ROB HALFORD, SLASH, LARS ULRICH AND OTHERS PAY TRIBUTE TO LEMMY KILMISTER AT MEMORIAL CEREMONY
Brave Words reports: On Saturday, January 9th, the world came together to celebrate the life of Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Hollywood, California. With almost 300,000 watching on YouTube, Manager Todd Singerman led the ceremony, “Man, I hate using these words in past tense.” He proceeded to pass the mic […]
ADDITIONAL BAND MEMBERS ANNOUNCED FOR GUNS N’ ROSES COACHELLA APPEARANCE
Well, it looks like our very own Eddie Trunk was correct, and ahead of the curve, Guitar Player reports that joining Guns N’ Roses members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan onstage at Coachella, will be: keyboardist Dizzy Reed, multi-instrumentalist Chris Pitman, guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer. According to Guitar Player, there is […]
MEGADETH STREAM TITLE TRACK “DYSTOPIA”
Megadeth are streaming the title track from their forthcoming album, Dystopia, due January 22nd, 2016. Listen to it below. Megadeth previously released a video for the song, The Threat Is Real, also from the forthcoming record. To watch the clip, click here. Dystopia track listing: 1. The Threat Is Real 2. Dystopia 3. Fatal Illusion […]
MOTORHEAD FAN STARTS AN ONLINE PETITION TO GET A NEWLY DISCOVERED HEAVY METAL ELEMENT NAMED AFTER LEMMY KILMISTER
Motörhead fans want to permanently memorialize the band’s frontman, Lemmy Kilmister, with a place on chemistry’s periodic table of elements. A petition’s has been started to give the newly discovered Ununoctium 118 a much cooler name – Lemmium– honoring the singer, who died last week. The element is one of four so called “super-heavy” elements […]
“BASHFEST 2016” – “BONZO BASH,” “RANDY RHOADS REMEMBERED,” “HURRY: (A CELEBRATION OF RUSH MUSIC)” COME TOGETHER AT WINTER NAMM, JANUARY 21ST-23RD
Bonzo Bash founders Brian Tichy and Joe Sutton have put together “Bashfest: Three Days of Music and Madness” during this year’s Winter NAMM show. Bashfest will be at M3 Live Anaheim Event Center at 2232 S. Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92802. Phone: (714) 663-2100. Bashfest is only 1.5 blocks south of the NAMM show on […]
GUNS N’ ROSES MAKE HISTORY WITH 2016 RETURN
Upholding a three-decade tradition of breaking ground, creating trends, and forever changing the face of rock n’ roll, Guns N’ Roses announce the most significant and anxiously awaited musical event of this century. Founder Axl Rose and former members Slash and Duff McKagan will regroup to headline the Coachella Music & Arts Festival (April 15th-17th […]