Heavy Metal News
Welcome to the Quarter Finals of Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics! We’ve had an insane week so far, with some of the heaviest, most influential and innovative bands within the realm of brutality battling for the gold. Beginning with 32 bands representing their homelands, we’re now down to eight. In Group 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics, six of the original eight bands have now been eliminated, with only two left
In Group 2 of the Extreme Metal Olympics, we’ve got a Quarter Finals match pitting Brazil against the good ol’ USA. Two metal pioneers are left to represent their respective countries and become the champions of Group 2. Brazilian thrash titans Sepultura defeated Norwegian black metal heavyweights Immortal. Sepultura now move on to face American death metal giants Cannibal Corpse, who put Italian technical death merchants Fleshgod Apocalypse in their
Group 3 of the Extreme Metal Olympics features an incredibly diverse group of bands from countries such as Sweden, Australia, Poland, France + more. In the Quarter Finals of the Extreme Metal Olympics, we’ve got the sole Finnish entry facing one of the Sweden’s most extreme bands. Children of Bodom continue their trek for Finland in the Extreme Metal Olympics, narrowly beating out French metallers Gojira in the closest match
Group 4 of the Extreme Metal Olympics has featured heavier-than-hell bands from countries such as Belgium, Austria, Japan and Canada. The eight bands within Group 4 have been diminished into two Quarter-Finalists, one of who will win their bracket and move on to the Semi Finals. In perhaps the most fascinating upset of the Extreme Metal Olympics so far, Japanese metal enigmas Dir En Grey defeated one of the most
After more than a month of incarceration, Randy Blythe was released from a Czech prison on Thursday (Aug. 2), according to the Czech news site Blesk.cz. The Lamb of God frontman is reported to have boarded a flight at 1PM Czech time today (Aug. 3), and is expected to arrive in New York this afternoon. As well documented by Loudwire and several other outlets over the past month, Blythe was
In today’s Daily Reload, Loudwire premieres Flyleaf’s new track ‘New Horizons’; Incubus’ Brandon Boyd says the band will probably take a break while he brainstorms a second solo album; and No Use for a Name frontman Tony Sly passes away at 41. Also, Green Day announce the release of a career-encompassing 8-CD box set; Motley Crue’s Vince Neil is set to headline the Tybee Island Pirate Festival; Phil Anselmo discusses
Incubus singer Brandon Boyd has revealed that the band has no immediate plan for the future as they close out the promotion cycle for 2011′s ‘If Not Now, When?’ with the Honda Civic tour. The future is uncertain in terms of the band’s label situation, as it completed its contract with longtime label Epic. Therefore, Boyd spoke about these aspects and about his personal aspirations. “We have no plans, to