by Metal Insider | Mar 7, 2016 | Editorials, News
As the worldwide metal community celebrates the 30th anniversary of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets, I’ve realized just how much in the last few weeks we’ve been inundated with news and visibility of the entire Big Four. Along with Puppets’ birthday,...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 27, 2015 | News, Today In Metal
On April 27th, 1984, the debut full length album from Ratt, Out of the Cellar, was released. Having come out four months after Quiet Riot got the first #1 metal album in Billboard chart history, it, along with that album and Motley Crue’s Shout at the...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 15, 2015 | News, Updates
One of the more unlikely reunions in hair metal came in 2007, when singer Stephen Pearcy rejoined Ratt for the third time. After leaving in 2000, the singer had sued the band for rights to the name, yet in 2007, he returned, and the band’s 2009...
by Seth Werkheiser | Oct 22, 2014 | Events, News
The ShipRocked 2015 line-up has been announced, and it’s headlined by Limp Bizkit. Setting sail from Miami, FL and heading to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, it’ll be six days of loud music and a pretty solid line-up of hard rock and metal music. Fred Durst...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 26, 2014 | Current Events, News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/gwViiRUoYGo[/youtube] OK, as good of a cause as it is, we’re starting to get a little tired of the ALS ice bucket challenge. It’d be insensitive to say that the movement has jumped the shark, since it’s raised millions of...