by Alix Vallecillo | Apr 11, 2016 | Covers, News, Video
Heavy metal as a genre as we know it today has a relatively short history compared to other styles of music and at the beginning, society as a whole wasn’t too open about it due to the aggressiveness of the music and how its listeners looked like and was frowned...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 7, 2016 | Covers, New Music, News
Do you know “Renegades” by X Ambassadors? Well, maybe only if you listen to the radio. Or watch TV, or go anywhere music is played. The song from the Ithaca band was used in a Jeep commercial (for the Renegade, natch), and took off from there. In addition...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 4, 2016 | Covers, News, Web 2.Oooh Yeah!
Disturbed has been getting a lot of acclaim for their cover of “The Sound Of Silence”. They even performed their rendition of the Simon & Garfunkel classic last week on Conan. But now Disturbed they’ve got the respect of one of the song’s famed co-writers....
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 1, 2016 | Covers, News, Video
It’s a shame that today’s April Fool’s Day and not St. Patrick’s Day, as that would’ve been the perfect day for Ace Frehley to unveil another one of the covers from his forthcoming Origins Vol. 1, an album of covers that the Space Ace is...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 28, 2016 | Covers, News, Video
This past Saturday (26), one of the better tours of the first quarter, Slayer, Testament and Carcass, played its final show in Las Vegas. And it seems like the three bands had even more fun than the people that went to see them. I mean, we’re basically basing...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 3, 2016 | Covers, Metallica Insider, News
Today one of the most important albums in the history of metal was released. It was the album that broke Metallica, and while it never made it higher than 29 on the charts, quietly went gold. Actually, there was nothing quiet about it. According to Billboard, Master...