Samson, Xbox and Revolver were backstage May 2 at the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards to host all the artist interviews, which aired live exclusively on Xbox Smartglass. Now Samson and Revolver are releasing all the interviews for you to watch!
Here’s a clip from the 5th annual awards show. This video features our host David Ellefson interviewing Alice Cooper backstage at Club Nokia in Downtown Los Angeles after he and Marilyn Manson presented the Most Dedicated Fans Award Presented by Xbox. For more information on Samson, visit samsontech.com.
To watch all the performances and awards from this special night, click here or go to GoldenGodsAwards.com.
The Outaouais Rock team is proud to announce the complete lineup for the 8th edition of the Amnesia Rockfest, now the biggest rock festival in Quebec and sponsored by Revolver Magazine. The festival will kick off with a series of indoor shows from June 10 – 16 at the Marina de Montebello in the Outaouais region. Main outdoor festivities take place June 14 and 15.
Among the headlining bands are the popular Chicago rock group Rise Against, Californian punk rock bands The Offspring and Social Distortion, shock rockers Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson, and alternative-metal band Deftones. These bands will play alongside the likes of the previously announced Rancid and Lamb of God, as well as Pennywise (back together with the band’s original singer), Dropkick Murphys, Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, Lagwagon, Transplants (with Travis Barker of Blink-182), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (playing in Quebec after a 16 year absence), Millencolin and many others.
In addition to a significant enhancement of the three existing stages, Rockfest will introduce two new “international” stages that will focus on cult favorites and rare bands. Taking to these stages include the reunion of Black Flag, which will play under the name FLAG, Bad Brains (after an 18 year absence in Quebec), Screeching Weasel (after a 30 year absence in Quebec), Sick Of It All, Biohazard, Discharge, Subhumans UK, Mad Caddies and many others.
Rotating with the main stage, the « Québécois » stage will host the pillars of Quebec’s alternative music scene. Several of these now defunct bands are reuniting solely for the Amnesia Rockfest : Groovy Aardvark, Men O Steel, Roller Starter, Cryptopsy (with the band’s original frontman Lord Worm), Ghoulunatics, Arseniq33, Capitaine Révolte and Vulgar Deli. Also scheduled to reunite are : Grimskunk, Mononc’ Serge, Kataklysm, Matt Smashers of Planet Smashers, Obey The Brave and a punk Karaoke at the end of the night as well as many others.
Finally, the emerging stage will offer the best of local and international bands. Many surprises and secrets await festival attendees. In total, over 150 bands will take to the stages during the event.
It cannot be left unsaid that camping zones and festival grounds will be expanding the week leading up to festival as will indoor show venues (the lineup for indoor shows will be released in the upcoming weeks). There will be numerous activities taking place over the course of the event including rides, a rock and roll museum, a haunted house, buskers and fire spitters to enhance the carnivalesque and festive atmosphere.
Weekend passports are now available exclusively with advanced ticket sales in limited quantity on the Rockfest Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pnrockfest. Tickets for general admission will go on sale Saturday at noon at www.pnrockfest.com, in Amnesia stores and on the Admission network. Passports are available at the affordable price of 79$ + taxes and service fees, which comes out to 0.53$ a band! With the already generated enthusiasm and this year’s solid line-up, the team thinks that for the first time in its history, the festival will be sold out!
Please note that VIP packages are also available as well as bus packages from Montreal, Quebec City and other cities.
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On January 24, Revolver and Guitar World teamed up to host the 2nd Annual Rock & Roll Roast at the Grove in Anaheim, California.
The event honored Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who withstood a barrage of barbs and one-liners from a slew of rockers and comedians, including the legendary Alice Cooper, who apparently is a bit of both! Cooper roasted Snider via a video made just for the occasion, and you can check it out below.
There will be more videos coming your way, of course! Look for a new video from the Rock & Roll Roast of Dee Snider every day this week.
The event, which was presented by Peavey Electronics and sponsored by Epiphone and Monster Energy Drink, featured sets by Black Label Society guitarist Zakk Wylde (last year’s Roast honoree), Scott Ian, comedian Jim Norton, That Metal Show co-hosts Jim Florentine and Eddie Trunk, Lita Ford, comedian Craig Gass and Snider’s son, actor and comedian Shane Snider.
The event also included video roasts by Cooper, Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho, Donald Trump, Alice Cooper, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sebastian Bach, Steel Panther, Playboy Playmate Brande Roderick and others.
