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Just caught a posting on the Pantera Facebook page that says that “Piss” won Metal Song of the Year in the 2012 Loudwire Music Awards! Piss’ was released with the 20th anniversary edition of Pantera’s classic album Vulgar Display of Power as a never-before-heard track. ‘Piss’ beat out Lamb of God’s ‘Ghost Walking,’ Anthrax’s ‘I’m Alive’ and …
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The second annual Loudwire awards is now in full-force. You, the readers, get to vote on your favorite bands. Here’s the rundown of where to vote, and who’s nominated: Slipknot are nominated in the Live Act of the Year category; Gojira‘s L’Enfant Sauvage is up for Metal Album of the Year; Stone Sour‘s House of Gold & Bones Part 1 is up for Rock …
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Canadian death metal act, Kataklysm, is proud to announce that the band’s latest release, Heaven’s Venom, took home the 2011 GAMIQ for “Metal/Hardcore Album of the Year” at the 6th annual Quebec Indie Music Awards on Sunday. For more information on the awards, visit: www.gamiq.net Heaven’s Venom, the band’s 10th studio album, hit stores in August 2010 on Nuclear Blast …
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Edmonton based metalcore band, All Else Fails who are recently coming off an award nomination at the 2011 Edmonton Music Awards in the “Artist To Watch” category, will be opening for rising Canadian metallers Cancer Bats on May 31st in Yorkton, SK. The Cancer Bats show will be another addition to AEF’s shared stage list …
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SKYFORGER was honored in the “Best Rock Album” category at the 15th annual Gada Balva ceremony (the Latvian equivalent to the Grammy Awards) for the band’s “Kurbads” album, originally released on Metal Blade Records in April 2010. This marked the first time when a metal band was given this prestigious Latvian music industry award. SKYFORGER …
And the big winner was … well, no one, really. True, Avenged Sevenfold went home with two OC Music Awards at Saturday’s 10th annual ceremony, which filled City National Grove of Anaheim and attracted more media for red-carpet arrivals than ever before. (Were they hoping for a Gwen sighting?) The Huntington Beach-based band won for …
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Norwegian black metallers IMMORTAL will release a concert DVD, “The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh”, this summer via Nuclear Blast. The disc will include professionally filmed video footage of the band’s headlining performance at the 2007 edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, which was held August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. A sample clip of …
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SKYFORGER are currently featured in a BBC special on Latvia’s love of folk music. The band is captured live at a Latvian Music Awards Ceremony and is interviewed by the BBC’s correspondent Damien McGuinness. See the video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8654083.stm Go to SMNnews
Chico, Californa’s best-kept secret, instrumental post-metallers LA FIN DU MONDE have posted a new live video from a recent live performance with Grayceon and Judgment Day at Annie’s Social Club in San Francisco, CA. “They Will Never See Us” comes from their upcoming full-length, Monolith. Check it out below: The album was recorded at Cotati, …
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