Monthly Archives: December 2015

Police bust metal house show, urge band to continue playing

Posted by on December 22, 2015

If you ever been at a backyard or house show, you know that there’s only three ways to end it: Every band finishes their set and everyone goes home on their own; there’s a fight between some drunk idiots which end up souring the party and the owner ends up kicking everyone out of the […]

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Iron Maiden greet the holidays with animated X-mas card

Posted by on December 22, 2015

Iron Maiden has been doing animation to market themselves for a really long time but nowadays, it’s more accessible than it ever was so after releasing their videogame music video for “Speed of Light” off their new album The Book of Souls (which, mind you, later turned into an actual videogame) the band want to celebrate […]

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Puscifer announce North American tour

Posted by on December 22, 2015

We have been indulging on Puscifer latest album Money Shot for a few months already and we can say that it’s actually a great record, but we believe the experience must be better on a live setting and that’s probably what Maynard James Keenan thinks too as the band just announced a second leg for a North American tour. […]

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Thy Art is Murder part ways with singer CJ McMahon

Posted by on December 22, 2015

The year is about to end and this season represents change for many people. Of course, bands aren’t exempt from this as we find out Australian deathcore outfit, Thy Art Is Murder, is parting ways with their long-time frontman CJ McMahon. The news broke via Facebook, when CJ posted the following statement revealing his departure: “With a […]

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Today in WTF: CBGB opening restaurant in Newark Airport

Posted by on December 21, 2015

When you think of CBGB’s, you think of a lot of things: The birthplace of punk rock in New York City, hardcore matinees, a forgettable film that came out a few years back, and of course, the Newark Liberty International Airport. Wait, what? Scratch that last one, but according to Gothamist, the infamous Bowery nightclub […]

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Job For A Cowboy receive the Rob Scallon treatment with banjo cover

Posted by on December 21, 2015

It’s Monday and you need something to endure the rest of the day, so why not listening to another Rob Scallon’s banjo covers? We have heard Scallon’s banjo shenanigans in the past with Slayer’s “Angel of Death” and the more challenging Spawn of Possession’s “Church of Deviance” and seeing that he can handle fast metal songs, he […]

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Pitchfork’s top 25 metal albums of 2015 unveiled

Posted by on December 21, 2015

By now, you could probably make a top ten list of the Top 10 lists out there. Hopefully, you’er not too fatigued by it, because Pitchfork has come out with their list of the top 25 albums of 2015. If you’re thinking what Pitchfork’s readership and sensibility is, you’ve probably already figured out that their […]

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Metal Insider contributor Schuler Benson’s top 10 of 2015

Posted by on December 21, 2015

As 2015 continues to draw to a close, Metal Insider is continuing to look at the year in music. Nearly all of our contributors have submitted their favorites, along with everyone from Anthrax to Richard Christy, and you can read their picks here. Here we have Criminally Slept-On contributor Schuler Benson’s favorite music of the […]

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Scott Weiland’s bassist acquitted on drug charges

Posted by on December 21, 2015

After some weeks from Scott Weiland’s death, many things have occurred, including the arrest of The Wildabouts’ bassist Tommy Black for drug possession after the police found cocaine on the tour bus the day Weiland was found dead. Last week, the toxicology report on Weiland’s passing determined that the former Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman died from […]

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Richard Christy’s top 5 most metal things that happened in 2015

Posted by on December 21, 2015

Richard Christy is the drummer of Charred Walls of the Damned and a writer/producer on the Howard Stern show. 2015 was a pretty metal year in my life with so many great new albums from new and classic metal bands, many great new horror films like Bone Tomahawk and Deathgasm, and tons of great new […]

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