Doug Aldrich says that Ronnie James Dio and Gene Simmons should both be credited for popularizing the famous rock n' roll "devil horns." The late BLACK SABBATH and RAINBOW singer is frequently recognized for making the hand gesture mainstream — a staple at rock concerts for decades — which the KISS bassist/vocalist filed an application ...
Corey Taylor has once fired back at Chad Kroeger after the latter blasted STONE SOUR as "NICKELBACK Lite" and called out Taylor for alleging saying that it was "easy" to write a hit song. Asked about the remarks on the KISW 99.9 radio station at this past weekend's Pain In The Grass event in Auburn, ...
The new rock documentary "Hired Gun: Out Of The Shadows, Into The Spotlight" will receive a one-night showing on Thursday night (June 29) at several hundred North American locations through Fathom Events. The film chronicles the story of world-renowned musicians who are not household names, but are instead the session and backup musicians who have ...
Gregor Mackintosh has revealed that "Fear Those Who Fear Him", the third album from his VALLENFYRE project, will likely be the band's final release. The PARADISE LOST songwriter and guitarist broke the news during an interview with Metal Covenant to promote the follow-up to 2014's "Splinters", which came out in early June. Asked ...
Matt Coe of Dead Rhetoric recently conducted an interview with ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer. A few excerpts from the interview follow below. Dead Rhetoric: How is your health these days following your second surgery in the fall of 2014 for a cervical fusion? How much did this slow down the process of ...
Brazilian/Swedish metallers SHADOWSIDE will release their new album, "Shades Of Humanity", in Japan on July 26 via Spiritual Beast, in North America/Europe on July 28 via EMP Label Group (the U.S.-based label of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson), and in Brazil on September 4 via Furia Music. "Shades Of Humanity" explores deep subjects such as depression, ...
This fall, CATTLE DECAPITATION will headline the the "North American Extinction Tour Part II: Inhuman Beings", with support from REVOCATION, FULL OF HELL and ARTIFICIAL BRAIN. The trek will run from October 10 through November 20, with Tijuana, Mexico's mad doctors of gore THANATOLOGY replacing FULL OF HELL as support on the first three dates. ...
Former TESTAMENT bassist Greg Christian has joined TRAUMA, best known as the band that Cliff Burton played with prior to hooking up with METALLICA. "TRAUMA is thrilled to welcome Greg Christian to our band," says the band in a statement. "His creative bass guitar work completes our music." "Having grown up in the Bay Area ...
Fan-filmed video footage of MEGADETH's June 24 performance at Montebello Rockfest in Montebello, Quebec, can be seen below. MEGADETH has spent more than a year on the road promoting "Dystopia", which arrived in January 2016. The group is currently touring with MESHUGGAH, TESSERACT and LILLAKE. MEGADETH was honored with in the "Best Metal Performance" category ...
Former MÖTLEY CRÜE singer John Corabi has confirmed that he will release a live album and DVD of his performance of the band's entire 1994 self-titled album, recorded in 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. Corabi originally joined CRÜE in 1992 as the replacement for the group's original singer, Vince Neil, who was fired due to personal ...
