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Nirvana, Metallica, Green Day Members Land On ’30 Richest Drummers In The World’ List
Unfortunately, if you’re looking to make fat stacks of cash, becoming a professional musician is far from your best bet. Most bands are lucky to break even when it comes to their sonic endeavors, but there are a few prominent rock and metal musicians out there that have been able to use $100 bills as wallpaper thanks to their illustrious careers.
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Motley Crue’s Vince Neil Apparently Flips Out At Las Vegas Parking Attendants Over Rolls-Royce [NSFW-Video]
Motley Crue vocalist Vince Neil recently took a break from singing with the band and managing his Las Vegas strip club in order to apparently yell at some parking attendants last week. Video of the incident shows Neil flipping out at the garage employees of Planet Hollywood in Vegas after they refused to bring the singer’s Rolls-Royce around, even though Neil didn’t have a ticket to prove the car was his.
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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider Denounces Politician Paul Ryan’s Use Of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’
It seems like whenever a Presidential race begins, some politician rubs a musician the wrong way by using their music as a campaign theme. In 1984, Bruce Springsteen went after Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan for using ‘Born in the USA,’ Foo Fighters barred John McCain from playing ‘My Hero’ during his campaign, and now, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider had denounced the use of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ by Republican Vice Presidential hopeful Paul Ryan.
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Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Claims President Obama Staged Recent Shooting Massacres [Video]
Surprise, surprise! Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has said something ridiculous yet again!
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Heavy MTL Festival: System Of A Down, Slipknot + More Deliver Metal To The Masses In Montreal
We at Loudwire are still working off all of the crepes and poutine we enjoyed while covering the Heavy MTL Festival in beautiful Montreal, Canada. With an incredible lineup of acts hitting Canada in both Montreal and Toronto (Heavy T.O.), the European-style mega-metal fest was adopted perfectly for the North American crowd.
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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi + Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan To Release ‘WhoCares’ 2-CD Collection
For those of you who are fans of Black Sabbath‘s Ian Gillan years, we’ve got some great news to report. Sabbath guitar master Tony Iommi and Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan have teamed up once again for the release of a 2-CD collection under the moniker of WhoCares. The compilation will contain the two 2011 singles the duo released for charity, ‘Out of My Mind’ and ‘Holy Water,’ under the WhoCares band name, along with rarities from the careers of both musicians.
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Drummer John Dolmayan Offers Timetable For New System Of A Down Album
More than a year-and-a-half after the celebrated return of System of a Down, it’s possible that we may now have a timetable for when the Armenian-American quartet will be releasing a new album.
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Queensryche Vocalist Todd La Torre Denies Using Geoff Tate Vocal Tracks At Live Shows
Since the not-so-amicable split between singer Geoff Tate and the rest of Queensryche, the band recently recruited Crimson Glory vocalist Todd La Torre to front the band. Since his debut, La Torre has been accused of using Geoff Tate’s recorded vocals during live performances — an allegation which La Torre has now officially denied.
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Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe Being Held In Historic Pankrac Prison
Due to Randy Blythe‘s month-long incarceration in the Czech Republic, an incredible amount of attention has been placed on not only the Czech Republic itself, but also its legal system. Awaiting a ruling on whether Blythe’s bail will be approved after it was contested a second time by a Czech prosecutor, the Lamb of God vocalist remains in Pankrac Prison. Although this news has become well-known, the lesser-known, yet incredibly violent history of where Blythe finds himself caged, is disturbingly fascinating in its own right.
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Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Expects New Album to See an Early 2014 Release
Although the news broke yesterday that Metallica were set to begin work in earnest on a new album in September, drummer Lars Ulrich doesn’t want fans to get too anxious about the upcoming release. The Metallica percussionist is “realistically” expecting the band’s 10th album to hit stores in early 2014.