Metallica Piss Of Indie Bands Trying To Get A Break At SXSW
March 26, 2009 by Scott
Metallica playing at Austin’s SXSW wasn’t a big surprise. There were rumors of it happening about a week before SXSW kicked off. It was said to be a “secret” show. SXSW is one of those events that helps out the smaller, independent labeled and unsigned bands get noticed by the public and people that would otherwise not have heard of them.
Iron Maiden’s Flight 666 Wins Award At SXSW
March 24, 2009 by Scott
Iron Maiden’s new rockumentary Flight 666 has seemed to be getting some rave press lately. They showed it at the SXSW music and film festival and it was the winner of the “24 Beats Per Second” award for best music documentary. Flight 666 is coming to select theaters starting on April 21st. Check the list of theaters below and check out Ironmaiden.com for more dates. I’ll just probably wait until it hits DVD, but looks to be a great documentary. If you’ve seen it, chime in and let us know what you thought. Here is a preview of Iron Maiden: …read more
Metallica North American Tour Dates and Proshot SXSW Footage
Metallica have announced a bunch of North American tour dates coming up in September through December. Despite the fact that I have talked an enormous amount of shit about these guys since Metal Martyrs inception into the internet, I still may try to catch a show. Metallica performed at last weeks SXSW annual festival. Here is pro-shot footage of them performing their classic “Blackened” from …And Justice For All. Tour dates after the fold.
Catch Skeletonwitch At SXSW
March 5, 2009 by Scott
Skeletonwitch will be performing at SXSW this month on the 20th. The day before they will be playing Full Metal Texas at SXSW at Emos Annex. Go to Full Metal TX to RSVP. It says there will be free beer! Free Beer and Skeletonwitch? I wish I lived much closer. Here is their video for Sacrifice For The Slaughtergod.
Sacrifice for the Slaughtergod
SXSW Metal & Hard Rock
South By Southwest is coming up and there are always a handful of metal bands and more indie bands than you can keep track of. If you’re going to SXSW this year in downtown Austin, Texas then you might want to swing by Austin Sound Check and see what bands have been confirmed for this years festivities kicking off on March 18-22 (music). Ana knows the Austin scene and will probably be covering all, if not most of the SXSW festival. Click the link below to see all the confirmed bands so far.
SXSW Releases More Confirmed Bands
Image: Austinsoundcheck.com