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Slipknot’s frontman is taking the mask off.For the second time in two years, Corey Taylor will hit the road on his own for what he’s calling ‘The CMF2 Tour, Round 2.’From February through March 2024, the Iowa native is scheduled rock out at venues all over North America — and maybe even perform a Spongebob cover — with special guests Des Rocs and Jigsaw Youth.Along the way, Taylor and co. will drop into New York City for a gig at Irving Plaza on Tuesday, Feb.

Till Lindemann is leaving Rammstein behind in 2024.Starting in September, the bombastic frontman will embark on his first solo U.S. tour with special guests Twin Temple and Aesthetic Perfection in support of his 2023 solo album “Zunge.”Midway through the fall run, the 61-year-old drops into New York’s The Rooftop at Pier 17 on Tuesday, Oct.

Megadeth is a busy band.The thrash metal group is currently midway through their ongoing ‘Crush The World Tour’ that wraps up with a festival appearance at Portugal’s Evil Live in late June.Rather than pump the brakes, Dave Mustaine and co. are going full throttle into August and September with their newly announced ‘Destroy All Enemies Tour’ with Mudvayne and All That Remains.On the 33-concert trek, they’ll make three New York stops.First, Megadeth will mosh their way into Albany’s MVP Arena on Tuesday, Sept.

showed off the tattoo — featuring Motörhead famous “Ace of Spades” logo — made with “black ink mixed with a pinch of his cremation ashes that were so graciously given to me.”Fittingly, it was on the middle finger of his right hand, making it visible while pulling his idol’s favored pose of flipping the bird.“So now, he is still able to fly the bird at the world,” wrote the Metallica star of his “salute to my friend and inspiration Mr. Lemmy Kilmister.”“Without him, there would be NO Metallica,” he said of the rock pioneer, who was 70 when he died of cancer in 2016.It was done by prominent tattoo artist Corey Miller, the owner of Six Feet Under in Upland, Calif.

Underoath announced they’re going on tour to celebrate their breakthrough album “They’re Only Chasing Safety.”From September through December, the ‘They’re Only Chasing Safety 20th Anniversary Tour’ will take the screamo metalcore quintet along with special guest Static Dress to theatres, ballrooms, event centers, pavilions and music halls all over North America.That includes gigs at New York City’s Palladium Times Square on Friday, Sept. 20 and Sayreville, NJ’s Starland Ballroom on Wednesday, Dec.

System Of A Down will headline the first nighttime concert at San Francisco’s Polo Field at Golden Gate Park along with Deftones, The Mars Volta, Viagra Boys and VOWWS.“Join us for a historic night in San Francisco,” SoaD shared on Instagram.As of now, the SF show is the “Toxicity” group’s only gig on their 2024 calendar other than a spot at Las Vegas’ Sick New World Festival.For those that have never seen the band live, metalhead Keith Lynch described their shows as “crazy as their ‘Chop Suey’ music video.”If that sounds like the concert for you, tickets can be picked up as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, April 12, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.The August concert appears to have both general admission and VIP tickets.You can find both ticket types here.On Saturday, April 27, System Of A Down will perform at the star-studded Sick New World Festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.Major acts set to join them include Slipknot, A Perfect Circle, Sleep Token, Lamb of God and…Danny Elfman.We couldn’t believe it, either.If you want to go, you can grab tickets right here, right now.This June, The Mars Volta have five shows lined up at venues all over the Midwest.To find out whether they’re headed to a city near you, click here to find the prog metal band’s complete schedule.Can’t make it out to SF or Sin City this year?Here are just

Korn — 30 years into their celebrated career — just announced they’re hitting the road this fall for a head-banging, fist-pounding nationwide tour with heavy special guests Gojira and Spiritbox.Along the way, Jonathan Davis and co. are slated to stop into Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on Friday, Sept.

Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath first wailed on their guitars in public — has been designated an important historic building after 15,000 people signed a petition calling for the building and surrounds to be saved from redevelopment. Birmingham, England’s scruffy second city, may not get much attention from outside the country, but the brawling industrial burg changed rock music forever in the 1970s when the likes of Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest and Ozzy & Co.

