In 2010, a 19-year-old super-fan rushed the stage during a LAMB OF GOD concert in Prague, Czech Republic. To protect himself, singer Randy Blythe pushed the fan away. Unbeknownst to Blythe, the young man hit his head on the floor when he fell and later died from the injury. More than two years later, Blythe […]
It’s been an interesting summer for the Mayhem Festival. Recently, co-founder Kevin Lyman spoke about the issues surrounding the booking of the metal festival. He commented in an interview that the metal genre was becoming “gray, bald and fat” while addressing the difficulty in booking metal festivals and calling out some of the top billed […]
Ghostface Killah is coming for Action Bronson — on YouTube. And it’s pretty damn harsh. Bronson has long garnered comparisons to the legendary MC, but may have taken things a little too far during a recent appearance on ESPN’sSportsNation, when he said “[Ghostface is] not rapping like this no more,” in reference to the success of his […]
What’s his age again? At 43, Blink-182 vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus has scored his first film. Hoppus and collaborator James Ingram (the engineer, not the “Somewhere Out There” singer) wrote the score for I’m Scared, a four-minute stop-motion animated short directed by Pete Levin and produced by Dan Levy, Musa Brooker and Levin. Watch […]
Ride along with Benjamin Burnley as the rockers hit the road — and nab their first No. 1 album. June 28 Burnley, 37, learns through social media that Breaking Benjamin‘s fifth album,Dark Before Dawn, is No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “My management called, like they had big news for me,” he says with a […]
SayWeCanFly is a one man acoustic act from a small town in Ontario, Canada. Frontman Braden Barrie has devoted his teenage years to playing shows across Canada and the US, building his following and writing relatable music for his fan base. He shows listeners that no matter what struggles we face, we always have the […]
Escape the Fate is an American post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, formed in 2005 and originally from Pahrump, Nevada. They are currently[when?] signed to Eleven Seven Music. The group consists of Robert Ortiz (drummer), Craig Mabbitt (lead vocalist), TJ Bell (rhythm guitarist), and Kevin “Thrasher” Gruft (lead guitarist). They have released three EPs […]
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end […]
Asking Alexandria are an English metalcore band from York, North Yorkshire formed in 2008 by lead guitarist Ben Bruce along with former lead singer Danny Worsnop, bassist Joe Lancaster, keyboardist and synth player Ryan Binns, and current members drummer James Cassells and rhythm guitarist Cameron Liddell. Lancaster and Binns later departed from the band in […]
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was behind bars Sunday, July 19, after being arrested in New Zealand, just days after he was sentenced to home detention for threatening to kill a man who used to work for him. The 61-year-old Australian-born drummer was arrested at his home on New Zealand’s North Island on Saturday night, […]
After the very brief first teaser for BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, we got a ton of footage in the Comic Con trailer last weekend. Clocking in at five minutes, we are still dissecting every scene and easter egg in the preview for Zack Snyder‘s epic smackdown. But, five minute trailers are not commonly […]
Metal legends Danzig have a strict no photo policy at all shows — and failure to follow said policy will get you a quick ass whupping … as one fan just learned in Southern Cali. The fan either had massive balls, or was just plain insane … ’cause he started snapping away with his smartphone […]
