by Bram Teitelman | Jul 17, 2014 | News
On Wednesday night, Mastodon’s Twitter account appeared to have been hacked by someone posting racist and homophobic slurs and offensive images. A user named calling himself SleepTheGod as part of a collective took over the site at about 9:30, posting images of...
by Matt Brown | Jul 16, 2014 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Retirement plans for metal bands (or really any kind of rock band) seem to involve the same thing: big final tour with possibly a final album, then at some point...
by Matt Brown | Jul 9, 2014 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s a pretty slow week for metal debuts. Unlike last week, there aren’t any heavy albums landing in the top ten. Active rock band Seether have a pretty...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 7, 2014 | News, Touring, Updates
Looks like Gojira”s tour with Mastodon and Kvelertak earlier this year went pretty well, since the bands have announced that they’ll be touring together again this fall, playing secondary markets that they might not have reached earlier this year. However,...
by Metal Insider | Jul 3, 2014 | Columns, Headbangers Brawl
This week’s Headbangers Brawl come from a Facebook post from freelance writer Phil Freeman that we saw last week. It was a bit of a rant talking about Mastodon. Not Once More ‘Round the Sun, but the fact that the same week that album was released, Relapse announced...