Vinnie Paul with Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Between interviewing the Revolver Golden Gods Awards performers -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed and Suicide Silence -- posting entries about the event, reviewing the actual show and hanging with the heavies, we were able to shoot a couple dozen photos as the bangers walked the black carpet an hour or so before showtime. Click more to see close-up shots of members of Slayer, Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Motorhead, Bleeding Through, Job For a Cowboy and more. Read more...
Tags anthrax, Bleeding Through, dave-mustaine, Hatebreed, Jamey Jasta, Job For a Cowboy, Jonny Davy, Killswitch-Engage, Lemmy Kilmister, Machine-Head, Marta, Megadeth, Motörhead, Scott Ian, Slayer, Suicide Silence, Tom Araya, Vinnie-Paul
Our friends at VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" just had Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on for some scintillating. Click "more" to watch Bello talking about having the craps in Europe, the Among the Living reunion tour and the addition of new singer Dan Nelson. Read more...
The second season of "That Metal Show" launched last Saturday at 11 p.m. on VH1 Classic. Once again, the program was hosted by radio veteran Eddie Trunk and featured his cohorts Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson. The special guest for the evening was ex-Pantera and current Hellyeah! drummer Vinnie Paul. Click "more" to watch the full interview with Paul as well as a clip from next Saturday's episode, which features Anthrax. Click here to listen to our audio podcast with Vinnie Paul. And click here to check out our recent podcast with Anthrax. Read more...
Metal isn't the only thing lurking on Unearth vocalist Trevor Phipps' iPod, but judging from this random sample, if he's gonna listen to thrash, it's gotta be old-school: Hence Slayer's "Black Magic," Entombed's "Hollowman" and Anthrax's "N.F.B." Phipps is also into more cutting-edge stuff like Protest the Hero and Scissorfight, not to mention quirky alternative music including Portishead, Bjork and Flaming Lips. Plus, there's some cool punk, country, crooner music and classic rock. The only embarrassment we see is Dave Matthews' "Trouble." We hope we're reading that wrong and it's really a song by Trouble called "Dave Matthews," but that seems really unlikely. Bonus points for George Carlin's "Familiar Expressions," which kinda evens out the Dave Matthews thing. On a scale of 100, we give Phipps' Random Shuffle a 90 for openminded metal fans and a 70 for metalcore purists. Click "more" to see the list and watch a video by one of the artists -- not Dave Matthews! Read more...
Tags 3, anthrax, Code Seven, Entombed, Integrity, Killswitch-Engage, Life of Agony, Protest the Hero, Scissorfight, Slayer, Trevor Phipps, Unearth
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
If you were out of town last week, or your computer was in the shop because you had to have all the viruses removed that you acquired surfing for porn, don't worry, we've got your back. Here's a recap of some of the coolest stuff we posted:
We were there when Slipknot, Coheed and Cambria and Trivium blew the roof off Madison Square Garden and checked back with a full review of the show.
Click "more" for a recap on what else you might have missed. And keep up with all the metal on Twitter.com under the name HeadbangersBlog. Read more...
The wind was gusting at 35 miles-per-hour and the mercury had dropped into the upper teens by the time Anthrax were scheduled to play the Red Bull Snowboarding event on February 5 in New York City. Just days before the show, no one thought it would be so unbearably cold. The trip through the icy weather would have been bad enough even if the concert was inside a heated venue. It wasn't. Read more...
The "Your Vote Counts" ballots are in and tallied and in a landmark victory Satyricon has been elected to return to "Headbangers Ball." The group's video for "Black Crow on a Tombstone" will air on MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" Saturday night between 2 and 3 a.m. Also, check out our podcast interview with Satyricon frontman Satyr. Click "more" to find out who else will be on the show. Read more...
“Beer, the cause of and solution to all life’s problems.”
That quote is from one of the world’s most famous philosophers, Homer Simpson. And who better to take advice from? If I would’ve known this as a teenager, life would have been so much easier!
My relationship with booze is an odd one. In the throes of my youth, booze was what my mom drank before she would turn into the Wolfman and break my G.I. Joe stuff and howl at the world. She’s since worked all of that out and we get along fine. Love you mom!
As a post-Bar Mitzvah man without a clue (with that never-been-shaved dirty upper lip) at 14 in New York City in the '70s, my first forays into drinking were clumsy and strange. My friends and I would forage through our parent’s liquor/drug supplies and imbibe on the city bus at eight in the morning on the way to school. There would be crappy weed (although at the time, what did we know?) and some idiot would always bring cough medicine with codeine or a random pill. I stayed away from that stuff. I later found out that the pills were Quaaludes. The real Rorer 714 Ludes of legend. I never tried one because the guys that were taking pills were already known as the “burnouts.” 14-15 year-olds sleepwalking through junior high, listening to the Dead was way to mellow for me, man. Read more...
Who says puppies aren't metal?
Deicide frontman Glen Benton may have a history of spreading cow, pig and sheep organs across the stage, but we're willing to bet that if you put a cute puppy doberman in front of him, he'd melt like a stick of butter in the hot Florida sun.
When envelopes containing the Anthrax virus were being sent to media outlets across America, Anthrax guitarist announced the band was considering changing its name to Basketful of Puppies. Sure, Ian was just joking, but we're guessing he's still filled with puppy love -- and not just for his wife/Meatloaf's daughter Pearl Aday.
And finally, no one would accuse The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman of being a wuss, yet the dude loves his pet pug, Blixa, probably more than his own family. And he's so enamored of puppies and the adult canines they grow into that he's launched the Web site Garmutt.com to sell rock apparel to dog owners. Logos on t-shirts and sweatshirts include "Black Labbath" and "Petallica Master of Puppies."
So, with all the puppy appreciation going around in the metal kingdom, we feel no shame in saying that after a full day of listening to death metal, black metal, thrash, power metal, prog-metal, experi-metal, ambient metal, deathcore, metalcore and straight ol' heavy metal, we like to put on a Neil Young CD, crack open a Bud Light and check out the basketful of puppies URL "Shiba Inu Puppy Cam," which has been all the rage for the past five weeks. Thanks to our comrades over at MetalSucks.net who introduced us to it. Click "more" to revel in the violence and death -- errr, cuteness. Read more...
Anthrax and Riki Rachtman in LA at Chateau Marmont
Photos by Nancy McDonald
When it comes to classic characters from "Headbangers Ball" history, few folks in the late '80s and early '90s were as animated and colorful as Anthrax. Click "more" to check out some vintage shots we plucked from our photo album: Read more...
