How does an Australian wind up running the American arm of influential UK metal label Earache? It’s kind of a long story, but Al Dawson was more than happy to oblige. Starting out as a tape trader in the ’80s (he was thanked on a 1984 compilation by Pushead), he eventually visited the UK, where [...]
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Glassjaw, Kvelertak, Skindred, Crowbar, Seether, Alestorm and many others have been added to this year’s UK edition of Sonisphere. Tweet
Friday, August 5, 2011
Damn it, we wish we were at the Wacken Open Air Festival! Lucky for us, our publicist buddy Jon Freeman from Freeman Promotions offered to do some guest blogging for us. Just like Day 1, Jon seemed to consume his fair share of beer and metal madness during the festival’s second day. Oh, and he got to see [...]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
As most of you probably know, the UK’s Metal Hammer Magazine has been hosting their own Golden Gods metal award show across the pond for a couple of years now (way before Revolver Magazine started to hold their own in the States). We didn’t compare and contrast the nominees of this year’s Revolver and Metal [...]
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
It’s official: fans in America won’t be the only ones complaining about Ozzfest’s lineup this year. It has been revealed that the U.K. edition of Ozzfest will be held on September 18 at London’s O2 Arena. The bill will feature Ozzy Osbourne (of course), Korn, The Murderdolls, Skindred and a yet-to-be-announced act in addition to [...]
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, [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 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, October 7, 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, September 30, 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, [...]
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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