They might have looked like high school kids waiting for their prom dates when they showed up at the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards dressed in tuxedos, but the second the members of Suicide Silence took the stage, they proved that they're more than the deathcore trend of the month -- far more. Vocalist Mitch Lucker is a frightening, captivating frontman, and while his bandmates do their share of entertaining flailing and headbanging, it's Lucker who almost single-handedly stole the show from all the other Golden Gods performers. See for yourself when Suicide Silence appears on the exclusive 60-minute telecast of the awards show Saturday night at midnight on MTV2, which will be followed by an hour long wrap-up hosted by XM Radio DJ Jose Mangin, which features performance outtakes and band interviews.
Lucker will also take part in a special edition of MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" tonight at midnight.
The show will be co-hosted by Suicide Silence and Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor, who deejayed right before the Golden Gods. Click "more" to watch our Golden Gods interview clips with Suicide Silence. Read more...
Just a couple more days of special "Headbangers Ball" programming on MTV2 before the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards special telecast rips you a new orifice Saturday night at 11 p.m. Tonight's "Ball," which starts at 11 p.m., will be hosted by Massachusetts mainstream metalcore band All That Remains, and will feature exclusive interview footage and videos.
Tomorrow's special "Headbangers Ball" will air at midnight and will feature 30 minutes with Cali deathcore sensations Suicide Silence and a half hour with Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor, who deejayed the Golden Gods pre-show.
Stay tuned after Saturday's Golden Gods special for a one-hour post-show special featuring performance outtakes as well as more interviews and backstage footage. Click "more" to see our Golden Gods interview snippets with All That Remains. Read more...
Eight days and counting until the telecast of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, the first heavy metal awards show on U.S. soil. While we were backstage before the festvities began, we interviewed Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker about performing at the event, the growing popularity of extreme metal, what's coming up for America's deathcore sweethearts and why they hate being called deathcore. Click "more" to check out the podcast and to hear our Golden Gods podcast with Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones. Read more...
Starting this weekend, "Headbangers Ball" will begin eight days of special programming leading up to the exclusive premiere of the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which airs Saturday, May 22 at 11 p.m.
On Saturday, April 25 we've got a Golden Gods Awards preview special on "Headbangers Ball" that'll air at 2 a.m. on MTV2. The show will feature music videos from all of the Golden Gods performers -- Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, All That Remains and Suicide Silence -- as well as behind-the-scenes footage from the event itself, the first ever metal awards show on U.S. soil, which took place on April 7 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California.
Click "more" for the full schedule of next week's special Golden Gods programming and our review of the show. Read more...
At the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods awards last week, deathcore superstars in training Suicide Silence performed the new song "Wake Up," from their upcoming Machine-produced album. Now, the band has decided to stream another track, "Lifted." The tune features more nuances and dynamics than most of the songs on the band's debut "The Cleansing," but it's still bloodier than a slaughter house drain, featuring a choking assortment of blast beats, pig squeals and guitar histrionics. Click more for a preview of the carnage. And get ready for a podcast interview with the band from the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods coming Friday. Read more...
Metallica is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Revolver Golden Gods Awards have been handed out and now it's time to get back to the day-to-day coverage of heavy metal. And that means another edition of "Your Vote Counts."
Last week, we premiered Hatebreed's "Ghosts of War" video, which is totally rippin.' But we also played new videos from Oceano, Static-X and Suicide Silence, among others. Click "more" to vote for your favorite. Only one vote per IP address.The winner will be chosen on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Read more...
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
Slayer guitarist Kerry King with Anthrax axeman Scott Ian backstage at Golden Gods
photo by Jon Wiederhorn
"Holy f-ck, I've never seen a circle pit at an awards ceremony before" joked metal-bred comic Brian Posehn ("The Sarah Silverman Show"), who hosted the First Annual Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which was held Tuesday night at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
The reason Posehn has never seen it is because it hasn't happened -- at least not in the U.S. The Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods marked the first large scale metal awards show ever in the States, and all corners of the metal community united to pay tribute to the music that has fired up hearts, stirred souls and changed lives. The highlight of the night was headliner Megadeth, whose crushing, polished three-song set of "Peace Sells," "Sweating Bullets" and "Holy Wars" was virtuosic, kinetic and undeniably sincere -- the perfect cap to an evening of heavy metal celebration. 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
The Red Chord frontman Guy Kozowyk has a big mouth, and it's one of his greatest attributes. Here's a dude who speaks his mind and just doesn't give a shit, insulting friends, bands he's on tour with and crowd members who could be wearing his band's t-shirts instead of those by Suicide Silence and Job For a Cowboy. During an interview with MetalInjection.net that went down at this year's Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest show in Long Island, Kozowyk was in rare form, bantering about diehard Machine Head and Pantera followers, teenage Underoath fans who somehow found their way into his audience and scratchy logo deathcore bands influenced by Korn. In one of the highpoints, Kozowyk busts on the followers of Mayhem bands: "Slipknot has maggots, Five Finger Death Punch has knuckleheads, Suicide Silence has wiggers and we decided that our fans are gonna be called Chordians and that quickly changed to Chodians."
It's way funnier when you see it yourself. Click "more" to check it out. Read more...
