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Eloy Casagrande confirmed as the new Slipknot drummer

Eloy Casagrande confirmed as the new Slipknot drummer

Slipknot’s long-awaited announcement confirming Eloy Casagrande as their new drummer has finally hit the airwaves, validating what many fervent fans had speculated for months. Even before the band took to the stage last Thursday at an intimate California prelude to their upcoming Sick New World festival appearance, the news of Casagrande’s joining felt like an [...]

May 2, 2024 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Eloy Casagrande confirmed as the new Slipknot drummer

Evil Live Festival: Soulfly and supergroup Elegant Weapons close the lineup

Evil Live Festival: Soulfly and supergroup Elegant Weapons close the lineup

Prime Artists, the renowned music event organizing company, has recently made an exciting announcement regarding the upcoming Evil Live festival, scheduled to take place on June 28th and 29th, 2023, at the prestigious Altice Arena in Lisbon. The festival is set to feature an impressive lineup of some of the biggest names in the heavy [...]

April 21, 2023 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Evil Live Festival: Soulfly and supergroup Elegant Weapons close the lineup

TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2019 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. So here they are, the choices for the best releases of this past year in the opinion of one of our writers [...]

December 31, 2019 Ricardo Pereira Tops Comments Off on TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

DAY 3: Day number three was opened by Matt Heafy and Trivium on the main stage, and the chaos around it. The inflow of crowd surfers during their show was the highest until that moment at Copenhell. Trivium delivered a high-quality performance as they always do. Matt is an amazing performer, he has this ease [...]

July 22, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

Preview: VOA Heavy Rock Festival 2019

Preview: VOA Heavy Rock Festival 2019

VOA Fest is back and is celebrating 10 years! After one year of hiatus, one of the most important heavy festivals in Portugal will be returning with a colossal band roster on July 4th – 5th. Day #1 Featuring a 2-day format once again, on the first day (July 4) all the maggots will get [...]

June 18, 2019 Filipe Gomes Previews Comments Off on Preview: VOA Heavy Rock Festival 2019

Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

After kicking-off the announcements with the strong confirmations of Tool and Slipknot as headliners, Copenhell has presented their final lineup for this year’s edition. Copenhell is considered the true metal holiday in Denmark. On top of the earlier presented bands Copenhell team managed to book additional names presenting mixture of music styles to please different taste [...]

April 2, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Previews Comments Off on Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

Copenhell is making Copenhagen loud for the 10th time! Since 2010 Copenhell has been bringing the biggest metal music names to the capital of Denmark. To celebrate the 10th edition of one of the biggest heavy music festivals in Scandinavia you should reserve the dates 19th till 22nd of June 2019. The event is organized [...]

January 27, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Previews Comments Off on Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

Slipknot reveal new single “All Out Life”

Slipknot reveal new single “All Out Life”

Slipknot has released the official music video for a new song called “All Out Life”. The track, which was premiered earlier today on “Zane Lowe’s World Record” on Beats 1 on Apple Music, will appear on the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2014’s “.5: The Gray Chapter” album, due next year via Roadrunner. The clip, which [...]

October 31, 2018 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Slipknot reveal new single “All Out Life”

SLIPKNOT parts ways with drummer Joey Jordison

SLIPKNOT parts ways with drummer Joey Jordison

Drummer Joey Jordison and Slipknot have parted ways. The shocking news was released via a statement from Slipknot on the band’s official website this evening (Dec. 12). During Slipknot’s break from heavy touring and writing new material, Joey Jordison has dedicated himself to the new band Scar the Martyr. Along with releasing a self-titled debut [...]

December 13, 2013 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SLIPKNOT parts ways with drummer Joey Jordison