by Bram Teitelman | Feb 7, 2014 | Legacies, News, Tributes
[youtube]http://youtu.be/IvQk1c4TEmM[/youtube] Between Behemoth and this, we’re starting to think Poland just gets metal. In Jaworzno, Poland, a traffic circle has been renamed “Jeff Hanneman’s Circle Pit.” That’s probably one of the best...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 31, 2014 | In Memoriam, Tributes
If you were to tell us a year ago that we’d be writing about Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who would have turned 50 today, in the past tense, we wouldn’t have believed us. But here we are, just five days after he was snubbed by the Grammys and nine...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 16, 2013 | Events, News, Tributes
[youtube]http://youtu.be/ZANE2dFOpEs[/youtube] It’s been just over a year since Suicide Silence vocalist Mitch Lucker perished in an motorcycle accident. Late last year, on December 21, the band and their musical peers got together to perform a memorial concert...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 6, 2013 | Tributes
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe is a class act. In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, many have posted their condolences online, and Blythe was no different. However, he chose to illustrate his thoughts about the former South African president on Instagram by...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 20, 2013 | Tributes
[youtube]http://youtu.be/nURHgx48AzQ[/youtube] Well, this is a gut punch. This past weekend while performing at The Joint, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor took out an iPhone to facetime with someone. That someone was Andrew Youssef, a photographer and fan of the...
by Metal Insider | Sep 3, 2013 | Tributes
Metal’s oldest soldier has passed away at age 87, the Western Daily Press reports. Owen Brown, an avid fan of Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Kiss and Judas Pries spent his final days at his home in Herefordshire, UK where he blared his metal albums at his own volume....