“International Day of Slayer” wanted by metal fans

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Slayer fans worldwide are clamoring for the day when they can celebrate their love for thrash metal with an "Intenational Day of Slayer".
Now it's not unusual for a group of people who absolutely adore something to start pushing for it to become nationally recognized. Star Trek fans have been known to try and get "Vulcan" to be put on census ballots and people who vote on election day have occasionally written in their favorite cartoon character to become… Read More

Ozzy’s new album moved back one week

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Ozzy Osbourne's new album, Scream, is being put off for one more week before hitting record stores.
The album, originally slated to come out on June 15th, has been moved back to June 22nd. The album's first single, "Let Me Hear You Scream", already made it's world premiere on national television via an episode of CSI: NY.
Meanwhile, the tour dates for Ozzfest were officially released and can be seen over at the festival's official… Read More

Watch: How To Destroy Angels – “The Space in Between”

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Blood. Fire. Trent Reznor dead on the ground.
These images and more are what you see in the first music video from the band How To Destroy Angels for their song "The Space in Between". I'm pretty sure this video wouldn't make it to MTV due to it's graphic nature...or because MTV doesn't play videos anymore.
The song has a dark melody with a brooding beat behind it as Reznor's wife/lead singer Mariqueen Maandig is a singing corpse while Reznor lays… Read More

RiO!B episode – May 14, 2010

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Tubelord
Drown Mary
Venice Queen Read More

RiO! Band of the Week – Electric Mary

Friday, May 14th, 2010
Australia is packin' some serious heat this week as the band Electric Mary from Melbourne is our new RiO! Band of the Week.

This five-piece rock n' roll outfit may hail from down under but doesn't draw any comparisons to bands like AC/DC or Jet. They take on a style of their own by incorporating elements of classic rock and melding them together for the modern rock age.
They're playing Hellfest on June 19th in France with bands including Australia's… Read More

RiO!B episode – May 13, 2010

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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Stone Sour reveal new album title and tour dates

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor's other band known as Stone Sour has revealed the title of their new record as well as tour dates for this summer.
The album is called Audio Secrecy and it's the follow-up to 2006's Come What(ever) May. Taylor recently described that this album "is the summation of everything we want, everything we crave and everything we fight for. The dimensions… Read More

Why Green Day’s older material isn’t on Rock Band

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

With Green Day's Rock Band game coming to shelves this summer, many die hard fans are wondering why the band's older material was left off the game in favor of songs from newer albums like American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown.
Drummer TrĂ© Cool spoke to Gameinformer about why tracks from their… Read More

Brandon Flowers speaks up about solo record

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

With the word out about Brandon Flowers releasing a solo album called Flamingo, it's time we got to know more about it from the singer himself.
The Killers frontman recently spoke with NME (via ONTD) and went into further detail about what he's got in store for us on his first LP. A note to all fans of Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis; you'll be quite happy.
"Jenny's helped… Read More

RiO!B episode – May 12, 2010

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Eclipse soundtrack unveils tracklisting
Stone… Read More