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Anthrax, Exodus, and High on Fire Infect the Regency Ballroom, 3/28/13

Anthrax, Exodus, High On Fire, Municipal Waste, Holy Grail Thursday, March 28, 2013 The Regency Ballroom Better than: Actually getting Anthrax (the bacterial disease). You could smell the heshers all the way down to Van Ness and Geary. The air reeked of sweat and Pantene Pro-V. There be a metal sh ... More >>

Almost Famous: Five Musicians Who Left Before Their Bands Blew Up

This week, the world found out that, had he played his cards differently, Ryan Gosling could've been a Backstreet Boy. By all accounts, he thought joining the band would've been a waste of time, since New Kids On The Block had already happened. (Silly, silly Gosling -- as long as there are teenage g ... More >>

Live Review, 7/14/12: The U.S. Air Guitar Championships Bring an Invisible Axe Battle to the Independent

See also: * US Air Guitar Championships: Witness the Madness of People Rawking on Thin Air Last Night: US Air Guitar Championships Regional Qualifier July 14, 2012 The Independent Better than: Air bassoon. This summer, like so many summers before it, brings an aura of excitement to ambitious com ... More >>

Q&A: Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister on Touring with Megadeth and His Forthcoming Solo Album

Rightfully worshipped by headbangers and punks alike, Motörhead and its iconic founder, bassist and principle songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, have been grinding out their influential brand of balls-out rock for nearly four decades. Founded after Lemmy was fired from British space-rock outfit Hawk ... More >>

Dave Mustaine Confirms Idiocy Twice in One Week

​As you may have already heard, a couple of days ago, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine told musicradar.com that he was "hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican" (he knows politicians aren't robots right? Surely that should be a "whoever," not a "whatever"?) and gave his own ra ... More >>

Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene

Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

Sunday: Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel Obliterate the Warfield with Help From Metallica's Kirk Hammett

Richard HaickAnthrax at the Warfield on Sunday.​ Anthrax Testament Death Angel Chimaira Oct. 23, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Listening to the new Loutallica album online. Bay Area thrash-metal fans still waiting for Metallica to bring the Big 4 Tour to their hometown got to enjoy a neck- ... More >>

Anthrax's Scott Ian on Making a Brilliant New Album and Possibly Bringing the Big Four Tour to S.F.

Anthrax, with Scott Ian at the far right.​ California may have been the epicenter of the emerging thrash-metal scene at the dawn of the 1980s, but the NYC headbangers of Anthrax unquestionably earned their place in the genre's history. As an East Coast counterpart and early ally of Metallica, ... More >>

New Book Murder in the Front Row Tells the Story of Bay Area Thrash Metal in Pictures

Metallica, way back when.​ Everyone knows Metallica. But not everyone knows that Metallica was the product of a full-blown '80s thrash metal scene in the Bay Area -- a scene that fostered other notable local bands like Testament, Death Angel, and Exodus. These weren't the makeup-wearing pretty ... More >>

Hey, When Did Metallica's Lars Ulrich Turn into a Cool, Funny Guy?

​Over the years, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich just hasn't done a lot of things to make people like him. Let's recount: he's often an obnoxious interviewee; he pulls some of the most annoying faces in drumming history; he played a role in one of the most embarrassing music documentaries on earth, ... More >>

Sunday: The Mayhem Festival, with Disturbed, Megadeth, and More Takes Over Shoreline Amphitheatre (Photos)

Christopher VictorioDisturbed at the Rockstar Mayhem Festival Sunday at Shoreline Amphitheatre​ The Rockstar Mayhem Festival, featuring Disturbed, Megadeth, Godsmack, and more July 10, 2011 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre Who says metal is dead? Some 13,000 fans packed into Shoreline Amphitheatre ye ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Photos from the Big Four Show, with Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth

Richard HaickMetallica at the Big Four fest​ The Big Four Festival: Metallica Megadeth Anthrax Slayer Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, CA April 24, 2011 Well, the Big Four show -- featuring metal titans Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax -- finally arrived in the U.S for a one-off show. The ... More >>

Big 4 Tour: Are More U.S. Dates Likely for Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth?

Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you?​ Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>

Top 10 Break-Up Songs To Help Get Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Out of Office

In politics, as in love, there sometimes comes a need for one party in a relationship to say goodbye. Adios. See ya. Get the eff outta here, dude. And in politics, as in love, music can help get that difficult message across. We don't mean to make light of the situation over in Egypt -- lord kn ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth Announce Plans to Play Together. Once. In Indio.

​It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>

Metallica Might Possibly Begin Work on New Album Next Year, Maybe

"This is boring, let's write some songs!"​After nearly two years of touring in support of the 2008 album Death Magnetic -- the return-to-form-of-sorts that followed the musical and image disaster of 2003's St. Anger -- the Bay Area's own Metallica is discussing plans to record its next album. Of c ... More >>

Metallica May Be Planning (Especially) 'Theatrical' Tour

Who you callin' theatrical?​At first, when we heard that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told a New Zealand newspaper that his Bay Area metal band is working on a "theatrical" new tour, were kinda confused. Did he mean a tour of smaller theaters (which would be rad, although likely impossible t ... More >>

Slayer's Kerry King Talks Messing Up Guitar Solos, the New Metallica, and Playing with the Beastie Boys

Mark SeligerSlayer, with Kerry King at far right​Los Angeles thrash-metal juggernaut Slayer has been kicking ass so ferociously for so long that the word "fucking" has practically been appended to the front of the band's name. Raising the metal bar for brutality and blasphemy over the course of ne ... More >>

High on Fire polishes its metal weaponry

Over the Weekend: SF Winter Fest w/ Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon

Judgement Day​Battlehooch, Judgement Day and The Hot Moon SF Winter Fest Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 Bottom of the Hill Better than: being force-fed sand while Metallica's "Load" blasts through headphones at full volume; Megadeth. Tell a friend, "Hey there's this band that plays metal with just a ce ... More >>

Slayer/Megadeth/Testament Tour To Hit the Bay Area After All

​So we wrote that the metal titans tour involving Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament was thrown off course after Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya threw out his back in a serious-headbanging-injury sorta way. Well, although that Jan. 21 show didn't happen, the tour will indeed kick start anew after A ... More >>

Slayer, Megadeth, Testament Cancel Tour Due to Back Injury

​It's not quite as metal as throwing out your neck headbanging, but Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya has a back injury serious enough that it's forced him to call off the giants of thrash tour. The Slayer/Megadeth/Testament tour, which was scheduled to hit the Cow Palace Jan. 21, has been indefin ... More >>

Listomania: Top Metal Picks For 2009

This year was such a good one for heavy music, I wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. I just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of candidates. The best I could do was fourteen, so each of my top four slots are ties. ​Mastod ... More >>

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