You can check out video footage of METALLICA performing the song “Moth Into Flame” from the upcoming “Metallica And San Francisco Symphony: S&M²” below. METALLICA and the San Francisco Symphony’s September 6 and September 8, 2019 “S&M²” concerts were historic on multiple levels: They served as the grand opening of San Francisco’s Chase Center, reunited the band and Symphony for the first time since the 1999 performances captured on the Grammy-winning “S&M” album, and featured the first-ever symphonic renditions of songs written and released since those original “S&M” shows. The sold-out concerts were rapturously received by the 40,000 fans who...
Check This Out: GOJIRA Release New Song ‘Another World’
There really is nothing like waking up to a new GOJIRA tune, is there? Turns out the band have released a new standalone single titled “Another World” which was produced by the band’s frontman Joseph “Joe” Duplantier and mixed by Andy Wallace. The song is available today on all streaming platforms and is co-released with an animated official music video directed by Maxime Tiberhgien and Sylvain Favre, which can be seen below. The thing that’s so welcome about this is ‘Another World’ marks the group’s first original music since the release of their Grammy-nominated LP “Magma” in 2016. Regarding the...
Original MACHINE HEAD Drummer TONY COSTANZA Dead At 52
Original MACHINE HEAD drummer Tony Costanza has died at 52 years of age. Costanza’s passing was confirmed by his former CRISIS bandmate Afzaal Nasiruddeen, who wrote in a Facebook post: “It is with a very heavy heart that I have to accept and inform everyone concerned that I lost my brother, band mate, home boy and family today. “Tony Costanza was one of a kind. A man with a huge heart, love and loyalty for the ones close to him. “I cannot relate to this reality of loss yet. I know he had a lot of admirers, and I was...
The Immortal Battle For The Name Rights To…IMMORTAL Continues
It’s a battle of the ages! An unstoppable force colliding with an immovable object! The clash of two demi-gods in a legendary brawl where only one shall rise victorious and IMMORTAL! Actually not really. What’s really going down is IMMORTAL members Harald “Demonaz” Nævdal and Reidar “Horgh” Horghagen are involved in a legal dispute over the rights to the band’s name. IMMORTAL was initially formed by Demonaz and Olve “Abbath” Eikemo in 1990. Horgh would then join the band in 1996. And then back in 2014, Abbath left the group in a pretty messy separation. A highly publicized legal battle...
Grab Yourself A Nice Hot Cup Of LAMB OF GOD’s New Coffee Why Don’t Ya?
In what seems to be a developing trend in metal, LAMB OF GOD has now joined the ranks of heavy bands like KORN, METALLICA, MEGADETH, AEROSMITH and JUDAS PRIEST as they will be releasing their own brand of ‘Memento Mori’ java. The band collaborated with the company ‘Nightflyer Roastworks’ to create the small batch single origin coffee which is grown in El Salvador and roasted in Charlotte, North Carolina. “How did this come about?”, you may ask. “And where do I get me some of this piping hot brutality to add to my mundane morning routine?” Well it turns out...
Members Of HATEBREED, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN And More Jam Classic MISFITS With MAX WEINBERG
All these quarantine jams have been producing a butt-load of “Supergroups” it seems. Here’s another one for ya. “Two Minutes To Late Night”, who claim to be the world’s only heavy metal-themed talk show, have uploaded a cover of the classic MISFITS tune “Earth A.D.”. Now just who is in this new Zoom Supergroup with a thinly veiled IRON MAIDEN reference as a name? Well ya got members of HATEBREED, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE blasting out tunes with the one and only Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E STREET BAND, father of SLIPKNOT’s stickman Jay...
METALLICA has posted another concert video for “#MetallicaMondays”, where the band streams a complete live show via the group’s YouTube channel and on Facebook page every Monday. The kinda cool thing with the latest concert is that it was recorded exactly 20 years ago, on frontman James Hetfield’s 37th birthday, on August 3, 2000 at Starplex Amphitheater in Dallas, Texas. The band’s setlist was as follows: 01. Creeping Death 02. For Whom The Bell Tolls 03. Seek And Destroy 04. Fade To Black 05. Fuel 06. Sad But True 07. No Leaf Clover 08. King Nothing 09. Mastertarium 10. Battery...
Members Of AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ALICE COOPER And FOZZY Form New Supergroup
Looks like there’s a new ‘supergroup’ in town as Chris Jericho (FOZZY), Nita Strauss (ALICE COOPER), Phil Demmel (VIO-LENCE, ex-MACHINE HEAD), Johnny Christ (AVENGED SEVENFOLD) and Nita’s boyfriend Josh Villalta, who also plays drums in her solo band and manages her career, have formed THE WHEELBLOCKS. And as it turns out, the band’s first recording is a cover of the IRON MAIDEN classic “Aces High” which is gonna make its online debut on Thursday, August 6 at 11:00 a.m. Chris Jericho was asked in a recent interview if it was true that Alice Cooper himself is involved with THE WHEELBLOCKS,...
DOWNLOAD 2021 Announced Featuring KISS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DEFTONES, KORN, GOJIRA And More
U.K.’s Download festival has announced KISS, BIFFY CLYRO and SYSTEM OF A DOWN as its 2021 headliners, plus many more of the world’s most exciting bands in rock, punk, hardcore and metal including DEFTONES, KORN, STEEL PANTHER and THE DISTILLERS will return for Download 2021, with even more yet to be announced. The three-day festival takes place on June 4-6, 2021 at the spiritual home of rock in Donington Park, Leicestershire. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday, Augut 7 via downloadfestival.co.uk/tickets. After an epic and well documented 45-year career that launched an era of rock ‘n’...
DOWN To Return After 4 Years With Live Streamed Concert
DOWN are back! And they’re doing it in a cool way by performing a live virtual concert later on this month. The news was broken by DOWN’s longtime manager, SKID ROW guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo, who was quoted as saying: “I’ve been managing since 2006, which seems like a lifetime ago, and it kind of is. I’ve been managing the band DOWN since then — Philip Anselmo and Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein — and that, for a long time, took up a lot of our time. But they’ve taken a bit of a hiatus. They’re actually gonna be doing one...