We like some extreme s–t around here, but we’re also realists. As stoked as we are to run interviews with Deicide, Nile and Dillinger Escape Plan, we’re fully aware that our parent company has certain guidelines it must adhere to, especially when it comes to the videos that go on Headbangers Ball on MTV2.
So, while [...]
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After a full week to duke it out, the Headbangers Ball Blog readers were completely split down the middle when trying to determine who rocks harder, Rush or Dream Theater.
Systematic Freewill argued, “Without Rush, Dream Theater wouldn’t be what it is today. Rush had a huge influence on them.” And Robert countered, “Rush is influential [...]
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Thanks to Five Finger Death Punch’s successful tour on last year’s Family Values and their current breakthrough single “The Bleeding,” the band’s debut album, Way of the Fist, has sold a respectable (in these times) 89,000 copies since its July 2007 release. And the group remains the only new rocker on the Billboard Active Rock [...]
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The advertising copy promotes the double DVD “Metallica: The Halcyon Days” as “the essential critical review of the hardest rocking band in the world.” The fact that the set is completely unauthorized and has received very little publicity makes us dubious of the claim. In other words, that’s a boldfaced discmaimer: Don’t send us letter [...]
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Dash is happy walking around Melbourne. That’s just a really nice photo. Jesus. Australia is big and expensive and, like, England-meets-Canada, but warm with big trees and crazy animals. We are beggars in Australia. Sandwiches cost the equivalent of $15. And no one told us, but koalas don’t even hang in the cities. Lame.
Koalas get [...]
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