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Suicidal Tendencies

Sunday, April 14, Summit Music Hall, 866-468-7621.

Tom Hunting of Exodus on how building a song is like building the best sandwich possible

Exodus was founded in 1980 by a group of high school friends that included a pre-Metallica Kirk Hammett and Tom Hunting, the sole remaining original member of the act. The classic line-up also featured Paul Baloff on vocals and Gary Holt, who moved over to guitar when Kirk joined Metallica, just pri ... More >>

Call of the Void

Dragged Down a Dead End Path
Relapse Records

Metallica at Outside Lands: The five best parts of the band's hometown show in San Francisco

METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying ... More >>

Charlie Benante is looking ahead rather than reflecting on Anthrax's thirtieth anniversary

See Also: Sunday: Anthrax at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Joey Belladonna talks about Married...With Children and rejoining the band Scott Ian on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who and interviewing Ozzy Photos: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/19/11 Review: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/18/10 ... More >>

Take that, Ticketmaster! String Cheese Incident buys its own tickets and resells without fees

Ethics be damned, I download music illegally. Why, just the other day, I downloaded Metallica's entire catalogue and then deleted it and downloaded it again just because fuck Metallica. Mostly, though, it's a convenience thing: I would consider buying tracks at a reasonable price on iTunes or some s ... More >>

David Ellefson of Megadeth: "We had punk attitude with metal chops"

Megadeth (due tonight at the Fillmore Auditorium) may be one of the Big Four of thrash, but in many ways, its frontman Dave Mustaine is largely responsible for the sound and aesthetic of three of the Big Four. As a member of Metallica before that band recorded its first full-length, Mustaine's name ... More >>

Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head and how the business has changed

​For years, Barry Fey says, music fans have been needling him to write a book. "You know, people have been saying 'When's the book? When's the book?' for fifteen years," Fey notes. "It was daily, wherever I would go out... 'When's the book? Come on, you've got to write a book!'" Well, he final ... More >>

Top five Headbanger's Ball videos

​Headbanger's Ball started on April 18, 1987, and ran for nearly eight years. With little regard for a narrow definition of what constituted metal, the show's programmers seemed to embrace it all. So you would see a Poison video, something from Motorhead and then something from the Cult. The e ... More >>

Ten best Beavis and Butt-head music-video riffs

​In honor of MTV's 30th Anniversary this week, we're reflecting on the network's best moments from the past three decades. Today: Our favorite music videos riffed on by Beavis and Butt-head. The duo tackled something around 250 different videos throughout the show's eight seasons, and although ... More >>

Megadeth's David Ellefson on the new album, Big 4, corporate sponsors and the band's legacy

Brandon Marshall​When Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica, he decided to from his own band that would be bigger, faster and heavier. So with that in mind in 1984, he enlisted the help of an eighteen-year old Minnesota transplant named David Ellefson on bass and formed Megadeth. Over the ... More >>

Tastebuds.fm sets you up based on musical tastes, finds Adele fans get messaged but not laid

Jelmer de Haas via Adele.tv ​Online dating, that cesspool of hilarious stories and perhaps even true love. Sure, you could scour OkCupid for witty About Me paragraphs, be completely charmed by his or her fondness for biking in the rain, and then get to the favorites section. Favorite band is T ... More >>

Ke$ha is today's cock-rocker

3 Inches of Blood

Friday, February 11, Marquis Theater, 866-468-7621.

3 Inches of Blood

Study shows music piracy on the decline, porn the most popular of it all

​Anti-piracy and counterfeiting prevention company Envisional recently released a report detailing the 10,000 most popular files crossing the streams of BitTorrent trackers. Porn has taken the top, uh, seed, followed closely by non-porn film, while music was near the bottom of the list. What ... More >>

Tonight: 40 Oz. to Freedom at the Bluebird plus a Metallica/Motley Crue tribute at Casselman's

​When a band covers a song, it should go one of two ways: Either the remake should be a virtually flawless representation, or come out as a startling contrast from the original. Cover bands, on the other hand, are a different story altogether -- fans go to see them because they want a copy. No ... More >>

The Big 4: Four reasons to extend your stay in Indio after Coachella that rhyme with Metallica

Old school metal fans across the country are no doubt peeing themselves right now over The Big 4 (we certainly are). In case you happened to miss the big announcement on Facebook earlier today, four of the metal's venerable titans are going to be together on the same stage for the first time since ... More >>

Kanye West, Metallica top local sellers this week

​With all the hype surrounding Kanye West's latest effort, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, it's not surprising that disc, released last week on Def Jam, debuted at number one at Independent Records and Twist & Shout. But West didn't make the top ten over Albums on the Hill, where Metallica' ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne and ten other old dudes who should just hang it up already

Like so many new albums from old dudes, it's not that Ozzy Osbourne's Scream, which was released today, is not good, per se -- it's that it's not needed. While Osbourne's new effort updates his shtick a bit -- it sounds like he's been listening to a long of Norwegian opera-metal and possibly some ... More >>

And now, presenting thirty craptastic minutes with thirty different iPhone band apps

​ Sometimes we have to wonder if folks that program for Apple's App Store are hell-bent on wasting people's time. We spent an evening with as many artist-specific iPhone apps we could get our hands on and found a few amazing things, a few interesting things and a plethora of pure and total cr ... More >>

And the winners of the Tauntaun tickets are...

​All right, the Tauntaun contest is over. Today's Friday, and we've picked the winners as promised. Thanks to everyone who entered. It was genuinely surprising to see how much everyone knows about Tauntaun, about the members past history, ie., what bands they've all played in (Sleeper Horse, Grace ... More >>

The young men of Havok prove their metal

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Go ... More >>

Rearview: The Week in Review (11/1/08-11/7/08)

Metallica at Pepsi Center

Death Magnetic gives Metallica a new lease on life

Metallica

Death Magnetic
Warner Bros.

Metallica due at Pepsi Center on November 4

Heavy Metal in Baghdad Puts Things in Perspective

Rearview: The Week In Review (5/31/08 - 6/6/08)

Harping on It

Harptallica enters like a sandman.

Flobots Make Television Debut May 19 on Last Call with Carson Daly

This Just In: Flobots Hottest Brand Going

In Flames

Saturday, April 12, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-837-0360.

Q&A With Matt Tuck of Bullet For My Valentine

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Who will be inducted next? Gaze into our crystal ball.

Skeleton Witch

Sunday, August 6, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Vedera

Monday, July 10, Marquis Theatre, 1-866-468-7621.

Trucks Amuck

Rockin' Monsters on the Mountain stomps Copper.

Killswitch Engage

Friday, March 18, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Critic's Choice

Havok

Cine Bon!

Remembering the films that heated up cinemas this year.

Mastodon

Leviathan (Relapse Records)

Metallica

Some Kind of Monster EP (Elektra)

Iron Horse

Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (CMH Records)

The Beatdown

“Nothing Else Matters,” especially when it comes to local music.

After Further Review

Putting the season's major releases to the test.

Tricky vs. Metallica

It was the tag-team grudge match of early '97. Guess who won.

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