by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 7, 2017 | Festivals, News
The lineup for this year’s Knotfest Mexico has surfaced and, just as expected, Slipknot is excluded. We already discovered Stone Sour will perform instead for Ozzfest Meets Knotfest and it is exactly the same for this round. Knotfest Mexico will take place on October...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 6, 2017 | Festivals, News
There are a handful of people who have attended 70,000 Tons of Metal since the beginning, and 2018 will find it sailing into its eighth journey. During this past holiday weekend, Andy Piller, the Skipper of this four-day voyage, started the band announcements on...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 6, 2017 | Books
If you could be a fly on the wall of Metal Blade founder and CEO Brian Slagel, you’d probably have seen some crazy stuff. Him as a young tape trader that decided to release a compilation of some of his favorite bands, including Slayer and Metallica. Him signing...
by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 27, 2017 | News, Touring
Opportunities sometimes occur by accident instead of long term planning. 35 years ago, Brian Slagel worked at a record store and wrote for a handful of publications, having no intention on creating a label (Metal Blade). However, he was pissed off by seeing...
by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 14, 2017 | Columns, Top 5, Video
Today is Valentine’s Day, and while we are sick of the same old sappy love songs, we figured to have a little fun by gathering a few extreme romantic tracks. Despite most of them coming from the nineties written about lust or love, they all lead to the...