music NEWS: Corey Taylor and his splendid Christmas song – X-M@$
Corey Taylor has gone and done a Christmas song called “X-M@$” and its bloody entertaining… dont take our word for it, have a listen at the link inside.
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music REVIEW: Tim Minchin – Ready For This? DVD
Scarecrow haired, heavily eyelinered antipodean comedian Tim Minchin has a new DVD out… “Ready For This?”. So because he put in a stirling performance at this years Sonisphere we didn’t struggle to force ourselves to sit down and watch it with a few beers in hand… Yep, we laughed ourselves stupid.
music NEWS: Taste Of Chaos – Disturbed and Papa Roach In Store Signings
Heading off to see the Taste Of Chaos tour? Well Schecter guitars are lining up in store signings with Disturbed’s Dan Donegan and Papa Roach’s Jerry Horton.
music NEWS: Iron Maiden UK Arena Tour Announced
Yep, that’s right the UK’s favourite metal legends Iron Maiden are bringing the Final Frontier back accross to the UK in a series of arena shows in the summer of 2011.
music INTERVIEW: Ozzy/Firewind Guitarist Gus G. Talks to OneMetal.com
When Zakk was toppled from his throne alongside Ozzy, Firewind’s Gus G stepped up to stand alongside The Prince Of Darkness. Now with the Ozzfest tour in full swing, and Firewind’s latest album Days Of Defiance due for release in October, Gus kindly took some time out to talk to us about Ozzy, Firewind, fast food lifestyles and how he sucks at guitar based video games.
music REVIEW: Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy
Corey Taylor has spoken at length about the latest Stone Sour album ‘Audio Secrecy’. He has told us it is more mature, and that it is darker than the previous two albums…. so do we really have a dark evil sibling to Come What(ever) May and their self titled debut?
music INTERVIEW: Karma To Burn talk to OneMetal
We grabbed some time with Daniel Davies and Rob Oswald from stoner rockers Karma To Burn. Read on as Mark Wrigley discovered Rob doesn’t want ice cream rammed down his throat.
music REVIEW: The Sword – Warp Riders
No doubt about it, The Sword offer up a chunky riff-laden homage to comic books, trashy sci-fi novels and old school heavy metal with Warp Riders… it’s not for girls.
music REVIEW: Papa Roach: Time for Annihilation…On the Record & On the Road
Papa Roach blew us away at Sonisphere, we’re hugely excited about seeing them on The Taste of Chaos tour too… But delivering a part live, part recorded album… is it a cop out or a winner?
music NEWS: Sonisphere 2010 Deconstructed: The Aftermath
Sonisphere 2010 has been and gone, we threw away any notion of personal space, camped up and we drank more beer than is good for us, we took food we never ate and brought it home again, and of course we gave up on proper cleanliness in favour of the essential baby wipes. The question is… was it worth it?
music REVIEW: Buckcherry – All Night Long
Fancy a slab of dirty sleaze driven good time L.A. Rock ‘n’ Roll? Buckcherry may well have exactly what you are after in the form of their fifth studio album ‘All Night Long’…
music INTERVIEW: Kris Dommin talks to OneMetal.com
Fresh from playing a blinder at Download, and riding high on a Best International Newcomer award at the Kerrang! Awards later this month, we at OneMetal were fortunate enough to be able to fire some questions across Dommin front man Kris’ bows.
music REVIEW: 36 Crazyfists – Collisions and Castaways
The prodigal sons 36 Crazyfists have returned to Roadrunner from a brief fling with Ferret Music with their eagerly anticipated fifth album ‘Collisions and Castaways’. Have the Alaskans given us a tidal wave or merely a ripple in the ocean?
music ARTICLE: Sonisphere – OneMetal Rough Guide: Ones To Watch (Bohemia)
As Sonisphere fast approaches and it gets harder and harder to contain our excitement, we start looking further up the line up to bring you some further potential highlights from the Bohemia stage in part 2 of our Rough Guide of ones to watch.
music ARTICLE: Sonisphere UK – The OneMetal Rough Guide: Ones to Watch
We’re gonna be piling down to Sonisphere in a couple of weeks, and here’s part I of our guide of bands that shouldnt be missed, featuring The Bowtime Bar, Red Bull and Jagermeister stage acts.
music NEWS: Quiksilver presents Tony Hawk and Friends European Tour
Don’t try this at home kids, just go and watch instead. Quicksilver is bringing Tony Hawk and friends to Brighton and Maxïmo Park are bringing some tunes. Full details here.
music NEWS: Stone Sour and Avenged Sevenfold team up to tour the UK
A tour with Avenged Sevenfold and Stone Sour… go on then we’ll definitely be having some of that. Details and dates inside.
music REVIEW: Devil Sold His Soul – Blessed & Cursed
We’ve got high hopes for Devil Sold His Soul and ‘Blessed & Cursed’. After three years of waiting Mark Wrigley gets epic and finds out if the wait has been worth it.
music REVIEW: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage DVD
Have Rush ever been cool? In all fairness who cares? They may not be cool, but they are multi-million selling artists who have a docu-DVD out covering their forty year run. Mark Wrigley gets his prog on to see if it’s any good.
music REVIEW: L.A. Guns – Shrinking Violet (Deluxe Re-issue), and win the album.
1999 saw L.A. Guns release Shrinking Violet. 2010 sees it being repackaged and re-issued with some tasty bonus treats.
About Mark Wrigley
Resident "Old Man Of Rock", Mark became hooked on metal at a young age and remembers buying W.A.S.P's debut album, just because the cover "looked quite cool". A veteran of many a gig, Mark's cherry was broken by Queen on the Live Magic tour at Knebworth, since then he still buzzes from live shows. Metal is his passion and he gets just as excited about new bands as much as his stalwart old school favourites, and he is quick to point out he saw most of these bands that have reformed first time round.
An English graduate from Exeter University, Mark's student days revolved around the seminal Seattle movement, although at heart he is a full out thrasher... with a soft spot for proper 80's glam. As a freelance writer Mark has seen his pieces appear in numerous publications from Total Guitar to The Daily Mail, as well as a number of online websites.
Mark is a keen, yet average guitarist and describes himself as Captain Pentatonic. He is happily married and has two sons who both play a mean air guitar and are responding well to their metal music brainwashing.
Will's Comment.
Mark has been with OneMetal since the beginning, if it wasn't for his hard work and dedication the site would never have made it as far as it has. A good friend, and a committed metal head.
Joined: May 29th, 2009