Heavy Metal News
If you didn’t spend your life savings purchasing the childhood home of Ronnie James Dio on eBay recently, there’s another auction up for grabs that might interest fans of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. With a claim to fame as being a “one of a kind piece of grunge rock history,” this beat up old 1972 Dodge van might not seem like much of a collectible at first glance, but
The foundation of New York City’s Gramercy Theater (Aug. 21) shook as Static X rolled into town for their Noise Revolution Tour with support from Davey Suicide and 9 Electric. Wayne Static and the rest of the gang kicked off their set with ‘Wisconsin Death Trip,’ and proceed to play fan favorites such as ‘Love Dump,’ ‘Bled For Days,’ ‘I’m With Stupid’ and of course ‘Push It,’ among numerous other
Influential horror punk outfit the Misfits have booked a fall 2012 tour that will kick off Oct. 12 in Worcester, Mass., and continue into December. ? The veteran rockers are currently supporting their seventh album, 2011′s ‘The Devil’s Rain,’ which pulled its name from a 1975 horror film. Both ‘Land of the Dead’ and ‘Twilight of the Dead’ were re-recorded from past efforts to be part of the record, with
Our coverage of the Heavy MTL Festival is far from finished, as we give you an exclusive interview with Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D’Antonio and drummer Justin Foley. During our chat with the Killswitch Engage duo, we discuss the band’s new track ‘No End in Sight,’ their inclusion on the ‘Trespass America’ tour, vocalist Jesse Leach’s onstage return at the 2012 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival + much more.
Iron Maiden have used their platform over the years to fund various charities, and while they prefer to keep their involvement in a number of the causes private, there’s one that they’re very eager to speak of publicly. Bassist Steve Harris tells Samaritan Mag, “One of the things I can talk about because we started it off is our old drummer, Clive [Burr] has MS, so we started the Clive
Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins will be spending most of the fall season out on an arena tour that kicks off Oct. 10 in Seattle. While only the cities on the trek have been announced at this point with the venues and dates to follow in the near future, the Pumpkins will find themselves traveling from coast to coast with stops in several major cities along the way. The
There’s no doubt the Foo Fighters rock, and it’s usually pretty hard when they do. But their efforts were not exactly embraced by everyone in the surrounding Belfast area Tuesday night (Aug. 21) as a number of people filed noise complaints during the band’s set on the opening night of Tennant’s Vital festival. The BBC reports that the Belfast City Council received 120 complaint calls, while the local police also