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Mudvayne will mark the 25th anniversary of their classic album, L.D. 50, on a Fall 2025 US tour, while support act Static-x will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their landmark LP Wisconsin Death Trip. The outing will also feature opening act Vended.

The 30-city tour will kick off September 11th in Dubuque, Iowa, and run through an October 26th show in Uncasville, Connecticut. Along the way, it will hit such cities as Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and more.

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An artist pre-sale commences Tuesday (May 6th) via Ticketmaster at 2 p.m. local time using the code LD50, while a Live Nation pre-sale starts Wednesday (May 7th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Freestyle. General sales begins Friday (May 9th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

L.D. 50 and Wisconsin Death Trip are both considered staples of the nu-metal explosion of the early 2000s.

The lineup for the 2025 edition of the Aftershock festival has just been unveiled, featuring headliners blink-182, Deftones, Korn, and Bring Me the Horizon.

The four-day fest is set for October 2nd-5th at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, and also features A Perfect Circle, Good Charlotte, Turnstile, Marilyn Manson, Gojira, Bad Omens, Rob Zombie, Acid Bath, Lamb of God, All Time Low, Dream Theater, Gwar, Bruce Dickinson, Knocked Loose, and others among the 115-plus acts on the bill.

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Tickets to Aftershock 2025, including four-day and single-day passes, are available via the festival’s website. Fans can also look for deals via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Joining blink-182 on the Thursday (October 2nd) lineup will be Good Charlotte, All Time Low, Acid Bath, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, The All-American Rejects, Power Trip, Hollywood Undead, Carcass, High on Fire, and more.

Louder Than Life festival has revealed its 2025 lineup in full. The four-day Louisville fest features headliners Slayer, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, and Bring Me the Horizon among more than 160 acts.

The festival takes place September 18th-21st at the Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center, with tickets now available via the Louder Than Life website. Secondary headliners include Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Sleep Token, Breaking Benjamin, Bad Omens, A Perfect Circle, $uicideboy$, and Evanescence.

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The Thursday (September 18th) bill will feature Slayer, Rob Zombie (performing White Zombie’s Astro-Creep: 2000 in honor of its 30th anniversary), and Marilyn Manson joined by Lamb of God, Down, Cavalera (performing Sepultura’s Chaos A.D.), Cannibal Corpse, Exodus, Lorna Shore, Carcass, Municipal Waste, and more.

On Friday (September 19th), Avenged Sevenfold (only US headlining show of 2025), Sleep Token, and Breaking Benjamin top a bill that includes Mudvayne, Spiritbox,...

The Louder Than Life festival has been gradually rolling out its 2025 lineup, with over a dozen artists having now been revealed. The four-day gathering is set for September 18th-21st at the Highland Festival Grounds in Louisville, Kentucky.

As previously reported, Slayer will be one of the headliners at this year’s festival after Hurricane Helene washed out their scheduled appearance in 2024. Additionally, it was announced in December that the reunited Acid Bath would be playing four Danny Wimmer Presents festivals in 2025, including Louder Than Life.

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In recent days, Louder Than Life has revealed such notable acts as A Perfect Circle, Lamb of God, and Drain.

Other bands playing the four-day fest include the reunited letlive., Lorna Shore, Mudvayne, Walls of Jericho, Black Veil Brides, Superheaven, Spineshank, and Static-X, among others.

Four-day passes for Louder Than Life 2025 are currently available via the festival’s website.

Coal Chamber have canceled their upcoming “Fiend for the Fans Tour” as frontman Dez Fafara continues to look after his health.

The trek had already been postponed last year when Fafara suffered a near-death medical emergency after previously battling long Covid. Fafara was hospitalized at the time, and the tour — initially set for a late-August launch — was moved to Spring 2025. Fear Factory, Twiztid, Black Satellite, and Frayle were set to support.

The outing has now been nixed altogether, and Fafara released a statement informing fans that he’s decided to focus on his health so he can continue to perform with both his bands, Coal Chamber and DevilDriver, in the future. His full statement reads:

“First off let me say that we are sending prayers to all who are affected in these terrible California wildfires. We have many friends on evacuation or that have lost everything please donate or do what you can to help.

The lineup for the 2025 Sick New World festival has been unveiled, with the one-day Las Vegas event featuring headliners Metallica and Linkin Park, plus Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Gojira, AFI, Tomahawk, Ministry, and dozens more acts.

