Who will be the winning champion this week on MDR Battle Of The Bands? This weeks champion of the battle of the bands is "Black Bone Nation" winning with a crushing 4,581 votes! Check em out HERE! I am proud to announce a new Championship... More

Who will be the winning champion this week on MDR Battle Of The Bands? This weeks champion of the battle of the bands is "Black Bone Nation" winning with a crushing 4,581 votes! Check em out HERE! I am proud to announce a new Championship addition to the already popular Band Of the Month – Battle Of The Bands we host every month on MDR! We now have band of the week as well and how does this work you ask? Well what we will do is run a poll with ten bands each week on metaldevastationradio.com starting each Friday and ending each Friday! The winning band each week will be blog posted on site and played and announced on The Zach Moonshine Show each Friday night between 9pm est and 1am. At the end of the month we will tally the scores from all weeks polls for that month and the band with the highest score of votes will be the winning band for Band Of The Month which includes a feature on our Facebook page reaching thousands of fans, a feature on the front page of metaldevastationradio.com which gets around 60,000 views a month! Airplay every hour on our stream during general rotation and lots of shares on social media! If you want the world to know who your band is, this is the easiest way to make it happen! If you want to compete in this battle, comment below with the name of your band and we will add you to next weeks battle or sign up and check email every week for battle submissions! Any band can compete an unlimited amount of times in this competition! Click on the bands below you would like to vote for as many times as you like or add your own! Poll will be open till 4pm est 9/28/18 Image used from this link Battle Of The Bands Championship For The Week Of 9/24/18 - 9/28/18 Less

After three years of deathlike silence, Québécois death metal adepts Outre-Tombe return with Nécrovortex, their second album of grotesque graveyard anthems, through Temple of Mystery Records. To the band’s credit, Outre-Tombe have not attempted... More

After three years of deathlike silence, Québécois death metal adepts Outre-Tombe return with Nécrovortex, their second album of grotesque graveyard anthems, through Temple of Mystery Records. To the band’s credit, Outre-Tombe have not attempted to flood the underground with useless releases; over the course of their eight-year existence, the band has released a single demo and two albums, all of which are meticulously written, performed, and recorded. This methodical approach to their work is part of what sets Outre-Tombe apart from the majority of their peers. With this album, Outre-Tombe continue to sharpen their sound, which faithfully captures the essence of late '80s and early '90s death metal. Outre-Tombe’s influences are no secret—they clearly draw inspiration from bands such as Grave, Nihilist, Asphyx, and Pestilence—but rattling off a list of classic death metal influences doesn’t do justice to the impact that Outre-Tombe achieve with their music, a sound that is as relentless as it is morbid. The songs on Nécrovortex are generally aggressive and pummeling, leaving the listener with little or no respite from the assault, but even at breakneck speed, there’s a compositional intricacy on display. These songs reveal the aural machinations of horror and death through riffs that are coordinated, precisely carved and chiseled, and surgically sutured together, tightly, with no room for error. The production is just crisp enough to allow the instrumentation to stand out, permitting the listener to grasp the many memorable riffs around which each track is constructed. The vocals are also unique. Bassist and vocalist Crachat captures the guttural essence of the French language with his vocals, disgorged and spewed across the tracks. Like every element of the band’s sound, the vocals are insistent, commanding attention. Lyrically, the band focuses on horror and the macabre, but with a rare degree of sophistication. For those capable of deciphering French, the imagery conjured by the lyrics is extraordinarily vivid and perfectly suited for the music. Completing the overall presentation of Nécrovortex is cover art masterfully created by Matt “Putrid” Carr. It is, therefore, with tremendous honor that Temple of Mystery Records presents Outre-Tombe’s second offering on black vinyl, as well as a limited die-hard colored vinyl edition. (description by Jason Campbell) PLEASE NOTE: the CD version is set for international release on October 17, while the vinyl version will follow in early December. Nécrovortex by Outre-Tombe Less

Vicious Rumors left to right: Geoff Thorpe- Guitar /Voc, Gunnar Dügrey- Guitar/ Voc, Cody Green- Bass, Nick Courtney- Lead Vocals, Larry Howe Drums/ VocVicious Rumors is excited to nail down their line up for 2018 and beyond. Geoff Thorpe-... More

