A master of his craft who has manifested his own signature sound, guitarist Dino Cazares has not only demonstrated how ardent his passion is for music, but also unparalleled work ethic.

Athens, Ohio’s blackened thrash warlords, SKELETONWITCH, who are no strangers to the road, have quite the action packed summer lined up. The band will start July by doing some of their own shows en route to Vancouver, BC, where they’ll meet up with HIGH ON FIRE for a cross Canadian trek which will culminate with the band appearing at the HEAVY MTL festival in Montreal, along with SLAYER, ALICE COOPER, MEGADETH, MASTODON and more.

HEAVY METAL’S ‘BIG FOUR’ METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX
COMMEMORATE THEIR HISTORIC CONCERTS TOGETHER WITH A ONE NIGHT ONLY GLOBAL MOVIE THEATER EVENT ON JUNE 22nd SONISPHERE FESTIVAL CONCERT TO BE BEAMED VIA SATELLITE FROM SOFIA, BULGARIA TO MOVIE THEATERS AROUND THE WORLD OVER 450 U.S. THEATERS IN MORE THAN 140 U.S. MARKETS TO EXHIBIT CONCERT EVENT TO FANS TICKETS TO GO ON SALE STARTING TODAY, FRIDAY, MAY 21ST

The Rockstar Mayhem Festival is the Shangri-La for metal heads and for many of us the concert highlight of the year. It is bigger, louder, and more freakin badass than anything else running. Mayhem is actually so freakin cool I quit my last “real” job to hop on the Mayhem wagon train for the 2008 tour as a media type dude. Rockstar Mayhem Festival is a showcase where the icons of metal come together with the brightest new stars. The Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009 brought the legends, the brutal new metal stars, and some guaranteed crowd favorites out in force. Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Killswitch Engage and Bullet For My Valentine played on the main stage and the likes of Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth, Job for A Cowboy, Black Dahlia Murder, Trivium, All That Remains, God Forbid and White Chapel played the other 2 stages.

Canadian Carnage East Leg Now Confirmed to Begin Late July

Los Angeles, CA – February 1, 2010 – Slayer and Megadeth are thrilled to announce the new, confirmed routing for the American Carnage North American Tour, which will commence with the rescheduled Canadian Carnage East dates in Quebec City on Friday, July 23.  Slayer will then head to Europe for a run of festival dates, returning to kick off the American Carnage leg in Albany, NY on August 11.   American Carnage will play 26 dates across the United States and Eastern Canada up to the Labor Day weekend, ending in Portland, OR …

For more than a few years, fans and some critics have drawn their own lines about what is metal and what is not. From the early years of Black Sabbath through the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead it was a general consensus, “Oh that is metal!” In the decade following (1980’s) opinions started to stray.