MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine posted a new video on Periscope, a live video streaming platform owned by Twitter, in which he gives the viewer a backstage tour of the FortaRock festival in Nijmegen, The Netherlands where the band performed earlier...
New Orleans sludge metal veterans CROWBAR have parted ways with their bassist of less than three years, Jeff Golden. CROWBAR frontman Kirk Windstein explained: "Being in a band is like being in a relationship and things don't always work out. "We want to thank Jeff for his dedication and loyalty and we sincerely wish him and his family all the best in the future." Golden joined CROWBAR in September 2013. The 34-year-old musician hails from Bolton, Connecticut, but lived in Estero, Florida prior to hooking up with CROWBAR and moving to...
SIXX:A.M. , the band featuring MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx alongside guitarist DJ Ashba and vocalist James Michael, performed a surprise acoustic version of the CRÜE classic "Live Wire" during a June 1 appearance on the "La Bande Originale de Nagui" radio show hosted by French TV superstar Nagui and broadcasted on French national station France Inter. You can now listen to SIXX:A.M.'s rendition below. Sixx told RiffYou.com last year that he has always seen SIXX:A.M. as "totally separate" from MÖTLEY CRÜE,...
Dez Fafara says that he decided to shelf COAL CHAMBER and focus on DEVILDRIVER after the former group's comeback album and tour revealed "some deep-seated shit that certain dudes in the band still need to work out." COAL CHAMBER existed for ten years before disbanding in 2003 to pursue other musical projects. They reunited in 2011 for touring purposes but it wasn't until 2014 that the band began work on a new studio album of original material, last year's critically acclaimed "Rivals". Several months of touring activity followed before Dez...
A rock music festival in the former Soviet republic of Georgia headlined by the Swedish band TIAMAT was disrupted by ultraconservative Orthodox Christian activists Saturday evening (June 4). According to Georgia Today, a group of people led by several radical priests tried to shut down the two-day event on the outskirts of Georgia's capital city Tbilisi 30 minutes after the concert began. "They were yelling and accusing us of organizing a mass sex orgy," the organizer of the event, Vladimir Unanyants, told the local web site Netgazeti....
