by Metal Insider | Aug 15, 2013 | Controversy
Recently, German post-metal band The Ocean has been making waves (get it?) about crowd surfing (another Ocean joke!) on the Summer Slaughter tour, resulting in a debate with tour founder and Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen. Now, Summer Slaughter is essentially a...
by Metal Insider | Jun 10, 2013 | Festivals
As soon as they announced the lineup of last year’s Orion Music + More Festival. it was apparent that Metallica were doing things differently. While anyone could have slapped together a solid two-day lineup of heavy bands, the world’s biggest metal band...
by Zach Shaw | May 3, 2013 | Award Show Battles
Last night’s Revolver Golden Gods wasn’t just about handing out awards to hard rock bands. The evening was jammed packed with one-time-only special performances and its fair share of memorable moments. While we’ll let you scratch your head over who won what award on...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 25, 2013 | Touring
[youtube]http://youtu.be/JvlBNNVByH0[/youtube] When The Dillinger Escape Plan announced that their new album was coming out last week, they also mentioned a relatively paltry seven tour dates, including the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and the Golden Gods...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 12, 2013 | In The Studio, New Music
It’s just a simple screen capture of a word defined in a dictionary. Except when that word is “completion” and it’s coming from The Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato’s Instagram account, that’s reason to get excited. It...