This weekend will be NARM’s (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) annual convention in Chicago. Why should you care? Well, for the first time, they’re having a “Metal Meet-up” on Sunday, May 16. This will be an interesting roundtable discussion, moderated by Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel, about the past, present and future of metal. Another reason [...]
Mutiny Within’s new album is streaming in its entirety at MetalSucks.
Behind The Suit and Tie, a long-in-the-making documentary on the metal industry, appears to finally be on the brink of release, as a six-minute trailer has been released: The film features one-on-one interviews with many notable who’s whos of the metal scene (including many of our friends and participants in the No Label Needed series) [...]
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine claims to be in high-level meetings with Activision and Neversoft over some new kind of Guitar Hero venture. In response to a fan question on Megadeth.com, Mustaine said the idea discussed is some sort of new venture rather than a branded version of the game a la Metallica (at least I [...]
Metal Insider recently got a chance to talk to one of metal’s reigning personalities, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. Yesterday we posted part of our chat with the always outspoken Mustaine bemusedly questioning humanity after losing his wallet. Today he opens up about the “Big 4 Tour” rumors, how Endgame is going to bring back heavy [...]
In a somewhat surprising move (we already knew something was up), Rob Zombie has announced his departure from Interscope/Geffen and has signed a deal with Roadrunner’s commercial-leaning Loud & Proud Imprint. His Hellbilly Deluxe 2 will see a 2010 release. What happened here? Our best guess is that Interscope realized Zombie’s best days are behind [...]
Details continue to leak out for the Slipknot self-titled 10th anniversary re-issue, including this teaser for the companion documentary, (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams. Apparently it’s a documentary about things being thrown, things catching fire and things being puked on. The album, due out September 9, will be available as a standard CD/DVD as well [...]
A new Megadeth song, “1,320″, has been posted online.
From the “holy shit I managed to completely forget that ever happened” file: Tommy Lee’s late ’90s Crazy Town-esque shitshow Methods of Mayhem is back, and snagged a worldwide deal with Roadrunner Records’ Loud & Proud imprint.
Details have been scarce since the video above announced Slipknot’s upcoming 10th anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut (yeah, yeah Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. came first, stop showing off, you loser), but we knew something special would be in the works as the ‘Knot always takes special care with their releases. Some details for the [...]
Monday, May 10, 2010
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