News The Massive Rockstar Who Killed Someone But Only Served Two Weeks in Jail August 5, 2023 12:30pm Drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, drummer of fast-rising Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks, tragically died in a car accident in 1984 while a passenger in a car driven by Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil. This is the story of what happened. […]
News How Arnold Schwarzenegger Was Secretly Behind One of The Biggest Rock Songs of the Early 90s August 5, 2023 11:36am Arnold Schwarzenegger… the music industry A&R exec? The action movie star himself was the one who ensured Guns N’ Roses made it into Terminator 2: Judgment Day instead Nine Inch Nails, a move that paid off when the song “You Could Be Mine” shot up the global charts. […]
News The Sloppy Punk Band That Went on to Make The Biggest Pop Ballad of The 90s July 30, 2023 12:42pm One of the 90s biggest radio pop rock darlings came from a much different sonic place before they broke through to the mainstream. Goo Goo Dolls actually started out as a metal-influenced punk band called Sex Maggot (yup), once releasing records on Metal Blade Records before abandoning that life altogether for pop stardom. […]
News The Heavy Metal Icon Who Got Arrested at a Rage Against the Machine Concert July 30, 2023 9:45am Rage Against the Machine concerts bring out the testosterone in everyone apparently. Unfortunately, Max Cavalera found himself on the wrong side of that energy at a Rage show in the mid-90s. […]
News The One Metal Band That’s Banned From Saturday Night Live for Life July 29, 2023 4:25pm In the 90s, Saturday Night Live gave spotlights to some amazing alternative bands… up to a point. In the case of Rage Against the Machine, the band found themselves kicked out of 30 Rock with a lifelong ban that’s still in place to this day. […]
News James Hetfield Says This is the Real Reason There’s No Bass Guitar on ‘…And Justice for All’ July 27, 2023 5:50pm Metallica’s ‘…And Justice for All’ will forever be remembered for two things- being one of the greatest metal albums of all time, AND having no audible bass guitar. Here’s what James Hetfield blames for that controversial decision. […]
News Watch an Unknown Slipknot Decimate a Tiny Hometown Show in ’99 Before Their Debut Dropped July 27, 2023 5:00pm The music nerds in us love footage like this, and we’d kill to have been one of the 150 or so fans in the room who basically witnessed history in the making here before Slipknot went on to take over the world just a few short months later. Enjoy. […]
News Kirk Hammett Regrets Scapegoating Jason Newsted For All of Metallica’s Issues July 25, 2023 2:55pm Over the years, much has come out about Jason Newsted’s clashes with Metallica. Here’s where things stand now. […]
News Exodus and Fit For an Autopsy Announce Massive Fall 2023 Co-Headlining Tour July 25, 2023 1:54pm Two of metal’s best live acts are coming together for a killer tour, with support from Darkest Hour and Undeath. […]
News Hell Yeah: Four of the Best-Selling U.S. Albums of All Time are Metal Albums July 25, 2023 10:48am Metal and hard rock’s cultural influence can’t be denied. Despite a mainstream media narrative that our beloved genres are still ‘niche,’ the all-time sales charts for U.S. albums beg to differ. Here are the hard rock and metal albums that have sold so many copies that they undoubtedly are deeply embedded within American pop culture. […]
