writing about it here? Well, tangentially, there’s a scene in the trailer where it shows the female lead Chloe Moretz (from Kick Ass) wearing a KISS shirt. But [...]
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bill Aucoin, former manager of Kiss, Billy Idol and Lordi, passed away yesterday morning after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 66 years old.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Remember when the Guitar Hero franchise was fresh and exciting? Activision does too, which is why the recently-announced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, is the only GH game they’re releasing this year. In prior years, they’ve flooded the market, and by the time the awful Guitar Hero: Van Halen was released last year, no one [...]
Monday, April 5, 2010
You guys like dinosaur rock? No, not Aerosmith and KISS, we’re talking about real dinosaurs. Hevisaurus is a Finnish metal band for children that dress up in dinosaur costumes. Members of Dio (Jens Johannsen) and Sonata Arctica (Henrik Klingenberg) are among those appearing on the album. According to their bio, “Among several Finnish children’s metal [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
…Then this movie is an instant classic. Entertainment and tech-oriented Web site Collider made their way to a press junket for the movie, where they unearthed the following fake album cover fashioned after Poison’s 1986 classic album Look What the Cat Dragged In. Not sure how old the dudes at Collider are, but they didn’t [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Pelican has entered the coffee-metal crossover market, a market one might call crowded considering we’ve seen it from KISS and Megadeth. The instrumental alt-metal (post-metal, whatever, shut up) act isn’t going the commercial route, though. The “Pelican Ephemeral Bean Blend” will only be available at a record release show in Chicago next month. More on [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations that have metal shows, as well as SiriusXM, [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations that have metal shows, as well as SiriusXM, [...]
Taddy Porter is giving fans a chance to win two tickets to see them open for Slash this Fall.
CKY has added more dates to their previously announced Fall tour.
Audio samples from Lordi’s new album Babez For Breakfast can be heard at Amazon.de.
36 Crazyfists has announced dates for a headlining tour, with Straight Line Stitch and Taking Dawn providing support.
Stone Sour is streaming their new album Audio Secrecy in its entirety at NME.com.
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