Milwaukee Metal Fest has announced the final 19 bands on the lineup, including Municipal Waste, Autopsy, Terrorizer, Macabre, Nunslaughter, and Gatecreeper. Additionally, details have been announced for the Thursday pre-party, including a couple of local Wisconsin faves, Toxic Ruin and H1Z1. The pre-party is free to attend for anyone with a 3-day festival pass. […]
Continuing on their announcement roll, Milwaukee Metal Fest has added another eleven bands to the lineup. Power metal fans drawn in by Blind Guardian will rejoice at the addition of Hammerfall to Friday’s lineup, while thrashers will be prepping to bang their heads off to Testament. As requested in many comments on social media, […]
Bay Area thrash masters Testament have hit the studio late last week, surprising fans with progress on a possible follow-up to 2020’s Titans of Creation. The group was seen with mastering engineer Justin Shturtz at Sterling Sound in Nashville, TN. The group shared an image and expressed, “Get ready, legions.” This may be a […]
Metal Injection have announced the debut of their own two-day festival. The inaugural Metal Injection Festival is set to take place on September 16th-17th in Orange County, CA, held at two venues, The Observatory and House of Blues Anaheim. Tickets for the Saturday event at The Observatory are on sale now for $35. Tickets […]
The Shredderverse, a new musical project featuring five musicians known as The Shredderz and their manager Lydia, has been unleashed upon the world. After a chance encounter with The Devil Himself, the band made a deal for multi-dimensional superstardom backed by the power of darkness. However, their rocky journey was filled with misadventures, including a dangerous business relationship with Mr. D that landed them in his fiery lair. Following some deal-altering discussions, The Shredderz have been released and invite fans to join them on their mission for fame and fortune.
The Shredderz comprises Raz, Vincent, Weasel, Donny, and Nigel. They are marking their newfound freedom by opening their virtual world, The Shredderverse, with the release of their trademark single, “Shredderz,” featuring Testament’s Alex Skolnick, and sets the tone for the band’s debut album, due out this summer. In addition to Alex Skolnick, The Shredderz have enlisted other notable guest musicians, including Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus), Derrick Green (Sepultura), Brandon Ellis (Black Dahlia Murder), George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob), Dan Lilker (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault), Taina Bergamaschi & Jessica DiFalchi (Crypta), Dave Davidson (Revocation), and Jessica Pimentel (Brujeria, Orange is the New Black).
Avid readers of this page will probably have noticed my live reports from last year covering the three biggest Metal festivals in Czechia, organized by promoter Pragokoncert: Metalfest Pilsen, Masters of Rock in Vizovice, and Rock Castle in Moravsky Krumlov. After a strong comeback year post-Covid-19 in 2022, all three festivals are set to return again in 2023. The […]
Lamb Of God have recently announced their first-ever Headbangers Boat. The voyage will begin on October 31st through November 4th, 2023, which starts in Miami, FL, on the Norwegian Pearl and will make its way to Nassau, Bahamas, and back. During the cruise, Lamb of God will perform two headlining sets, including their 2004 […]
On September 24th, bay area thrash legends Testament, Exodus, and Death Angel’s second leg of the Bay Strikes back tour attacked Times Square’s Palladium. When I was in high school during the late 80s into the early 90s, this was a tour I would have wished for, and now fast forward thirty-five years […]
Testament guitarist Eric Peterson has confirmed in an interview with MetalMasterKingdom.com that the band is planning to begin work on a follow-up to 2020’s Titans Of Creation with a 2023 release date. Peterson on speaking about an upcoming ballad: “We actually have a ballad that we wrote, we were gonna put it on the […]
Oh yeah, you guys. Summer was AMAZING. For those of you that were following any of the goodness that everyone and myself were posting on our socials or Metal Insider, you’ll notice that it was pretty heavy on reviews since the shows came back like a storm of fire blades. That made it all […]