Sick New World 2025 is set for April 12th at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, with a sign-up for a pre-sale code available at this location. The pre-sale will begin this Friday at 10 a.m. Pt with a general on-sale starting four hours later at 2 p.m. Pt via the festival’s website.

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Among the other acts on the 2025 bill are 311, Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, The Flaming Lips, The Sisters of Mercy, Meshuggah, and Cradle of Filth, plus Acid Bath’s first show in nearly three decades.

The stacked lineup also features Cannibal Corpse, Down, Three Days Grace (with original singer Adam Gontier), Melvins, Refused (on their farewell tour), Mastodon,...

Peter Frampton is known for using a talk box onstage, but we’ve never known him to talk out of his ass. However, that’s what Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is accusing the classic rocker of doing in an exchange of words regarding the cancelation of both acts’ shows at the same venue.

As it was, Megadeth canceled their September 15th gig at the Virginia Credit Union Live! at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia “due to unexpected and unpredictable circumstances.”

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Frampton was scheduled to play at the same venue two days later, but also had to cancel his concert “due to unforeseen circumstances.” While performing in Philadelphia on the 19th, Frampton seemed to place the blame on Megadeth.

“So, we had a show canceled the other day because of weather,” Frampton told the crowd. “And also Megadeth did a soundcheck, I think a couple of days before our show,...

All That Remains have returned with the single “Divine,” their first new song in six years. The track also marks the Massachusetts metal band’s first new music since the tragic death of guitarist Oli Herbert in 2018.

Lead guitarist Jason Richardson (ex-Chelsea Grin) joined All That Remains following Herbert’s passing, filling out a lineup that includes frontman Philip Labonte, drummer Anthony Barone, bassist Matt Deis, and rhythm guitarist Mike Martin.

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“Divine” marks a dynamic return for All That Remains, with Labonte’s guttural screams in the verses leading into a clean-sung melodic chorus. Richardson, who has also made a name for himself as a solo guitarist, delivers a blistering solo around the 2:40 mark.

“It’s been a long time since All That Remains released new music,” said Labonte in a press release. “A lot has changed … in both the band, All That Remains,...

Megadeth have announced the “Destroy All Enemies” Summer 2024 US tour, featuring support from Mudvayne and All That Remains.

The outing kicks off August 2nd in Rogers, Arkansas, and runs through September 28th in Nashville. Megadeth and company will hit such cities as Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Boston, and Minneapolis along the way.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (April 24th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Riff. General ticket sales start Friday (April 16th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

“Our ‘Crush the World’ tour has been a tremendous experience for the four of us,” remarked Dave Mustaine in a press release. “We are all playing tight, and that has made it possible for me to...

Welcome to Rockville has unveiled its 2024 lineup, and the four-day Florida festival is stacked with headliners Mötley Crüe, Limp Bizkit, Foo Fighters, and Slipknot, plus Disturbed, Mr. Bungle, Queens of the Stone Age, Judas Priest, Evanescence, Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s new eponymous project, and dozens more acts.

The 2024 edition, set to take place May 9th-12th at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, has been expanded to five stages and 150 bands (50 more than this year’s fest) — rivaling European festivals like Hellfest and Download.

Fans can look for tickets and deals via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

On Thursday (May 9th), Mötley Crüe will be joined on the lineup by Disturbed, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Mudvayne, Machine Head, Kerry King, Insane Clown Posse, Dirty Honey, Biohazard, and more.

Friday (May 10th) will see Limp Bizkit headline a bill that includes Jelly Roll,...

After record-breaking attendance of over 170,000 music fans over four days in 2023, Welcome To Rockville returns to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida to kick off the festival season bigger and better than ever May 9-12, 2024. Festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents is excited to announce the addition of a 5th music stage and 50 additional bands, bringing the total music lineup to an impressive 150 bands for Welcome To Rockville 2024.

The initial music lineup for the 13th year of Welcome To Rockville is the festival’s most powerful collection of artists yet and features an array of talent not-to-be-missed including Foo Fighters, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Jelly Roll, Disturbed, Limp Bizkit, Queens of the Stone Age, Judas Priest, Greta Van Fleet, Evanescence, Falling In Reverse, A Day To Remember, Breaking Benjamin, Bad Omens, The Offspring, Mudvayne, Koe Wetzel, Stone Temple Pilots, Primus, Cypress Hill, Sum 41, a rare appearance by Mr. Bungle, and many others.

