by Zach Shaw | Sep 24, 2012 | Festivals
Hoping to travel Germany next summer to catch the Wacken Open Air festival? Well unless you already bought a ticket, then you’re out of luck. That’s because the 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air is already sold out. That’s right, all 75,000 tickets have been sold to...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 19, 2012 | Bonded By Big 4
It’s a question many metal fans have debated for quite some time now: if the Big 4 were to be expanded (or include one more band in addition to Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax), which band would be added? To many, that five spot would go either to Exodus or...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 18, 2012 | Comedy
Before the phrase “metal comedian” actually meant anything, Brian Posehn was one. Signing to Relapse instead of a traditional comedy label, doing routines on how yelling “Slayer” during anything makes it metal, and speaking from the perspective...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 10, 2012 | Video
This past Friday night (September 7), the fourth annual Metal Masters clinic took place at The Gramercy in NYC. Featured “metal masters” included Slayer’s Kerry King and Dave Lombardo, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, Charlie Benante and Frank Bello, Down’s (ex-Pantera) Philip...
by Metal Insider | Aug 20, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. The assassination of Dimebag Darrell still haunts the metal community (even over seven years after deranged fan Nathan Gale opened fire at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus Ohio...