by Sean Matthews | Jul 27, 2017 | Festivals, Photos, Reviews
The second annual Chicago Open Air Festival took place this past July 14th-16th at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. Metal Insider was on site to take in all the music, food, and experiences. Friday Arriving Friday afternoon, the sounds of Failure/Anthem rang out...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 10, 2017 | Lists, News
Rolling Stone recently unveiled their top 100 favorite metal albums of all time. Since then, artists including Deafheaven frontman George Clarke, Gojira’s Joe Duplantier, Corey Taylor, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Halford, and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich have shared theirs....
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 6, 2017 | News
In a recent interview with AXS, Dave Mustaine revealed one of the main reasons why ex Guitarist, Marty Friedman, left the band. Essentially, it had a lot to do with the song “Breadline” from 1999’s Risk. AXS asked how he chooses which guitarist should play a solo when...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 5, 2017 | Awards
Megadeth finally did what they’d failed to do eleven times prior earlier this year, picking up a Grammy for Best Metal Performance for “Dystopia.” Mustaine was pretty happy about it when it happened, but in a recent interview with The Columbus...
by Nathan Katsiaficas | Jun 30, 2017 | Photos, Reviews
Sporting one of the coolest lineups of the summer tour season, Megadeth are about halfway through their headlining run with supporting acts Meshuggah and Tesseract, and opener Lilake. Metal Insider contributing photographer Nathan Katsiaficas (link www.nkatsphoto.com)...