LOS ANGELES, CA - FRIDAY, August 16, 2018 - Last week, Slayer announced that it had joined Rick Ware Racing as the primary sponsor for the No. 54 entry at tomorrow's Bristol Motor Speedway. Today, reportedly due to reactionary concerns from other... More

LOS ANGELES, CA - FRIDAY, August 16, 2018 - Last week, Slayer announced that it had joined Rick Ware Racing as the primary sponsor for the No. 54 entry at tomorrow's Bristol Motor Speedway. Today, reportedly due to reactionary concerns from other long-time participating sponsors, Slayer has been pulled as the primary sponsor, and all Slayer signage has been removed from the car that was to be piloted by Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series veteran, JJ Yeley. The incontrovertible PODS Moving & Storage will now sponsor that car.After nearly 40 years, Slayer apparently remains as terrifying to some as ever. [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="80578"] Less

Holy Grove joins The Zach Moonshine Show for a Q&A with fans and listeners. This episode features new music from Witches Of God, Iron Age, Giant Dwarf, Engulf, En Minor, Toxic Holocaust, TOOL, Grouch & The Brainstorm, Void King,... More

Holy Grove joins The Zach Moonshine Show for a Q&A with fans and listeners. This episode features new music from Witches Of God, Iron Age, Giant Dwarf, Engulf, En Minor, Toxic Holocaust, TOOL, Grouch & The Brainstorm, Void King, Voidhaven, Fister and much more! Track List 1 - Where Dreams Go To Die/The Magician/To The Devil - Witches Of God2 - The Zach Moonshine Intro3 - Sleeping Eye Of The Watcher/Dispossessed/Burden Of Empire - Iron Age4 - Holy Grove Interview featuring Huntress/Blade Born/Valley of The Mystics5 - Black Thumb - Giant Dwarf6 - Drowned In The River Styx - Engulf7 - On The Floor/There's A Long Way To Go - En Minor8 - Chemical Warlords - Toxic Holocaust9 - Fear Inoculum/Stinkfist/Sober - TOOL10 - The Pages Turn/The upper hand/Your Wake Up Call - Grouch & The Brainstorm11 - Bullshitting On Air12 - Into The Fray - Year of the Cobra13 - Temples Made of Bone - Void King14 - All Rainbows and Ponies Must Die/Love Your Enemy/Outlaw Trucker - Rock N Roll Villain Society15 - I am a Virus - Inhuman Atrocities16 - Inner City/Living In L.A. - The Flesh Hammers17 - Bullshitting On Air18 - No Boundaries No Borders/Your Fault - Gravehuffer19 - Beyond The Bounds Of Sleep - Voidhaven20 - Dreamer - Lucifer21 - For Whom The Bell Tolls - Fister Listen to the full episode on Mixcloud below! Check out the interview alone on Youtube below! [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" id="80900"] HOLY GROVE Release Live EP to Benefit Family of 3-Year Old with Leukemia   All earnings from pay-what-you-want digital release will go to assist friends of band with medical treatment costs     In March of this year, Portland, Oregon riff-doomsters Holy Grove played a searing set at the 8th annual Ceremony of Sludge, which was professionally recorded for possible future release.  Captured on audio and video using just a handful a mics and some luck, the riveting performance was perfectly in line with the band's usual energetic delivery.Today, they've elected to release it on a pay-what-you-want basis to help raise money for friends of the band Cassie and Peter, whose 3-year-old daughter, Eli Rose, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia this past April.  The band explains:"Eli has a great prognosis for beating her illness but it will be a long road to complete the two-plus years of treatment. Thankfully she has insurance, but Cassie and Peter are still faced with large out-of-pocket expenses. We hope that by releasing this album, we can provide a platform through which to raise awareness and encourage people to contribute to her recovery. All proceeds from this album will be donated directly to the GoFundMe account that has been set up for Eli through her family. We thank you for the support, and we hope you dig the recording!"Further words from Ceremony of Sludge curator Justin Brown elaborate:"Every year at Ceremony Of Sludge we film and record the bands, then turn the recordings over to the artists to do with them as they wish. I am so proud of my friends Holy Grove for using the audio recordings of their stellar performance at this year’s Ceremony Of Sludge to help out their friend Eli, who is going through a very rough time as she battles leukemia.I encourage all fans of heavy music to dig into this live set by Holy Grove simply for the sultry swagger of their performance, but I implore everyone with a pulse to donate everything you can to help a very young person conquer a very cruel disease. As a cancer survivor myself, I can attest firsthand just how meaningful and necessary this kind of support truly is. Please, let’s show Eli the healing power of rock and roll."Visit Doomed and Stoned for more info on the release and benefit, as well as to enjoy the video version of Holy Grove's live set from Ceremony of Sludge.Holy Grove's Live from the World Famous Kenton Club EP is available from the band's Bandcamp site on a name-your-price basis, with all monies received going directly to Cassie and Peter for Eli Rose's treatment.   Holy Grove on tour in August and September: 8/28 - Tacoma, WA @ Spanish Ballroom 8/29 - Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown 8/30 - Vancouver, BC @ SBC 8/31 - Seattle, WA @ Substation 9/1 - Boise, ID @ The Shredder 9/2 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court 9/3 - Denver, CO @ Tooey's Off Colfax 9/4 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad 9/5 - Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Taproom 9/6 - Los Angeles, CA - 5 Star Bar 9/7 - Oakland, CA - Elbo Room Jack London 9/8 - Cupertino, CA - X Bar 9/9 - Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp  Formed in 2012 via Craiglist as strangers, Holy Grove grew together as humans and musicians over the next four years.  Releasing their self-titled debut in 2016, they went on to storm stages in the United States and Europe in a mass of swinging hair and raw power.Behind the chugging riff-power of guitarist Trent Jacobs and bassist Gregg Emley and the searing, soulful vocals of Andrew Vidal, a singer whose range and dynamics are as indebted to Ann Wilson as to Tina Turner, the band raised the stakes with last year's Holy Grove II on Ripple Music. This is band whose raw power and unbridled energy deserves to be seen as well as heard, so it's certainly a welcome return to the road as they prepare to demolish stages across the Western USA.Press love for Holy Grove:"A timelessly beautiful, inescapably hook-laden affair that proves Holy Grove one of the strongest acts among the PNW metal and hard rock scene." - Revolver"One of the year’s better entry points for new listeners. Why? Because doom rarely feels this good." - Heavy Blog is HeavyHoly Grove Socials:Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/holygroveband/Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/holy_grove/ Big shout out to Witches Of God for making this killer record, check em out at the link below! Into The Heart Of Darkness by Witches Of God Less

