It’s crystal ball time again. The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman sent us this exclusive shot of him next to retired champion bicyclist Lance Armstrong and now we’re trying to figure out just what’s going on between the two.
It seems unlikely that they’re having some sort of homosexual tryst — though we do see [...]

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“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” — Jackie Robinson
As the distance between my birth into rock poetry and my present status as rogue and provocateur grows and grows, the frequency of agitators and morons invading my sacred universe [...]

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Frontman Anders Friden prepares to pounce at Gigantour
Photo by Jon Wiederhorn
In our second of three interview segments with In Flames, singer Anders Friden and drummer Daniel Svensson discuss the creation of the video for “The Mirror’s Truth,” the meaning of the song and the inner-peace they have achieved over time.
Click “more” to watch the interview [...]

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Headbangers Ball Blog can exclusively reveal that singer Tommy Cummings has been fired from Divine Heresy. The move came after Cummings flew into a rage during a show on April 26 in Poughkeepsie, New York when the other players wouldn’t let him end the set early.
“He gave us 10 different reasons why we should stop [...]

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In 1981, a movie came out that brilliantly captured the aggression, creativity, libido and adolescent humor of the average heavy metal fan. It was called, of course, “Heavy Metal.”
The animated movie was composed of stories from the edgy monthly sci-fi comic magazine of the same name, which featured graphic violence, nudity and far more adult-oriented [...]

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