Dave Mustaine personally invests in Megadeth shows

You may love him or hate him (or most likely – both), but Dave Mustaine remains one of the most interesting people in the musical scene. In a recent interview, Mustaine said he didn’t want all those worn out pyro effects – he wanted something better and bigger, something that wasn’t possible with the available budget. So he bailed the band out. “Doing something like this has always been a matter of affordability and I…

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Sebastian Bach will “revolutionize music”

Former Skid Row singer announced he is currently working on a project which will “revolutionize popular music as we know it”. He made the announcement on his facebook page. Seriously, now? At this point of musical evolution, you’d hardly expect anyone to revolutionize music, let alone Sebastian Bach, who, albeit being crazy talented and quite lovable, is not quite the innovative type. He gave no other indications about this “top secret project”, so we’ll just…

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Max Cavalera to form new supergroup

Max Cavalera, who also played in Sepultura, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy is now forming yet another group which promises to bring something big to the table. So far, they don’t have a name, but the metal god will join Greg Puciato of the Dillinger Escape Plan, Troy Sanders of Mastodon and former Mars Volta member Dave Elitch.   This however shouldn’t be confused Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, another supergroup in-the-making that features a rather suspiciously similar…

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David Brockie (GWAR) talks about Slipknot, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson

Source. GWAR or some World of Warcraft hideous characters. I bet everybody heard about Slipknot, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, etc., but how many of you have ever heard about GWAR? How many of you have ever listened to a GWAR song, and I’m talking to you – all the metalheads out there? Well, GWAR is a satirical heavy metal band formed back in 1986 (i bet you wouldn’t expect that), and…

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Guns & Roses prepare new album… is this really necessary?

I’ve seen Guns & Roses live, about four months ago; they were pretty bad. I mean, Axl was pretty OK, even though it took him five minutes to take off his gold rings to play the piano, but the rest of the band… it’s not that they played poorly or anything, it just wasn’t G&R good. As if that wasn’t enough, when they played stuff from Chinese Democracy, that was just enough. Plainly put, the…

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New Deftones song from the upcoming album, Koi No Yokan: Tempest

Source It’s official –  on November the 13th, Deftones is going to  release their seventh album: Koi No Yokan; and on October the 4th,  they made public one of the songs from the upcoming album, which is called Tempest, and it’s available on the band’s website for everybody to listen to it till their brains will blow out. Koi No Yokan has 11 tracks, and Tempest is the 7th, but not…

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Winter Jam Announces West Coast LineUp

Winter Jam will be headed to the West this fall! Most known for being the top selling tour in the world along with its 10 bands for 10 dollars. Newsong will be back again to host along with Dara Maclean, Group 1 Crew and speaker Nick Hall. Former American Idol, Jason Castro will also be joining the tour as well. This years headliner includes TobyMac along with Red.  Check below for the full lineup.

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The New Breed of Metal: An Interview with Archea

Left to right: Kyle Wallinger (drums), Adam McDaniel (guitar), Jake Quarle (upside-down)(vocals), Alyssa Porras (bass), and Jared Charles (guitar).

Just upstate from the birthing grounds of such great thrash pioneers as Slayer and Metallica comes Archea, a rather rambunctious young group with a definite and ferocious sound. Coming straight out of Pleasant Hill, California, (an otherwise quiet town dwindling in the glare of the lights of San Francisco), Archea can…

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Five Finger Death Punch – ‘American Capitalist’ review

Album name: American Capitalist Artist name: Five Finger Death Punch Genre: Heavy Metal Released: October 11, 2011 Label: Prospect Park ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: FFDP     As one of my mates quite eloquently put it, ‘Five Finger Death Punch delivered yet another great set of groove metal’. Many have said that this would be the album that defines their sound, and that now we’re truly going to see what they’re made of. Well if you…

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Mastodon new LP cover art for “The Hunter”

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Besides Brent Hinds doing burrito commercials, you should know Mastodon is prepping a new album, titled “The Hunter”, which is already up and ready and allegedly up for an October release attempt for this year. Above is the insanely awesome cover art for the new LP, which sits well on par with their other equally mad covers. I have a sense they changed their designer, though it all might be due to a whole shift…

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