MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has acknowledged that the band were “most probably” a sexist group throughout the 1980s, but claims “everybody” else was too. “It was a different time,” Nikki tells Classic Rock in a new interview. While promoting his latest memoir, ‘The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx’, the 62-year-old musician spoke...
SLAYER guitarist Kerry King mentioned how much he misses playing with his former band in a short video message congratulating MACHINE HEAD on their 30th anniversary as a band. “So, I hear congratulations are in order for my friends in MACHINE HEAD,” King says in the clip. “Apparently, it’s 30 years, which is quite an...
Sebastian Bach has slammed STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis after he urged fans at a recent show in Pennsylvania to chant “Fuck Joe Biden”. Late last month, Lewis had the Pennsylvania crowd chanting the phrase with him against the current president while appearing with STAIND at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton. Bach, a vocal...
NIGHTWISH have announced a run of North American tour dates commencing on May 4, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario running through to a couple of dates in Los Angeles at The Wiltern on the 20th and 21st. You can see the full list of tour dates below. NIGHTWISH are continuing their ‘HUMAN. :II: NATURE’ tour well...
Machine Gun Kelly took the stage at the Aftershock Festival over the weekend and received a less than warm welcome by the event attendees. One concert-goer went as far as to throw a log at the “rapper turned rocker” as he sang from on top of a tent. Numerous other festival goers threw bottles, jeered...
MUDVAYNE’s second reunion show saw the band take the stage over the weekend at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, California which also proved to be the debut of a second guitarist and background vocalist within the group. The new guitarist is a musician named Marcus Rafferty, a well known guitar technician who has previously worked...
You can check out members of METALLICA, KORN, SLAYER, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, ANTHRAX, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, TESTAMENT, EXODUS, BEHEMOTH, LAMB OF GOD, HALESTORM, TRIVIUM, FEAR FACTORY, KREATOR, HATEBREED, DEATH ANGEL and REPENTANCE all congratulating MACHINE HEAD on their 30th anniversary as a band below. On October 12, 1991 at the Oakland, California “Day...
The memorial plaque honoring legendary VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen was unveiled today (Monday, October 11) in his hometown of Pasadena, California. Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo and council members Tyrone Hampton, Andy Wilson, Gene Masuda and Felicia Williams stood by as the plaque was unveiled near the city Convention Centre. “This event brings together...
The latest edition of THE LOADED RADIO PODCAST features ASKING ALEXANDRIA guitarist Ben Bruce. In the discussion this week, Ben talks about the new ASKING ALEXANDRIA album, ‘See What’s on the Inside’, how a METALLICA riff is responsible for him being a guitar player, what he feels is the best song the band have ever...
Nicko McBrain has become a name synonymous with supplying the earth shattering drum beats and furious fills for British heavy metal titans IRON MAIDEN. Joining the band after they had already become significantly established as the forerunners of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in the late seventies and early eighties, McBrain took over the drum kit from vacated stickman Clive Burr with a ferocity that needs to be addressed and quite frankly revered. For 40 years now, IRON MAIDEN's hurricane of a backbone, Nicko McBrain, has still remained somewhat of an "unsung hero" in heavy metal. Even if he is IRON MAIDEN's drummer.