by Zach Shaw | Dec 17, 2012 | Releases
By now, you’ve seen the trailer for Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary. And you likely already knew that the film’s soundtrack would include collaborations Grohl recorded with numerous musicians featured in the documentary (using the actual soundboard that used in...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 3, 2012 | Milestones
If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that with a Black Sabbath album in the works, that Ozzy Osbourne isn’t retiring anytime soon. In fact, five years ago on the mostly-forgettable Black Rain, he released a single telling his fans that...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 27, 2012 | History
1982 was a rough year for Ozzy Osbourne. In March, his guitarist Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash while the band was on tour for Diary of a Madman, which had been released four months earlier. Ozzy continued to tour as a way of catharsis, with Brad Gillis filling in...
by Zach Shaw | Nov 26, 2012 | Festivals
Suddenly the idea of traveling to Japan this coming May seems more tempting. That’s because the first ever Japanese edition of Ozzfest’s lineup just got some major additions. It was announced this past weekend that headliners Black Sabbath and Slipknot will be joined...
by Metal Insider | Nov 19, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Hard to believe it, but Thanksgiving is just a few days away. With that in mind, we decided to continue a tradition we started last year and list the top five events we’re...