Gwar have just released a 10th anniversary expanded edition of their 2013 album Battle Maximus, with the crown jewel being the track “Tammy, The Swine Queen.” The previously unreleased song features the final recording from the band’s late vocalist Oderus Urungus.

Battle Maximus was the last Gwar album to feature Oderus (aka Dave Brockie), who died in March 2014, six months after the LP’s release.

Regarding the album reissue and the song “Tammy, The Swine Queen,” Gwar’s current singer Blothar the Berseker commented, “Musically, Battle Maximus is a great debut work by [lead guitarist] Pustulus Maximus, and lyrically, it is the final word of lead singer and band founder Oderus Urungus, The record is run through with the desperate, dangerous, and fully bananas imagination of Oderus.”

He continued, “In fact, this re-release includes a song so nutty we named it twice, and then promptly forgot to put it on the record the first time around.

Calling all Bohabs: Gwar have announced the “Age of Imbeciles” Fall 2023 North American tour.

The outing kicks off October 11th in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and runs through October 30th in Orlando. And the support package is stacked, featuring hardcore legends Negative Approach, X-Cops (featuring former Gwar members), and Cancer Christ.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Thursday (August 17th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster using the code Track. General ticket sales start Friday (August 18th) at 10 a.m. local time. Alternatively, fans can look for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Declared singer Blöthar the Berserker via a press statement: “Attention People of Earth! Halloween is coming, and your world is up in flames. You’re a bunch of hairless apes with the smoothest of all brains. We see you there,...

Back in the early 2000s, audiences could treat themselves to a near-endless array of middlebrow, high-concept films every week. Pitch Black (2000), Reign of Fire (2002), Ghost Ship (2002), and every Final Destination film are just a handful of the offerings released during this era – some of which hold a special place in fans’ hearts. Whether it was a man with an ocular transplant fighting nocturnal aliens on a faraway world, or a bearded Matthew McConaughey jumping into the maw of a marauding dragon, it was easy to take for granted the embarrassment of riches at our collective moviegoing fingertips. Above all, these films presented an opportunity to set your mind to a low-thought mode and just enjoy the images unfurling in front of you in an endless stream of violent bliss.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a throwback to yesteryear, a film that seems like it would’ve done gangbusters...

Mudvayne kicked off their first full-fledged headlining tour in 14 years at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday night (July 20th). The outing, dubbed “The Psychotherapy Sessions,” features support from Coal Chamber, Gwar, Nonpoint, and Butcher Babies, with tickets available here.

Mudvayne reunited in 2021 after going on hiatus in 2010. While this tour marks Mudvayne’s first run as a lone headliner since 2009, the band did co-headline the “Freaks on Parade Tour” with Rob Zombie in 2022.

The Thursday night set featured Mudvayne performing 15 songs, including seven tunes from their classic 2000 album, L.D. 50. In recent months, frontman Chad Gray has dropped hints on social media that new music is in the works.

Meanwhile, for Coal Chamber, this marks their first proper tour in eight years, following a couple of festival gigs in recent weeks. Dez Fafara and company performed 12 songs, including four each from their 1997 self-titled debut and 2002’s Dark Days.

Live Nation is offering an all-in package of four tickets for $80 as part of its annual Summer’s Live promotion.

The deal is good for thousands of shows taking place in amphitheaters and clubs across the US this summer. That includes Beck and Phoenix’s “Summer Odyssey Tour”; Wu-Tang Clan and Nas’ “NY State of Tour” with De La Soul; Babymetal and Dethklok’s “Babyklok Tour”; Jimmy Eat World and Manchester Orchestra’s “The Amplified Echoes Tour”; Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper’s “Freaks on Parade Tour”; and Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Country Music Festival.

The promotion also applies to upcoming concerts headlined by Queens of the Stone Age, Rina Sawayama, Pantera, The Offspring, The Smashing Pumpkins, Corey Taylor, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Måneskin, Ghost, The Chicks, Counting Crows, Boy George & Culture Club, Matchbox Twenty, Yellowcard, Zac Brown Band, and more.

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Us measly Bohabs could never have expected this: Gwar taking over NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.

Well, it happened, and it was as absurdly awesome as it sounds. The Scumdogs crammed into the crowded confines of the NPR office for a four-song set including the songs “Sex Cow,” “I’ll Be Your Monster,” “Ratcatcher,” and “Phantom Limb.”

