See also: Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, and More @ Comerica Theatre See also: Five Finger Death Punch’s Jason Hook on Giving the Fans What They Want See also: The full Trespass America slideshow This weekend I attended two intense yet intriguingly different metal shows. I spent Saturday night…
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Scott Weiland Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Mesa Sunday, July 22 “Cocaine’s a hell of a drug,” commented one of my friends watching Scott Weiland strut around on stage in his jerky, velociraptor/ballet dancer-style last night at Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Grill…
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Like any band, Lamb of God has had their ups and downs: Drugs, booze, strife, you know, rock ‘n’ roll. This year the Virginia metal titans released their seventh studio album, Resolution, to great reviews. The band announced that it was shooting a documentary as they supported the album on…
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Calling the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival a mere concert is like calling the tour’s namesake beverage “kind of sticky.” The Mayhem Festival is more than just a selection of public performances by thrash titan favorites Slayer and Anthrax, legendary British speed-punks Motörhead, and Iowa’s heaviest export, Slipknot. It’s an…
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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.” The…
Editor’s Note: This blog has been modified from its original version to reflect that the interview was conducted with Mat Mitchell of Puscifer. It’s hard to keep up with Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer, let alone predict where he’s taking the project next. The music melds the masculinity of industrial, comedic…
Love it or hate it, it’s looking inevitable: dubstep isn’t going anywhere for awhile, and a lot of ambitious metalheads are pairing their riffs up with wobble wobble sounds in a bid for commercial success. It reminds me of a coked-out Paris Hilton making a sex tape with Slayer’s Kerry…
Mastodon is old-school American heavy metal at its finest. The band is known for a distinctly sludgy sound, mixing stripped and distortion-heavy instrumentals, intricate grooves, and vocal harmonies that alternate between clean melodies and harsh screams. The band has five full-length albums under its belt to date, with its latest,…