Vicious Rumors left to right: Geoff Thorpe- Guitar /Voc, Gunnar Dügrey- Guitar/ Voc, Cody Green- Bass, Nick Courtney- Lead Vocals, Larry Howe Drums/ VocVicious Rumors is excited to nail down their line up for 2018 and beyond. Geoff Thorpe- Guitar /VocGunnar Dügrey- Guitar/ VocCody Green- BassNick Courtney- Lead VocalsLarry Howe Drums/ Voc Geoff Thorpe said about long time bassist Tilen Hudrap "Tilen is my brother, one of the most knowledgeable music guys in the industry and a hell of a player... he will always be part of Vicious Rumors and our large family as well as one of my very best friends. We wish him all the best in his future projects. This current Vicious Rumors line up will tour the world together firing on all cylinders!!! Plans are already underway for the new album in between US and European tours next year. After 40 years changes are just part of any long running operation! We roll with them and always hire the most talented players available... hey if there also young and beautiful it's a bonus!! " Vicious Rumors is almost half way through a massive 45 date US / Canadian Tour in support of the 30th Anniversary of Digital Dictator. The reviews for this tour are already coming in, Metal-Rules.com said, "I had waited almost 30 years to see them play and it was worth the wait. Don’t miss this tour! Vicious Rumors stands as one of the longest running, most prolific US Power Metal bands in history." The European leg of the tour, presented by Eternal Rock Booking Agency, will happen in April 2019. Dates are listed below! With all this going on Vicious Rumors has resigned with SPV / Steamhammer for 2 more studio albums. 40 years of metal Vicious Rumors is going full speed ahead. The best is yet to come! The band just released a special edition DVD titled "40th Anniversary-Live in Germany". The DVD of last year's crushing show at the Bang Your Head Festival in Germany. The DVD is available only at the shows and online through the VICIOUS RUMORS website and social media sites. Streaming and digital downloads are available on Vimeo.com at vimeo.com/ondemand/viciousrumors The tour is presented by Metal Thunder Entertainment in the U.S. and Canada and by Eternal Rock Booking Agency in Europe and here is the complete list of all upcoming dates: 2019 Digital Dictator 30th Anniversary European Tour: 4/03 Barcelona, Spain, Club Upload4/04 Zaragoza, Spain, Sala Lopez4/05 Valencia, Spain, Paberse Club4/06 Irun, Spain, Club Tunk4/08 Italy, TBA4/09 Italy, TBA4/10 Italy, TBA4/11 Lenzburg, Switzerland, Metbar4/13 Mannheim, Germany, Delta Metal Meeting4/15 Vienna, Austria, Viper Room4/16 Munchen, Germany, Backstage Club4/17 Nurnberg, Germany, Der Cult4/18 Leiden, Germany, Gebr De Nobel4/19 Deinze, Belgium, Elpee4/20 Uden, Netherlands, De Pul4/21 Nijverdal, Netherlands, Tattoofest 2018 Digital Dictator 30th Anniversary US Tour: 9/20 Dubuque, IA, The Lift9/21 Chicago IL, Reggie's9/22 Akron, OH, Empire Concert Club9/23 Wilmington DE, Bar XIII9/24 Chesapeake, VA, The Riffhouse9/25 Charlotte , NC, The Milestone9/26 Atlanta, GA, Masquerade9/28 Tulsa, OK, The Vanguard9/29 Wichita, KS, The Elbow Room9/30 Lakewood, CO, Silver Music Hall10/1 Salt Lake City, UT, Metro Music Hall10/2 Idaho Falls, ID, The Gem10/3 Boise, ID, The Shredder10/5 Sacramento, CA, Holy Diver10/6 Ventura, CA, Frost and Fire Festival10/7 Mesa, AZ, Red Club10/8 Tucson, AZ, House of Bards10/9 El Paso, TX, B-1710/10 Odessa, TX, Gabby Doo's10/11 Arlington,TX, Diamond Jim's Saloon10/12 Houston, TX, White Oak Music Hall10/13 San Antonio, TX, Bonds Rock Bar10/14 Austin , TX, Come And Take It Live10/16 Albuquerque, NM, Leo's Upstairs Bar10/17 Flagstaff , AZ, The Orpheum Theatre10/19 Las Vegas, NV, The Dive Bar10/20 Los Angeles, CA, Warehouse Huntington Park10/21 Pacifica, CA, Longboard Margarita Bar Tour agencies:https://de-de.facebook.com/MetalThunderEntertainmentandBooking/http://www.eternalrock-musicagency.com/ All photos by: Rockin' Ryan Richardson ABOUT VICIOUS RUMORS Vicious Rumors is an American heavy metal band founded in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The band co-created the bay area metal scene in it's beginning. Brainchild of Geoff Thorpe, the band has been active on the metal scene since forever, actively touring through the last 30 years. Vicious Rumors is recognized for their guitar works and harmonies, as well as the variety of their tracks. Born in the Bay Area of San Francisco, in the years when the metal scene was really becoming stronger and stronger in that part of the States. Bands like Laaz Rockit, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, Death Angel are all seeing the light in the same years. Even though Vicious