Heavy Metal News
After over two weeks of voting and four grueling rounds in the books, we’ve reached the final part of Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics. It’s been an awesome run, with a total of 32 bands from around the world representing their countries in the competition. With only Death and Dir En Grey left undefeated, the two acts will now duke it out for a gold medal. Death have had an insane
As the Extreme Medal Olympics come to an end, only two bands have gone undefeated in four straight battles, bringing them to the Gold Medal Round. However, another two acts have proven to be fierce competitors, and although they are no longer in contention for a gold medal, one act will walk away with a bronze one. Cannibal Corpse fought hard to beat out Napalm Death in the first round,
The surviving Beastie Boys and the estate of late member Adam Yauch have filed a lawsuit against Monster Energy for the unauthorized use of their music in a new promotional campaign — and as the recently filed will of Yauch makes clear, the group will never agree to license its songs for ads. The Monster Energy suit springs from the energy drink maker’s use of a handful of Beastie Boys songs
In this week’s edition of Loudwire’s Top 20 Countdown, Shinedown keep their No. 1 spot for a fourth consecutive week with their single ‘Unity’ off of their latest record ‘Amaryllis.’ Five Finger Death Punch climb a couple of spots to make their way to No. 2 this week with their single ‘Coming Down’ while the Offspring move down a spot with ‘Days Go By.’ Adelitas Way come in at No.
Slipknot expend a lot of energy onstage, and earlier this summer it got the better of singer Corey Taylor, who passed out from heat exhaustion at the end of their performance. Taylor tells Fuse that he’s still not exactly sure what happened. He explains, “I basically blacked out for the last two songs, but I finished the show. I have no memory of the last two songs. I woke up
Fozzy really started to emerge with their 2010 release ‘Chasing the Grail,’ so what will the band do to follow that up? Luckily, Loudwire can help you out with that as we provide you an exclusive album stream of the band’s fifth studio album, ‘Sin and Bones.’ In an exclusive interview with Loudwire, singer Chris Jericho recently told us of his musical process, ”What I get from the road is I
Back in August of 2011 Alexisonfire officially announced that they were breaking up after the linup suffered some shake-ups. Dallas Green left the band to focus on his acoustic folk project City and Colour and Wade MacNeil became the new singer for Gallows. Even though this was a blow to Alexisonfire fans, the band did promise one last tour together to celebrate the band’s tenth anniversary. The nine dates announced