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CANNIBAL CORPSE Drummer Says SLAYER Wasn't Big Enough To Headline MAYHEM FESTIVAL

CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz says that the seemingly disastrous attendance figures for this year's edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival could have been avoided had Mayhem organizers managed to secure a bigger band than SLAYER to headline the traveling festival. The 2015...

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Ex-QUEENSRŸCHE Singer GEOFF TATE To Host Intimate Video-Release Party For OPERATION: MINDCRIME

On Wednesday, August 19, former QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate and his new band, OPERATION: MINDCRIME, will host an intimate video release party at Hilliard's Brewery, located at 1550 NW 49th Street in Seattle, Washington. The gathering of friends, fans and family is free and open to the public, with...

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GREG TRIBBETT On Possibility Of New MUDVAYNE Album: 'Never Say Never'

Guitarist Greg Tribbett hasn't ruled out making another album with MUDVAYNE, explaining that "it's just a matter of time" before the bandmembers' schedules align so that they can record the follow-up to 2009's self-titled CD. It's been six years since MUDVAYNE released its fifth album and little has...

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SLAYER's TOM ARAYA On MAYHEM FESTIVAL: Our Production Has Been Bigger Than We've Ever Done Before

A two-minute video clip of SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya talking about the band's participation in this year's edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival can be seen below. "Our production has been bigger than we've ever done in any SLAYER tour," he said. "The last few times that we've...

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COREY TAYLOR Says '.5: The Gray Chapter' Is His Favorite SLIPKNOT Album So Far

Stephen Wayne of iRockRadio.com conducted an interview with SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor before the band's August 2 concert at Xfinity Theater in Hartford, Connecticut. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On SLIPKNOT regrouping for the mak...

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SLAYER's TOM ARAYA Says MAYHEM FESTIVAL Attendance Was 'About What We Would Draw If We Were Doing Our Own Tour'

SLAYER bassist/vocalist Tom Araya has dismissed the suggestion that the band was playing to a smaller audience than usual as the headliner of this year's edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. "We have a fanbase of about five or six thousand at every place we play, so the crowd that w...

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COREY TAYLOR: 'It's Gonna Be A Few Years' Before SLIPKNOT Releases Proposed Double Concept Album

SLIPKNOT singer Corey Taylor says that it will take "a few years" for the band to write and record its proposed double concept album to follow last year's ".5: The Gray Chapter". ".5: The Gray Chapter" was released in October 2014 following a six-year hiatus during which founding SLIPKNOT bassist Pa...

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COREY TAYLOR: Music Business 'Can't Catch Up With The Technology'

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor believes that record labels are continuing to lose the digital music battle or piracy war because they "can't catch up with the technology." Digital music sales are continuing to fall as the music business inches closer to an access-over-ownership model. S...

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GEOFF TATE Discusses OPERATION: MINDCRIME's 'Re-Inventing The Future' Single (Video)

OPERATION: MINDCRIME, the new band led by former QUEENSRŸCHE singer Geoff Tate, will release its debut album, "The Key", on September 18 via Frontiers Music Srl. A short video clip of Tate talking about the CD's first single, "Re-Inventing The Future", can be seen below. The recently released "Re-In...

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SLIPKNOT Performs In Mansfield Without Bassist ALESSANDRO 'VMAN' VENTURELLA (Video)

SLIPKNOT performed Tuesday night (August 4) in Mansfield, Massachusetts without the band's bass player, Alessandro "Vman" Venturella, who was rushed to a hospital two days earlier just six songs into the group's concert in Hartford. Fan-filmed video footage of last night's concert can be seen below....

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SLAYER's GARY HOLT, PAUL BOSTAPH Weigh In On MAYHEM FESTIVAL Controversy (Video)

On July 31, Jay Nanda of San Antonio Metal Music Examiner and AXS.com conducted an interview with SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt and drummer Paul Bostaph at the San Antonio, Texas stop of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. You can now watch the chat below. The 2015 Mayhem Festival genera...

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SLIPKNOT Bassist Discharged From Hospital After Suffering From 'Severe Dehydration'

SLIPKNOT was forced to walk off stage several songs into its show in Hartford, Connecticut on Sunday night (August 2) when bassist Alessandro "Vman" Venturella had to be rushed to the hospital due to a medical emergency. After about a twenty-minute break, SLIPKNOT returned to the stage without Ventu...

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This Year's ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL Could Be Last Ever, Says Co-Founder

This year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival could very well turn out to be the event's last, if the latest couple of social-media posts by Mayhem co-founder John Reese are anything to go by. The 2015 edition of Mayhem kicked off on June 26 in Chula Vista, California and wrapped last night (Sun...

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SLIPKNOT Bassist Rushed To Hospital During Hartford Concert; Band Completes Set As Eight-Piece

SLIPKNOT was forced to walk off stage several songs into its performance earlier tonight (Sunday, August 2) in Hartford, Connecticut after their bassist, Alessandro "Vman" Venturella, had an unknown medical emergency and was rushed to the hospital. Concert attendee Nick Mucha tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET...

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Video: Ex-SEPULTURA Drummer IGOR CAVALERA Performs With SOULFLY At London's O2 Academy Islington

Former SEPULTURA drummer Igor Cavalera joined SOULFLY, the band led by his brother, and fellow CAVALERA CONSPIRACY and ex-SEPULTURA member, Max Cavalera, on stage on July 25 at O2 Academy Islington in London, England to perform the SEPULTURA classic "Roots Bloody Roots". Fan-filmed video footage of...