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Chester Bennington Anniversary: Fans Show Love For Former Linkin Park Singer Three Years After His Death

Chester Bennington Anniversary: Fans Show Love For Former Linkin Park Singer Three Years After His Death

Fans are remembering the former frontman of the rock band Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, on the third anniversary of his death, Republic World reported. The singer died by suicide on July 20, 2017, at 41 years old. Three years on, Linkin Park fans are expressing their love for the musician. Fans took to Twitter to […]

4y ago

Clint Lowery Says Korn Ended Up ‘Probably Saving My Life’: Sevendust Guitarist Talks Sobriety & Solo Album

Clint Lowery Says Korn Ended Up ‘Probably Saving My Life’: Sevendust Guitarist Talks Sobriety & Solo Album

Guitarist Clint Lowery, co-founder and longtime axe man for Sevendust, is gearing up to release his first ever solo album, God Bless The Renegades, at the end of January 2020. He sat down for a phone interview — stay tuned for the full version of this Inquisitr exclusive! — to talk about the album, one […]

4y ago

Motley Crue Biopic ‘The Dirt’ To Be Released By Netflix In March

Motley Crue Biopic ‘The Dirt’ To Be Released By Netflix In March

Heavy metal band Motley Crue told everyone the band’s juiciest sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll secrets in the 2001 memoir The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Not too long after the release of the New York Times bestseller, the group started discussions with various movie studios about turning their outrageous […]

6y ago

Iron Maiden Announces ‘Most Complex Show To Date,’ 2019’s Legacy Of The Beast Tour

Iron Maiden Announces ‘Most Complex Show To Date,’ 2019’s Legacy Of The Beast Tour

Legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden is going back out on tour in 2019. The British group revealed North and South American dates for its Legacy of the Beast Tour, which kicked off earlier this year in Europe. “We’re immensely proud of this show,” said lead singer Bruce Dickinson in a statement posted on Iron […]

6y ago

Ozzy Osbourne Postpones Concert Due To Infection That Required Hand Surgery

Ozzy Osbourne Postpones Concert Due To Infection That Required Hand Surgery

Ozzy Osbourne had to cancel a show in California on Saturday, October 6, after he contracted an infection that required immediate surgery. The 69-year-old heavy metal singer has been on the road since late August on the No More Tours 2 jaunt, which is being billed as his farewell tour. He performed — in the […]

6y ago

Ozzy Osbourne Drops Lawsuit Against AEG After Company Ends Block-Booking Policy

Ozzy Osbourne Drops Lawsuit Against AEG After Company Ends Block-Booking Policy

Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne dropped his lawsuit against live entertainment producers AEG on Friday, September 21, over its block-booking policy, according to Variety. The practice was actually part of a long-running turf war between AEG and rivals Azoff MSG Entertainment, and the singer’s suit was designed to stand up for artists. The lawsuit was […]

6y ago

Pantera Drummer Vinnie Paul To Be Interred In KISS Coffin, Just Like Dime, Memorial Planned For Sunday, July 1

Pantera Drummer Vinnie Paul To Be Interred In KISS Coffin, Just Like Dime, Memorial Planned For Sunday, July 1

It’s been six days since Pantera co-founder and drummer Vinnie Paul passed away. Now details are emerging about his funeral and a memorial for fans. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Paul passed away in his sleep in Las Vegas on June 22. He was 54 years old. Although no official cause of death has […]

6y ago

Judas Priest Start Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation Benefitting ‘Pioneering Treatment’

Judas Priest Start Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation Benefitting ‘Pioneering Treatment’

Heavy metal band Judas Priest launched a new initiative in honor of its longtime guitarist who is battling a very serious medical condition. The Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation will raise money for a new kind of treatment to fight the degenerative disorder. In the announcement on Priest’s official website, Tipton explained that even though there […]

6y ago

Metallica Donates Polar Music Prize Money To Three Charities

Metallica Donates Polar Music Prize Money To Three Charities

Last Thursday, June 14, heavy metal band Metallica was awarded the Polar Music Prize in Sweden. In addition to a trophy, the band also received a monetary award equivalent to $130,000, which the group has now announced it will donate to charity. “The Polar Music Prize celebrates the power and importance of music and is […]

6y ago

Metallica’s ‘Worldwired’ North American Tour Schedule And Promos Detailed

Metallica’s ‘Worldwired’ North American Tour Schedule And Promos Detailed

Events promoter and organizer Live Nation recently announced the full schedule for Metallica’s “Worldwired” North American tour. The upcoming North American tour will be the next leg of the band’s ongoing “Worldwired” tour, which originally started in October of 2016. The band has already been to different cities in South America, Asia, and Europe. The […]

6y ago

Metallica And Lady Gaga’s Grammys Duet Doesn’t Hurt The Band’s Legacy [Opinion]

