by Metal Insider | May 8, 2012 | Releases
Some side projects, collaborations, and supergroups are basically inevitable. Friends from different groups coming together to create a new band, longtime producers joining the musicians they’ve worked with for years, and bandmates starting a new project based...
by Metal Insider | Apr 18, 2012 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Talk about one hell of a week for metal and hard rock debuts. Out of the thirteen new releases that made it onto the charts, nine of them actually made it into the...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 17, 2012 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnhtKqKm_TY[/youtube] Last Saturday night (April 14), Fates Warning opened for Queensryche in São Paulo, Brazil. However, since Bobby Jarzombek had previous commitments, the prog metal group once again used the services of Mike...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 17, 2012 | Legal Woes
According to USA Today, Kill Devil Hill bassist Rex Brown is having some tax issues. More specifically, the former Down/Pantera bassist reportedly owes $449,567 to the federal government in back taxes and penalties. Supposedly, Brown’s largest lien was filed for...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 13, 2012 | Events, Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef-O9_Kd9s[/youtube] Yesterday, rumors started to spread that Philip Anselmo and Geezer Butler would be joining Slayer’s Kerry King and Dave Lombardo, Anthrax’s Charlie Benante and Frank Bello, Megadeth’s David Ellefson, and...