Behemoth are currently out on the road with Slipknot, Volbeat, and Gojira as part of the ongoing Knotfest Roadshow tour. The tour played Virginia Beach, VA on August 14, after their August 12 show in Clarkston, MI, and members of Behemoth figured... More

Behemoth are currently out on the road with Slipknot, Volbeat, and Gojira as part of the ongoing Knotfest Roadshow tour. The tour played Virginia Beach, VA on August 14, after their August 12 show in Clarkston, MI, and members of Behemoth figured they'd get a workout in beforehand at a local YMCA. Unfortunately that didn't happen because frontman Nergal was wearing a Darkthrone shirt and denied his belief in Jesus to someone who'd asked him, resulting in the band being ejected from the location. It should be noted here that YMCA is an abbreviation for Young Men's Christian Association. Nergal has since posted a commentary video directly after being booted and made the following written comment. It should also be noted that while Nergal does mention the location of the YMCA, it's not said clearly. This YMCA may not be near Virginia Beach, VA, and the location was only mentioned due to the tour's routing. Jesus! This means war mate! U can ask your buddies to censor my art, u can ask your disciples to bring me to courts, u can ask your sons to boycott Behemoth’s shows… but u can’t FUCK with my work out routine! Darkthrone's official Instagram also caught wind of what happened, and have commented on the matter. So @nergal69 was kicked out of a gym in the states where @behemoth are currently on tour yesterday because he was wearing a Darkthrone shirt and they asked him if he believed in Jesus Christ.I didn't know if I should laugh or cry when I heard about it.The fun thing for me about all this is that the shirt he was wearing was an old original #Darkthrone shirt that I gave him about a year ago. Have any of you had any simular problem wearing a Darkthrone shirt?/////// @roger_mb_hoglund Via MetalInjection Less