Rumors shared the same stages, venues and were (still are) even close friends to many of these young musicians, they focused on another music direction, only marginally influenced by the bay area thrash that in a few years will become very popular worldwide. VR, without a definite line-up, (between 1982 and 1985) plays everyhere in the US and appears on the compilations KMEL's "New Oasis", U.S. Metal vol. III and U.S. Metal vol. IV gaining finally an important record deal with legendary Shrapnel Records. The first album Soldiers of the Night published in 1985, is considered a cult milestone in US-power metal and features a future guitar hero Vinnie Moore(guitar, UFO). The second album Digital Dictator in 1988, fixed Vicious Rumors' classic and most famous line-up with one of the best singers in heavy metal history, Carl Albert (Villain, Ruffians) and the guitarist Mark McGee (Overdrive, Starcastle) along with Geoff Thorpe and Larry Howe. In 1990, the band released their self-titled album Vicious Rumors on a legendary major label, Atlantic Records. In support of this album the band tours the US and in Europe with Death Angel and Forbidden. The band was featured on the main stage at the Dynamo Open Air Festival, in Holland in front of 25,000 fans and the band's first video for the song, "Don't Wait for Me" is put on heavy rotation on MTV's legendary Headbanger's Ball, starring Vanessa Warvick. After returning from Europe, the bands set out on their first full US tour for 2 months. In 1992, Vicious Rumors released their best seller: Welcome to the Ball.This album received a Bay Area Music Award nomination for "Outstanding Metal Album" alongside the ranks of Metallica and Tesla. The band goes on a 1 month European tour with Savatage. The 2nd MTV video, "Children" goes beyond the exposure normally limited to metal bands on the Headbanger's Ball and gets regular daytime air play. And to top all of this off, VR is nominated for a "Bammie Award" (from Bamm Magazine) for best new metal album. VR tours the US for 4 months, building and strengthening their fan base in the States. After the tour with label-mates Savatage, and the live-album Plug in and Hang On: Live in Tokyo, guitarist Geoff Thorpe became ill with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The band wasn't sure to continue. They also fired the bassist Dave Starr. In 1994, with new bass-player Tommy Sisco (ex-Villain), they released their more particular album Word of Mouth for the label Rising Sun. This record includes the song "Thunder and Rain" (part.1 & part.2) dedicated to the memory of Criss Oliva (Savatage) This album generated immediate attention and put the band back on the road. In Europe, VR is back to perform at the "Dynamo Festival" in Holland once again, then joins up with Accept for more festival dates. After the completion of that tour, VR is called back for a second European tour, this time with Metal Church and Paul Di'Anno's Killers. After a successful tour with Savatage, singer Carl Albert "The Voice" (born 1962) tragically died on April 22, 1995 as a result of a car accident. The band decides to go on in memory of their talented singer. The CD A tribute to Carl Albert (including recordings taken from the Word of Mouth European tour) and the home-video The First Ten years were released first. The song "Perpetual", included on the Something Burning album, was the last track he wrote. Mark McGee, for one of his solo projects (actually unpublished), composed and recorded the song "Find Your Way Home" dedicated to the memory of his lost friend. In 2001 the band releases Sadistic Symphony with a new singer (Morgan Thorn, who will suddenly be replaced by the return of O'Connor). These three albums are different for their more groovy, experimental and modern approach but also for the vocal style.The band is totally renewed in 2002: Cornbread is the new bass player, Ira Black (ex Heathen) fills the spot of the other guitarist after Smyth, while world famous session man Atma Anur, Dan Lawson and Will Carroll (later with Death Angel) replace Larry Howe until he returns in the band. In 2005 those musicians (and the classic ones) appear on the "Crushing the World" DVD that sums up various eras of Vicious Rumors and offers audio-video footage of three unreleased tracks: Poveglia, Broken Wings, Fight, present also in the demo "Immortal" (2004) which never became an album. "Crushing the world" marks the end of the experimental era of the band. In 2006, the Warball album, produced by Juan Urteaga (Testament, Machine Head...), sees the light with the surprise of an all-star lineup due to the return of Larry Howe together with two big names of