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
Last week, we posted a lengthy, comprehensive interview with Isis frontman Aaron Turner about the band's new album Wavering Radiant, which comes out May 5. Turner also discussed the band's development, the power of trance-metal and the state of the music industry. Click "more" to hear the podcast, listen the Wavering Radiant track "20 Minutes/40 Years" and find out what else you might have missed if you weren't glued to HeadbangersBlog.com all last week. Check out our Twitter site regularly to stay on top of every new post. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
For the third and fourth segments of our video interview with Bleeding Through, the band members discuss recent experiences in Australia, why fans don't credit their black metal influences, why Mastodon deserve "record of the year" and what the future may hold for Orange County's heaviest metalcore group. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
After Bleeding Through recently finished tearing a proverbial hole in the ceiling of New York's Blender Theater with their colossal, ripping set of black/thrash/metalcore fury, HeadbangersBlog.com caught up with the sweaty Californians to talk about the challenges of touring in a crumbling economy, the new significance of releasing records and why they're inviting their fans to illegally download their new album Declaration. Click" more to watch the first two clips and come back tomorrow for Part 2. Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Anyone who has followed the Orange County metalcore scene knows that Bleeding Through were one of the progenitors of the movement along with Eighteen Visions, Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold. And while each of the other aforementioned bands has gotten increasingly more mainstream over time, Bleeding Through have become heavier than ever. (click "more" to read the full show review and check out our accompanying photo essay). Read more...
For a while now, many of our Facebook friends have been asking us to play Russian roulette with our iPod by putting the machine in random play mode, hitting play 20 or so times and documenting the results regardless of how embarrassing they might be. So, after ignoring such requests, we thought it might be fun to track down a bunch of metal musicians and put them to the random shuffle challenge. As it turns out, you can learn a lot about a person from their iPod.
We'll post a different Random Shuffle entry every day or so for however long it remains interesting, along with an armchair analysis of the rocker in question. And for each participant, we'll post the video for one of their selections, if it's available. We begin with Marta, keyboardist for Bleeding Through. Click more to see how her iPod dice fell and watch a video from her selections. Read more...
MTV2 will be teaming up with Revolver magazine to present the premiere hard rock and heavy metal awards show, the first annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which will storm through Los Angeles' Club Nokia on Tuesday, April 7. The event will feature Ozzy Osbourne, Killswitch Engage, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan and more, and will be aired on MTV2 as a one-hour special on Saturday, May 2.
"We're working really hard to make this an event worthy of the music it celebrates," Revolver editor in chief Tom Beaujour tells HeadbangersBlog.com. "Metal deserves this and deserves to have it done f---ing right." Read more...
Tags All-That-Remains, Bleeding Through, Brian Posehn, Chuck Billy, Dethklok, Eric Peterson, Glenn Danzig, Hatebreed, Isis, Killswitch-Engage, Lemmy Kilmister, Marta Peterson, Maynard James Keenan, Motörhead, Ozzy-Osbourne, Protest the Hero, Suicide Silence, Testament, Tool
We're offering a pair of free Terror undies to anyone who can guess all of the top videos for 2008 before we publish our master list. Hell, we'll offer two pairs -- one to anyone who can guess our list and one the the dude or dudette who accurately predicts the viewers' Top 10.
Starting, well, today, we'll start reminiscing over some of our favorite videos of the year to give you guys some incentive to head over to the "Headbangers Ball Best of 2008 Countdown" page on MTV2.com and vote for your top picks.
Voting runs until December 15. The winning vids as chosen by viewers will be aired December 20 on the final episode of "Headbangers Ball" this year. The show runs from 2 to 3 a.m. Winners will be announced on the Blog on December 19, at which time we will also announce our personal picks for top videos of the year.
Click more to watch a couple of vids we're considering for our list -- at least the ones with flames: Read more...
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
Saturday's edition of "Headbangers Ball" was a special commemorative show to celebrate 20 years of headbanging madness. Because of this, the program featured mostly classic metal videos from the past two decades. So, this week's "Your Vote Counts" will draw from the other new videos and video premieres we aired last week, including Slipknot's "Dead Memories," Bleeding Through's "Death Anxiety" and "Down's "N.O.D. (Live)" from the bonus DVD on the new deluxe edition of Over the Under, plus a few other new videos we've debuted recently.
Click "more" to see the full list. The video with the most votes will return for next week's "Headbangers Ball." Voters chosing videos that aren't from the list below will be disqualified, as will voters who chose more than one entry. Remember, only one vote per IP address. Please include a comment with your selection, which may be published when we announce the winner. Voting runs through Wednesday at 3 p.m. Now, here's are you choices. Read more...
Tags 20th Anniversary, Between the Buried and Me, Bleeding Through, Divine Heresy, Down, Headbangers Ball, heavy-metal, Machine-Head, Motörhead, Slipknot, The Sword, Unearth
The new album by Bleeding Through, Declaration, is an explosive blend of fiery black metal, inflammatory hardcore, and combustible thrash, so naturally, the first video for the record, "Death Anxiety," had to be filled with flames. To tackle the job, the band hired Dave Brodsky and he was more than up to the task. Here's singer Brandan Schieppati to tell us more:
The first line in 'Death Anxiety' says, "My body will be set aflame tonight." We knew we wanted something straightforward with this video, performance driven and without some storyline or whatever. We didn't want to be playing in a warehouse while some actors do something "spooky" somewhere else. With that being said, that first line in the song was too hard to resist. This video had to have fire! (Click more to read the rest of Schieppati's commentary and watch the video. "Death Anxiety" will debut on-air tonight at 10 p.m. on MTV2 as part of our 20th anniversary celebration of "Headbangers Ball.") Read more...
