Heavy Metal News
The lights may be bright and the bands may be putting their full effort into rocking the audience, but here’s a tip for fans especially close to the stage – the band members can still see you. Unfortunately for one fan, he found that out the hard way when he got singled out by Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson in front of the whole audience at a recent show in
The Deftones are closing in on a new record, and as the group ages, singer Chino Moreno says there are better and more collaborative relationships building within the band. He says in the latest issue of Revolver (via ThePrp), “It’s not like on some of our previous records where you can hear that Stephen [Carpenter] wrote all the heavy stuff and I wrote all the p—y songs. We wrote organically
When Motorhead say “The World Is Ours,’ they mean it. Earlier this year, the group issued ‘The World Is Ours: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else.’ The disc was meant to showcase their live prowess, and they used an especially solid performance from Santiago, Chile. Now comes word from the band’s website that ‘The World Is Ours – Vol 2′ is in the works. This effort, subtitled ‘Anyplace Crazy As Anywhere
Aaron Lewis has taken time away from Staind in the past, but the fact that the group is calling their latest break a “hiatus” initially raised a few eyebrows, especially given that they finished their last album with longtime drummer Jon Wysocki leaving the band. However, Lewis says fans should not write the band off. He told Billboard, “The touring that we’ve done this year has been good. We’ve got
Back in May, we reported that World Digital Rights, a company in Panama which owns licensing rights for the music of All Shall Perish, would be taking 80 fans to court for illegally downloading the band’s 2011 album, ‘This Is Where It Ends.’ From the beginning, the band opposed the lawsuit, speaking out in support their fans despite the illegal downloading. Luckily for those All Shall Perish fans, the charges
Some potentially upsetting news for fans of Iwrestledabearonce — vocalist Krysta Cameron may not return to the band after giving birth to her child. Iwrestledabearonce broke the news that Cameron would not be participating in the band’s 2012 Warped Tour run due to her pregnancy, but now it seems like she may be hanging up the mic with the eccentric metal band. It was three weeks ago that the band
Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan is one of the most renowned members of Slipknot. The percussionist and backing vocalist has dawned many different clown masks during his tenure with the band, all of them being some of the most memorable metal disguises in Slipknot’s long history. You may consider Crahan to be irreplaceable, but Clown has plans for a worthy successor to to take over his role when he retires — his