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Can We Stop Making Up New Metal Subgenres?

Am I the only one who is sick to death of the ever-growing list of metal subgenres? It seems to evolve and pulsate and throw out even more obscure genres on a daily basis. Honestly, if there's one thing metalheads should be able to have faith in when it comes to their music, it's that metal veers ... More >>

Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week

One of the bands you can see this week around Phoenix has a famous song called "A Praise Chorus." Another of the bands you can see this week titled the first song of their first album "Penis." See which one of those bands is Jimmy Eat World after the jump!

Golden Gods 2013: How Gene Simmons Gets Out Of Interviews And Other Black Carpet Tales

If you've been reading this whiskey-drenched, devil-horn-throwing column every week for more than a year, here's a little thank-you flashback to the beginning. In one of the first Metal Mondays installments, I talked about the Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles--basically the heavy metal Gra ... More >>

UFIESTA - Quail Run Park - 5/4/2013

UFIESTA (view the full slideshow here.)Quail Run Park, MesaMay 4, 2013 When I arrived at KUPD's UFIESTA, Saturday afternoon, a 50-something blond with blue-tipped hair was stumbling out of the Powerman 5000 mosh pit, wide-eyed, yelling about her head getting stomped in but refusing medical attentio ... More >>

Mushroomhead @ Marquee Theatre

UFiesta Preview: Stone Sour's Corey Taylor on Dave Grohl and New Music from Slipknot

Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is pulling double-duty this year in more ways than one. Stone Sour is putting out its second album in as many years; the first was House of Gold & Bones Part 1, which dropped last year, and the second, House of Gold & Bones Part 2, came out in April. La ... More >>

Stone Sour, Flotsam and Jetsam, Chevelle, and More to Perform at KUPD's UFiesta

Each spring, right before it gets just ridiculous hot in the Valley, local modern rock station KUPD hosts UFest, a gigantic rock/nu-metal/modern rock outdoor festival. Past lineups have featured Three Days Grace, Helmet, Godsmack, and more, setting the bar high for fans of crunchy, shouty rock. Well ... More >>

Prescott Valley Police Chief Bill Fessler Denies Bar-Fight Allegations, But Resigns From Motorcycle Club

Prescott Valley Police Chief Bill Fessler released a statement over the weekend to quell rumors that he was involved in a December 22 Prescott bar fight in which a Glendale man was injured. The incident came to light after the 23-year-old victim showed up at a hospital with facial injuries, saying ... More >>

The Butcher Babies, Boobs, and Blood

Here's what I expected from The Butcher Babies on the opening night of their "Hush Little Baby" tour: Sexy, sexy bitches; electrical tape-adorned boobs; vocals ranging from erotically melodic to ear-shatteringly demonic, intermixed with headbang-worthy breakdowns. For those of you who don't know w ... More >>

Desert Uprising: Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and More, Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 9/28/12

Desert Uprising, featuring Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Buckcherry, Corey Taylor, The Art of Dying @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion| 9/28/12There have been a lot of ups and downs during the planning of 98 KUPD's first annual Desert Uprising last night, which found Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie's ... More >>

Desert Uprising: Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, and More, Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 9/28/12

Desert Uprising, featuring Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Buckcherry, Corey Taylor, The Art of Dying @ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion| 9/28/12There have been a lot of ups and downs during the planning of 98 KUPD's first annual Desert Uprising last night, which found Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie's ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson Stage a Desert Uprising

8 Kids More Metal Than You

See also: The Most Anticipated Heavy Metal Releases of the Fall See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Metal See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: A Closer Look at KUPD's MILF Contest 2012There are few things in this world that have the ability to coax an "Awwwww...that is so damn ... More >>

Otep @ Joe's Grotto

The Most Anticipated Heavy Metal Releases of the Fall

See also: The 10 Hottest Chicks in Metal See also: Six Desert Metal Bands You Need to Hear See also: A Closer Look at KUPD's MILF Contest 2012Long running alt-metal combo The Deftones have announced that Tuesday, November 12, will be the release date for Koi No Yokan, their first collection of new m ... More >>

Lamb of God's Randy Blythe Set Free; Five Finger Death Punch Weighs In

See also: Lamb of God and Dethklok Cancel Tour See also: We Spoke to Lamb of God's Chris Adler Before the Band's Future Was Up in the Air See also: Lamb of God Controversy: Tempe Metal Band TOAD Sounds Off On August 7, Blythe was allowed to leave a Czech prison after posting $400,000 bail. Of cou ... More >>

Rockstar Mayhem Festival, Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 7/6/12

Motörhead, Slayer, Slipknot, and more Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion Friday, July 6 See also: Why Isn't Corey Taylor of Slipknot Listening to Metal? See also: What Mayhem Band Has the Craziest Fans (According to Tom Araya of Slayer)? See also: Motorhead, Slipknot, Anthrax, and Slayer Unite f ... More >>

Anthrax's Scott Ian Discusses a "Ramones-Style" Set and The Walking Dead

See also: Why Isn't Corey Taylor of Slipknot Listening to Metal? See also: What Mayhem Band Has the Craziest Fans (According to Tom Araya of Slayer)? See also: Motorhead, Slipknot, Anthrax, and Slayer Unite for Mayhem Fest It should come as no surprise that some epic musicians come off as jaded, bo ... More >>

