Videos
In December Lynam released their seventh album, Halfway to Hell. Now, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere their new music video, "Cold" right here right now. Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.
Vocalist Jacob Bunton says of the song, "'Cold' is about being fed up with your current situation and wanting to start over. Sometimes it's hard to leave behind who you are to find out who you could become. here are a lot of obstacles in life. Sometimes it's your dreams that break your heart the most. The struggle pushes most people to their breaking point and they give up. Everybody believes their problems are worse than everybody else's. Tomorrow is never promised and the world will knock you down, but it's up to each of us to keep standing back up. I'm a big believer in faith and that you can be whatever you want to be regardless of where you come from. The video for the song was filmed in Nashville, Tennessee by director John Fucile and his team at Smack Dab Media. The story line follows a girl that has basically given up on life. The video starts with her dead in the woods and then tells her story in reverse."
In 2012, Jacob Bunton and Lonny Paul had teamed with Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses to release Adler Back From the Dead. Lynam had been rocking for over a decade and the line up includes David Lynam, Jacob Bunton, Mark Dzier and Lonny Paul.
Below, thanks to the wonders and mysteries of YouTube, you can watch a classic BBC documentary called Arena — Heavy Metal from 1989.
The 48-minute video, which originally was shown on the U.K.'s BBC Two as part of its "Heavy Metal Heaven" series, features live footage of Metallica (They kick things off the clip with "Seek & Destroy"), Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Megadeth, Motörhead, Napalm Death, Slayer, Steppenwolf and more.
There also are then-current interviews with Tom Araya, Geezer Butler, Bruce Dickinson, Malcolm Dome, Steve Harris, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page, Axl Rose, David Lee Roth, Lars Ulrich and many others. Enjoy!
Guitar icon and Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde has announced a brand new LP freshly titled Catacombs of the Black Vatican, due out Tuesday, April 8. Watch the video teaser below:
Prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria are featured in an upcoming episode of Guitar Center Sessions which airs Friday, Jan. 10 at 9pm ET/10pm PT on DIRECTV's Audience Network (channel 239). In anticipation, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere an interview with frontman Claudio Sanchez where he talks about his songwriting process. Check out the clip below and let us know what you think in the comments.
For more on Guitar Center Sessions visit their website and for Coheed and Cambria visit their website.
Judas Priest made an animated appearance on last night's episode of The Simpsons. The episode featured a mini performance by the metal gods and the episode topic dealt with illegal downloading. Check out the clip below.
Today, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett announced via Facebook that he'll be joining Exodus and Death Angel — two of the headliners at his inaugural horror convention — on stage during their encores.
The event, which has been dubbed Kirk Von Hammett's Fear FestEvil, will take place February 6 to 8 at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom. Exodus will be joined by Carcass that Friday; Death Division and Orchid will play before Death Angel on Saturday.
It should be noted that Hammett was the founding guitarist of Exodus before joining Metallica.
From the Fear FestEvil folks:
"Created to honor the weird, the wonderful, the eclectic and the things that make your hair stand up on end, the heavy doors of collector/curator/historian/guardian Kirk Von Hammett's crypt will be opened to the public to display the finest acquisitions in his extensive collection of horror memorabilia, which includes rare movie posters and props, costumes, models, masks and toys from various eras.
"Private 'Crypt' tours, signing sessions and live music will be included in the three-day event."
For more information on the event, visit fearfestevil.com.
Below, check out a video of 11-year-old guitarist Aidan Fisher performing "Eruption" while onstage with Steel Panther during their December 19 show at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.
As expected, Fisher follows "Eruption" with "You Really Got Me," and the whole band, minus Steel Panther guitarist Satchel, joins in.
Apparently, Fisher challenged Satchel to a guitar duel at some point before the show, which led to his being invited on stage with the band.
At the very end of the clip, you can read Satchel's verdict on who won the shoot-out.
As always, since Steel Panther is involved, the top video is NSFW. It features foul language in the presence of an 11-year-old.
To watch the censored version of this clip, visit GuitarWorld.com.
For your holiday enjoyment, masters of puppets FoamFoolery have teamed with Brian Fair from Shadows Fall and Death Ray Vision for a festive poetry reading of Kenneth Widman's "The Krampus." Comic-book artist Tony Moore provided the Krampus artwork.
Visit FoamFoolery.net for more metal puppet fun.
Happy unholy-daze!
Megadeth starred in an awesome sketch that aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments.
We just posted our list of the Best Music Videos of 2013. Now we're asking you, what is your favorite among our picks? Vote below, as many times as you want, to tell us—until the poll ends on January 3.
UPDATE: The poll has closed. To view the result, click here.