Heavy Metal News
The most brutal cartoon characters in the history of animation have scooped up their first ever Death Match victory. Having defeated The Faceless, ‘Metalocalypse’ heroes Dethklok now look to run through another opponent to carve a blood-splattered trail into the Death Match Hall of Fame. Their next opponents may be humanoids, but they’ve released one of 2012′s best metal albums and are hungry for a Death Match win. Gojira have
If the world does indeed end in December 2012, Shadows Fall plan on going out in style. They will launch the ‘Party to the Apocalypse Tour’ on Oct. 12 in Worcester, Mass., with supporting bands God Forbid, Thy Will Be Done and Trumpet The Harlot. It will be the first headlining tour for Shadows Fall in support of their latest album ‘Fire From The Sky,’ which was released earlier this
Can’t wait until the new Between the Buried and Me album comes out? Of course you cant! BTBAM’s latest full-length, ‘The Parallax II: Future Sequence,’ arrives on Oct. 9, but you can hear bits and pieces of the epic record from this new studio footage, just released by the progressive metal giants. ‘The Parallax II’ clocks in at just over an hour, and if you’re a big BTBAM fan, you
The Smashing Pumpkins have received some positive reviews for their latest album, ‘Oceania,’ and it’s got Billy Corgan energized for what’s to come next. The singer revealed that he’s already working on the follow-up even though ‘Oceania’ is only a few months old. Corgan told MTV Hive, “I’m starting to write new songs for the next Pumpkins album. I have to go home and work on the script for tomorrow’s wrestling
Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor was the guest on Full Metal Jackie’s radio show this past weekend. He spoke all the hard work Stone Sour put into their double concept albums ‘House of Gold & Bones – Part 1’ and ‘Part 2,’ as well as this year’s first installment of Knotfest and how long Slipknot fans will need to wait for new music. If you missed Jackie’s show,
New York fans got their dose of metal over the weekend as Finnish act Nightwish played an explosive show on Saturday (Sept. 15) at the Beacon Theater with support from Kamelot. East Coast fans gave Nightwish a very warm welcome as they began the set with ‘Storytime,’ their first single off of their latest record ‘Imaginaerium.’ They played other tracks off of the new album such as ‘Ghost River,’ ‘Song of
Eddie Vedder will perform at a Barack Obama fundraiser that’s taking place this Thursday (Sept. 20) in Tampa, Fla. The Pearl Jam frontman will be the entertainment for the night as part of the Hillsborough County Democratic Party reception. The event is being hosted by Lisa DeBartolo and her husband Donn Miggs with those RSVP-ing to the event receiving the exact location of the fundraiser. Entry to the event starts