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 the second clip from the 5th annual awards show. This video features our host Zakk Wylde interviewing Rob Zombie and John 5 backstage at Club Nokia in Downtown Los Angeles after they performed with Five Finger Death Punch. For more information on Samson, visit samsontech.com. To watch all the performances and awards, including John 5 winning Epiphone’s Best Guitarist Award, from this special night, click here or go to www.GoldenGodsAwards.com.
In this week’s Album of the Week poll, you, the fans, voted Rob Zombie to the top spot, for his album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor. Check out the top five vote-getters below:
1. Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
2. Lair of the Minotaur – Godslayer EP
3. Whitesnake – Made in Japan DVD/CD
4. Vehement Serenade – The Things that Tear You Apart
5. Thaw – Thaw
Stay tuned for this week’s poll, which will be live tomorrow on RevolverMag.com. Until then, you can check out Rob Zombie’s “Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown” off Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor below:
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As Rob Zombie discusses in the current issue of Revolver, he and guitarist John 5 wrote and recorded a black-metal song for the fictional band Leviathan the Fleeing Serpent featured in Zombie’s new movie, The Lords of Salem. Below, you can view the video for the track, called “Crushing the Ritual.” Let us know what you think in the comments.
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This week sees new shit from Rob Zombie, Whitesnake, Woe, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you’re snagging a copy of and which record should be the Album of the Week. Pick your favorite and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, April 29, at noon, when the results will be announced.
Created and written by Greg Grabianski & Andy Rheingold (of Beavis & Butthead), and featuring the vocal talent of comedian Brian Posehn as the title character, the new show Executioner premieres tonight on the Rug Burn Channel. Below, Grabianski and Rheingold offer their list of the 10 Most Metal Cartoons.
“It’s a hard question to answer: What exactly makes a cartoon ‘metal’? Is it the violence, the attitude, the ‘over the topness’ of it all? Or just the characters having a definite ‘metal’ point of view on life? All we know is that, to us, somehow these cartoons satisfy that same part of the brain that a savage Slayer riff does.”
1. Executioner
“This is the most metal cartoon ever. Mostly because we created it. Comedian Brian Posehn voices a medieval executioner who finds himself suddenly living in modern day Southern California and has to survive doing the only thing he knows: killing people. The theme song by Morgue Supplier makes it that much more metal! This’ll make you want to kill people (but in a fun way). Catch it on Rug Burn, starting April 16!”
2. Beavis & Butthead
“We think this is the second most metal show ever, mostly because we’re writers on the show. And because Mike Judge kicks ass.”
3. Metalocalypse
“No. 3 because our friends at Titmouse make the show–the same studio that animates Executioner. Hilarious and completely fucking metal.
4. Tex Avery cartoons
“No. 4 because that’s the number of joints we smoke while watching these. Old school over-the-top madness by the wildest cartoon director ever. A few standout classics include ‘Bad Luck Blackie,’ ‘Deputy Droopy,’ and ‘Little Rural Riding Hood.’”
5. Itchy & Scratchy
“No. 5 because that’s the average number of laughs in a Simpsons episode these days–all of them coming when you can catch the ultra-violent craziness of this show-within-the-show.”
6. South Park
“6, 6, 6, the number of the Beast, because episodes like ‘Woodland Critter Christmas’ and ‘Major Boobage’ are so metal you need to throw up the devil-horns salute while watching them.”
7. The hallucination sequence in the movie Beavis & Butthead Do America
“Beavis has the coolest, funniest trip-out scene ever, with music and character designs by Rob Zombie and animated by Chris Prynoski (owner of Titmouse Studios, who make Executioner).”
8. Paths Of Hate
“Unlike the rest of these, this one isn’t funny–it’s just a completely badass short about two fighter pilots that just fucking hate each other…so goddamn much.”
9. Celebrity Deathmatch
“Asshole celebrities beating each other to death for our amusement. How much more metal can you get?”
10. Korgoth of Barbaria
“Google it. Enjoy it.”
Record Store Day has become an audiophile’s Christmas. The now annual event has spread worldwide to become a day where bands and record labels put out special vinyl releases including colored vinyl, exclusives, and picture discs. This year’s Record Store Day will be held on April 20.
One notable release is Earache Records’ The World’s Shortest Album, which features 13 songs in 83 seconds. Of course, bands like Napalm Death, Brutal Truth, Anal Cunt and more are included.
A list of metal and hard-rock releases are below:
- All That Remains – Fall Of Ideals 12”
- Avenged Sevenfold – Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough 12”
- Avenged Sevenfold – Carry On Picture Disc
- Between The Buried And Me – Parallax 1 & 2 Vinyl Boxset
- Between The Buried And Me – The Anatomy Of 12”
- Botch – American Nervoso (deluxe 2xLP)
- Coheed And Cambria – The Afterman: Descension (Big Beige Demos) 12”
- Deep Purple/Type-O Negative – Side by Side: Highway Star 7”
- Deftones – Live: Volume 1 – Selections from Adrenaline 12”
- Dio – Magica Picture Disc
- Dio/Killswitch Engage – Side by Side: Holy Diver 7”
- Katatonia – Buildings 7”
- Lamb Of God – New American Gospel (Grey Marble Edition) 12”
- Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory 12”
- Misfits/The Lemonheads – Side By Side: Skulls Picture Disc
- Puscifer – V is for Vagina 12”
- Soundgarden – King Animal Demos 10”
- Testament – Dark Roots Covers Picture Disc 7″
- Touche Amore/Title Fight – Split 7″
- Rob Zombie – Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown/ Teenage Nosferatu Pussy (Explicit Only) 10”
You can find more information about Record Store Day here.
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A clip has been released from Rob Zombie’s new horror film, The Lords of Salem.
The movie, which is Zombie’s fifth, is about a group of radio deejays that play a mysterious record which activates a curse placed on the town hundreds of years ago. It stars his wife Sheri Moon Zombie as deejay Heidi Hawthorne.
On May 2 at the Golden God Awards, Revolver will award Rob Zombie with the 2013 Golden God.
The movie will open to limited release on April 19. The clip is below.
Check out this brand new Rob Zombie-directed music video for “Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown,” the lead single off Zombie’s upcoming album, Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, which comes out April 23. Let us know what you think in the comments. You can pre-order the album HERE.
Rob Zombie–who will receive the Golden Gods Award at the 2013 Golden Gods on May 2–is also headlining the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival this summer. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
]]>The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival lineup this year features Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon and Amon Amarth on the Rockstar Energy Drink Main Stage. The Festival area will showcase Machine Head, Children of Bodom, Behemoth, Job for a Cowboy, Emmure, Born of Osiris, Motionless in White, Butcher Babies, Battlecross, Huntress, Thrown into Exile and City in the Sea!!
For the first time ever, this year’s tour will feature four stages: the Rockstar Energy Drink Main Stage, the Jägermeister Stage and the Musicians Institute Stage will be joined by the Sumerian/Headbang for the Highway Concourse Stage, which will feature local bands, to be announced in June.
The tour kicks off on June 29th in San Bernardino and runs through August 4th with tickets on sale on sale now at www.rockstarmayhemfest.com or through www.livenation.com.
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