by Bram Teitelman | Jun 19, 2014 | News, Tributes, Video Games
While Avenged Sevenfold will be spreading their wings on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival this summer, their mascot, the deathbat, will also be doing the same. While we’ve known the band were collaborating on a video game, Hail to the King: Deathbat, since...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 16, 2014 | Interviews, News
When the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival kicks off on July 5th, it will be entering its seventh year. While Ozzfest has existed in the United States for twice as long (even though it hasn’t taken place here since 2010), Mayhem has grown from an upstart to an...
by Matt Brown | Jun 12, 2014 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As the late great George Carlin once explained, no word is more versatile in its usage than the word “fuck”. It’s funny to think that there was a...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 10, 2014 | Metal on Metal, News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/_rsZdjGzOpA[/youtube] This past weekend, a killer lineup played Germany’s Rock am Ring festival. While the full lineup was heavy on rock, they had some great metal bands playing. And unlike most American festivals, the shows were...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 6, 2014 | News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/DzOV_FBVORk[/youtube] By listening to Avenged Sevenfold’s musical output, you can pretty easily tell their influences – Iron Maiden here, Guns N’ Roses there, some Overkill (oh wait, that’s only their logo). You...