Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta on black carpet with Vinnie Paul
photo by Jon Wiedehorn
At the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, Hatebreed were the only performers to play four songs. For frontman Jamey Jasta's sake, we'd like to say it was because they were the best band at the event, but it probably had more to do with the length of their songs compared to those of Megedeth and Killswitch Engage.
Anyway, as always, Hatebreed rocked the joint and kids in the pit reacted by moshing, diving and engaging in other activities likely to cause bodily harm. After Hatebreed's soundcheck for the Awards, Sirius XM radio's metal master Jose Mangin sat down with Jasta and talked about the Golden Gods, the video for Hatebreed's cover of Slayer's "Ghosts of War," their new cover disc For the Lions and the return of original guitarist Wayne Lozinak.
Click "more" to watch. Also, watch Hatebreed guest host a special edition of "Headbangers Ball" tonight at 11 p.m. on MTV2. And don't miss the exclusive 60-minute telecast of the Golden Gods Awards Saturday night at 11 p.m. on MTV2, followed by an additional hour of outtakes and performances from the show. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recently joined MSNBC show host Rachel Maddow on the "Rachel Maddow Show" to talk about music, Guitar Hero, parenthood and politics. During their conversation, Ulrich also discusses his affinity for San Francisco, his liberal upbringing and the U.S. military's use of painfully loud Metallica music to torture prisoners. Click "more" to watch the nearly eight-minute-long interview.
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For this week only, "Headbangers Ball" is like "Seinfeld." It's airing every single night. And each night it will be hosted by a different band that performed at the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods. Not so coincidentally, the 60 minute long telecast for the show debuts on Saturday night at 11 p.m. We hope you caught last night's "Headbangers Ball" episode hosted by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. Don't miss tonight's special featuring music and interview footage with Killswitch Engage. Tomorrow's show will be manned by Hatebreed, Thursday's episode will be spearheaded by All That Remains and on Friday the show will be split between Suicide Silence and Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor, who DJed the pre-show festivities. Click "more" to see what Killswitch Engage have to say. Read more...
German company Rockhaus Television has posted a full Twisted Sister concert shot recently at the London Astoria for what vocalist Dee Snider calls a "possible pay per view special." During the show, the band performs a cavalcade of hits, including "We're Not Gonna Take It," "Burn in Hell," "The Kids Are Back" and "Ride to Live, Live to Ride." Click more to watch the ugliest elderly transvestite you've ever seen fronting a gangbuster '80s metal show. Read more...
Following a week-long hiatus, we'll resume our photo guest blog with Slipknot percussionist Shawn Crahan (Clown) tomorrow, and in the months ahead we've we posting some of his most surreal, sexy, funny and disturbing pictures to date. But for now, check out the last installment of Clown photos we've posted over the past six months. Click "more" to see such stuff as screams are made of. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Tonight at 11 p.m., MTV2 will start to ramp up for Saturday's exclusive telecast of the "Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards" by presenting an hour-long episode of "Headbangers Ball" hosted by Dave Mustaine, the frontman of Golden Gods headliners Megadeth. Click "more" to watch interview clips with Mustaine about the awards show, the lack of respect given to metal by the Grammys, the next Megadeth album and more. And come back tomorrow for clips from Killswitch Engage, who will host tomorrow night's edition of "Headbangers Ball." Read more...
Here's the last batch of clips from our recent interview with Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher. Read more...
We recently posted an item about how a growing number of major bands, including Metallica, Judas Priest and Gojira have chosen to release animated videos over performance-based clips. Now, Heaven and Hell (a.k.a. Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio) have joined the pack. The band's video for "The Bible Black," the first single from their new album The Devil You Know (out tomorrow) features cartoon imagery of a bored angel who discovers an evil book and plummets into Hell, where he meets the cartoon version of Sabbath and Dio. The clip was produced by Joseph A. Russo II and James A. Fino of 23d Films, Inc. and directed by Ben Ceccarelli. Click "more" to watch the video, stream the full album and hear our podcast interview with Dio and bassist Geezer Butler. Read more...
Eight days and counting until the telecast of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, the first heavy metal awards show on U.S. soil. While we were backstage before the festvities began, we interviewed Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker about performing at the event, the growing popularity of extreme metal, what's coming up for America's deathcore sweethearts and why they hate being called deathcore. Click "more" to check out the podcast and to hear our Golden Gods podcast with Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Time to crack the Mastodon fortress just a little more with part 2 of three posts of interview snippets with the band about its latest album, Crack the Skye, which is still in heavy rotation on our personal stereo system and will likely hold fast as our album of the year. Then again, it's only April, but the bar has been set mighty high. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
