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Complete 'American Carnage' Details Revealed
 Posted 11/16/2009 10:34:00 AM
SLAYER. MEGADETH. Two names synonymous with fierce, crunching power. Two bands whose histories are inevitably intertwined in defining the thrash/metal genre. Individually, their respective prowess and accomplishments are impressive; but together, they're brutal and unstoppable. MEGADETH and SLAYER will join forces to co-headline "American Carnage", the most blistering, the most explosive, and the most eagerly anticipated mega-tour of the winter — and you do not want to miss it.
"American Carnage" will kick off on January 18 in Seattle, Washington for a 26-date trek across North America that will include the six Canadian dates postponed earlier this month. Tickets for most shows go on sale this Friday, November 20. Ticketmaster is offering a special presale for most shows from Wednesday, November 18 at 10am until Thursday, November 19 at 10pm.
"American Carnage" is the first time that SLAYER and MEGADETH will have toured the U.S. together since 1991's epic ...
ELLEFSON Talks About Building A Music Industry Team
Posted 10/23/2009 9:52:00 AM
Former MEGADETH and current F5 bassist David Ellefson has posted the latest episode in "David Ellefson's Rock Shop", an ongoing YouTube video series hosted by the bassist himself.
In Episode 21, entitled "Building A Team", David discusses the components of building a music industry team for an artist's success.
Ellefson previously stated about his "David Ellefson's Rock Shop" YouTube video series, "I'm always asked questions from fans and other musicians about playing the bass, the business side of our industry, and music in general. So, I decided to create these regular video webisodes as a way to inform and respond to many of those questions."
In addition to numerous gold and platinum records and seven Grammy-nominated works, David is the author of the book "Making Music Your Business" and has two metal bass guitar instructional DVDs through Rock House Method entitled "Metal Bass Vol. 1" and "Vol. 2". He ...
HELLBENT FOR COOKING: The Death Metal Cookbook
Posted 10/15/2009 9:58:00 AM
Members of pioneering death metal bands AUTOPSY, POSSESSED, DEATH, REPULSION, SLAUGHTER, OBITUARY, MASTER, and OBSCURITY are among the more than a hundred metal bands from over thirty countries who have submitted favorite recipes to "Hellbent For Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook", by Annick "The Morbid Chef" Giroux.
Scheduled for release on November 24, the first-ever book of recipes for voracious metal appetites will feature ravishing recipes including Matt Olivo of REPULSION's Mushroom Steak a la Jack Daniel's; Dave Hewson of SLAUGHTER's Incinerator Chicken Wings; Richard Christy of DEATH/CONTROL DENIED's ultra-manly Viking Testicle; and Jeff Becerra of POSSESSED's Strawberry Jell-o Pretzel Salad Cake.
"I usually manage to eat myself sick on these when they are around," says AUTOPSY's Chris Reifert of his Mummified Jalapeño Bacon Bombs.
"Hellbent" is a lavish 224-page full-color metal feast by Annick Giroux, feeding voracious appetites with favorite appetizer, beef, pork, lamb, poultry, seafood, vegetarian, dessert, ...
New Season of METALOCALYPSE Features Vai, Satriani, Mastodon
Posted 10/14/2009 10:08:00 AM
Brendon Small, co-creator of "Metalocalypse", the smash hit animated series on Adult Swim featuring the fictitious metal band DETHKLOK, has revealed to MetalSucks that Steve Vai, Joe Satriani , Slash and members of MASTODON will all have speaking/voiceover roles in the series' next season. "We just recorded MASTODON in the upcoming episode and they were… we were blown away," Small (who is also the frontman of DETHKLOK) said.
"We get a lot of people and we're always surprised that they have this kind of other talent or can do voiceover stuff. MASTODON surprised us more than anybody else — they were really funny. Just hanging out with those guys on [the DETHKLOK/MASTODON] tour has been really fun. They have a very good sense of humor.
He added, "A lot of people in rock and roll, metal and all that stuff spend all their time on the bus just watching ... Dallas D-Bag Throws water at DOC Coyle
Posted 10/4/2009 5:08:00 PM
Video footage of GOD FORBID guitarist Doc Coyle getting hit in the face with a cup of water during LAMB OF GOD's September 29, 2009 performance in Dallas, Texas as the support act for METALLICA can be viewed below. (Note: The cup-throwing incident occurs at the 4:22 mark.) Doc can be seen setting his guitar down and going down to the barricade to confront the person who threw the cup. LAMB OF GOD frontman Randy Blythe then jumps down to stop Doc from going into the crowd.
Doc Coyle is filling in for LAMB OF GOD's Mark Morton on the Richmond, Virginia metal band's current U.S. tour with METALLICA (as well as LOG's headlining "off" dates), which kicked off on September 14 in Nashville and will conclude on November 15 in New York City.
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