Sleep Token is famously protective of their members’ anonymity.Even so, the alt-metal group — who recently scrubbed their social media accounts clean after being doxxed — just announced where they’ll be this spring.From April 27 through May 28, the “The Summoning” rockers will headline venues all over North America as part of their ‘Teeth of God Tour’ with special guest Empire State Bastard.Along the way, Vessel, II, III and IV (yes, those are their pseudonyms) are dropping into the Big Apple to deliver their heavy hits at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, May 22.The upcoming 19-concert tour comes on the heels of the band’s well-received 2023 record “Take Me back To Eden,” which many major music publications deemed the best metal release of the year.And if you want to rock out with Sleep Token live this year, you can grab tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Jan.

Facebook post. “Very sad news … our dear friend and Drummer for 20 years James Kottak has passed at the age of 61,” the band wrote alongside a black-and-white image of Kottak.

Tool Army.Maynard James Keenan’s legendary alt-metal group is gearing up to embark on the second leg of their North American tour with special guest Elder from Jan. 10 through Feb.

Pantera is doing it all over again next year.Kicking off Feb. 3, the heavy metal group will return to the road with special guest Lamb of God for their 14-concert ‘For Legacy Tour.’While out and about, Phil Anselmo, Rex Brown, Zakk Wylde and Anthrax’s Charlie Benante will hit the Big Apple to melt faces at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday, Feb.

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has a busy year planned.The progressive metal band, already on a nationwide tour supporting their 2019 album ‘Fear Inoculum,’ just announced an additional 20 concerts with special guest Elder in January and February 2024.That includes two huge back-to-back gigs at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Friday, Jan. 12 and Saturday, Jan.

cellphones, raunchy sex toys, a massive cheese wheel and even the ashes of a fan’s mother during live performances.But one band decided to take matters into their own hands and start their show with a public service announcement — telling their fans that proper etiquette actually starts before the concert even begins.And that includes showering.Dethklok — a death-metal group that originated as a fictional band from the Adult Swim animated TV series “Metalocalypse” — showed a video to the audience that urged people to be mindful of their personal hygiene at concerts.A clip of the video was posted to TikTok and has garnered 3.2 million views and 563,7000 likes.“Send this to your smelly friends,” user @rawrxdkev wrote in the video description.The video shows the Adult Swim character Facebones spinning around and giving a melodramatic speech about how to properly behave at Dethklok’s shows.“Etiquette is a French word that means, ‘how to not act like a stupid a – – hole!” the terrifying animated face screamed at the crowd.Facebones started off with concert hygiene, asking fans if they ever go to a show and stand next to a person who “smells like BO and old shoes and s – – t” — and if they don’t know what he’s talking about, that person “might be you.”“Take a shower at some point in your life and THEN come to the show,” the animated logo exclaimed.Send this to your smelly friends #concert #ettiquette #ettiquettetips #hygiene #raves #concerts #festivals #babymetalworldtour2023 #concerttok A 2021 study revealed that listening to metal music increases BO by 87% — and fans are glad the issue is finally being addressed.“It’s crazy that it’s gotten to this point but at least they did it in the best way possible,” one person

on social media that Siew died last week. A cause of death was not given. “It is with shattered hearts & the deepest sorrow that we tell you our dear brother and bandmate Ryan Siew passed away on the morning of Monday, June 19.

Tenacious D, known for the tongue-in-cheek jam “Tribute” aka “the best song in the world,” just announced they’ve added a six-concert U.S. leg to their ‘Spicy Meatball’ Tour this September.From Sept.

Avenged Sevenfold is back and ready to melt their fans’ faces once again.From June through October, the metal veterans are scheduled to rock at arenas, amphitheaters, state fair grounds, domes and pavilions in the U.S. and Canada as part of their ‘Life Is But A Dream Tour’ in support of their new album with the same name.They didn’t forget the Northeast either.Midway through the 32-concert run, M.

Tool is going all out this fall.In addition to headlining at Louisville, KY’s Louder Than Life Festival, Sacramento, CA’s Aftershock Festival and Indio, CA’s inaugural Power Trip, the alt-metal art rockers have announced a 26-concert tour in support of their 2019 album “Fear Innoculum.”From Oct. 3 through Nov.

Queens of the Stone Age want to celebrate the end of the world with you.From August through October, the heavy alt-rockers are hitting the road for their ‘The End Is Nero Tour’ in support of their upcoming album “In Times New Roman.”Midway through the 30-concert North American leg of the trek, Josh Homme and co. will drop into Queens, NY’s Forest Hills Stadium at West Side Tennis Club on Saturday, Aug.

