Jon Wiederhorn
‘Saw 3D’ Features Exclusive Tracks by Dir En Grey, Saliva and More
Jigsaw may be dead and rotting away underground, but the 'Saw' legacy lives on. Which means a bunch of bands have lined up to create the soundtrack for 'Saw 3D,' including Dir En Grey, Saliva, Hinder and Krokus.
On Oct. 29, the seventh installment of the Saw movie series will leap out at theatergoers across the nation, and three days earlier the film's soundtrack will hit shelves...
Triptykon to Release EP in the Middle of Tour
Just over six months after putting out their colossal debut full-length, 'Eparistera Daimones,' minimalistic doom/black metal band Triptykon will release the nearly 30-minute, five-song EP titled 'Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied...
Slipknot DVD ‘(sic)nesses’ Coming to a Theater Near You
Six days before the Sept. 28 release their fourth DVD, '(sic)nesses,' platinum-selling metal pioneers Slipknot will debut the movie at dozens of theaters around the world, including Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
Screening cities and locations are being updated regularly...
All That Remains Plan Headlining Tour in Support of ‘For We Are Many’
Massachusetts mainstream metalcore band All That Remains won't be able to celebrate the Oct. 12 release of their fifth album, 'For We Are Many,' with their family and friends because they'll be in San Francisco for the opening date of their fall headline tour...
Randy Blythe Avoiding Bandmates Until Next Tour
Having recently completed this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Lamb of God are in the middle of a well-deserved month-long break. That means the band members -- vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, bassist John Campbell and drummer Chris Adler -- have all gone their separate ways in their spare time before reconvening for a South American and Australian tou
Nergal’s Faith Partially Restored in Mankind as he Battles Leukemia
On Aug. 25, Behemoth's label delivered a bombshell. Metal Blade said the band's frontman, Adam 'Nergal' Darski, suffers from leukemia, a form of cancer affecting blood-forming tissues in the bone marrow, and is in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant...
Steve Harris: ‘The Final Frontier’ Won’t Be Iron Maiden’s Swan Song
If Iron Maiden harbored any thoughts of sending their zombie mascot Eddie back to the grave after the release of their 15th studio album, 'The Final Frontier,' they've likely reconsidered following their recent run of sold-out arena shows and the chart success of the new album, which entered at number four on the Billboard Hot 200 this week...
Melvins Frontman Admits a Third of Their Shows Are Still Disasters
Metallic, experimental sludge pioneers the Melvins just launched a month-long tour of the western U.S. in Minneapolis. Dates run through Oct. 12 in Costa Mesa, Calif.
They will be touring to support their latest album, 'The Bride Screamed Murder,' which came out June 1...
Drunken Bastards Remain Confident Guitarist Will Beat Cancer
Tragedy struck soon after Hungarian metal/punk band Drunken Bastards recorded their second album, 'Horns of the Wasted.' Founding guitarist Pete Fire was diagnosed with cancer.
Fire has already begun chemotherapy treatments and doctors are confident that the guitarist has a good chance of a complete recovery, said the band in a press statement...
Iron Maiden Survive Mini-Tornado at Recent Concert
Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris has played some strange shows over the years, but one of the strangest in recent memory was at the Sonisphere festival in Pori, Finland on Aug. 8. Before the band went on, a mini-tornado touched down in the concert area and destroyed the second stage, damaging some of Iron Maiden's equipment...