Sadly, Ozzy was unable to make the Screaming Metal gig

Before you tune in to MTV2 tonight at 2 a.m. to catch "Headbangers Ball," if you're in the New York/New Jersey area you might wanna hightail it over to Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey to catch Talking Metal podcast dudes John Ostronomy and Mark Strigl rocking out onstage with ex-members of Hades, Alan Tecchio, Dan Lorenzo, and Ron Lipnicki (who is now the drummer in Overkill) and a bunch of special guests playing a killer set of '80s covers. (Click "more" to watch a video of the band rehearsing for the show). Read more...

Firebrand Super Rock superhot vocalist Laura Donnelly, who's surely stolen some hearts, photo by Wasted UK, courtesy of Flickr.com

To celebrate the announcement of this year's Bloodstock Festival, which takes place in Derby, England October 14 to 16, Britain's Metal Hammer magazine have posted interview snippets on their Web site in which they ask numerous musicians, "What's the worst thing you've ever stolen" and "What's the worst lie you've ever told."

Almost as interesting as the answers themselves are the numerous names of the bands interviewed that seem to be huge in England but remain unknown in the U.S. For example, how many of you out there know who Ted Maul, The Defiled, Firebrand Super Rock (hot blond chick, though, and love that Scottish accent), Devil's Gift and Praying Mantis and Alestorm (ugly dude, nice band name) are?

Fortunately, Metal Hammer also got some good soundbites from members of Opeth, Akercocke, Soulfly, Overkill, Dimmu Borgir, Evile, Soilwork, As I Lay Dying and Napalm Death. Click "more" to roll tape. Read more...

Overkill's ex-guitarist Bobby Gustafson

Something we wrote in yesterday's Dragonforce post got us thinking. While free-associating about the title of the band's new record, we mentioned Overkill's former guitarist Bobby Gustafson, who we feel was one of the band's greatest strengths between 1984 and 1989, when he left the band. Read more...