Trivium Announce Livestream Events From Newly Launched HQ “The Hangar”

The mighty Trivium are celebrating their brand new HQ, “The Hangar” — which is, indeed, a former airplane hangar — with a pair of livestream shows set to unfold over two weekends in December. The shows will coincide with the release of a new Hangar website portal, from which the events will be broadcast. This will be both the online home of The...

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Not Every Member of Exodus Is Anti-Vaxx

Earlier this month, Steve “Zetro” Souza — the fifth-best of the four men who have fronted Exodus (including that dude from Skinlab who was in the band for three minutes) — outed himself as an anti-vaxxer: “They’re forcing you to get a vaccine. Do we live in a socialist society? What happened to ‘My body, my choice’? I don’t understand it. And...

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Imperial Triumphant Guitarist Zachary Ilya Ezrin on The MetalSucks Podcast #415

Imperial Triumphant guitarist Zachary Ilya Ezrin is our guest this week. We discuss the band’s latest album, Alphaville, his thoughts on NFTs in music, embracing all the changes that come into the industry, making the band’s new live album available only on vinyl, the band’s relationship with New York City, and completing their first headlining tour...

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David Ellefson is a Baron Now

2021 has certainly been an interesting year for David Ellefson, hasn’t it? He recorded a new Megadeth album, published his first novel, got caught up in a sex scandal, got fired from Megadeth and had his parts for the aforementioned new album re-recorded by someone else, launched a new band called The Lucid with the dude from Sponge of all people, and...

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Video: How to Write an Amaranthe Song

Toontrack’s annual Metal Month, in which the top-tier recording software company puts the focus solely on metal for the entirety of November with a slew of new products and content, will soon come to a close. But we’ve got a few more things in store before we head into December! Soon enough, the finished product from the Heaviest Riff in the...

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Ted Nugent Wants to Gift Kyle Rittenhouse a “Lifetime Supply of Ammunition”

Noted legal scholar and constitutional expert Ted Nugent has chimed in on last week’s acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot and killed two men (and injured another) at a Kenosha, WI racial justice protest last year. On a new episode of Rock of Nations With Dave Kinchen, Nugent applauded the not guilty verdict, praising Rittenhouse...

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Dave Grohl Posts Brutal Metal Cover of Lisa Loeb’s “Stay” for Hanukkah

Foo Fighters mainmain and producer Greg Kurstin have revived The Hanukkah Sessions, an eight-night affair in which they pay tribute to Jewish musicians by covering their songs in their own unique style (for our gentile readers, Hanukkah began at sundown last night, November 28). Launched in the doldrums of 2020, last year’s series featured Grohl...

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Five Facts About Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister You Should Know

Formed in June of 1975, Motorhead are one of the most famous bands in the history of heavy music. Motorhead were not icons of heavy metal, but were also beloved by fans of thrash, hardcore, rock and punk thanks to their extremely unique sound. Though the band started out in 1975, they reached fame when the New Wave of British Heavy Metal took...

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Video: Mastodon, Carcass, Bad Wolves & Spirit Adrift Members Cover Metallica’s “Blackened”

The wizardly metal devotees at Two Minutes to Late Night are back with their latest cover, a version of Metallica’s “Blackened” — except the fast parts are slow and the slow parts are fast — with a star-studded cast of musicians. The lineup on this track consists of: Troy Sanders (Mastodon): vocalsDoc Coyle (Bad Wolves, ex-God Forbid):...

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Video: Mötley Crüe Frontman Vince Neil’s Latest Embarrassing Performance

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil made his return to live music this past Wednesday (November 24) at the annual ‘DrinksGiving” event in Las Vegas, his first show since falling from the stage and “breaking a few ribs” during his performance on October 15. Unfortunately the time off has not done Neil any good, as fan-filmed footage of the event shows...

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