Rock is dead? Someone forgot to tell Volbeat. The three-fourths Danish band has ridden a string of hit singles from its 2010 album, “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven,” and its latest release, last year’s “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies,” to its biggest U.S. tour to date, a co-headlining arena run with Five Finger Death Punch (with support... Continue Reading →
Rock stardom wasn’t quite what Five Finger Death Punch drummer Jeremy Spencer thought it would be. While the band was on a quick ascent to the top of the metal mountain, he was descending into a personal hell of drugs and alcohol. Partying became his life, taking over so much that he dreaded his time... Continue Reading →
Denmark’s Volbeat has been one of metal’s biggest international success stories in recent years. Propelled by a pair of number one singles at Active Rock Radio (“A Warrior’s Call” and “Still Counting”), tours with Metallica and Megadeth, and its own headlining runs, the band has become a force in the American metal scene. On the... Continue Reading →
Hellyeah’s newly released third album, “Band of Brothers”, is the kind of heavy, aggressive record many fans have been hoping for since the news of a band featuring members of Pantera, Damageplan, Mudvayne and Nothingface first broke. Guitarist Tom Maxwell feels that way, too. Prior to the last show of Hellyeah’s tour supporting Volbeat, Live... Continue Reading →
It’s hard to think of a band better suited to the Jägermeister Music Tour than Hellyeah, a group that seemed to become known instantly for partying and drinking. So it comes as no surprise to learn that Jäger flows freely on the Hellyeah tour bus, which often is a dangerous place for unprepared members of... Continue Reading →