Metallica And Lady Gaga’s Grammys Duet Doesn’t Hurt The Band’s Legacy [Opinion]

Metallica and Lady Gaga’s unlikely team-up at last night’s 59th annual Grammy Awards has created quite a buzz in the heavy metal community — either you love it or you hate it. Die-hard purists have slagged the performance as a further insult to Metallica’s iconic status and another case of “selling out,” while others believe […]

7y ago

Elkin Ramírez, Kraken Lead Singer And Colombian Rock Icon, Dies From Brain Tumor

Elkin Ramírez, Kraken Lead Singer And Colombian Rock Icon, Dies From Brain Tumor

Elkin Ramírez, the lead singer of Colombian heavy metal and rock band Kraken, died on Sunday after a long battle with a malignant brain tumor. He was 54-years-old. According to El Colombiano, Ramírez’s death was confirmed by his son (linked page is in Spanish), Andrés Ramírez. The singer, who is fondly referred to as “Elkin […]

7y ago

Ronnie James Dio: Heavy Metal Icon Returns From The Dead In Germany

Ronnie James Dio: Heavy Metal Icon Returns From The Dead In Germany

Ronnie James Dio passed away in 2010 after battling stomach cancer. On Saturday, Germany held their heavy metal Wacken Open Air music festival and fans were stunned when they saw what appeared on the stage. They saw Dio, in hologram form, perform as it yelled out the heavy metal anthem “We Rock.” The Dio hologram […]

8y ago

Barack Obama, Finland, And Heavy Metal: U.S. President’s Shout-Out To Heavy Metal At State Dinner Goes Viral

Barack Obama, Finland, And Heavy Metal: U.S. President’s Shout-Out To Heavy Metal At State Dinner Goes Viral

Barack Obama is hip to the heavy metal scene in Finland and he let an audience of Scandinavian leaders know it during a speech at the White House just last week. Leaders from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden had come together for an official state dinner and summit when the president made the remarks. […]

8y ago

Rob Zombie Defends Babymetal As Trolls Hate On Facebook Photo

Rob Zombie Defends Babymetal As Trolls Hate On Facebook Photo

On Monday, Rob Zombie shared a photo of himself on Facebook, posing with Suzuka Nakamoto (Su-metal), Yui Mizuno (Yuimetal), and Moa Kikuchi (Moametal), who are collectively known as Babymetal. The Japanese band, Zombie, and numerous other bands including Slipknot, Scorpions, Lynyrd Synyrd, Megadeth, and Disturbed played at the Carolina Rebellion festival in Charlotte over the […]

8y ago

Fine Brothers Entertainment Have BABYMETAL React To ‘YouTubers React To BABYMETAL’

Fine Brothers Entertainment Have BABYMETAL React To ‘YouTubers React To BABYMETAL’

Over the past two years, BABYMETAL, the hybrid heavy metal and J-pop idol music girl group, has exponentially increased in popularity. Performing songs in a genre they can clearly call their own, Su-metal, Yuimetal, Moametal, along with their Kami Band, have created a huge hardcore following who are highly devoted. To prove this fact, every […]

8y ago

Iron Maiden Tour: ‘The Book Of Souls’ Tour Lands in Tacoma, WA [Photos]

Iron Maiden Tour: ‘The Book Of Souls’ Tour Lands in Tacoma, WA [Photos]

Legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden knows how to get to their next show in a timely manner. The band made its way to the Pacific Northwest via a Boeing 747-400 airplane aptly dubbed “Ed Force One,” named after the band’s beloved mascot Eddie the Head. “Ed Force One” landed safely on the runway […]

8y ago

Don Francks Honored By Director Jon Cassar Among Others

Don Francks Honored By Director Jon Cassar Among Others

Don Francks passed away earlier this month on April 3 at age 84, another victim of cancer, and Francks has since been remembered by the many entertainment professionals whose lives Don touched throughout a multifaceted career. Francks explored his talents as a jazz musician, a vocalist, and an actor for far longer than most people […]

8y ago

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi To Record Again With Singer Tony Martin

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi To Record Again With Singer Tony Martin

Black Sabbath, the most legendary heavy metal band in music history (and one of the original two heavy metal bands along with Deep Purple, both releasing their first headbanging music in early 1970), are on their final tour, which has straightforwardly been named “The End.” But it’s not the end for Sabbath guitar player Tony […]

8y ago

Dave Mustaine Of Megadeth Talks Music, Mortality, And Leaving A Mark

Dave Mustaine Of Megadeth Talks Music, Mortality, And Leaving A Mark

Dave Mustaine, the outspoken frontman of Megadeth, has always had a lot to say about his craft and the music industry and life in general. But he believes his worldview has been altered somewhat by the passage of time, the result of the aging process and life’s experiences. In a recent interview, Mustaine talked about […]

8y ago

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