by Bram Teitelman | May 20, 2014 | Festivals, News, Touring
It looks like Austin’s annual Fun Fun Fun Fest is going to be even more fun this year. The ninth incarnation of the festival will take place from November 7-9 at Auditorium Shores and Butler Park. This year, however, metal will take center stage, or “Black...
by Bram Teitelman | May 7, 2014 | Controversy, News
As far as memes go, yesterday, Brent Hinds of Mastodon posted a pretty funny one on his Instagram account. It was a picture of Dave Grohl with the caption “making rock n roll safer with every red carpet all star jam.” As theprp pointed out, Grohl and...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 22, 2014 | Viral Videos
[youtube]http://youtu.be/RLh62htgbW8[/youtube] Sure, it’s not technically just King Diamond, he’d be sharing the award with Volbeat, another Danish act that borrowed his trademark falsetto for “Room 24,” a song off their album Outlaw Gentlemen...
by Metal Insider | Dec 9, 2013 | Headbangers Brawl
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. [youtube width=”500″...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 7, 2013 | Grammys Are For Grannies
Last night, the nominees for the 56th Grammy Awards were announced in a ceremony in Los Angeles. While the hard rock and metal performance Grammys were combined a few years back, the phrasing has changed, and the category is merely “Best Metal...