by Bram Teitelman | Mar 25, 2014 | Tributes, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/XYJ-Ok1z46E[/youtube] Yesterday, Phil Anselmo posted a video taken backstage last month at the Soundwave Festival in Sydney, Australia. In the minute-long clip, Anselmo, GWAR’s Dave Brockie and Brent Purgason, Satyricon’s Satyr and...
by Matt Brown | Feb 14, 2014 | Drama Bloody Drama
Slayer’s Tom Araya and Kerry King haven’t exactly remained in the good graces of some of their fans, and the split with Dave Lombardo is not the least of the reasons. Lombrado recently spoke with Planet Mosh, and it’s clear that things are at an all...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 7, 2014 | Legacies, News, Tributes
[youtube]http://youtu.be/IvQk1c4TEmM[/youtube] Between Behemoth and this, we’re starting to think Poland just gets metal. In Jaworzno, Poland, a traffic circle has been renamed “Jeff Hanneman’s Circle Pit.” That’s probably one of the best...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 31, 2014 | In Memoriam, Tributes
If you were to tell us a year ago that we’d be writing about Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who would have turned 50 today, in the past tense, we wouldn’t have believed us. But here we are, just five days after he was snubbed by the Grammys and nine...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 27, 2014 | Awards, News
[youtube]http://youtu.be/c58EfMhd2YE[/youtube] Well, we know that Black Sabbath picked up a Grammy for Best Metal Performance yesterday before the awards show began, and in telling you about it, suggested that the awards show was still worth watching, as Metallica was...