Slipknot, Anthrax, Motörhead, and Slayer Unite for Mayhem Fest

Slayer's Tom Araya Ponders What Band Has the Craziest Fans at Mayhem Festival

See also: Slipknot, Anthrax, Motorhead, and Slayer Unite for Mayhem Fest See also: Why Isn't Slipknot's Corey Taylor Listening to Metal? American thrash metal band Slayer can easily be called one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Their 1986 album Reign in Blood is considered to be the foun ... More >>

Slipknot's Corey Taylor on Working With Velvet Revolver, New Stone Sour Music, and Not Listening to Metal

See also: Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan Launch Production Company; Taylor Explains "I'm still waiting to write the ultimate song," explains Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor, a bold statement for a musician who fronts two successful bands, appeals to a wide range of music fans, and, in t ... More >>

Soulfly and Fear Factory to Play The Gathering of the Juggalos

See also: FBI Report Officially Classifies Juggalos a Hybrid Gang; Arizona Boasts "Strong Juggalo Presence" See also: Seven Awesome Things About the Gathering of the Juggalos Last week we examined what the term "selling out" means in 2012, and concluded that it's hard for bands to make money off t ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our June 28 Issue

This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up on the Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. How did Against Me!'s first Arizona performance fronted by Laura Jean Grace go over? What should we expect Corey T ... More >>

Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan Launch Production Company; Taylor Explains

There's always been a connection between horror flicks and heavy metal, so it comes as sort of a surprise that it's taken Corey Taylor and Shawn M. Crahan of Slipknot this long to start a Living Breathing Films, a film and television production company aimed at creating "psychological dramas." Th ... More >>

Metal Mondays: Metal's First Music Videos Ooze Green Jellÿ

There's never been a huge a market for heavy metal music videos. Praise is far and few between, and they don't garner awards like pop music videos, clips like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," which won seven MTV Video Music Awards in 2010, and even grabbed a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. But t ... More >>

Metal Mondays: Heavy Metal Is Going to Be Fine

See also: Metal Mondays: Phoenix Needs a Heavy Metal Strip Club A friend of mine brought up a very pertinent question the other day, questioning the validity of current heavy metal. Metal will always have fans, turned on by classic metal gods who've been around for decades or whatever crap current ... More >>

Last Night: The Devil's Carnival on Easter Sunday

I guess it shouldn't be surprising that The Devil's Carnival showed up in Scottsdale on Easter Sunday. After all, what better day for the gleeful underground horror, rock musical, freaks and geeks to get dressed up and go out to play while everyone else is decorating eggs and eating jellybeans? T ... More >>

Incoming (Again): Odd Future, Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Brian Jonestown Massacre

Brian Jonestown Massacre ​Hey, I know we already did an Incoming Concerts post this week, but I'm getting drowned in show announcements here at UOTS HQ. So let's dive in: The rap collective Odd Future head back to Marquee Theatre on Friday, March 9. Will the crew sell the joint out again? Wi ... More >>

Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy and Five Other Self-Help Books From Eccentric Sources

Sometimes help can come from the unlikeliest of places. You might not think of Ozzy Osbourne as a self-help guru, but you sure as hell can't say the the dude doesn't know how to survive. His years of hard living benefit his new book, Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy, out on bookstore shelves today. In the b ... More >>

Laconic's Danny G. Talks Arizona's Metal Scene and the Band's New Record

Laconic, looking very, very serious. ​This Friday night, the heart of downtown Scottsdale will be alive and well with the sound of heavy metal. In its purest form, heavy metal is quite laconic--straight, to the point, and crisp. So it's only fitting that the name of the band that will be rock ... More >>

The Devil Wears Prada's Jeremy DePoyster on Dead Throne Hear an Unreleased Song

BY LAUREN WISE ​ The Vans Warped Tour blew through Phoenix this past Sunday, and one of the bands that concert-goers were itching to see was metalcore's rising star The Devil Wears Prada. These Warped Tour veterans have three released albums and have a fourth due next month, Dead Throne. Known ... More >>

Sicmonic @ 910 Live

Jimmy Eat World at Marquee Theatre on 10/30/10

Maria VassettJimmy Eat World performing in costume at Marquee Theatre.​Arizonans often don't have much to root for. Most of the time our state is an afterthought, or the butt of jokes about immigration policy and home foreclosures. For many years, the Cardinals, the Sun Devils, and the Wildcat ... More >>

New Orleans Goatwhore Serves Up Satanic Southern Sludge

Slipknot Bassist Found Dead in Hotel Room

Paul Dedrick Gray (1972-2010) ​The Internet has blown up over the last hour with news that Slipknot bassist Paul Dedrick Gray has passed away. ​The 38-year-old musician, better known by his nom de rock as "#2" or "The Pig" was reportedly found dead in a Des Moines hotel room earlier today ... More >>

Owl City at Marquee Theatre: The've Got Songs About Bugs

The fashion trend of the night.​Say what you will about will about Minnesota synth-pop outfit Owl City. None of it seems to bother Owl City vocalist and mastermind Adam Young or his fans. And man does this guy have fans. Most of whom showed up last night at the Marquee Theatre as Owl City play ... More >>

Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine

New Orleans Goatwhore Serves Up Satanic Southern Sludge

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Mushroomhead

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All Hope Is Gone

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Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

Headbangers Ball

Cello-style

Niki at Nite on Anal Blast and 8-year-old grindcore fans

Ice Ice Maybe

A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him.