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Katy Perry and the Goo Goo Dolls have done it, so why can’t Slash? That’s the question the top-hatted guitar legend is asking the producers of ‘Sesame Street.’ Slash revealed his secret, long-held desire to visit the land of sunny days sweepin’ the clouds away during a recent interview with Rip It Up, saying that even after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and being inducted to
Cheers to Katatonia and their new track ‘Dead Letters,’ for the band has racked up a second Death Match win against death metal legends Nile. Apparently the Red Sea decided not to split for a second time, as Nile drowned in defeat. Katatonia will now face their third opponent, who have nearly made the Death Match Hall of Fame in the past. As I Lay Dying are one of the
Lamb of God put on an energetic show, and even with Randy Blythe‘s recent arrest in the Czech Republic on manslaughter charges stemming from an alleged 2010 concert incident, the singer doesn’t feel that it will change his onstage behavior. ? The vocalist told Revolver, “What else am I going to do? We don’t have a big production set up or anything. We don’t have purple dragons that fly out
The memory of Chuck Schuldiner and the music of Death live on through those who have embraced the music of the death metal pioneers. Despite being the only inactive band featured in the Extreme Metal Olympics, the legendary group walked away with a silver medal. When it comes to death metal, there is no band that deserve the highest order of respect more than Death. The death metal pioneers began the
Cannibal Corpse are brutality incarnate, and with the help of their legions of fans, the brutal death metal giants brought one of two medals home to the USA by defeating Children of Bodom in the Bronze Medal Match. As favorites from the beginning, Cannibal Corpse stormed through grindcore innovators Napalm Death for their first win in the Extreme Metal Olympics. From there on, Corpse claimed the souls of Fleshgod Apocalypse
With Trivium‘s Matt Heafy slated to perform an acoustic set at the Moscot Gallery and Music Space on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Street in New York City on Monday (Aug. 13) night, the 50 or so lucky fans who were clamoring to get in were in for a treat. Heafy doesn’t do solo acoustic performances often. In fact, throughout the night, he kept reminding the crowd how nervous he was
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make our very first Extreme Metal Olympics so successful. After nearly three weeks and hundreds of thousands of votes being cast throughout, Japanese experimental metal band Dir En Grey defeated the legendary Death to capture the gold medal. Beginning the competition in Group 4, Dir En Grey were the only band representing Japan in the Extreme Metal Olympics, and were definite underdogs since