Ride for Dime is an annual charity ride and concert held in remembrance for the victims of the 2004 shooting at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH, where “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, Erin Halk, Nathan Bray and Jeff  “Mayhem” Thompson were killed.
The ride starts this year at 2:30pm at the Longhorn Harley-Davidson/Buell located at 2830 W. Interstate 20, Grand Prairie, TX. This ride will be 38 miles long, with a special trip past Dimebag’s house and studio, and end up at The Palladium Ballroom, located at 1135 S. Lamar in Dallas, TX.
At 6:00pm, the BBQ & Bash All Star Jam begins, hosted …read more

This time of year there is never a surplus of time for anyone. Besides the snail speed flow of report worthy metal news this week, time just hasn’t been on my side. To keep things short, here are some significant things that went on the Metal since Friday.

Machine Head’s Phil Demmel collapsed on stage again on Friday. This is the third time it’s happened and the second time it’s happened this year. Machine head has canceled the last tow shows on this leg of their tour and will be heading back top the states. Phil suffers from a rare …read more

Metal Martyr Best Live Shows Of 2008. I’m going to break this down by single bands and not so much the tour or show name. I saw a good amount of shows this year. In fact I went to more shows just this year than I ever have in my whole life before before this year. This year has had some great shows come my way and a few I have had to travel a few hours for. Through some of these shows I’ve learned of bands and learned became a bigger fan of other bands. I’d say one …read more

So I was reading on Blabbermouth about this girl who wore the Machine Head T-shirt (Clenching The Fists Of Decent War T-shirt) in the picture to the right to school and was told to change it. Obviously this can be wrong in my opinion for a lot of reasons. But first read this (From Machine Head Forums):
A couple weeks ago I bought the war T-shirt from the machine head store and I got it in the mail yesterday and I wore it to school today. The shirt that says "war, lies, fear, change" on the back. Well, when …read more

Machine Head’s Phil Demmel passed out at last night’s Mayhem fest performance right towards the end of their set last night at The Nissan Pavilion in Virginia. It’s said that Phil is doing better and was severely dehydrated. he’ll be resting up for that last show at Darien Lake, NY, which is the last show of the Rockstar Mayhem Fest on August 19th.
I’m not trying to give a lesson in hydration here, but too much alcohol and not enough water in the sun and humidity can creep up on you out of nowhere. Dehydration can set in long before you …read more

Not Sevendust trash talk this time…just reporting. Live-metal.net recently conducted an interview with Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon. Sevendust, if you recall were supposed to be on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour this summer but have pulled out. Lojon Explains.
Live-Metal.net: So you’ve got this tour in the spring. I know you stepped off the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour. Can you say what the summer plans are gonna be yet?

Even though a lot of the tour dates for the upcoming Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest dates have been announced already here are some  dates posted by Roadrunner.com. You can also register for presale tickets. You can bet the farm I’m going to cover this show in August  in Virginia Beach. Now, I have to try to figure out how to get a press pass. Any promoters or Label PR’s listening???
From Roadrunner Records Myspace Post:
Organizers of the first-ever Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival have announced dates, venues and on-sale information for the highly anticipated all-star thunderfest.

Black Tide have just announced that they will be performing at Hot Topic’s annual South by Southwest bash on March 14th at La Zona Rosa in Austin. The SXSW party will also feature live sets from UK sensations Enter Shikari and Texas natives Flyleaf. Headlining the event will be System of a Down frontman, Serj Tankian!
Black Tide are gearing up for the release of Light From Above, their Johnny K (Machine Head) produced debut album which comes out on March 18th.

Robb Flynn gave an update on Machinehead and the Grammys on Blabbermouth. Here is a short excerpt. Check out the full update at blabbermouth. This is a pretty good update from Flynn and he has some good stuff to say about the Grammy, Slayer and the direction Machinehead is going. The link is at the bottom.
“Five minutes after the ‘Best Metal Performance’ nomination was given to SLAYER, I got a text from Kerry King (who didn’t attend) that said, ‘I’ll take the Grammy… but I have no problem telling you that you guys should have won!’ Very cool and VERY …read more

Slayer wins the Grammy for Best Metal Performance. Now it’s got all sorts of people on Blabbermouth arguing who should have won and even people going on to say that Slayer is not metal. One fool, probably the same douche that has been here a few times even went on to ask how Slayer won for “Metal” performance and then said “Death To False Metal“. WTF?