The Unholy Alliance Tour featuring Slayer managed to get all fans in a frenzy with pits on the floor during a 5-hour kick ass event. Special thanks to Adrenaline PR and Heidi Fitzgerald for making this happen for METAL SHOP. Here are some pictures of the show. enjoy -Ralph.
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Judas Priest rolled through Southern California in early August and METAL SHOP’s Ralph Cartel brought home some photos to share. [print_gllr id=1864]
Check out Melodic Rock Concerts for some fantastic photos from Tesla live in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Blabbermouth.net: Bob Nalbandian, founder and publisher of the esteemed early ’80s heavy metal music fanzine The Headbanger, has struck a deal with Tokyo-based company Japanime Publishing to release all 11 issues of the Xeroxed ‘zine as ebooks. Never before has the fanzine — which featured early interviews of local and international heavy metal bands,…
Time to kick Tuesday’s ass with 80’s metal and hard rock… Maiden, Priest, Metallica, DIO, Crue, Scorps, RATT, Megadeth, W.A.S.P., Dokken and more spin 24/7 on METAL SHOP. Happy Birthday to SKID ROW founder and bassist Rachel Bolan (real name: James Richard Southworth). His stage name ‘Bolan’ is a tribute to one of…
When Guns N’ Roses performed at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg this summer, Swedish national TV station SVT was there and they recently posted a video of Axl Rose’s dressing room and backstage area.
From their concert last month in Belgrade, Serbia, it was revealed that GUNS N’ ROSES’ tour rider requested that Axl’s dressing room be all black and decorated with fresh roses, and that champagne, vodka, tequila, red wine and beer be available in the room.
In addition, Axl also wanted fresh roses, 18 each of red and white, in the band’s dressing room, along with “black napkins, a blender, a juice maker, a tea kettle, paper tissues, 18 glasses for wine and champagne, 15 glasses for stiff drinks, 40 paper glasses, six cutlery sets, two bottle openers and corkscrews, and one large and two smaller bread knives.”
Check out the video here from SVT.
November 24, 1991: Eric Carr (Paul Charles Caravello) of KISS died of heart cancer at age 41. He replaced Peter Criss in 1980, choosing the stage name “Eric Carr” and taking up the “Fox” persona. Eric gave KISS a new sound with his energetic and “heavy” drumming, especially on the album ‘Creatures…