Earlier this week, dates and venues were confirmed for this year’s Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival. And while we’ll have to wait till Monday (April 22) to find out who will be playing the tour, it looks like one of the highly rumored bands is now a sure thing – Alice In Chains. Uproar took to [...]
Friday, November 2, 2012
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. On May 11 and 12, 2013, Ozzfest will make its grand return… in Japan. Ok, so this is probably a bigger deal for fans who [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Rumors about the third annual Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival (Mayhem Fest’s sister tour)started to spread last March. This morning, though, the lineup has been officially announced for the late Summer/Fall tour, and with a few exceptions and added bands, the rumors are true. Shinedown, Godsmack, Staind, and Papa Roach will indeed perform on the main [...]
Friday, March 30, 2012
Rumors about the lineup to this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Tour, the late Summer/early Fall equivalent of Mayhem Fest, have started to make its way around the web. And if true, then Uproar has truly become Mayhem’s hard rock sister. According to The PRP, bands like Shinedown, Godsmack, Staind, Buckcherry, P.O.D., and Papa Roach [...]
Thursday, August 25, 2011
The Uproar Fest has rescheduled the Sunday (August 28) show at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts to Tuesday (August 30) due to concerns surrounding Hurricane Irene. Not this Hurricane. Tweet
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Uproar Tour is offering fans the chance to purchase the “Party Pass” (which includes general admission lawn tickets, early entry into the venue, and access to the “Party Zone”) for only $25. Fans have until 10 AM local time tomorrow (Thursday, August 17) to head over to Live Nation for this special deal. Tweet
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The lineup to the second annual Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Tour (the slightly less metal late Summer equivalent to Mayhem Fest) had been rumored for some time now. However, the rumors have been confirmed, and Avenged Sevenfold will be headlining. Joining them on the main stage will be Bullet For My Valentine, Three Days Grace, [...]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
For the past few months, the metal community’s attention has been pretty much focused on The Big 4 U.S. dates. Then, we had Mayhem Fest to distract us while waiting for essentially more Big 4 updates. So it’s no surprise really that during this entire time, we all totally forgot about another big metal tour: [...]
Monday, November 29, 2010
Festival dates are like Christmas: they’re both starting to get announced earlier and earlier. Though the lineup won’t be officially announced until January, dates and venues for the 2011 edition of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest were revealed last week. The traveling metal festival will be hitting 26 cities within July and August. The entire [...]
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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