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Laaz Rockit founding member Victor Agnello passes

by Metal Insider | Jun 4, 2014 | In Memoriam, News

After a year- long battle with leukemia, thrash metal pioneer and Laaz Rockit founding member Victor Agnello has passed away at just 50 years old. Agnello started drumming for Laaz Rockit during the band’s formative years in 1983. He played on four studio...
Because we miss Ronnie James Dio, here’s his Budweiser commercial

Because we miss Ronnie James Dio, here’s his Budweiser commercial

by Bram Teitelman | May 16, 2014 | In Memoriam, News

As we noted earlier today, on this day in 2010, metal lost one of its best vocalists ever, when Ronnie James Dio died.  Here’s a rarity from the mid ’80s. In 1985, Westwood One syndicated a Dio concert that was recorded the previous year in Spokane, WA. It...

Here’s a video of Ronnie James Dio’s final performance

by Matt Brown | May 16, 2014 | In Memoriam, Video

[youtube]http://youtu.be/iqMyEalm-JI[/youtube] On this day four years ago, beloved singer and heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at age 67. Four years later and it’s still very strange and sad to think that will never hear Dio’s voice...

Judas Priest update: Halford gets surgery; original guitarist dies

by Bram Teitelman | May 14, 2014 | In Memoriam, News, Updates

While Judas Priest is larger than life, even a metal god has to take a break every now and then. That’s why even as we’re starting to hear what the new album will sound like, Rob Halford is prepping to go into surgery. He told ABC News Radio that...

One year after Jeff Hanneman’s death, here are our favorite Slayer songs of his

by Metal Insider | May 2, 2014 | In Memoriam, Lists, News, Updates

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the metal community lost one of its pioneers. Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died of liver failure one year ago today. And while Slayer has continued on with Gary Holt and even released a new song,...

Kid who jammed with Phil Anselmo passes away

by Matt Brown | Apr 30, 2014 | In Memoriam, Sad News

When Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals went on tour last summer, they picked up an extra guitarist to perform a song with them at a show in Tulsa, OK. Through the Make-A-Wish foundation, a young metalhead named Peyton got the chance to get up onstage and play the...
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