by Zach Shaw | Sep 24, 2012 | Festivals
Hoping to travel Germany next summer to catch the Wacken Open Air festival? Well unless you already bought a ticket, then you’re out of luck. That’s because the 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air is already sold out. That’s right, all 75,000 tickets have been sold to...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 21, 2012 | Festivals
How can the Download Festival top this past summer’s lineup, which featured Metallica AND Black Sabbath? Well it looks like the UK festival have come close with its first two headliners: Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Iron Maiden confirmed that they will be headlining the...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 29, 2012 | Current Events, Sad News
And yet again metal is getting attached to a horrific event. This past Monday (August 27), a 15 year-old opened fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Baltimore high school, shooting one classmate and critically wounding another before a teacher stopped the attack. And...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 7, 2012 | Rumors and Gossip
Another Mayhem Fest came to an end this past Sunday in Hartford, CT. And while it’ll be a while till we find out who will be on touring festival’s bill next year, we do know who organizers want to headline. Mayhem Fest co-founder/event producer John Reese reportedly...
by Metal Insider | May 29, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5xSxGhlHfc[/youtube] We love a good old fashioned cover song, especially when the artist is able to make said song completely their...