the scene as vocalist James Rivera (Helstar) and guitarist Brad Gillis (Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne). Also guitarist Thaen Rasmussen (Heathen Anvil Chorus) takes part to the recordings of "Warball" and later will be the second guitar in the live shows. "Warball" is a return to a more classic sound. But the stability of the line-up is still not destined to last. Dave Starr, unable to tour and not happy with the direction of things, is replaced at this point by Stephen Goodwin as the live bassist. At the end of the world tour also Rivera and Rasmussen part ways with Vicious Rumors. Rasmussen is replaced by Kiyoshi Morgan. The line-up finally finds a new frontman when Stixx is replaced with old style screamer Brian Allen (Last Empire, Malice). Classic members Thorpe and Howe rebuild Vicious Rumors with Allen, Goodwin and Morgan. To celebrate the new blood of the band they pay tribute the bands prestigious history. In the act of occasion of VR's 30th anniversary some songs of the first album Soldiers of the Night were played together with the original singer Gary St.Pierre. at the Headbanger's Open Air festival 2009 in Germany. And in 2011, at the Keep It True Festival (always in Germany) a special event sees the temporary return after 15 and more years of historical members Mark McGee and Tommy Sisco. On the vocals, there is a meaningful presence of Kevin Albert, Carl's son, for a unique night of tribute to the golden-era.Meanwhile the new line-up works hard also in the studio. The band's tenth album Razorback Killers, is produced by Juan Urteaga and released on March 28, 2011 with guest appearances by several musicians including former guitarist Mark McGee, Testament guitarist Eric Peterson, Brad Gillis, and the first VR studio appearances of Stephen Goodwin,Kiyoshi Morgan,and Brian Allen. The band does an extensive European tour supporting HammerFall with Thaen Rasmussen occasionally stepping in again in VR in place of Morgan. In late 2012, after some summer gigs in Europe (with touring member Bob Capka as second guitarist), VR mainman Geoff Thorpe announced two new releases for the upcoming months: a live album "Live you to Death", out in November 2012, and a new studio chapter "Electric Punishment", again produced by Juan Urteaga, released in 2013 with appearances - alongside mastermind Thorpe - of a first class team of guitarists: Rasmussen (who returns as official member), McGee, Gillis and Capka. In the first leg of European tour Allen was temporarily replaced by James Rivera due to serious family matters. According to Thorpe, the band is still "hungry" so they played more than 80 headline shows and festivals in 2013, including several metal festivals in Europe (Bang Your Head (Candlemass, Saxon, Rage...), Alcatraz Metal Meeting (Death Angel, Exodus, Anthrax, Doro...), Headbangers Open Air (co-headlining w/Metal Church, OverKill...), Metaldays (King Diamond, Iced Earth etc.) Stonehenge Festival (Asphyx, Dying Fetus, Gama Bomb...). One of the festivals, the Bang Your Head festival in Germany, featured special guest appearance of Kevin Albert, Carl Albert's son. Before the festival tour in 2013 Goodwin was replaced by a Slovenian bass player Tilen H., who became an official member. The festival season saw the band play major festivals for thousands of metalheads p.e. Alcatraz Open Air (with Exodus, Nightwish, Anthrax, Doro...), Metaldays (with Iced Earth, Sabaton...), Headbangers Open Air (co-headlining with OverKill and Metal Church), Stonehenge Open Air, Bang Your Head Fest, Turock Summer fest and more. The fall of 2013 saw the band conquer North America on a 30 date headlining tour with Seven Witches. The tour saw the arrival of a new lead vocalist, the talented Dutch youngster Nick Holleman. VR recorded a live album, LYTD II: American Punishment on tour. The album was released in June 2014, just before a new major summer tour, playing festivals all over Europe (Dokkem open air, Basinfire fest, Underwall fest) and headline gigs. In 2014 VR returned to London for the first time in 23 years and played the cult cruise festival 70 000 tons of Metal for the 2nd time! 2014 ended with the first ever South American tour, which saw VR co-headlining 2 festivals with Destruction and more solo gigs. Vicious Rumors will release a new studio album in late 2015/early 2016 on SPV/Steamhammer records. Non-stop touring! The best is yet to come! Heavy metal masters are here to stay. This is Metal! \m/ Website: www.ViciousRumors.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/ViciousRumorsThisIsMetal/Twitter: www.twitter.com/ViciousRumorsInstagram: www.instagram.com/ViciousRumorsBand Less

