by Bram Teitelman | Apr 13, 2015 | News, Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/jMd63JraCHU[/youtube] One of the benefits of hosting your own festival is that you can pretty much do whatever you want with it. Take Kirk Hammett, who plays in some band called Metallica. For his second Fear FestEvil, he lined up a handful...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 10, 2015 | New Music, News
We already know that Stone Sour know their way around a cover from their convincing take on Metal Church’s “The Dark.” It was a little curious that that song didn’t make it onto the band’s forthcoming covers EP, Meanwhile In...
by Metal Insider | Apr 3, 2015 | Columns, Metal Power Rankings, News
Welcome to Metal Power Rankings: Our weekly rankings take a number of factors into account: newsworthiness, record sales, internet buzz, word of mouth and overall importance in the genre. Ultimately, it’s subjective, but if a band generates enough buzz, they’ll wind...
by Seth Werkheiser | Apr 3, 2015 | News, Updates
Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo spoke at length with Rolling Stone recently about lengedary jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, and the film he co-produced, Jaco: A Documentary Film. Of course Trujillo was asked if the new Metallica material felt like an “extension...
by Zach Fehl | Apr 2, 2015 | News
Now that April Fools’ Day has come to a close, and we can once again put our blind faith in the internet without fear of sadness and disappointment, it’s time to recap some of the best music related pranks pulled this year. Some have been funny, some blatantly mean,...