Greta Van Fleet are embarking on their worldwide ‘Starcatcher Tour’ in support of their upcoming album of the same name due out July 21.Along the way, they’ll drop into New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sept. 12 and Asbury Park, NJ’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival along with The Killers and Foo Fighters on Sept.

she wrote in a Facebook post. “Rest in Peace, you were too beautiful for this world me Lover.

This month will see the return of “Love, Death + Robots” on Netflix, which is produced by Tim Miller and David Fincher. With the third volume arriving, something special is happening.

Jon Zazula was the founder of Megaforce Records, Metallica’s first label.Zazula began his influential career as the founder of Rock and Roll Heaven, a New Jersey record store that found its first home at an East Brunswick flea market, the Route 18 Indoor Market. Founded in 1981, the record store became a mecca for heavy metal lovers as Zazula imported rare metal records from overseas and traded underground tapes and demos. He came across Metallica’s 1982 demo tape, “No Life ‘Til Leather.” He loved what he heard, and he founded Megaforce Records along with his wife, the late Marsha Zazula, to give the band a record label home.

aortic aneurysm — an often fatal heart condition that occurs when the artery dissects or ruptures. The 41-year-old musician miraculously lived and has now opened up about the near-death experience he publicly had while performing the band’s 1990 song “Painkiller” on stage at Kentucky’s Louder Than Life Festival. “As I watch footage from the Louder Than Life Festival in Kentucky, I can see in my face the confusion and anguish I was feeling whilst playing ‘Painkiller’ as my aorta ruptured and

Joey Jordison was a co-founder and the original drummer for the popular metal band Slipknot.Jordison was one of the founders of the aggressive metal band Slipknot in Iowa in 1995. They self-released their debut album in 1996 which led to the band being signed by popular hard rock label Roadrunner Records in 1998.

recent firing from the band over sexual misconduct claims. The rocker, who co-founded the heavy metal group with lead guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1983, has repeated that claims he groomed an underage fan are unfounded. “Recently, a very private video was illegally posted on the internet and false allegations were made against me,” Ellefson, 56, told Rolling Stone in a statement.

tweeted from its official Twitter account on Monday.“While we do not know every detail of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is enough to make working together impossible movie forward.”The post, which is signed by the thrash metal group’s lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, 59, who co-founded the group with Ellefson in 1983, concludes that the remaining members “look forward to seeing our fans on the road this summer, and we cannot wait to share

#Metallica to grow. Thank you, Marsha.

@FrankieBanali. I met him in November 2015 at the All Things That Rock expo.

Encore Drive-In Nights series.Other musical heavyweights like Blake Shelton, 44, and Gwen Stefani, 50, already participated in the series last month.“As many of you know, we’ve not played together in quite some time — actually since the ‘S&M2′ concerts last September,” drummer Lars Ulrich, 56, said in a video posted on Twitter and Instagram.

Marilyn Manson has announced his 11th studio album, “We Are Chaos,” out September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings.The 10-track LP was produced by Manson and Grammy Award winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker) and one of Manson’s self-portraits is featured on its cover.To accompany the sinister-sounding album, Manson released the lead single and title track for “We Are Chaos” on Wednesday, with a music video directed, photographed and edited by Matt Mahurin in quarantine.

“Ace Up Your Sleeve” tour book, a comic and a reproduction of the Dutch seven-inch for “Ace of Spades.” It also contains five poker dice, which can be used for a board game printed on the inner lid.Motörhead will also release a hardback, two-CD set, and a triple-LP version of the reissue that features one of the concerts.“It’s still very popular,” Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister said of the song “Ace of Spades” in a 2016 Rolling Stone interview. “When we do it onstage, everyone loves it.

https://t.co/AMpmjx6540— Tom Morello (@tmorello) June 9, 2020The exchange prompted thousands of replies and jokes referencing the group’s obviously political band name and song titles.“i too enjoy the band Rage Alongside The Machine,” Sean Gentille tweeted.“Take the Power Back is actually about recharging batteries,” another added, referencing RATM’s 1991 demo track.Casteneda attempted to clarify his tweet to the Detroit Metro Times, saying he knew the band was political, but that they had

A thrash metal drummer says he visited hell during a coronavirus-induced coma — and Satan wasn’t as cool as he thought.

The lead singer of Scorpions has dismissed rumors that the band’s 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” was written by the CIA as a piece of Cold War propaganda.