by Bram Teitelman | Mar 22, 2012 | Interviews
How does an Australian wind up running the American arm of influential UK metal label Earache? It’s kind of a long story, but Al Dawson was more than happy to oblige. Starting out as a tape trader in the ’80s (he was thanked on a 1984 compilation by...
by Zach Shaw | Mar 6, 2012 | News Ticker
Glassjaw, Kvelertak, Skindred, Crowbar, Seether, Alestorm and many others have been added to this year’s UK edition of Sonisphere.
by Zach Shaw | Aug 5, 2011 | Festivals, Guest Blog
Damn it, we wish we were at the Wacken Open Air Festival! Lucky for us, our publicist buddy Jon Freeman from Freeman Promotions offered to do some guest blogging for us. Just like Day 1, Jon seemed to consume his fair share of beer and metal madness during the...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 14, 2011 | Award Show Battles
As most of you probably know, the UK’s Metal Hammer Magazine has been hosting their own Golden Gods metal award show across the pond for a couple of years now (way before Revolver Magazine started to hold their own in the States). We didn’t compare and contrast the...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 15, 2010 | Festivals
It’s official: fans in America won’t be the only ones complaining about Ozzfest’s lineup this year. It has been revealed that the U.K. edition of Ozzfest will be held on September 18 at London’s O2 Arena. The bill will feature Ozzy Osbourne (of course), Korn, The...