I’m going to share a little story with you really quick. About two and a half years ago I was driving down the street when I see something off of the side of the road. I stopped hoping that it’s one of those cash bags that a pizza delivery person might have left on top of their car on their way to the bank late at night and maybe it slipped off and it’s full of cash. Unfortunately it wasn’t. What it was, was a caselogic book full of cds. Unfortunately it was full of a bunch of garbage …read more

Blabbermouth reports that Disturbed front man, David Draimen thinks the Grammy’s don’t give Rock it’s due. I think he’s the first person to ever say that…really! These dudes are standing there like they’re on some shitty made-for-T.V. version of The Matrix. “I know Kung Faux!”

Who ever said metal would never be big was a complete fool. Both Trivium and Amon Amarth have landed in the top 50 of the Billboard 200. Look at it this way. These metal bands are all in the top 100. There may be more.

Metallica – Death Magnetic
Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
All That Remains – Overcome
Disturbed – Indestructible
Underoath – Lost In Separation
All Shall Perish – Awaken The Dreamers

So metal is pretty much kickin ass on the billboard charts as far as album sales go. Both Twilight Of The Thunder God and Shogun are great albums, so it …read more

Taking my 10 year old son along to Mayhem Fest was something that was only planned about a week before going. I had some reservations about taking him along because he can get kind of restless and doesn’t like to be out in the heat very long. I can’t blame him, I don’t like it much either. He was really good though. I told him to stay close and walk fast and he did both. He was a trooper that day and I’m very proud of him. It was his first metal concert and he said he had a …read more

A few things happened over the weekend so I’m going to take a short break from the Mayhem Fest updates to catch up a bit and then I have the last two with pictures and video.
The Cavalera Conspiracy has been deemed inappropriate for Priestfest in Australia and New Zealand, so any dates they had with Judas Priest in those two countries have been canceled.
Metallica announce an official date for their Death Magnetic release of September 16th, The same day as All That Remains release their 4th album, Overcome. The ‘World Wide’ release date is the 12…so I’m sure it will …read more

What? One lousy update yesterday? Yeah, I know. That’s not like me but I had a few things in order that I had to take care of last night. So let’s go over June really quick.
I went to see Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy, Firewind and Soldiers Of Scrape on the Tyranny And Bloodshred tour…minus the tyranny. That was a bad ass show. I’ll announce the winner of the autographed Bleed The Fifth CD tonight.
Withered’s new album Folie Circulaire came out on the 17th, an extremely heavy and noisy album to say the least, but it’s one of those that just grows …read more

When I saw this cover of Guitar World Magazine I thought it was kind of insulting to Iron Maiden. If they gave Guitar World permission to do it then I question Iron Maiden’s credibility, but I doubt that’s the case and I also doubt they needed permission. I don’t think Dan Donegan is a bad guitar player at all. I just don’t dig this mockery (Or tribute whatever they want to call it) of a classic Iron Maiden work of art. Now if it was Dave Murray or Adrian Smith that would be a different story.
Check out Ironmaidenwallpaper.com/edart.html for some …read more

The last day or so I’ve been thinking about all the great stuff that has come out this year so far and what’s left to come. It’s overwhelming how much great metal 2008 has brought so far, and it’s only bringing more! Here are some of my picks this far into the year and some anticipated stuff.
Favorite 5 Albums of 2008 so far

Cavalera Conspiracy
Firewind – The premonition
Testament – The Formation Of Damnation
Children Of Bodom – Blooddrunk
The Sword – Gods Of The Earth

Black Tide Light From Above get’s an honorable mention
Most Anticipated Albums …read more

Opeth – Watershed
Disturbed – Indistructable
2008 Warped Tour Compilation
John 5 – Requiem
Led Zeppelin – IV Vinyl Re-release
P.O.D. – Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years
Pain Control – Subvert (Import)
Marshal Law – Power Crazy {Best Of} (Import)
Venom – Witching Hour (Import)

Disturbed will be releasing their fourth album, Indestructible on June 3rd. The multi-platinum rockers are giving their hardcore fans a special bonus if they pre-order the album from iTunes. Each pre-order will include 4 exclusive live tracks recorded at Chicago ’s Riviera Theater. Disturbed has also released a new, all-performance version of their intense new single, “Inside the Fire” which you can check out at their official YouTube channel.
Preorder Indestructible from iTunes here