TMZ has posted video footage of Rob Zombie apparently reacting angrily to a female fan who reached across a barricade and grabbed his shirt in the middle of his show in London, Ontario, Canada. In the video, which was filmed Wednesday night at... More

TMZ has posted video footage of Rob Zombie apparently reacting angrily to a female fan who reached across a barricade and grabbed his shirt in the middle of his show in London, Ontario, Canada. In the video, which was filmed Wednesday night at the Budweiser Gardens, you see Rob singing and walking down an aisle in the middle of the packed crowd when the overzealous fan reaches her hand over the barricade and tugs at his shirt. Rob flies into a rage, yanking on her hair before pushing her back. Rob is wrapping up the current leg of his "Twins Of Evil" tour with Marilyn Manson and PALAYE ROYALE. The live show is filled with spectacle. "I grew up loving the recording artists who invented rock showmanship," Zombie told The Gazette. "I grew up on Alice Cooper and KISS, and I loved what they did live when I was a kid just as much as I love their songs. That was a big influence on me." Rob went on to say that "rock has always been about both" style and substance. "It wouldn't have been the same if Jimi Hendrix was fat and bald. There has always been a visual side of rock, and it connects with me, since film is obviously visual. But you also need solid songs. It can't just be about a look." [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="FR51GjQf0wU"] Via Blabbermouth If you look closer at the video, it actually looks like she pulled his dreads? That might explain his response, of course the media will overlook that. Less

Philip H. Anselmo's EN MINOR made its live debut Wednesday night (August 14) at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans, Louisiana. The concert served as the release party for EN MINOR's debut seven-inch, which was released on August 2 via Housecore... More

Philip H. Anselmo's EN MINOR made its live debut Wednesday night (August 14) at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans, Louisiana. The concert served as the release party for EN MINOR's debut seven-inch, which was released on August 2 via Housecore Records. Fan-filmed video footage of the show can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user "richerd hurts"). A project inadvertently in the making since Anselmo's earliest days as a child in the French Quarter, EN MINOR features Stephen Taylor (SUPERJOINT, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, WOVEN HAND, 16 HORSE POWER), Kevin Bond (SUPERJOINT, CHRIST INVERSION, ARTIMUS PYLEDRIVER), Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, DOWN, SUPERJOINT), Calvin and Joiner Dover (THE DOVER BROTHERS), and Steve Bernal (former first cellist in the TEMPLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA). An experimental and eclectic musical endeavor that finds Anselmo exploring a softer, graver vocal style, EN MINOR is an honest and deliberate change of pace delivering brooding tales of pain, regret, and sorrow. EN MINOR's single serves as the precursor to the band's full-length debut, set for release later this year. "En Minor" track listing: 01. On The Floor 02. There's A Long Way To Go EN MINOR will also perform at this year's edition of Psycho Las Vegas, set to take place August 16-18 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. "The initial strains — in the most primitive sense — came about when I was given my first guitar at nine-years old," relays Anselmo of the EN MINOR project. "I didn't have the patience to learn other people's music, so I wrote my own. And some of those early parts are still prevalent in the songs we're working with now. Fast forward to 1988 when I bought my first four-track recorder; those old songs took on a new life and newer songs were written. Heavy metal was at the forefront of my performance-based output, but these little four-track songs were always there. I always had an apprehension about allowing them to be heard though, because they were so different; only a small circle of close friends got to hear them." By 1993, Anselmo moved back to his hometown of New Orleans and his home became an instant magnet for local musicians and artists. "At ungodly hours, these old four-track songs took on an even newer life jamming with these cats," he says. "We learned a few of the songs and wrote several more, and soon we were recording under the moniker BODY & BLOOD. We wrote more songs, all recorded on a newer model four-track. It was fun. We did it for the vibe. And it was pleasing to break away from multi-tracking studios and heavy metal. Metal music consumed most of our time and lives. Those 'B&B' sessions were damned-near therapeutic." Without a clear plan for the band, the project remained a periodic therapy session. "We kept things simple and just jammed when everyone was home and played our recordings for friends," he says. "Then I eventually moved again, Hurricane Katrina hit, and life sent all of us in different directions." In 2012, Anselmo met Stephen "Schteve" Taylor and EN MINOR truly took shape. "He and I began experimenting with some vibey stuff, and soon after began recording the sessions," Anselmo says. "This led to the current incarnation of EN MINOR. Together, we re-worked a few of the old four-track songs and wrote several new ones in short order. These sessions are hypnotic and pulling. And we continue to write songs suitable for this project to this day. Ugly and beautiful, EN MINOR, isn't 'party music.' This is 'kill the party music.'" EN MINOR is: Philip H. Anselmo - Vocals, Guitars, Bass Kevin Bond - Acoustic, Electric Guitar, Bass Stephen Taylor - Guitar Calvin Dover - Keys Joiner Dover - Bass Steve Bernal - Cello Jimmy Bower - Drums [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="JXszfaq_6qg"] Via Blabbermouth Less

