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
Right now, we're about eight miles high. No, we're not mixing V8, meth and acid anymore (we quit that last week, and damn have we been vitamin deficient). We're actually in a plane on our way to Los Angeles to attend the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which take place tomorrow night. While we're there we'll be catching up with the metal elite -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Suicide Silence, Hatebreed, All That Remains, Slipknot, Machine Head, Devildriver, etc... -- and in the days ahead we hope to have all sorts of exclusive content to post, including interviews, behind-the-scenes reports a review of the performers and a breakdown of who won what at the awards ceremony.
Until then, take a moment to catch up on some of the highlights you might have missed last week. The two main guys from Seventh Void (Type O Negative guitarist Kenney Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly) stepped in front of the camera for an exclusive video interview (catch part 1 and Part 2). Click "more" to see our other big posts. Read more...
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...
Over the past year, thrash metal veterans Testament have put on some dynamite shows, both as headliners and opening for Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell and Motorhead on the Metal Masters tour. But as accomplished and proficient as they've become, they were, perhaps, even more aggressive, hungry and explosive 20 years ago, as evidenced by the worldwide premiere of the full-length, 10-song Live at Eindhoven '87 album, which comes out April 14 on Prosthetic Records. (click "more" to hear a track from the album and read liner notes penned by guitarist Alex Skolnick) 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...
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We've almost reached the end of 2008, and we gotta say it was a good year for metal. The genre continued to grow and diversify, as best exemplified, perhaps, by the top headbanging fest of the year, Rockstar Energy Mayhem. In a single day of Mayhem, fans could witness mainstream extreme metal (Slipknot), mainstream regular metal (Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch), power metal (Dragonforce), lumbering prog/doom metal (Mastodon), contemporary thrash (Machine Head), deathcore (Job For a Cowboy), pre-deathcore/hardcore (The Red Chord), alt-metalcore (36 Crazyfists), female-fronted metalcore (Walls of Jericho) Christian metal/hardcore (Underoath) and hard rock (Airbourne, Black Tide). Read more...
Tags 2008, ac/dc, Gojira, guns-n-roses, Headbangers Ball, Heaven-And-Hell, heavy-metal, Judas Priest, Metal Masters, Metallica, Motörhead, Rockstar Energy Mayhem, Slipknot, Testament
photo by kruk.hier, courtesy of www.flickr.com
It would be pretty frickin' cool to hear a song that goes, "Hi-ho, hi-ho/ it's off to work we go/Cuz if you like to gamble/I tell you I'm your man." Of course, that'll never happen, but recently there was a strange pop culture collision, an unlikely meeting of the minds if you will, and Lemmy got some of his chocolate in Walt Disney's peanut butter.
And now, on November 21, Motörhead's song "Dog-Face Boy" will appear in the Walt Disney film "Bolt," which stars John Travolta and Miley Cyrus. The track, which appeared on Motorhead's 1995 album Sacrifice, plays during a scene in a mailroom blasting over the headphones of a young worker who accidentally wraps the American white Shepherd, Bolt, in a box that gets shipped off to New York City.
"It's never too early to get the kids started on our music," says Lemmy. 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
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...