Sent by email from Stream Licensing Congratulations Zachary Moonshine! Your station (Metal Devastation Radio) has been selected from our Directory to be a Featured Station inyour Metal genre'. We Take Pride in the selection of Featured... More

Sent by email from Stream Licensing Congratulations Zachary Moonshine! Your station (Metal Devastation Radio) has been selected from our Directory to be a Featured Station inyour Metal genre'. We Take Pride in the selection of Featured Stations, and you shouldas well as it is a great accomplishment and it stands as proof of your hard work anddedication to this craft and is recognized by your industry peers. Share the fact you have been selected from well over a thousand stations on our directory at:http://streamlicensing.com/directory/?g=16Make sure you tell your friends and audience on all your Social Media Sites of thisprestigious peer selection recognition award. Again we say a hardy Congratulation to you! Keep up the good work. The Stardome Digital/StreamLicensing Team Less

September 21, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – Swedish born nightmare-pop band MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] has unveiled an infectious new anthemic single today called “The Sun & The Rain.” The trio has also announced a European tour in support of the... More

September 21, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – Swedish born nightmare-pop band MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] has unveiled an infectious new anthemic single today called “The Sun & The Rain.” The trio has also announced a European tour in support of the single and latest EP, The Demon King.    WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “THE SUN & THE RAIN”: [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="kdPYn9ffOJ8"]   STREAM “THE SUN & THE RAIN”:  Apple Music - https://apple.co/2xqfdCb  Soundcloud - http://bit.ly/2NXfPZb  Spotify - http://bit.ly/2Df59Ba  Tidal - http://bit.ly/2OCEBej    Comprised of former members of world renowned rock band GHOST, MCC [Magna Carta Cartel] returns with the feelgood hit of the autumn, “The Sun & the Rain.” MCC who returned to life in 2017 has explained their music as ’soundtracks to movies not yet made.’ The bands new single keeps the atmosphere from their praised debut album Goodmorning Restrained (2009) and combines it with the instant hooks from their The Demon King EP (2017). The “Sun & The Rain” is everything that we expect from the autumn, and more.  The band woke up in 2017 after a nine-year period of sleep when members were on the road with GHOST. MCC is, however, something completely different. A band with the ability to write large pop-hits with an everyday feeling.  The band will head out on their first European headline tour in September/October in support of the single.  Less

20 Buck Spin is preparing to release Frights, the new album by Acid Witch frontman SLASHER DAVE. Appropriately, the album will see release just days before Halloween! SLASHER DAVE's Frights is as creepy as it is entertaining. These twelve... More

