Tag Archives: Battlecross

Anthrax, Mayhem, Khemmis, Richard Christy & more reflect on Pantera’s ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ at 25

Posted by on February 24, 2017

On February 25th, 1992, Pantera released their fifth album, Vulgar Display of Power. From it’s album cover of an unfortunate dude getting clocked in the face to the eleven tracks on the album, it was instantly an iconic album. In addition to arguably being the high point of the band’s career, it was influential to countless metal […]

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Phil Anselmo gets F**king Hostile with Battlecross

Posted by on February 7, 2017

Superjoint, Battlecross and Child Bite recently wrapped up several weeks of touring. A few years back, Battlecross did a cover of Pantera’s ’90s anthem “Fucking Hostile.” Was it a foregone conclusion that Anselmo would get up onstage and cover it with the band? No, no it wasn’t, but Phil got up and did it anyway […]

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Soulfly tour dates with Suffocation, Battlecross, Abnormality, Lody Kong leak

Posted by on March 2, 2016

Soulfly toured across North America on the last quarter of 2015 in support of their latest album Archangel and then took their chops to the old continent inthe  company of King Parrot, as we mentioned last month when we showed their rendition of Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades”. But this is 2016 already, which means we can get […]

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Battlecross leading the Winter Warriors Tour again to support military veterans

Posted by on November 10, 2015

Presented by our pals over at Metal Injection, the Winter Warriors tour will once again feature Battlecross, and they’ll be joined by Havok, Nekrogoblikon, and Black Fast. It’s small in scale (just six dates), but big in heart, as each band is giving a portion of their shirt sales to support VetTix – they give free tickets to sporting […]

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Born of Osiris will return to the road in mid-November

Posted by on November 5, 2015

Born of Osiris guitarist Lee McKinney broke his foot last month while on tour, but he’s close to getting back on the road so him and his band-mates will be able to continue their tour with GWAR and Battlecross. The band gave an update on McKinney’s condition after a recent cancellation in Chicago: “(Lee McKinney) has been medically cleared […]

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Born of Osiris guitarist breaks foot

Posted by on October 22, 2015

Born of Osiris have been on tour this month with GWAR and Battlecross, promoting a new album which comes out tomorrow. Unfortunately guitarist Lee McKinney broke his foot after a recent show and required surgery, forcing the band to miss tonight’s performance in Fresno, CA. From the Born of Osiris Facebook: “Last night following our show in Seattle, our guitarist Lee McKinney fell […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/30: Fortune shines down on the charts

Posted by on September 30, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Yet another stout list of metal debuts has graces Metal By Numbers this week with a total of twenty bands. I would have definitely missed a few if I hadn’t used Chris Colgan’s handy-dandy […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/23: Slayer falls under the horizon

Posted by on September 23, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. For the second week in a row we have a metal album in the number one spot. In addition, it’s the second week have a case of “newer band out-charts legend band.” And, yet […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/16: The charts have your six and your soul

Posted by on September 16, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s that time again; Five Finger Death Punch have released an album, thus topping the charts and sticking around until it likely goes gold. However you feel about them, it’s good to see that […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/9: Motörhead work their bad magic

Posted by on September 9, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The subject of Lemmy’s health has been a hot topic in metal for a while now. It doesn’t feel it started that long ago, but the saga has been going on over two years […]

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