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...
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About 30 minutes before Killswitch Engage opened the Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards with a riveting three-song set, Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor spun records for the crowd to warm them up for the show.
Afterwards, during an exclusive on-site interview with XM Satellite Radio DJ Jose Mangin, Taylor talked about deejaying, the arrival of the Golden Gods and Slipknot's new video for "Sulfur." Click "more" to watch it, and don't miss a special edition of "Headbangers Ball" hosted by Taylor and Suicide Silence tonight at midnight on MTV2. Read more...
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Here's the second part of our interview with popular Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. During out candid discussion, vocalist Mike Hranica and guitarist Jemery DePoyster discussed incorporating God into metal, the injuries at their shows, urinating for cash, writing under pressure, their unconventional song structures and recording their new album With Roots Above and Branches Below. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
The Devil Wears Prada vocalist Mike Hranica
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Don't write off Dayton, Ohio's The Devil Wears Prada just because of their stupid name and goofy song titles. And don't discard them simply because they're proud to be Christians and aren't afraid to talk about it. Finally, don't label 'em trendy screamo/metalcore tag-alongs -- at least not until you've heard their music.
The band's second album, 2007's Plagues, was a strident, discordant blast of energy that constantly veered between jagged, jarring rhythms and memorable melodies. The band's follow-up, With Roots Above and Branches Below (out May 5), is equally intense, but more cohesive, incorporating a range of sonic nuances, including sweeping organ swells, atmospheric keyboard hooks and majestic metal riffs without sounding like a bunch of disparate parts stapled together.
After a recent show in New York, vocalist Mike Hranica and guitarist and singer Jeremy DePoyster sat down and discussed where they're coming from musically, the creation of With Roots Above and Branches Below, their mainstream popularity and why metal fans should seriously give 'em a chance. Click "more" for the two segments of our five-part interview. Read more...
Here's the last batch of clips from our recent interview with Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher. Read more...
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Time to crack the Mastodon fortress just a little more with part 2 of three posts of interview snippets with the band about its latest album, Crack the Skye, which is still in heavy rotation on our personal stereo system and will likely hold fast as our album of the year. Then again, it's only April, but the bar has been set mighty high. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
Right now, Mastodon are lumbering through Canada and will reach American shores with openers Kylesa and Intronaut on April 29. The tour will wrap up with a hometown show in Atlanta on May 15, then Mastodon will be off to Europe to open for Metallica. To show our support, we'll continue to blast the band's video for "Divinations" from atop the rafters. And we've also got a batch of new interview clips to roll over out the next few days. Here's the first installment. Read more...
In the second part of our interview with British metalcore sensations Bring Me the Horizon, the band members discuss their history, the blood-drenched cover of their latest album Suicide Season, horror movies and more. Click "more" to watch. Read more...
Sometimes English music fans seem to be ahead of the curve. They discovered grunge before Americans knew what was going on in Seattle, introduced groundbreakers like My Bloody Valentine, Blur and Ride while the U.S. was looking to Alanis Morisette for salvation and brought the world techno revolutionaries such as The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. Okay, they kind of struck out with Funeral For a friend and Lostprophets. But maybe we should suspend our disbelief for a moment and give British metalcore sensations Bring Me the Horizon an honest chance.
We recently put the band behind the cameras and asked them to explain their value and popularity. Click "more" to watch the clips. Read more...
The concept for Queensryche's upcoming album American Soldier (out March 31) may have begun with conversations between vocalist Geoff Tate and numerous past and present members of the U.S military (including his dad), but once the ideas were in place for the lyrics the band members had to mold them into songs that complimented the messages within. In today's interview segment with Tate, the singer describes how the band wrote the music for American Soldier. Read more...