20 Buck Spin is preparing to release Frights, the new album by Acid Witch frontman SLASHER DAVE. Appropriately, the album will see release just days before Halloween! SLASHER DAVE's Frights is as creepy as it is entertaining. These twelve nightmares of deranged horror-synth are sure to send chills down the spine on Halloween but will fulfill any horror fiends' lust for the strange and unusual year around. Offers the artist of the new single, "'Frights' was the first song written on the album. It wasn't really meant to be a part of it, it was just me screwing around with some creepy laughing samples. Originally it was just bass, drums, the choir 'ahs,' and different pitched laughs, then guitars were added to beef it up a bit. I'm not sure why, but I named it Frights when I was saving. This is before the whispered "frights" voices were even thought of. I got the idea to whisper the word, so I recorded it, then got my girlfriend to whisper it to add more depth. I loved it so much I named the album after it and influenced the entire thing because I just kept thinking, THIS is what I want my new album to sound like. Instead of taking influence and production tips from EDM/club music like the synthwave genre does, I took that influence from heavy metal. Why not? Lots of reversed cymbals and crazy backwards messages if you listen close enough too. This is the only song on the album that has 'vocals.' You can hear me do a weird ghoul voice right before the heavy part kicks in the second time around that sounds almost like puking, my tribute to a Halloween spooky sounds cassette I had as a kid that featured a man puking violently for one half of the tape." Frights by Slasher Dave Timed for release as All Hallow's Eve approaches, Frights will see release on October 26th through 20 Buck Spin, with LP, CD, and digital formats, including an exclusive glow-in-the-dark vinyl version available only through 20 Buck Spin mailorder. Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and digital preorders where "Fulzzi" is also playing via Bandcamp HERE. Watch for additional audio premieres and more to be issued over the weeks ahead.On Frights, his fourth solo record, SLASHER DAVE introduces a heavier side to the instrumental synth album world. Terrifying industrial rhythms pulse through a stark electronic soundscape of analog synthesizers, pounding bass, distorted guitars, warped lo-fi horror samples and sedulous sound design. The entire album is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by SLASHER DAVE, and, as with his past solo releases, he handled all artwork and design as well. [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="Ui9LaPcoh_w"] https://www.facebook.com/slasherdaveofficial http://slasherdave.bandcamp.com https://slasherdave.bigcartel.com https://www.instagram.com/slasherdave http://www.20buckspin.com http://www.facebook.com/20buckspin http://twitter.com/20buckspinlabel Less

Black Bone Nation wins the battle with a crushing 4,581 votes! THE LOUDEST BAND IN SOUTH AFRICA! BLACK BONE NATION is a South African Classic Hard Rock band formed in June 2015 in the coastal town of Cape Town - South Africa by vocalist and... More

Black Bone Nation wins the battle with a crushing 4,581 votes! THE LOUDEST BAND IN SOUTH AFRICA! BLACK BONE NATION is a South African Classic Hard Rock band formed in June 2015 in the coastal town of Cape Town - South Africa by vocalist and front man Zakk Styles. The band’s influences have oozed 70's, 80’s and 90's Rock legends including; Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Guns n Roses, all the way to new age and current artists such as Rival Sons, and Heaven's Basement as can be heard on their first self-titled EP album (Black Bone Nation), released on 17 March 2018 throughout all major digital outlets. The band focuses on bringing back that classic rock old school rock sound with a modern twist. The band makes use of their own pyrotechnics and stage effects during their live performances, incorporating their raw rock energy with entertainment, making their mark at each show that they attend. This has seen them provide a live show unlike anything the local gig scene in South Africa has seen before. Black Bone Nation has started working on their second studio album (To be released end of 2018), whilst touring the South African gig/club scene. A shot of whiskey is all you need to join THE NATION! Current band line up as of 2017: Vocals & Guitars: Zakk StylesDrums: Henri ViljoenLead Guitars: Brendan ForerBass Guitars: Leroux Engelbrecht Sponsored/Endorsed by: - Steve Clayton USA (Custom Printed Guitar Picks and accessories by Clayton, Inc. http://www.steveclayton.com) - Imperial Isuzu South Africa (Custom transportation and rig transport. https://www.imperialauto.co.za/dealer/imperial-isuzu-isando) Check em out below! Kick To The Teeth by Black Bone Nation [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="wUlgrZwaAfk"] Less

In 1978 Van Halen and Black Sabbath teamed up for a tour to end all tours. Van Halen shared bills with a bunch of big acts in ‘78 during their first world tour, all of whom immediately regretted the decision because VH was next to impossible to... More