"Dignity", a new song from Swedish masters of progressive heavy rock OPETH, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's 13th album, "In Cauda Venenum", which will be released on September 27 via Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast... More

"Dignity", a new song from Swedish masters of progressive heavy rock OPETH, can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's 13th album, "In Cauda Venenum", which will be released on September 27 via Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Recorded last year at Stockholm's Park Studios, "In Cauda Venenum" will be released in two versions, in both Swedish and English languages. Various physical and digital formats will be available. Regarding the sonic direction of the new record, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt says: "For us, at this stage with 'In Cauda Venenum', heaviness isn't guitars tuned down with screaming vocals over the top. That's not necessarily what I call ‘heavy' music these days. I can listen to KORN and say, 'Okay, that's heavy.' But it doesn't really mean anything to me. I mean, I catch up on things in magazines or online. I read about bands that have the 'heaviest record ever,' and I'm not too impressed by that. Okay, it's cool but what does it say? What does it mean? It's an impossible mission, to be the heaviest. That's been done before. Over time, I got tired of that tag. Of course, when I was younger, it meant everything to me. I was always on the pursuit for heaviness in my youth, trying to find the next level of heaviness. First it was death metal, then it was bands like MESHUGGAH, but heaviness is now more about emotions, heavy chord progressions, music that has feelings. Heaviness doesn't mean MESHUGGAH anymore, although indeed they're a fucking heavy band. I'm not trying to tap into that anymore." "In Cauda Venenum" track listing: 01. Livet's Trädgård / Garden Of Earthly Delights (Intro) 02. Svekets Prins / Dignity 03. Hjärtat Vet Vad Handen Gör / Heart In Hand 04. De Närmast Sörjande / Next Of Kin 05. Minnets Yta / Lovelorn Crime 06. Charlatan 07. Ingen Sanning Är Allas / Universal Truth 08. Banemannen / The Garroter 09. Kontinuerlig Drift / Continuum 10. Allting Tar Slut / All Things Will Pass In anticipation for the impending release, OPETH will perform shows around the world through the end of the year. OPETH's last album, "Sorceress", was released in September 2016. For the band's first effort for Nuclear Blast via OPETH's imprint label Moderbolaget Records, the group returned to Rockfield Studios in Wales, also home to pivotal releases from QUEEN, RUSH and JUDAS PRIEST, where the Swedes had tracked "Pale Communion" in 2014 with Tom Dalgety. Last November, OPETH released a live album, "Garden Of The Titans: Live At Red Rocks Amphitheatre". [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="QcMdA7Xs8jE"] [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="guXP2gbYqEM"] [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="5Ko4_eO2tiU"] Via Blabbermouth Less