Vince Neil-led Motley Crue performed at State Farm Stadium in Glendale on Thursday, August 25. The tour has been drawing an average of 36,000-some people a night, grossing just under $5 million a show for a bill that’s topped by the Crue and Def Leppard with Poison, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and a young […]
Detherous will release their new record Unrelenting Malevolence on November 11 and is now streaming the horrifically disgusting new single “Gruesome Tools Of Torture.” The song is about surgical dismemberment without anesthesia, because maximum suffering is clearly the only option when it comes to death metal. It certainly helps that the song sonically fits the […]
Micky Dolenz is suing the FBI over documents regarding the Monkees. In 1967, an FBI informant attended one of the group’s concerts and took notes on the performance. About 10 years ago, a select portion of this file was publicly released. “During the concert, subliminal messages were depicted on the screen which, in the opinion […]
The topic of Murderdolls has become a little contentious recently. The band was originally founded by Wednesday 13 and then-Slipknot drummer Joey Jordiso along with then-Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen participating. Eisen quickly left the band and was replaced by Acey Slade, while both Eric Griffin and Ben Graves also joined. That original iteration of Murderdolls […]
John Lennon‘s Aug. 30, 1972, headlining benefit performance at Madison Square Garden would ultimately turn out to be the final full-length concert of his life. The show arrived amid a tumultuous time. Lennon had come under harsh scrutiny from President Richard Nixon due largely to his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War, as well as […]
It’s been a rough past decade for Megadeth. In addition to the usual member turnover, the metal lifers faced leader Dave Mustaine‘s cancer scare, a public dismissal of their bass player following allegations of child grooming and the rerecording of parts of their 16th album, The Sick, the Dying … and the Dead! On top of that, there was […]
As the Summer winds down, it’s time to get excited for next year. And Slam Dunk is kicking things off with an absolutely incredible first announcement. They have announced 22 bands, including Enter Shikari, The Offspring, Creeper, Billy Talent, Four Year Strong and reunion shows from Kids In Glass Houses(!) and The Academy Is…. Here’s […]
No matter if you’re commuting to work an hour away, or commuting from your bed to the home office, we can all agree that getting up and dealing with those first groggy hours sucks. We’re here to make it suck less with our ongoing playlist The Commute, which brings you all the best new metal […]
Prog metal generals Between the Buried and Me and Haken have announced a 2023 co-headline trek of Europe and the UK that begins in late-February and runs through the end of March. Dubbed the Island In Limbo tour, they will be joined by New York noisemakers Cryptodira in support. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Between […]
96 Bitter Beings, the group headed up by founding CKY frontman Deron Miller, is now streaming their new single “Wish Me Dead.” If you’ve been missing that classic CKY sound in recent years, then you’re really going to love this one. And we’re not the only ones who think that either – Miller will totally […]