Posted by Mark Uricheck on April 17, 2017
The very idea of a rock opera was a bit antiquated when Paul O’Neill helped take the reins of a Florida metal band named Savatage in 1987. Long gone were the days when kids flocked to record stores to pick up The Who’s Tommy or Pink Floyd’s The Wall, but this was the stuff upon […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 5, 2017
Although there’s no specific word on the cause of death, Trans-Siberian Orchestra producers and band leader Paul O’Neill died yesterday from a chronic illness at the age of 61. The band shared the following in a Facebook post: The entire Trans-Siberian Orchestra family, past and present, is heartbroken to share the devastating news that Paul […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on January 12, 2015
[youtube]http://youtu.be/xsuJ_zPaPu0[/youtube] The masters of Christmas metal Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which features member of Savatage, have wrapped up their 2014 touring and recently shared their impressive results of their merry metal travels. – The 2014 Winter Tour grossed more than $51 million in just 52 days. – Total tour attendance was nearly 1,000,000 fans. – The tour grossed […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 14, 2014
Remember Divine Heresy? The band, which featured Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, Morbid Angel drummer Tim Yeung and initially Tommy Vext on vocals, released a few albums, and fell off the face of the earth for a few years. That all changed early last month, when Vext posted a picture of him and Yeung on his Instagram […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on August 4, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/NDA6RHAkA1Y[/youtube] This past Saturday, the 25th annual Wacken Open Air came to a conclusion after 3 solid days of heavy metal. Following the conclusion came a trailer advertising next year’s festival, how and where to order tickets, and also dropping the names of the first 15 announced for next year. It appears to have worked, […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 7, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/dyxhcNsjWKI[/youtube] Los Angeles-based production house and restoration specialist Cinelicious has launched a distribution company, Cinelicious Pics. One of the first films they picked up to distribute in the states is Metalhead, an Icelandic drama inspired in part by the Norwegian black metal church burnings in the 1990s. Actress Thora Bjorg Helga won best actress at the Icelandic […]
Posted by Anthony Maisano on May 20, 2014
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7gwr81g5gA[/youtube] Metal Insider contributor Anthony Maisano is listening to a different metal album that was released on that day every day this year. 29 years ago today, Jon and Criss Oliva brought us Savatage’s second album, Power of the Night. This is, what I consider to be tied for the worst Savatage album while Criss Oliva […]
Posted by Metal Insider on December 12, 2011
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. When you think about it, the music industry pretty much dries up come around Thanksgiving. From there on, it’s all about pushing out greatest hits albums, box sets, and most importantly, holiday music. There are entire radio stations that switch […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 10, 2009
Is Brutal Legend going to be the most metal video game ever? Until now, we’d heard more about the endless legal battles over the game than the game itself, but the just-released track listing just gave it even more metal cred. Sure, we know that Jack Black, Lemmy, Ozzy, Rob Halford and more lent their voices […]
