New galleries of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, along with ALL THAT REMAINS, HATEBREED, and RAINS are now online from Rams Head Live in Baltimore, MD. 5FDP continues to support their latest album, American Capitalist and will set out on a March-April tour of the U.S. with SOULFLY. Visit www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com for dates.
We kicked off our 2012 concert schedule with none other than the Swedish metal gods, IN FLAMES, although openers TRIVIUM gave them a run for their money in what could have basically been a co-headline show. Read on beyond the break for the full review of the show from Rams Head Live in Baltimore, Md., with set lists, highlights and more ... Read more
After their well-intentioned but disastrous collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu, METALLICA needed the metal equivalent of makeup sex with its fan base. So is Beyond Magnetic worthy of forgiveness? Read more.
While checking out our newly posted interviews, you will notice a preview of our new layout design for Live-Metal.net. The entire site will be updated with this new design early in 2012. New features include a more user-friendly interface, social networking and an improved navigation menu. We are working hard to make Live-Metal.net stand up over the test of time and bring our readers original coverage of all things hard rock and metal into the future. Keep Real Music Alive.
Zakk Wylde passed the point of needing an introduction a long time ago. All hard rock and metal fans (and even American Idol viewers) know him from his long stint as Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist and as the main man in his own band, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. It’s been business as usual of late for Zakk, which means he’s been in and out of the recording studio, releasing a Christmas EP via iTunes, touring with rock legends, putting together a special BLS show for next year with strings, backing singers and other musicians, working on a book and showing up in some of the strangest places. As BLS wound down its U.S. tour with JUDAS PRIEST, Zakk discussed these things and more with Live Metal’s Greg Maki ... Read more
It has been a wild 15 months for DREAM THEATER. In September 2010, drummer Mike Portnoy shocked the music world by leaving the band he helped found 25 years earlier. The remaining four members of DREAM THEATER (guitarist John Petrucci, keyboardist Jordan Rudess, bassist John Myung and vocalist James LaBrie) pressed on, auditioning a handful of the best drummers in the world before settling on Mike Mangini—and chronicling the entire process in a documentary titled “The Spirit Carries On”—and recording a new studio album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, released in September 2011. During the band’s fall tour of the United States, Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net caught up with Rudess backstage at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C., to talk about this critical time in DREAM THEATER history ... Read more
WITHIN TEMPTATION belong in a larger theater or even an arena setting. They are larger than life and should be too big for clubs and smaller venues. Even Rams Head Live doesn’t seem like it does them justice. But for now, about 800 or so fans enjoyed one of their favorite bands in an intimate setting ... Read more
