Black Veil Brides will rejoin the Trinity of Terror tour--a triple headliner also featuring Ice Nine Kills and Motionless in White--on Friday, April 8, 2022, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The band had missed a handful of shows after frontman Andy Biersack and other members of the its touring crew tested positive for COVID-19. "I've been cleared... Continue Reading →
Mammoth WVH has canceled its remaining six shows on the "Young Guns" tour starting with the April 5, 2022, performance in Raleigh, North Carolina, at The Ritz, due to members of the touring personnel testing positive for COVID-19. The other affected dates are April 6 in Charlotte, North Carolina; April 8 in Nashville, Tennessee; April 9 in Dothan, Alabama; April 10 in... Continue Reading →
Black Veil Brides will sit out an unspecified number of shows on the Trinity of Terror tour after frontman Andy Biersack and other members of the band's touring crew tested positive for COVID-19. The tour is a triple headliner also featuring Ice Nine Kills and Motionless in White. Lilith Czar is opening all the shows... Continue Reading →
After decades as a recording and touring artist, and 19 albums to his name, Kirk Windstein still finds his inspiration from the pursuit of the almighty riff. And through his work with his signature band Crowbar, the “supergroups” Down and Kingdom of Sorrow, and his 2020 solo album “Dream in Motion,” Windstein has put a... Continue Reading →
The first month of dates of the Mammoth WVH/Dirty Honey co-headline tour has been postponed. Previously scheduled to begin Jan. 21, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois, the "Young Guns" tour now will kick off Feb. 20 in Denver, Colorado. All dates prior to Feb. 20 have been moved to March and April. The show originally scheduled... Continue Reading →
Many bands have chosen to sit on the sidelines throughout the pandemic, unwilling to take the risk of releasing new music in the midst of so much uncertainty. Symphonic metal band Ad Infinitum has done exactly the opposite, releasing its debut album, “Chapter I: Monarchy” (review) in April 2020; an acoustic version of the record,... Continue Reading →
For a musician who’s constantly creating, the COVID-19 pandemic has offered the silver lining of time. Jordan Rudess, best known as the keyboardist of Dream Theater, the world’s leading progressive metal band, has taken full advantage of it, as Dream Theater’s upcoming 15th studio album, “A View from the Top of the World” (Oct. 22,... Continue Reading →
After releasing its third album, “Lucifer III” (review), in March 2020 near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Swedish/German heavy rock band Lucifer, like all musical acts around the world, found itself unable to tour. With nothing else to do, work began on the next record, which is due just in time for Halloween, on... Continue Reading →
The North American leg of the "Bay Strikes Back" tour featuring Testament, Exodus and Death Angel has been postponed until 2022. “We were really on the fence with this decision,” Testament guitarist Eric Peterson said. “But seeing other bands make it through with a few mild cases and other bigger bands just cancelling their entire tours, we felt it is in our... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki While many bands have been reluctant to release records during the pandemic, preferring to put it off until they can tour properly to promote them, Trivium went ahead with the April 2020 release of its ninth album, the superb “What the Dead Men Say” (read Live Metal’s review). And in addition to... Continue Reading →
