Kickoffs, farewells, and the first names locked in for festivals that haven’t happened yet. Everything moving through the touring circuit right now. MetalMania Live · Tour Wire Six DispatchesFrom The Road Kickoffs, farewells, and the first names locked in for festivals that haven’t happened yet. Everything moving through the touring circuit right now. Just In […]
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Hardwired, a Metallica tribute act, Obey Your Master, a tri state area Metallica tribute act, 92 Stadium Tour Revisited, Guns N’ Roses tribute act Shotguns N’ Roses Tony Iommi Is Back. First Solo Album in Two Decades. And You Can Learn the Riff Today. Twenty one years is a long time to wait for anything.
Kurdt Vanderhoof almost walked away. Not from music. From this band. After the wheels came off following Metal Church’s 2023 Australian run, the founding guitarist wasn’t sure there was a version of the band worth continuing. Then something clicked. He started making calls. According to tracking from Blabbermouth and concert attendees, the powerhouse 12-song setlist
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Gibson Brings Its Guitar Mecca to Miami, Epiphone and Billie Joe Armstrong, Wave of New Music Hits Every Corner of the Genre Gibson Brings Its Guitar Mecca to Miami, Opening a Wynwood Flagship Built for Musicians and Fans Alike Gibson has spent more than a century shaping the sound of popular music, and this September,
Brooklyn does not lack for rock clubs, warehouse venues, or DIY spaces built for loud music, but on Friday, July 31, one of the more unlikely rooms in the borough is set to host one of the summer’s most interesting regional metal lineups. NYC Metalfest takes over the Polish and Slavic Center in Greenpoint, transforming
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Heavy metal is having one of its more surreal weeks in recent memory, and not because of a new album or a canceled tour. This time the headlines are coming from a Las Vegas residency inspired by U2, a nine figure rights deal built on the same playbook that gave the world ABBA Voyage, and
A Massive Week on the Live Metal Circuit: Mötley Crüe Takes Over Vancouver, Saint Vitus Rises Again, and a Flood of New Tours Hits the Road Between a historic festival weekend built entirely around one band’s own legacy, a fresh slate of major tour announcements spanning death metal, black metal, and hardcore, a run of
Few artists in modern music history have built a career as gloriously strange and genre-defying as Danny Elfman, and this fall, that career is heading back to where it all started: the rock stage. The composer, songwriter, and former Oingo Boingo frontman has officially confirmed an eleven-date North American tour launching this September, and based
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Tune In and Turn Up: The Metallica Live Radio Show Returns Tonight at 9 PM Jul 03, 2026 A Year of Honoring the Prince of Darkness: Inside the Latest Chapter of Ozzy Osbourne’s Enduring Legacy Nearly a year after the world said goodbye to one of heavy metal’s most towering figures, the tributes, honors, and
At MetalMania Live Radio, we stand by one unwavering principle: every song played is the live version. No studio edits, no overdubs Source: Metallica Live Orlando, FL – July 5, 2017