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Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
There’s another new supergroup of sorts on the horizon: two members of Fall Out Boy are using their time away from the band to provide riffs and beats for a new heavy metal side project called the Damned Things. FOB guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have teamed with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob [...]
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Metal Hammer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scott Ian and Rob Cagianno to take part in new super-group with members of Fall Out Boy. Yeah, you read that correctly. (more…)
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Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley have teamed up with Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano to form a metal band called The Damned Things. The band have also written 15 songs and plan to record an album before Christmas. More details can be found here .
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Idolator (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just a few days after we posted our item chock full of suggestions for how the members of Fall Out Boy should spend their hiatus comes the news that FOB's Andy Hurley and Joe Trohman have teamed up with members of Anthrax and Every Time I Die to create their own metal supergroup , The Damned Things. Kick ass name. MORE »
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
When we interviewed Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi back in April, he told us the documentary’s “happy ending
is what’s happening after the film.” And it’s true — since the movie’s release, the little metal band that could has played on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien , been profiled on Nightline , and even toured with AC/DC....
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Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Holy crowdsourcing, Bizarro! DC Comics’ superheroes will be reinvented in an online collaboration effort that lets animators compete for a spot in the upcoming DC Universe Online game. The DC Universe Online Animation Contest launches Nov. 30, giving fanboys, gamers and Autodesk Maya users a crack at bringing legends like Superman and Batman to life for [...]
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Anvil – ‘Metal on Metal’ (Attic) They’ve gotten popular now, but for a long time, most people completely overlooked Anvil. ‘March of the Crabs,’ ‘Jackhammer,’ ‘666,’ ‘Mothra.’ They were all so classic and definitely pre-dated what thrash would evolve into. Robb Reiner’s drumming helped invent thrash metal. The guy was just...
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Stupid Celebrities Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Anthrax rocker Scott Ian has written a graphic novel for DC comics called Lobo: Highway to Hell. Read more about Scott Ian’s comic book below. Scott Ian was asked to write fable Lobo: Highway to Hell, which is about an interstellar bounty hunter, after he pitched a Batman story to the bosses at DC. Ian MetalHammer.co.uk, [...]
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I Rock Cleveland (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For all the instances in music history where rock and rap mixed quite well -- From the hip-hop influenced work of Blondie and The Clash to the high profile collaborations between Aerosmith and Run DMC, Anthrax and Public Enemy, and The Judgement Night soundtrack -- it's the one instance of rock and rap gone horribly wrong which perhaps had the greatest influence on the two genres current separation....
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive When your father is Meat Loaf and he takes you around the world as a back-up singer for his live band, well, you're automatically the coolest kid on the block. But after years of touring with dad, Pearl Aday still got star-struck when she auditioned for Motley Crue back in 2000. Afterward, Crue bassist Nikki Sixx told her that not only did she get the gig...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Time Out New York : Steve Smith, Music editor: “Along with fellow Def Jam trio Beastie Boys, Queens’ Run-D.M.C. successfully smuggled hip-hop into suburbia in the mid-’80s, most prominently with their third album, Raising Hell. While the Aerosmith collaboration ‘Walk This Way’ captured a million classic-rock hearts, it’s the full LP—with its spare beats, tag-team...
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Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As it stands right now, Slayer remains as straight in their game as ever before, despite showing its frays a tad, neither improving beyond the scope of the creature born decades ago nor killing it off.
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io9 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It's a week where Wonder Woman gets her ass kicked, Hercules recruits superheroes for some assaultin', and dinosaurs migrate south for the winter. Oh, and a Portland detective agency opens its doors... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]