In 1978 Van Halen and Black Sabbath teamed up for a tour to end all tours. Van Halen shared bills with a bunch of big acts in ‘78 during their first world tour, all of whom immediately regretted the decision because VH was next to impossible to upstage. I mean, how do you follow a band that shows up to a gig by parachuting from a plane, then catches a ride from a van waiting for them on the ground, and starts playing the show still wearing the jumpsuits they jumped out of the plane in? Oh, and they just happen to be Van fucking Halen, no big deal. Of course, the members of VH didn’t actually jump out of a plane in California just so they could play their set at the Anaheim Stadium Summer Fest in September of 1978, they had stuntmen do it, so they didn’t miss out on happy hour before the show. Priorities, Van Halen has ‘em. In getting back to VH’s tour with Black Sabbath, Sabbath quickly learned their choice of opening bands might have been a mistake. Ozzy told writer Greg Renoff (author of the fantastic book, Van Halen Rising) that he and Sabbath were “stunned” after witnessing Van Halen’s set during the start of the tour in Europe in May of 1978. 1978 had been a rough year for Sabbath, and their collective drug and alcohol consumption was at an all-time high. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but this was especially true for Ozzy. Ozzy was so messed up he actually quit the band, briefly forcing Sabbath to replace him with Dave Walker (Fleetwood Mac/Savoy Brown). Ozzy would return, and the tour rolled on through Europe, eventually wrapping up in the U.S. for the second leg of their North American shows. The night before the tour stopped in Nashville, Tennessee, Roth and Ozzy decided to stay up until nine in the morning doing blow to see which one of them would faceplant first. Score one for DLR for having the balls to challenge Ozzy to a competition involving drugs without dying in the process. Somehow, both Roth and Osbourne made it to the airport, got to Nashville, and checked into their hotel. Later on when it came time to head off to sound check, Ozzy didn’t show up. The tour manager had never given Ozzy the key to his room which would explain why Ozzy wasn’t found there either. Things got frantic quick given Ozzy’s less than stellar track record of not being a responsible human and it had everyone thinking the worst—the singer had been kidnapped or was lying dead somewhere in Nashville. At some point when it became clear Ozz wasn’t going to materialize in time for the show, Roth said members of Sabbath asked him if he could sing any of their material, but he didn’t know any of their lyrics. Van Halen would play their opening slot, but Sabbath would have to cancel for obvious reasons. By this time the hotel and surrounding areas were now swarming with the local police and the FBI, all searching for Osbourne. At the center of it all was David Lee Roth, as he was technically—as far as anyone knew—one of the last people to see Ozzy alive. Searches for the singer turned up no clues, no sightings, nothing. Then, as things were starting to seem quite bleak Roth recalls Sabbath had been hanging out sitting on a carpet in the hotel lobby, grim as fuck waiting to have their worst fears confirmed. What actually happened was a very out-of-it-Ozzy headed up to what he thought was his room, #616, as he still had the key from the previous night’s hotel in his possession. The room was being cleaned and Ozzy told the housekeeper to beat it so he could crash for eighteen hours or so after doing blow for half a day with DLR. According to the police report, when he woke up, he realized he was in the wrong room and toddled off to his real room where he picked up a call from a Nashville detective. Dave remembers at around 6:30 in the morning a not dead, maybe only half dead Ozzy walked out of the hotel lobby elevator. Here’s a hilarious quote from Lt. Sherman Nickens of the Nashville, Tennessee PD on the incident. Oh, Lt. Nickens, if you only knew! “Ozzy Osbourne may have been kidnapped or been the victim of some other form of foul play. Here’s a man who makes a lot of money and has never missed a show in ten years. He doesn’t drink or use dope. He disappears and his people are so frantic. So it was possible that something had happened to this man. While all the time he’s sleeping.” Let this be a lesson to you folks: never challenge David Lee Roth to a cocaine duel—you will lose. Sabbath returned to Tennessee with VH a few days later to make up the gig and by most accounts it wasn’t great, as Osbourne’s voice was shot. Via DangerousMinds [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="ZGdtehZ1BZ0"] [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="4tuuRT-65J4"] Less

The dog food was named after Behemoth's first single "God = Dog" and the kibble is made from vegetable broth, soybeans, apples, unbleached flour and sweet potatoes. A collectors item for sure. - MetalInjection [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube"... More

The dog food was named after Behemoth's first single "God = Dog" and the kibble is made from vegetable broth, soybeans, apples, unbleached flour and sweet potatoes. A collectors item for sure. - MetalInjection [jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="iI2y_mi7jDI"] Less