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
On the next "That Metal Show," Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson sit down for tea with Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and, after pushing aside a tea pot and raising a Jack and coke, the heavy metal icon confirms and debunks popular rumors about him. Topics include how many women he's slept with, if he uses a condom, whether or not he's allowed to give blood and and whether or not he'll play on your record if you show up at the Rainbow club in Los Angeles with $1,000. Click "more" to watch the segment. 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 not sure whether Motorhead frontman Lemmy would be happier about getting the band's current single "Rock Out" in a national TV show or being touched (up) by tattoo vixen Kat Von D. Fortunately, Lem didn't have to choose between the two.
On Thursday at 10 p.m. EST, Von D.'s TLC network program "LA Ink" features the lovely lass working on three of the Motorhead frontman's old, faded tattoos while "Rock Out" blares in the background. How much do you wanna bet that at some point the rocker asked her, "Kat, can I feel your tats?" Read more...
To continue our rocking celebration of the 20th anniversary of "Headbangers Ball," we've got the new Motörhead video "Rock Out" for you. Now, the song features the line "Rock out with your c--k out," and, of course, the FCC being what it is, that had to come out in order to go on air. Other than that, everything else is the same. The video was directed by Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, who also shot the upcoming documentary "Lemmy: The Movie." The track, of course, comes from Motörhead's new album Motörizer, which came out August 26.
Click "more" to read more from Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and the directors, then watch the video for yourself. See it again tonight at around 10 p.m. on MTV2. Read more...
Sure, that's Lemmy, but can you ID the other folks in the pic?; photo by Nancy McDonald
Just three days left until MTV2 launches it's 20th Anniversary of "Headbangers Ball" celebration. In the spirit of old-school headbanging, we've got some vintage photos for you that'll either make you feel really, really old or really young.
Either way, tune in to "Headbangers Ball" Saturday from 11 p.m. to midnight EST and catch the on-air premiere of Divine Heresy's "Bleed the Fifth." Then chill for the rest of the weekend before we launch a week of what Spinal Tap might call "Heavy Metal memories." Read more...
Tags 20th Anniversary, Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, Dee Snider, Headbangers Ball, heavy-metal, Howard Stern, Jamey Jasta, Lemmy Kilmister, Leslie West, Metallica, Motörhead, Mountain, Riki Rachtman, Slipknot
Sometimes, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister is short on words, but he's never shy of attitude or power. In this exclusive interview footage Kilmister talks briefly about Motorhead's new album Motorizer, the most skull-crushing, bowel-rumbling recording the band has released -- well, since its last album. But the highlight of the clip is the footage of the band onstage, which, after all, is where Motorhead shine brightest. Click "more" to watch the vid. Read more...
It's that time again -- time for Motorhead to release another album of teeth-kicking, amped up bluesy metal. Twice as frequently as a plague of locusts, frontman Lemmy Kilmister and bandmates return to bash out a new set of barreling, blaring tunes about getting laid, not getting paid and sticking the middle finger in the air. Yep, on August 26, Motorhead will release Motorizer, a youthful, rebellious slab of noise that belies the fact that Kilmister is almost 64 years old and doesn't give a f--k. Frankly, the dude doesn't act his age, drinking Jack and Coke like both are going out of style, hooking up with groupies every night (if he's lucky) and blasting feral rock n' roll at volumes loud enough to deafen those half his age.
HeadbangersBlog.com recently caught up with the Baron of Bad-ass to talk about Motorizer, the Metal Masters Tour, the advantages of dying young, nearly being crushed by a huge stage prop and the sorry state of the music industry.
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In his autobiography White Line Fever (written with journalist Janiss Garza), Motorhead kingpin Lemmy Kilmister writes about his fondness for Ozzy Osbourne's late guitarist Randy Rhoads and how terrible he was at the videogame Asteroids. Lemmy also brings up the idea that death deified Rhoads, turning him into something greater than he once was.
"I have to say, he wasn't the guitar player he became after his death," Kilmister writes. "As with [performance artist] Bob Calvert, [who opened for Motorhead in the early days], a guy who was more or less ignored during his lifetime suddenly becomes a huge genius. Randy was a good guitar player, to be sure, but he wasn't the great innovator he was later made out to be. When you die, you become more briliant by about 58 percent. You sell more records and you become absolutely wonderful." Read more...
In a recent interview with the Artisan News Service, Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister commented on the biological inaccuracy of the new Lemmy doll created by Chicago collectible toy company Lococo. "They said it's an action figure, and I said, 'So, you're gonna put a d--- on it?'" joked Kilmister. "They said, 'No.' I said, 'Well, then it's not going to get much action then, is it?' [That's] a bad name for it, right?" Read more...
