by Zach Shaw | Mar 15, 2012 | Legal Woes, Updates
This past weekend, Josh Homme and Scott Reeder filed a lawsuit against their former bandmates in the revamped Kyuss Lives! We’ve since heard from Reeder on the matter, explaining why he was “forced to react.” And today, we’ve received a statement from John Garcia and...
by Zach Shaw | Mar 12, 2012 | Legal Woes
Those who weren’t near a computer this past weekend are likely learning about Josh Homme and Scott Reeder’s lawsuit against Kyuss Lives! for the first time this morning. Yet the suit still comes as a sad surprise to many. Why are Homme and Reeder suing over trademark...
by Metal Insider | Mar 9, 2012 | 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. Motörhead was confirmed for Mayhem Fest (though we...
by Zach Shaw | Feb 13, 2012 | Cinemetal
At the beginning of this month, we finally discovered why Dave Grohl was recording songs with Corey Taylor and members of Ratt. As it turns out, the Foo Fighters frontman/ former Nirvana drummer has been working on a documentary about the Sound City Studios in Van...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 7, 2011 | New Music
OK, ok, we know that former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan isn’t particularly metal, but his familiar baritone has graced nearly every Queens of the Stone Age album, and his songs are as heavy as any metal song in subject matter. Now the singer is poised...