Soundgarden to perform ‘Superunknown’ in its entirety at SXSW
While there are already a handful of SXSW parties worth attending (and you’ll be getting our list of them later this week), Soundgarden just went and upped the ante. The band have announced via their...
View ArticleNikki Sixx got married this past weekend
Too young to fall in love? Not if you’re Courtney Bingham, who married Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx over the weekend. The 28 year-old model, and 55 year-old musician exchanged vows at Greystone...
View ArticleHappy 50th birthday to Slayer’s Kerry King
While a lot of the coverage about Slayer in the past year has rightfully been about the sad and shocking passing of guitarist Jeff Hanneman (and also the dismissal of original drummer Dave Lombardo),...
View ArticleHappy birthday to Behemoth’s Nergal
The success that Behemoth has seen recently, especially with the release of The Satanist, is something that only a few black metal bands get to see. The music video for “Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel” was...
View ArticlePhil Anselmo on Dimebag Darrell: “There would have been more Pantera albums”
Despite proclaiming that he would not publicly commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, his former Pantera bandmate Phil Anselmo wrote about his memories of the...
View ArticleKorn talk about recording first album, mostly on meth
When Korn’s self-titled debut was released in 1994, it took a lot of people by surprise. The band essentially laid the blueprint for nu-metal with the album, which was equal parts hip-hop, funk, metal...
View ArticleTrippin’ Jack Daniels and livin’ after midnight: ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’...
The Documentary: If ever there was a visual time capsule that shows the hedonistic, over-indulgent lifestyle of heavy metal and the fans in the ’80s, its Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 17-minute...
View ArticleAnthrax, Mayhem, Khemmis, Richard Christy & more reflect on Pantera’s ‘Vulgar...
On February 25th, 1992, Pantera released their fifth album, Vulgar Display of Power. From it’s album cover of an unfortunate dude getting clocked in the face to the eleven tracks on the album, it was...
View ArticleIn honor of 20th anniversary of his passing, here are some metal Notorious...
Twenty years ago today, Notorious B.I.G. was killed just two weeks before his second album, Life After Death, was released. He was only 24 when he was gunned down in Los Angeles by a still-unknown...
View ArticleHappy 10th anniversary to Machine Head’s ‘The Blackening’
It wasn’t like Machine Head was in a bad place in 2007, it’s just that they’d lost some momentum some 13 years into their career. Their third album, 1999’s The Burning Red, found the band flirting with...
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