North America’s biggest thrash tour in 20 years rolled into SoCal August 30th at the Long Beach Arena. METAL SHOP’s Ralph Cartel was there for American Carnage with Slayer and Megadeth and shared some great photos.
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In 2016, former DIO guitarist Vivian Campbell was quoted as saying that DIO DISCIPLES, a band made up of former members of DIO, along with a rotating lineup of singers, including former Judas Priest frontman Tim “Ripper” Owens, have “zero credibility” as a Ronnie James Dio tribute project despite the fact that the band is…
Just in time for the holidays, Metallica will release a new double DVD & Blu-ray called “Quebec Magnetic” through the band’s newly launched Blackened Recordings label (12/10/12). The video was shot by renowned director Wayne Isham during a two-night stand in October of 2009 in Quebec City, Canada. Check out performance clips of ‘Master…
You might remember this British trio as hair metal second-stringers from the 80’s, but they actually came together in 1974. They’re at their best playing the kind of fierce hard rock that marks them out as contemporaries of Judas Priest—their proto-thrash attack is good enough to make me forgive those schlocky 80s records and the…
KNAC Interview with Armored Saint Frontman John Bush: “At this point in my life, not playing that often and doing long, grueling tours where you do ten shows in a row, and then a day off, and then nine in a row. I see bands still doing that stuff and I just marvel…
Blabbermouth.net: On August 16, 1986, German metal queen Doro Pesch was the first woman to front a heavy metal band (WARLOCK) at the Monsters Of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England, the most important European rock meeting of the ’80s. Doro recounts the experience in the video below.
No more Mr. Nice Guy dogs. It’s coming down fast and it’s coming down hard. Thanks for listening to METAL SHOP. The major metal news outlets have not confirmed, but this site posted yesterday that a ‘source close to AC/DC confirms singer Brian Johnson was fired.’ Comedian Jim Breuer feels ‘really bad’ about…