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It’s good to be Godsmack! Shortly after the release of their latest live disc ‘Live & Inspired’ in May, the Boston rockers are gearing up to spend the rest of the summer as a co-headliner on this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival, sharing the bill with an all-star cast that includes Shinedown, Staind, and Papa Roach. Following that, they’ll be trading in land for the high seas as they
The Extreme Metal Olympics is soon coming to an end, with a total of 32 bands from around the world diminishing into only four in our Semi Finals. The winning bands from Group 1 and Group 2 will now go head-to-head in order to determine which band will advance to the Gold Medal Round. After a grueling saga of international sonic battles, Death and Lamb of God were the two
Welcome to the Semi Finals of the Extreme Metal Olympics. Beginning with 32 bands competing for glory, we’re now down to four bands after a grueling cycle of eliminations. Your votes will now determine which bands will advance to the Gold Medal Round. In Group 3 of our competition, we showcased acts from Sweden, Poland, Australia, Canada and France, but the band who swept Group 3 come from the beautiful
‘Hammer Smashed Face,’ ‘Force-Fed Broken Glass,’ ‘Sanded Faceless’ — these are just a few of the charming song titles that death metal legends Cannibal Corpse have used throughout their career. Having been vilified for their gore-encrusted style of brutal death metal, which is well documented in the film ‘Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey,’ Cannibal Corpse bassist and creative lynchpin Alex Webster may seem an unlikely candidate for a pleasant and mindful
The Chick-fil-A fast food chain has been receiving a ton of media scrutiny as of late, after declaring that they, as a company, are opposed to gay marriage. Although opposition to same-sex marriage is prevalent throughout America, Chick-fil-A Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy created a media firestorm after a series of controversial actions. As the most prominent gay man in metal, Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford recently addressed the issue
10 Years have unleashed their new album ‘Minus the Machine,’ and we at Loudwire are giving away a sweet prize pack to mark the disc’s release. By entering below, you could possibly walk away with a 10 Years prize pack featuring autographed copies of ‘Minus the Machine’ on both CD and vinyl, an autographed 10 Years poster, one ‘Minus the Machine’/10 Years soda koozie, and five ‘Minus the Machine’/10 Years
Today on Daily Reload, we catch up with the latest on the Randy Blythe situation. The Lamb of God singer, now home from nearly a month in jail in the Czech Republic, offers his first public statement on the incident and his plans to clear his name. Meanwhile, System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan is of the mindset of a lot of the band’s fans in that while it’s