FOO FIGHTERS received the first ever Global Icon Award at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards (Sunday September 12), where they also performed a number of songs from their expansive catalog. Before the FOO FIGHTERS accepted the award, they were introduced by Billie Eilish, who noted that an “entire generation of music fans” had grown...
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman Josh Homme and his children appeared in a Los Angeles court this past weekend as the ongoing saga in this developing story continues. Last week the QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman’s two sons attempted and failed, to get a temporary restraining order against their father, citing emotional and...
BEHEMOTH frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski has been acquitted in the latest ‘offending religious feelings’ case against him. The BEHEMOTH singer/guitarist was previously found guilty of blasphemy charges by a court in Warsaw, Poland this past February while facing fines close to $5000 USD. Nergal however persevered in his fight and contested the charges which was...
More than 30 years after the release of Ozzy Osbourne’s “No More Tears”, music fans will at last hear a new version of the album track “Hellraiser”. The digital release of the album, due out September 17 (Sony), will include an updated interpretation of the song featuring a mash-up of vocals from Ozzy and the...
EVERY TIME I DIE have released another track from their ninth studio album, “Radical”, which arrives on October 22 via Epitaph. Today, the band unleashes “Planet Shit”, which takes an unflinching look at the inevitable social upheaval born of generations of inequity. “I was just calling it like I was seeing it,” expresses vocalist Keith...
STATIC-X will bring more of their self-proclaimed “Evil Disco” to the masses with their “Rise Of The Machine” North American tour 2022. The 37-date run, produced by Live Nation, kicks off on February 21 in Portland, Oregon and runs over five weeks, wrapping up on April 3 in San Francisco, California. General tickets go on...
IRON MAIDEN’s ‘Senjutsu’ has debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking the band’s best showing on the chart since their formation more than four decades ago. ‘Senjutsu’ earned 64,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release with approximately 61,000 units in sales, making the effort the week’s top-selling release. Moreover,...
MEGADETH guitarist Kiko Loureiro has posted another extensive look at the band’s rehearsal process with the group rehearsing for ‘The Metal Tour Of The Year’. Kiko wrote in a message accompanying the YouTube release of the clip: “Getting ready for ‘The Metal Tour Of The Year’ with LAMB OF GOD, TRIVIUM and HATEBREED. The entire...
SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor recently sat down for a four-part conversation with Knotfest.com‘s Ryan J. Downey and spoke about his contribution to “The Metallica Blacklist”. In part two of the chat, Corey touched on the parallels between METALLICA and SLIPKNOT. “One of the first songs I ever learned how to play on guitar was ‘Enter...
METALLICA frontman James Hetfield was brought to tears by Elton John, after the acclaimed pianist and performer praised “Nothing Else Matters” as “one of the best songs ever written.” METALLICA and Elton John appeared on The Howard Stern Show, alongside Miley Cyrus, to discuss Elton and Miley’s recent collaboration covering the classic “Nothing Else Matters”...