If these rumors of the bands tapped for the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest prove true, it should be a good show ti hit up this year. Unfortunately it has been confirmed that Dave Mustaine is losing his mind and Gigantour will never be the same. Metalunderground.com “Confirms” two Gigantour 2009 bands.
It’s rumored that a few bands on the 2009 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest roster may be Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Trivium and Behemoth. Not to bad to start with if these rumors are true. We’ll have to wait and see.
The scrap metal report this morning said that Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet …read more

And on the 1,321,684,943,251,684 day God decided that the ‘States heard enough Avenged Sevenfold for the year.
Avenged Sevenfold has canceled their remaining U.S. tour, citing problems with M. Shadows vocals. Fortunately for him and not us, they say they can continue the tour, starting in Japan in October. Shadows stated:
“I feel as if I’m letting so many people down, especially the fans we were supposed to see this month, but after a little rest it’ll be back to the usual craziness everyone expects of A7X. All of us are so excited about going out with BUCKCHERRY in November; our …read more

Avenged Sevenfold doing a “Cover” of Pantera’s Walk with some fan that got on stage. Pretty ballsy for someone to get onstage but this song has been covered by more bands that are unworthy in the past and this just adds to that growing list.
On an episode of Talking Metal on Fuse, the Talking Metal guys along with members of In This Moment did a cover of I’m Broken, another great Pantera tune. I don’t know the singers name, nor do I care because I can’t stand her voice, but everything sounded great…except HER!. The back up singer did a …read more

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It looks as if the great people at this year’s Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany have thought things through and they don’t want anyone to miss out on all the really good bands due to Bathroom and concession visits. They have added Avenged Sevenfold to the line up so you have some time to go empty your bowels and bladders and get refills of your favorite German beers while you attend.

Here is a video interview with Slayer’s Kerry King from Buzznet. Kerry talks about all sorts of shit from Dave Mustaine, to A7X. Says he doesn’t get Lamb OF God. You know what I don’t get? This dude that calls himself “The Reaper”. You know what else I don’t get? Sunglasses inside. Anyway, check out the video and make your own call.

Once again it’s theme day at the b5 Media channel and todays theme is Resolutions made by Bands/Stars that will probably be broken. I contacted a publicist for each of the following Bands and/or Stars and asked them if their clients had made any new years resolutions. Here is was they told me!

Zakk Wylde
Resolves to start taking a shower at least once a week, and once a month when touring.