On the night of the Roast, fans followed the action via Twitter (#DEEROAST) and watched the event live on AXS TV. Proceeds from the event benefit MusiCares, a nonprofit organization of The Recording Academy that provides financial assistance and addiction recovery resources to music people in need.
To read more about the Roast — and to see a red carpet photo gallery and video by Fuse — check out our day-after wrap-up story, which features some of the best one-liners from the event.
All shots courtesy of photographer Stephanie Cabral.
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Iron Maiden are a band who doesn’t usually enjoy looking backward…especially at their concerts. In fact, on many recent tours, they’ve made it a point to stay as current as possible. When they released their 14th album, A Matter of Life and Death, they played it from start to finish at every date of that tour. And they did it to packed houses. Incredibly, when they released that album’s follow-up, 2010’s The Final Frontier, they performed sets composed largely of songs they released over the past decade. And they still filled enormodomes like New York City’s Madison Square Garden with young and old fans alike.
To satiate fans who still want to hear the songs that consecrated the group’s status as one of the top heavy-metal bands in the 1980s, Iron Maiden began playing shows with set lists that reflected certain eras. In 2005, they staged the Eddie Rips Up the World Tour, named after their rotting zombie mascot, where they played tracks from their first four or so albums. Three years later, they built a set that recalled their classic World Slavery Tour, which supported their landmark 1984 album Powerslave and begat the classic metal live album, 1985’s Live After Death. For their current tour, they’re looking back at 1988, the year they released their more proggy Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album, and they’ve crafted a set list, which you can see below, that reflects what ended up on their 1989 VHS release Maiden England.
When they stopped through Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center on July 2, they were first faced with the formidable task of following another legend of hard rock and metal: Alice Cooper. And the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer pulled out all stops for the performance, much on par with something you’d expect of a headliner. Entering the stage via a podium, Cooper stretched out his arms (eight arms to be exact), released some sparklers and commenced singing “The Black Widow,” off his 1975 solo breakthrough, Welcome to My Nightmare. At age 64, Cooper still attempts highly theatrical stunts that someone half is age would. He lets a snake wrap its body around his neck, he dons a mad-scientist smock for “Feed My Frankenstein” (and later flips the switch to bring a giant Alice Cooperstein’s Monster to life), and, of course, there’s still the guillotine. After he feels his character has committed enough sins to be punished, including impaling a paparazzo, he allows executioners to strap him to the device and allow the blade to come crashing down on him. It’s a special effect that still impresses and doesn’t look as cheesy as it could be.
For his set list, he culled hits from his entire career (“I’m Eighteen,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “School’s Out”) as well as some of his more metal-leaning hits and deep cuts to impress the Maiden crowd (“Hey Stoopid,” “Poison” and some extra heavy cuts from 2000’s Brutal Planet). Between his set list and his charisma, Cooper proved to be an opening act that could rile the crowd like a headliner and the three-quarters capacity crowd seemed to eat it up. Maiden would have to pull off quite the show to impress the crowd after Cooper.
Luckily, the Irons had planned out a two-hour set that was equally theatrical. Following a video depicting frontman Bruce Dickinson singing amidst icy tundra, the group shot onto the stage amidst a flurry of mushroom clouds. Launching into “Moonchild,” the first song on Seventh Son, the group flung themselves around the stage in the same manner they did in the ’80s: Dickinson, wearing a long-tail suit jacket, shadowboxed on a raised set, the group’s three guitarists posed in various shapes, and bassist Steve Harris fired the headstock of his bass at the audience as if it were a gun. The only drawback was the sound was thin and uneven, a problem that would persist throughout the night. Nevertheless the group recited one hit after another (“Can I Play With Madness,” “The Prisoner,” “2 Minutes to Midnight,” and on and on).
Throughout the night, Dickinson made a number of jokes about the Fourth of July, just two days away, asking the crowd if it would like to see some fireworks. Then the band played one pyro-laden song after another. For “The Number of the Beast,” six(!) flash pots erupted for the canonical “666” chorus. Throughout the rest of the night, various displays of fireworks, from what looked like giant sparklers to sort-of tiki torches surrounding the various Eddie statues on the stage. And, in true Maiden fashion, that’s not all there was to the show. During “Run to the Hills,” a giant colonial-dressed Eddie came onstage and for “The Number of the Beast,” the band raised a giant devil. Dickinson was his usual jovial self, jumping around the stage and making quips. (“Anybody feeling wasted?” he asked before “Wasted Years.” When the frankly stunned audience didn’t reply how he wanted, he saved it by saying, “A whole audience of designated drivers—I love it.”)