The idea was partly conceived via a headline on a parody news website The Hard Times that read: “Gwar asks NPR’s Tiny Desk Staff if They’re Ready to Get Their Assholes Ripped Open.” As it turns out, the NPR staff had already approached Gwar about that very idea.

“My text messages suddenly blew up,” wrote NPR’s Lars Gotrich in the video description. “Is this real? No, it’s literally fake. Can this be real? Little did they know I’d already been talking to one of the group’s...

Gwar have booked a series of Summer 2023 headlining US shows that will mostly take place after their support run on Mudvayne’s summer tour. The intergalactic barbarians will be bringing Nonpoint, Crobot, and 200 Stab Wounds along on select dates.

As previously announced, Mudvayne’s tour — featuring Gwar, Coal Chamber, Nonpoint, and Butcher Babies — runs from July 20th through August 26th. Gwar will squeeze in one headlining show on August 21st in Boise, Idaho, and then embark on a handful more dates once the Mudvayne tour wraps up. Those gigs run from August 27th in Lincoln, Nebraska, through September 1st in San Antonio, Texas.

Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale this Friday (June 23rd) via Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. local time. Members of Gwar’s “Bohabs Lair” fan club will be able to pick up tickets starting Wednesday (June 21st) at 10 a.m. local time. Fans can also...

Gwar are revisiting their 2013 album Battle Maximus with a new 10th anniversary expanded reissue. A remixed and remastered version of the track “Falling” can be heard now ahead of the reissue’s September 1st release date.

Battle Maximus stands as the final Gwar album to feature late band mastermind Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, and the 10th anniversary edition features his final vocal performance on the previously unreleased bonus track “Tammy, the Swine King.”

“Ten years after its initial release, the wounds are just as fresh,” commented guitarist BälSäc, the Jaws ‘o Death. “The words that Oderus wrote as a tribute to his fallen Scumdog brother, Flattus Maximus, gain new meaning when heard as the final lyrics he would ever sing. The songs echo in stereo through the twin holes that were left in our hearts by the absence of Oderus and Flattus. This new remix of Battle Maximus breathes...

Just in time for 4/20, Gwar are adding to their Bud of Gods CBD line with a new run of products dubbed New Dank Ages! The New Dank Ages collection features premium CBD flower, gummies, and a vape pen, among a number of exclusive accessories.

Of course, New Dank Ages was inspired by the intergalactic barbarians’ latest album, 2022’s The New Dark Ages. While the original Bud of Gods products remain available, the New Dank Ages items add all new strains and flavors with an even higher potency. All of you puny humans can pre-order now exclusively via the Consequence Shop.

The high-quality New Dank Ages CBD flower has hints of grapefruit and blueberry, and is just the stuff the members of Gwar use to chillax after a day of destruction.

Or if you’re looking to connect with your inner Scumdog, try the New Dank Ages “Beast” gummies, a potent...

Dez Fafara, frontman of the bands DevilDriver and Coal Chamber, has revealed that he currently is unable to tour overseas because of heart problems that arose from his 2021 battle with Covid.

DevilDriver are currently touring the States with Cradle of Filth, and Coal Chamber were recently announced as direct support on Mudvayne’s summer 2023 outing. While Dez has been cleared to play stateside gigs, he can’t get on a flight anytime soon.

The singer revealed his condition as DevilDriver pulled out of the UK’s Bloodstock Open Air festival, explaining as follows:

“In 2021, I came down with Covid which left me with heart problems. I had to live downstairs in my house, as I could barely walk more than a few feet without collapsing. I, in fact was saying goodbye to my family at the time and didn’t think I would pull through.

I took 2022 off and very...

Mudvayne have announced the “Psychotherapy Sessions” Summer 2023 US tour with support from Coal Chamber, Gwar, Nonpoint, and Butcher Babies.

Dates kick off July 20th in West Palm Beach, Florida, and run through August 26th in Englewood, California.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday (March 22nd) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster using the code Opener. General public on-sale begins Friday (March 24th).

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

The outing will be Mudvayne’s first headlining tour in over a decade, and the nu-metal vets have culled together quite the tour package to mark the occasion. The bill features a reunited Coal Chamber — fronted by DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara — following up their appearance...

