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
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Trivium’s Matt Heafy Discusses Metal + New Side Project at Rare Acoustic Show in New York City
August 14th, 2012 
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No Comments »Cannibal Corpse Take Bronze Medal in Extreme Metal Olympics
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult 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
Posted in News Tags: are-brutality, beginning, bronze, bronze-medal, children, corpse, extreme-metal, giants-brought, legions, napalm-death, olympics-from, stormed-through, their-legions, usa No Comments »Death Win Silver Medal in Extreme Metal Olympics
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult 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
Posted in News Tags: a-silver-medal-, deserve-the, extreme, highest-order, legendary, metal-pioneers, Music, olympics, pioneers-began, silver-medal-, the-legendary No Comments »Dir En Grey Capture Gold Medal in Extreme Metal Olympics
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult 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
Posted in News Tags: extreme, extreme-metal, gold-medal, japan, metal-band-, olympics, votes-being, were-the-only No Comments »Halestorm Drummer Arejay Hale on Being Compared to Animal of ‘The Muppets’
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult Anyone who’s ever seen Arejay Hale play drums with his band Halestorm knows that he takes on a passion and ferocity that’s hard to put words to. With that in mind, some fans have taken to comparing him to a character from the Muppets – the lovable, hard to contain, drumstick wielding Animal. In a new interview with EMURG, Hale weighs in on the comparison, giving it his full seal
Posted in News Tags: a-new-interview, a-passion-and, arejay-hale, band, character-from, comparing-him, have-taken, lovable, passion-and, some-fans, the-comparison No Comments »Foo Fighters Pull Out Rare Performance of ‘Aurora’ for Outside Lands Festival
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult It’s debatable of where the music hot spot was over the weekend, but one of the highlights was Foo Fighters‘ set at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival. ? Foo Fighters marked the occasion by pulling out a rarely played song for the show. Dave Grohl told the audience that it was a special show and the band had been working on the song ‘Aurora’ to play live specifically for the event.
Posted in News Tags: audience, band, been-working, event, festival, francisco, highlights, Music, occasion, rarely-played, show, working-on-the No Comments »Billy Corgan Says Soundgarden Reunion Is for the Money
August 14th, 2012 Metalkult Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has been talking trash about just everyone in music this year, and now beloved grunge goliaths Soundgarden are no exception. Corgan, who has presided over several incarnations of his band he’s led since 1988, shared his thoughts on Soundgarden during a recent interview with PhilStar.com. After lamenting the rise of ‘American Idol‘ wannabes with “no respect for the tradition of music,” Corgan was asked for his
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