But the evening’s showstopper was the epic song “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.” Dickinson, dressed in a blue-accented militaristic long coat, prowled the stage around a giant statue of Eddie. When he left for the solo breaks, an organist who looked like a medieval witch rose up and played with the band. By the end, fireworks erupted over the stage.
They closed the night with “Iron Maiden,” naturally, followed by an impressive trio of encores: “Aces High,” “The Evil That Men Do,” and the infectious “Running Free.” And while fans can always expect an energetic, acrobatic set from the English metal legends, it’s impressive that the group is able to put on a show that so perfectly recalled the things that made them special in the first place.
ALICE COOPER Set List
“The Black Widow”
“Brutal Planet”
“I’m Eighteen”
“No More Mr. Nice Guy”
“Hey Stoopid”
Orianthi Guitar Solo
“Billion Dollar Babies”
“Feed My Frankenstein”
“Poison”
“Wicked Young Man”
“Killer”
“I Love the Dead”
“School’s Out “
IRON MAIDEN Set List
“Moonchild”
“Can I Play With Madness”
“The Prisoner”
“2 Minutes to Midnight”
“Afraid to Shoot Strangers”
“The Trooper”
“The Number of the Beast”
“Phantom of the Opera”
“Run to the Hills”
“Wasted Years”
“Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”
“The Clairvoyant”
“Fear of the Dark”
“Iron Maiden”
Encore:
“Churchill’s Speech”
“Aces High”
“The Evil That Men Do”
“Running Free”
Photo by John McMurtrie
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At this past weekend’s Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, veteran shock rocker Alice Cooper threw fans a curveball by covering “Born This Way” by pop songstress Lady Gaga. You can watch video footage of the performance below.
It should come as no surprise that Cooper would choose to cover Lady Gaga, as he called the pop star “the female Alice Cooper” in an interview last year.
“She totally gets it,” he said. “She created a character named Lady Gaga and wrote songs for Lady Gaga, just as I write songs for Alice. But when you meet her offstage, she’s nothing like that person… and neither am I.”
Alice Cooper released his latest album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, last September.
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The issue also includes:
- Lzzy Hale of Halestorm interviews Pat Benatar
- Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D
- Pantera
- Taylor Momsen of the Pretty Reckless
- Every Time I Die
- Falling in Reverse
- The Cult
Plus: High on Fire, Fear Factory, CM Punk, Steel Panther, Deuce, For Today, Demon Hunter, Marduk, OFF!, Huntress, and more!
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The fourth annual Revolver Golden Gods Award Show brought the house down at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on April 11 with groundbreaking performances and once-in-a-lifetime collaborations that America’s only hard-rock and heavy-metal show have become known for. Broadcast live in its entirety on Xbox LIVE and the Revolver Facebook page, the sold-out event featured the greatest in hard rock and heavy metal and was hosted again by Fozzy front man and WWE pro-wrestling legend Chris Jericho. Album of the Year honors at this year’s event went to Korn for their critically acclaimed album The Path of Totality.
The evening featured surprise appearances including Johnny Depp playing guitar on two Marilyn Manson songs, “Sweet Dreams” and “The Beautiful People,” and Taylor Momen joining Manson for “The Dope Show;” Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn joining Trivium onstage to cover Metallica’s “Creeping Death;” Slash jamming with Alice Cooper on “Schools Out;” Dee Snider performing with the Black Veil Brides for an awesome rendition of “I Wanna Rock,” and more. Highlights also include Jack Black and Kyle Glass of Tenacious D presenting the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award to prog-rock pioneers Rush and legendary Kiss rocker Gene Simmons taking home the “Golden God” award.
Following is a complete list of the 2012 Golden Gods Award Winners:
Riff Lord: Slash
Paul Gray Best Bassist: Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe, Sixx:A.M.)
Best Drummer: Jeremy Spencer (Five Finger Death Punch)
Best Guitarists: Jinxx and Jake Pitts (Black Veil Brides)
Golden God: Gene Simmons (Kiss)
Comeback of the Year: Slipknot
Best International Band: X Japan
Album Of The Year: Korn’s The Path of Totality
Most Dedicated Fans: Avenged Sevenfold
Most Metal Athlete: CM Punk (WWE Wrestling)
Best Vocalist: Amy Lee (Evanescence)
Best Live Band: Avenged Sevenfold
Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award: Rush
The Revolver Golden Gods Awards are just a couple of weeks away! Check out the preview below, which stars Alice Cooper, Zakk Wylde, and Chris Jericho, as well as members of Korn, Black Veil Brides, Hellyeah, and more! Getcha pull!
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