The hell raising fury of heavy metal and the calming delicacy of jigsaw puzzling seem like two aspects of life that have no business ever crossing paths. Multi platinum selling metal act Slipknot, however, disagree. In fact, the nine piece Iowan band are gearing up to release their own collection of new jigsaw puzzles depicting the cover art for their first three albums via the company Zee Productions as part of their 'Rock Saw' range.

Slipknot • Iowa • Vol. 3

500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzles

Pre-order: https://t.co/RF9e7kLVYwpic.twitter.com/WDLZcDS2GX

— Slipknot (@slipknot) April 21, 2021

Set for a May release, the 500 piece jigsaws will be packaged in nifty vinyl-sized boxes which will fit nicely within your Vinyl collection and will retail at $25.00 a puzzle. You'll be able to carefully reconstruct the iconic artwork to their 1999 debut self-titled album, which was ranked by American SoundScan as the fastest-selling metal debut album in SoundScan's history.

On September 29, 2020, Scream Factory proudly presents Ghost Ship (2002) in the ultimate Blu-ray release. The modern supernatural cult-classic comes home in a collector's edition packed with bonus features, including a new audio commentary with director Steve Beck and new interviews with actor Isaiah Washington, producer Gil Adler and makeup effects supervisor Jason Baird.

Finders keepers. Any abandoned ship floating in international waters can be claimed and towed to port by whomever is fortunate enough to find it. Or, in the case of one team of salvage experts, unfortunate enough.

In this stylish, effects-packed chiller from Dark Castle Entertainment, salvagers trained for any situation imaginable come face to horrifying face with the unimaginable after boarding a derelict luxury liner. Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard and Isaiah Washington are among the hands on deck who'll confront a seafaring collector of souls. Steve Beck (Thirteen Ghosts) directs this frightful chiller.

After discovering a...

Featuring what is perhaps one of the most memorable openings in horror movie history, 2002's Ghost Ship (from Dark Castle Entertainment) is coming to Blu-ray like never before in a new Collector's Edition Blu-ray from Scream Factory, and ahead of its September 29th release, we've been provided with the full list of special features, including a new audio commentary with director Steve Beck (who also directed 2001's Thirteen Ghosts).

From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – On September 29, 2020, Scream Factory proudly presents Ghost Ship (2002) in the ultimate Blu-ray release. The modern supernatural cult-classic comes home in a collector’s edition packed with bonus features, including a new audio commentary with director Steve Beck and new interviews with actor Isaiah Washington, producer Gil Adler and makeup effects supervisor Jason Baird. Fans who order from shoutfactory.com will also receive an exclusive poster, while supplies last.

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Vinnie Paul, drummer for Pantera, Damageplan and Hellyeah, has died at the age of 54, according to his label and a post on Pantera’s Facebook page. No cause of death was disclosed.

Paul, whose real name was Vincent Paul Abbott, was born in Abilene, Texas and co-founded Pantera in 1981 with his brother, “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. The group spent several years as a pop-leaning metal outfit before joining forces with singer Phil Anselmo and adopting a heavier direction — dubbed “power groove” by the band — late in the decade. The sound caught on, they signed with Atlantic subsidiary Atco and released their “Cowboys From Hell” album in 1990. Their popularity rose through tours with Suicidal Tendencies and later Judas Priest, and they performed in Moscow with Metallica and AC/DC in 1991. Pantera quickly became one of the most vital hard-rock acts of the decade, via the albums “Vulgar Display of Power” (a title adopted...

We're just coming up on Halloween, and already the home video companies are announcing titles that'll be streeting in early 2010. On the list for January 12th is Warner's 4 Film Favorites: Thriller Collection, which contains four movies that you wouldn't necessarily associate with one another.

While you're perusing the special features that are included with each film, see if you can figure out what, if anything, they have in common:

Ghost Ship: 5 Featurettes • Mudvayne "Not Falling" Music Video Dreamcatcher: • Original Ending and 4 Other Lifted Scenes • 3 Featurettes Gothika: Commentary by Director Mathieu Kassovitz and Director of Photography Matthew Libatique • Limp Biskit "Behind Blue Eyes" Music Video Queen Of The Damned: Additional Scenes • Commentary by Director Michael Rymer, Producer Jorge Saralegu, and Composer Richard Gibbs • 3 Featurettes • 4 Music Videos: "Forsaken", "Redeemer", "System", and Static X’s "Cold" • Extended "Slept So Long" and "Not Meant for Me" Concert Sequences • Gag Reel • Production...